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Jeb Bush to Declare Presidential Run, Playing Down His Surname
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CaliforniaPeggy
(149,843 posts)Your last name IS Bush.
You can run from it............but you can't hide it. Or hide from it.
Jumpin Jack Flash
(242 posts)John. Ellis. Bush.
So let's call him by his full name, not JEB.
onehandle
(51,122 posts)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)Democratically Correct.
But an asshole by any other name is still an asshole, and he's a major asshole.
IHateTheGOP
(1,059 posts)And they are dumb as a rock, as we all get to witness on a daily basis.
MADem
(135,425 posts)onehandle
(51,122 posts)That's a direct quote, as far as I know.
oberliner
(58,724 posts)It seems a bit much even for him.
onehandle
(51,122 posts)Actually I was just kidding about the quote, hence 'as far as I know.'
billhicks76
(5,082 posts)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/
Solly Mack
(90,803 posts)Cosmocat
(14,597 posts)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.
Solly Mack
(90,803 posts)awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)take over the play ranch in Crawford.
appalachiablue
(41,221 posts)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)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)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)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)MADem
(135,425 posts)appalachiablue
(41,221 posts)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..
samsingh
(17,607 posts)MADem
(135,425 posts)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....
Helen Borg
(3,963 posts)valerief
(53,235 posts)"I wasn't hiding in a closet. I was hiding in a boiler room."
http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2006/10/jeb-i-wasnt-hiding-closet
http://pittsburgh.indymedia.org/news/2006/10/24772.php
chapdrum
(930 posts)Just two eminent leaders of the democracy-disrespecting, system-gaming Syndicate.
SoapBox
(18,791 posts)Period.
Faygo Kid
(21,479 posts)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)"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)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)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 Cheneys shadow government, did collect huge data base information during the Bush administration. Now to use it to get Jeb elected.
C Moon
(12,227 posts)Omaha Steve
(99,898 posts)I can't repeat any of them on the DU!
gademocrat7
(10,690 posts)oberliner
(58,724 posts)Voice for Peace
(13,141 posts)as will the rest of us.. but just wait a bit.
oberliner
(58,724 posts)Amazingly his kids make him look like a moderate, relatively speaking.
awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)they reproduce
DesertRat
(27,995 posts)Dont call me Shirley
(10,998 posts)DhhD
(4,695 posts)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)zebonaut
(3,688 posts)rurallib
(62,492 posts)really
No relation to those other guys - what's their names? Boosch?
Fritz Walter
(4,292 posts)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)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)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.
chapdrum
(930 posts)v.3
Cha
(298,139 posts)Skittles
(153,321 posts)when that is ALL they are about
stage left
(2,967 posts)Washington outsider.
d_legendary1
(2,586 posts)Especially since Jeb ran it like one when he was in charge.
Ineeda
(3,626 posts)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)Someone need to photoshop his campaign sign to replace the exclamation point with a question mark.