US presidential hopeful Jeb Bush was treated to a round of applause during a Republican nomination debate on Wednesday after he suggested the late former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher\u2019s portrait should be plastered on the US $10 bill.<\/p>\n
Each of the 11 presidential candidate hopefuls, including tycoon frontrunner Donald Trump, was asked which women they would select for the banknotes.<\/p>\n
Bush, who formerly held the position of Florida governor, responded: \u201cI would go with Ronald Reagan\u2019s partner, Margaret Thatcher.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n While he admitted Thatcher\u2019s face was unlikely to be printed across the $10 bill because she is British, he heaped praise on the former PM.<\/p>\n \u201cA strong leader is what we need in the White House, and she certainly was a strong leader that restored the United Kingdom into greatness,\u201d<\/em> he said.<\/p>\n Despised by leftists and loved by Conservatives, Thatcher\u2019s political legacy lingers to this day. She is particularly detested by much of Britain\u2019s left for driving privatization, inequality and the disintegration of the welfare state.<\/p>\n Thatcher played a key role in instigating the first Gulf War and using her political influence to push for Britain\u2019s 2003 attack on Iraq.<\/p>\n She is also remembered for denouncing Nelson Mandela and his affiliates as \u201cterrorists,\u201d<\/em> a move Prime Minister David Cameron later conceded was wrong. The former PM has also attracted vitriol for befriending brutal despots such as Augusto Pinochet, Saddam Hussein and Indonesian dictator General Suharto.<\/p>\n Across the Atlantic, however, Thatcher\u00a0is admired among right-wing Americans. In particular, they praise her role in championing free market economics and cold war politics.<\/p>\n After Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait, she famously told then-President George Bush Senior: \u201cThis is no time to go wobbly, George.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n Jeb Bush later backtracked in an interview with NBC, suggesting he would like to allow the public to vote on the issue.<\/p>\n \u201cThat would generate a lot of interest. It could create all sorts of opportunities for math teachers to teach math, for social studies teachers to do the same. You could have an avalanche of interest in picking the woman that should be on the $10 bill,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0he said.<\/p>\n Civil rights activist Rosa Parks proved the most popular suggestion for the new $10 bill, while Mother Theresa also featured high in the ranks. Donald Trump\u2019s suggestion of his own daughter evoked bemused looks from the audience.<\/p>\n The most serious clash during the debate, hosted by CNN, came when Bush demanded Trump apologize for claiming he was weak on immigration because his wife is Mexican. However, Trump flatly refused Bush\u2019s request, claiming he had said \u201cnothing wrong.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n As the debate progressed, Bush admitted to smoking pot in his younger years, while Rand Paul defended the use of legal marijuana.<\/p>\n Chris Christie, who also took part, said Hillary Clinton should be prosecuted over her private email scandal.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Via RT<\/a>.\u00a0This piece was reprinted by RINF Alternative News<\/a> with permission or license.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" US presidential hopeful Jeb Bush was treated to a round of applause during a Republican nomination debate on Wednesday after he suggested the late former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher\u2019s portrait should be plastered on the US $10 bill. Each of the 11 presidential candidate hopefuls, including tycoon frontrunner Donald Trump, was asked which women they […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":182318,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487,18,1616],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-182317","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"category-latest-news","9":"category-usa-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182317\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/182318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}