By Dan Calabrese ——Bio and Archives--November 10, 2015
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I guess it's old and busted to go around interviewing Ben Carson's childhood acquaintances to see if he ever tried to stab anyone. The media has now moved on to truly relevant, ancient history. Are we talking about the national debt exceeding $18 trillion? How to defeat ISIS? How to counter Russian aggression? What to do about ObamaCare? How to get the GDP growing faster than 2.0 percent annually?
No, sillies. We need to get to the really relevant questions. So, Jeb Bush, the Huffinton Post wants to know: If you could, would you go back in time and kill baby Hitler?"Hell yeah, I would!" Bush told the Huffington Post when queried on the subject in New Hampshire. "You gotta step up, man." The question exercised social media and tickled journalists last month after the New York Times Magazine actually posed it to its online readers: It raised ethical dilemmas — could you murder an infant on the assumption it would save millions of lives? — and even prompted overly elaborate discussions on the theoretical mechanics of time travel. It's not clear how much of these considerations Bush chewed over before making his rather emphatic declaration. "It could have a dangerous effect on everything else, but I'd do it — I mean, Hitler," he acknowledged in his conversation with the Huffington Post. We now face the absurd prospect of more U.S. presidential aspirants offering their take on what they would do if given the chance to use a time machine to travel to an Upper Austrian town at the turn of the century and kill a baby.
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