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EarlG

(22,005 posts)
Mon Jun 15, 2015, 12:14 PM Jun 2015

Pic Of The Moment: Jeb Bush Officially Announces Run For President, Disses "DC Crowd"



Jeb Bush to Declare Presidential Run, Playing Down His Surname

"Greatest Century"



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Pic Of The Moment: Jeb Bush Officially Announces Run For President, Disses "DC Crowd" (Original Post) EarlG Jun 2015 OP
OK, Jebbie... CaliforniaPeggy Jun 2015 #1
Can't hide from JEB either.. Jumpin Jack Flash Jun 2015 #3
That reminds me. I'm marketing the no!no!Bush™ hair removal system onehandle Jun 2015 #2
I'm sure he meant he's a Washington STATE outsider, and when says DC, he means valerief Jun 2015 #4
You gotta remember, he's talking to republicans IHateTheGOP Jun 2015 #5
Grampy's ghost agrees!!!!! MADem Jun 2015 #6
'Nazi money is just as green as not Nazi money.' onehandle Jun 2015 #8
Do you have a source for that quote? oberliner Jun 2015 #33
I cleaned it up a bit. It was much worse than that. onehandle Jun 2015 #37
For All Those Foolish Enough To Support Hillary. billhicks76 Jun 2015 #52
Shrub claimed the same. Solly Mack Jun 2015 #7
That was one of the biggest con jobs in history Cosmocat Jun 2015 #20
He was manufactured from start to finish. Solly Mack Jun 2015 #21
I'm surprised he didn't awoke_in_2003 Jun 2015 #34
Prescott Sheldon Bush, Sr. (1895-1972) father of GHW Bush, grandfather of George W. Bush appalachiablue Jun 2015 #9
Old Prescott wasn't just a republican senator, he was THE postwar repub kingmaker hedda_foil Jun 2015 #38
Eew. Funky fifties white hat fedoras for crooks. I know about the Nazi ties & FDR. Yes indeed appalachiablue Jun 2015 #40
indeed. Randolph was a boozer. hedda_foil Jun 2015 #44
Not well though of or remembered, Randolph must have been really disliked by Waugh. appalachiablue Jun 2015 #46
Cousin Franklin Resembles That Remark, TOO!!!! MADem Jun 2015 #10
Boozer & looser president- pretty sad, certainly unexceptional. Lots of alchies in prominent appalachiablue Jun 2015 #41
how stupid are people that jeb can even utter such bullshit?? samsingh Jun 2015 #11
As stupid as the people who backed LAMAR!!! for the presidency... MADem Jun 2015 #47
He must think we are all idiots.... Helen Borg Jun 2015 #12
Announces and immediately runs into subway closet. valerief Jun 2015 #13
Lovely sight chapdrum Jun 2015 #14
No...More...Bush...EVER! SoapBox Jun 2015 #15
+1 W. was the worst president EVER. Faygo Kid Jun 2015 #18
Yeah where's that constitutional amendment? Initech Jun 2015 #24
What the F#@k is a compassionate conservative??? aint_no_life_nowhere Jun 2015 #16
The picture is a reflection the greatest polynomial Jun 2015 #17
The evil men duo. C Moon Jun 2015 #19
We get to recycle (environmentally friendly) all those old jokes about the Bush name Omaha Steve Jun 2015 #22
No No No more bush... gademocrat7 Jun 2015 #23
Nice socks though oberliner Jun 2015 #25
all the bushes and their ilk will die off. Voice for Peace Jun 2015 #30
HW does not seem long for this world oberliner Jun 2015 #32
The problem is awoke_in_2003 Jun 2015 #36
Oh boy! OhZone Jun 2015 #26
#NoMoreBushes is trending on Twitter DesertRat Jun 2015 #27
Ugh! Why must we be forced to look at those faces Dont call me Shirley Jun 2015 #28
Last week Cruz, Cornyn and the Senate let the Export Import Bank expire. Suppose the records have DhhD Jun 2015 #29
If we play our cards right, we can make this: rocktivity Jun 2015 #31
The War Criminals Brother declares; but where is George W???????? zebonaut Jun 2015 #35
his real name is Jeb Arbusto and he is Hispanic rurallib Jun 2015 #39
On this, the 800th anniversary of the signing of Magna Carta Fritz Walter Jun 2015 #42
omg omg omg i know this w0nderer Jun 2015 #43
I just strolled into FreeRepublic to see what they think about JEB. Ilsa Jun 2015 #45
Syndicate of Sedition chapdrum Jun 2015 #48
Uh huh.. Luckovich on bush2.. mahalo EarlG! Cha Jun 2015 #49
love how these repukes claim they are outside of DC politics Skittles Jun 2015 #50
John-Boy is starting to look even dumber than his brother, Dumbya. stage left Jun 2015 #51
I'm not gonna lie. Florida is a foreign country d_legendary1 Jun 2015 #53
Could be the worst B*sh ever.... Ineeda Jun 2015 #54
Jeb? geardaddy Jun 2015 #55
JEB! In 2008 didn't we have a SARAH! argyl Jun 2015 #56

CaliforniaPeggy

(149,843 posts)
1. OK, Jebbie...
Mon Jun 15, 2015, 12:24 PM
Jun 2015

Your last name IS Bush.

You can run from it............but you can't hide it. Or hide from it.

onehandle

(51,122 posts)
2. That reminds me. I'm marketing the no!no!Bush™ hair removal system
Mon Jun 15, 2015, 12:25 PM
Jun 2015

Unfortunately the imagery that accompanies the campaign is pretty darn NSFW.

Take my word for it. Like Jeb!®, it's like that annoying Bush™ never happened.

valerief

(53,235 posts)
4. I'm sure he meant he's a Washington STATE outsider, and when says DC, he means
Mon Jun 15, 2015, 12:33 PM
Jun 2015

Democratically Correct.

But an asshole by any other name is still an asshole, and he's a major asshole.

 

IHateTheGOP

(1,059 posts)
5. You gotta remember, he's talking to republicans
Mon Jun 15, 2015, 12:34 PM
Jun 2015

And they are dumb as a rock, as we all get to witness on a daily basis.

onehandle

(51,122 posts)
37. I cleaned it up a bit. It was much worse than that.
Mon Jun 15, 2015, 04:48 PM
Jun 2015

Actually I was just kidding about the quote, hence 'as far as I know.'

 

billhicks76

(5,082 posts)
52. For All Those Foolish Enough To Support Hillary.
Tue Jun 16, 2015, 05:10 AM
Jun 2015

It's a scam. Put aside that Hillary and Bill are constantly named honorary Bush family members for their allegiance to that crime syndicate. If Hillary is the nominee no one can cry Nepotism with Jeb...or Bush fatigue...or cronyism...they will be canceled out because of Bill. Well thats verrrrry convenient isn't it? Sounds like these crooked politicians have figured out how to fool the public....again. The article nails it. Hillary is the best thing to ever happen to Jeb!!!!

http://www.rawstory.com/2015/06/why-the-best-thing-for-jeb-bush-could-be-hillary-clinton/

Cosmocat

(14,597 posts)
20. That was one of the biggest con jobs in history
Mon Jun 15, 2015, 02:11 PM
Jun 2015

they staged that "ranch" in Texas after he got elected, built a posh house but forced the media, which gleefully went along to shoot any photos/video there only at some broken down old building to make it look like something it wasn't.

Worthless ass media loved the "guy you would like to have beer with bullshit," and that snarky ass puke, last person I want to drink with because I'd end up in dutch for going after his weasel ass.

appalachiablue

(41,221 posts)
9. Prescott Sheldon Bush, Sr. (1895-1972) father of GHW Bush, grandfather of George W. Bush
Mon Jun 15, 2015, 12:43 PM
Jun 2015

and JEB Bush, was a Wall Street bank executive and politician who served in Washington D.C. as United States Senator from Connecticut, (1952-1963). Three generations of one family in the federal legislative and executive branches in the capital for more than half a century. But no real ties to Washington or the DC Crowd here. OK.





https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prescott_Bush

hedda_foil

(16,379 posts)
38. Old Prescott wasn't just a republican senator, he was THE postwar repub kingmaker
Mon Jun 15, 2015, 04:54 PM
Jun 2015


And his Brown Brothers Harriman business partner in trea$on (both were found guilty of trading with the Enemy (until FDR stopped them in '42-'43) Averill Harriman, was kingmaker for the Dems -- a job his widow, Pamela (formerly married to Winston Churchill's son) took on following Ave's death.

appalachiablue

(41,221 posts)
40. Eew. Funky fifties white hat fedoras for crooks. I know about the Nazi ties & FDR. Yes indeed
Mon Jun 15, 2015, 05:03 PM
Jun 2015

Averill and Pamela were longtime DC power fixtures. I forget, was Randolph Churchill an abuser or drunk or both, hence the early divorce? Ole Pam was one piece of work around DC.

hedda_foil

(16,379 posts)
44. indeed. Randolph was a boozer.
Mon Jun 15, 2015, 05:40 PM
Jun 2015
Social Reputation

Randolph, spoiled by his father, began drinking heavily in his late teens, under the influence of Lord Birkenhead.[10] Thereafter he had a lifelong reputation for a serious drinking problem[11] and for rude, boorish behavior.[12] Evelyn Waugh, who restored friendly relations with Churchill in the spring of 1964 after years of enmity, nonetheless could not resist a jibe later that year. On hearing that a recently removed lung growth was not malignant, Waugh said "It was a typical triumph of modern science to find the one part of Randolph which was not malignant and to remove it." [13]


https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Randolph_Churchill

appalachiablue

(41,221 posts)
41. Boozer & looser president- pretty sad, certainly unexceptional. Lots of alchies in prominent
Mon Jun 15, 2015, 05:12 PM
Jun 2015

18th and 19th c. American families incl. Adams, Roosevelts. Dolly Madison's boy Payne Todd was a terror, a drunk and gambler who lost or hocked most of JM's property at Montpelier estate. Two of TJ's nephews were mad, killed an innocent slave in TN; GW's stepson Jackie (John) Custis was a rake who wouldn't stay in school, married very young to Eleanor Calvert, had 4 kids, then died of camp fever soon after going to Yorktown, VA. Ah, problems happen in many families..

MADem

(135,425 posts)
47. As stupid as the people who backed LAMAR!!! for the presidency...
Mon Jun 15, 2015, 08:12 PM
Jun 2015

He of the plaid shirt and failed flapjack flip (I'm probably dating myself a bit here...)...


But it looks like Lamar's logo designer found work in the Jeb! campaign....


Faygo Kid

(21,479 posts)
18. +1 W. was the worst president EVER.
Mon Jun 15, 2015, 01:37 PM
Jun 2015

Yeah, Andrew Johnson was a close second. But W. wrecked this country, and its economy, after being left a surplus. And that useless war that killed so many! Fuck you, the Bushes.

Initech

(100,155 posts)
24. Yeah where's that constitutional amendment?
Mon Jun 15, 2015, 02:39 PM
Jun 2015

"No one with the surname of Bush shall hereby be prohibited from withholding the office of the president of the United States."

aint_no_life_nowhere

(21,925 posts)
16. What the F#@k is a compassionate conservative???
Mon Jun 15, 2015, 01:30 PM
Jun 2015

Jeb said this morning that he's a compassionate conservative, just like his simian brother used to say. I wish at least one journalist, if there are any left in these dreadful times would ask him just what that means. Saying "whoops" when a cluster bomb strays of course and obliterates Iraqi children?

polynomial

(750 posts)
17. The picture is a reflection the greatest
Mon Jun 15, 2015, 01:33 PM
Jun 2015

Confidence game in history, the big con or the story of confidence men like in the
Movie “The Sting” a story of the American caper in a role played by Robert Redford,
Paul Newman, written by David S. Ward. As they did get way with a crime so too
Bush and Cheney got away…so far.

Just look at Herbert and George Bush, proud argotiers, the American Les Argotiers
of international secret society of spies, and thieves. There they are free to continue
to abuse America to build the family fortune.

More than that continuing in the argot ways of a secret language used by outlaws
to prevent the public from understanding their conversations. What really makes
this political rhetoric of their misery work is the media, business and international
support in the last century.

This is what some English grammar theory people call a style. But secret language
- A Cant – or cryptolect the argot to exclude or mislead the public. A so called
Cant language.

This is learned from the massive illegal data collection by the Booze Allen and Hamilton public relation agency, and operatives in the FBI, CIA, and others especially via Cheney’s shadow government, did collect huge data base information during the Bush administration. Now to use it to get Jeb elected.

Omaha Steve

(99,898 posts)
22. We get to recycle (environmentally friendly) all those old jokes about the Bush name
Mon Jun 15, 2015, 02:15 PM
Jun 2015

I can't repeat any of them on the DU!
 

oberliner

(58,724 posts)
32. HW does not seem long for this world
Mon Jun 15, 2015, 04:23 PM
Jun 2015

Amazingly his kids make him look like a moderate, relatively speaking.

DhhD

(4,695 posts)
29. Last week Cruz, Cornyn and the Senate let the Export Import Bank expire. Suppose the records have
Mon Jun 15, 2015, 04:02 PM
Jun 2015

disappeared like war service time records disappeared for GW?

From their Share Page:
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/09/23-reasons-why-jeb-bush-shouldnt-run-president

rocktivity

(44,588 posts)
31. If we play our cards right, we can make this:
Mon Jun 15, 2015, 04:11 PM
Jun 2015

Last edited Fri Feb 19, 2021, 04:45 PM - Edit history (1)



the new this:




rocktivity

rurallib

(62,492 posts)
39. his real name is Jeb Arbusto and he is Hispanic
Mon Jun 15, 2015, 04:56 PM
Jun 2015

really

No relation to those other guys - what's their names? Boosch?

Fritz Walter

(4,292 posts)
42. On this, the 800th anniversary of the signing of Magna Carta
Mon Jun 15, 2015, 05:27 PM
Jun 2015

I -- for one -- do not believe in coincidences, so this is either the height of irony or the most incredible degree of hubris ever. To attach an intelligent, literary principle such as irony to this buffoon would be granting him way too much credit. Yet there is no shortage of hubris inherent in this misbegotten clan.

The Magana Carta was the perhaps greatest blow against hereditary tyranny in western civilization. Meanwhile, the evil empire of our current era chooses this date to mark their aspirations to re-establish their grip on American government, cementing a modern hereditary tyranny.

For that reason alone, we should forcefully and unequivocally reject this candidacy.

w0nderer

(1,937 posts)
43. omg omg omg i know this
Mon Jun 15, 2015, 05:32 PM
Jun 2015

omg omg omg i know this

jeb is declaring?

so...
Bush 1 -- fool me once
Bush 2 -- fool me twice ..my bad...fool me thrice...??? i'mba dumbass?
Bush 3 -- fool me quadruple ...ummm.....ummmmm fuck nuke me from orbit bitch i'm a self destructive people/country and other destructive by nature

on a side note...not like US has a royal family....it's a republic..with democratic traditions .....
bush 1.2.2.3? naaah


on edit text /cc editor......spanish is foreign in florida?...and texter is smoking what?

Ilsa

(61,721 posts)
45. I just strolled into FreeRepublic to see what they think about JEB.
Mon Jun 15, 2015, 06:55 PM
Jun 2015

They hate him. Hate him on immigration. Hate that it would look like a coronation vs inauguration if he won. Some even blast Fox for promoting him.

I was happy to see they aren't pushovers for the bush machine.

d_legendary1

(2,586 posts)
53. I'm not gonna lie. Florida is a foreign country
Tue Jun 16, 2015, 09:58 AM
Jun 2015

Especially since Jeb ran it like one when he was in charge.

Ineeda

(3,626 posts)
54. Could be the worst B*sh ever....
Tue Jun 16, 2015, 10:03 AM
Jun 2015

Just three reasons right off the top of my head:
1: remember his involvement in the 2000 selection of his damn brother
2: remember his involvement in 9/11/01 after-the-fact (at least) activities.*
3: remember Terry Schiavo

*Old (2004) interesting/appalling DU link that should be re-read. BFEE, X-a brazillion, indeed.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x1328855

There's lots more, but these three are easy to reference with no research at all.

geardaddy

(24,936 posts)
55. Jeb?
Tue Jun 16, 2015, 11:13 AM
Jun 2015

Someone need to photoshop his campaign sign to replace the exclamation point with a question mark.

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