The Bushes are Back!
America’s founders hated what Thomas Jefferson called “an artificial aristocracy founded on wealth and birth.”
So you have to wonder what they would think of Barbara Pierce Bush, the 90-year-old, snowy-haired, tart-tongued, blue-blooded matriarch of the Bush family dynasty, who grew up in the wealthy New York suburb of Rye.
She is the distant cousin of one president (Franklin Pierce), the spouse of one president (George Herbert Walker Bush), the mother of another president (George Walker Bush) and the mother of another son who Monday announced that he, too, is running for president: John Ellis “Jeb” Bush.
Is Jeb Bush “artificial” and thus doomed to be resented and dismissed by average (Jeffersonian) American voter? Is he the kind of aristocrat -- self-made of his own “virtues and talents” -- that Jefferson praised and that American voters often have elected?
We’re about to find out.
The Bushes are BACK!
Jeb Bush Officially Announces He's Running For President In 2016
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/06/15/jeb-bush-campaign_n_6343746.html
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all lower case with no last name, unless the apostrophe is his last name. Hell, jeb isn't even his first name.
What a damn fool...
