George W. Bush wants Jeb Bush to run, says he'd be 'great president'
Source: Los Angeles Times
Daniel Rothberg
May 1, 2014, 4:18 p.m.
Reporting from Washington
President George W. Bush said his younger brother Jeb Bush would make a great president, as speculation builds that the Republican former governor of Florida might mount a run for the White House in 2016.
Jeb Bush, a favorite of the Republican establishment, has maintained a high public profile in recent weeks, appearing at GOP fundraising events and weighing in on debates over immigration and education policy. He has publicly backed at least two GOP candidates in 2014 races, including his recent endorsement of California gubernatorial candidate Neel Kashkari.
I hope Jeb runs, the former president said during an interview on CNN. I think he would be a great president. I have no clue whats on his mind, and we will talk when hes ready.
In a GOP presidential primary, a new poll shows Jeb Bush and Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky at the front of the pack, but by an extremely narrow margin. According to a Washington Post-ABC News poll released this week, 14% of Republicans and GOP-leaning independents each support Bush and Paul, while 13% back former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, and 11% line up behind Wisconsin Rep. Paul D. Ryan.
SNIP...
Hes checking his core, and as he said publicly, Im thinking about my family, George W. Bush said. And of course, he knows full well what a run for the presidency can do on family.
Read more: http://www.latimes.com/nation/politics/politicsnow/la-pn-george-bush-jeb-bush-2016-president-20140501,0,6701158.story#axzz30VpoC7tA
Major Nikon
(36,814 posts)Octafish
(55,745 posts)What Gary Trudeau found, back when Poppy still scared the Operation 40 types:
Like a freaking empire of evil.
WinkyDink
(51,311 posts)Hekate
(90,193 posts)tofuandbeer
(1,314 posts)Octafish
(55,745 posts)tofuandbeer
(1,314 posts)WOW! That is unbelievable.
I'm speechless.
stillwaiting
(3,795 posts)He'd be horrible for everyone else.
Edit to add: I don't believe all wealthy people are assholes, so he'd be a terrible president for them too. Just to be clear.
Octafish
(55,745 posts)rocktivity
(44,555 posts)Just what we need: the return of Cheney and Rove.
rocktivity
Octafish
(55,745 posts)thucythucy
(7,986 posts)lastlib
(22,981 posts)(....operative word here being "rational".........)
Journeyman
(15,001 posts)Octafish
(55,745 posts)NEWSWEAK apologized to Poppy, for Moon's sake.
pangaia
(24,324 posts)His core what?
Octafish
(55,745 posts)bitchkitty
(7,349 posts)I can just hear it now...
Never happen. Please GOD! Never happen.
Octafish
(55,745 posts)"No way." Then the Ayatollah got a long-distance telephone call recommending he hold on to the hostages untill after the 1980 election...
bitchkitty
(7,349 posts)but surely even the most stupid in this nation realize that Bush Jr. was a colossal failure.
I can't bear to think about another Bush in the White House!
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Major Nikon
(36,814 posts)Just to help his son's political career.
Octafish
(55,745 posts)Here's background on Poppy's good friends in the war on communists, Luis Posada Carriles and Orlando Bosch:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x2214484
Of course, Jebthro was only happy to do them a good turn.
At best, Poppa Bush knew a Cuban airliner was going to get bombed. At worst he aided and abetted. Then he was an accessory after the fact by sending his abassador to get Bosch out of jail in South America and then using his influence once again to get him out of jail in Florida. His own AG described Bosch as an "unrepentant terrorist".
LongTomH
(8,636 posts)A really tackie horror flic; but, the title seems so apropos now!
tofuandbeer
(1,314 posts)...edit: watching it now.
Yavin4
(35,357 posts)santamargarita
(3,170 posts)mdbl
(4,972 posts)What a dream ticket - for stupid people.
sakabatou
(42,083 posts)Fearless
(18,421 posts)Now he can't win!
cosmicone
(11,014 posts)muntrv
(14,505 posts)Kablooie
(18,571 posts)Kind of like a black hole calling the dark matter white.
ck4829
(34,977 posts)Ed Suspicious
(8,879 posts)wear the crown. How lovely.
yourout
(7,521 posts)NastyRiffraff
(12,448 posts)Did I die and didn't know it? I don't believe in hell but I'm beginning to rethink that.
BeyondGeography
(39,284 posts)That's what Jeb will find when "he's checking his core."
babylonsister
(170,963 posts)AAO
(3,300 posts)laurent
(57 posts)I once saw an interview of Bush Sr. where he got tears in his eyes when he talked about what a shame it was that Jeb was not the candidate.
olddad56
(5,732 posts)laurent
(57 posts)7962
(11,841 posts)billhicks76
(5,082 posts)This is what we deserve because Obama let their family name rehabilitate and rise again just like Bill Clinton did in 92. No prosecutions were agreed upon so the Bush admin could return in 2000 and again in 2016. Hillary is the war machine's backup plan. They are colluding. Hillary vs Jeb was agreed upon in 2008. She is no different other than cosmetic and minor policy differences. Sooooo depressing.
7962
(11,841 posts)I get what you're saying though. People in the news have already called Chelsea's baby the "american royal baby" for goodness sake.
Its like we're gonna get her, whether we like it or not
billhicks76
(5,082 posts)The powers that be decided they could fool everyone with Obama first and Hillary could still win next time. If Hillary won in 2012 and left the mess Obama had then he would have no chance later.
pacalo
(24,721 posts)deutsey
(20,166 posts)lots of things that make you go "hmmm" start to happen.
Boomerproud
(7,889 posts)His VP choice will be even worse, if that's possible.
maddogesq
(1,245 posts)Dick Cheney for lessons in gun safety.
yeoman6987
(14,449 posts)Plus isn't 12 years punishment enough for the United States?
olddad56
(5,732 posts)SoapBox
(18,791 posts)Thor_MN
(11,843 posts)Hasn't he damaged the country enough already?
zwyziec
(173 posts)Katherine Harris is no longer Sec of State so it'll be a bit harder on Jeb than it was for W.
olddad56
(5,732 posts)TheNutcracker
(2,104 posts)Hekate
(90,193 posts)...to be President.
Octafish
(55,745 posts)Poppy left a paper trail of treasons on behalf of his richest friends from Dealey Plaza to Vietnam to Watergate to October Surprise to Trickle Down Reagonomics to Iran Contra to Savings and Loan Scandal and lying America into Gulf War 1. His own dear dad, Sen. Prescott Bush, helped finance the rise of NAZI Germany and had assets seized for trading with the enemy. Chimpy's CV is more of the same, without civility and plausible deniability. Jebthro's said to be the smart one, and according to Michael Moore, the scary one.
Theirs is a tradition of global genocide unmatched in human history. Millions dead and trillions looted, mission accomplished.
Dyedinthewoolliberal
(15,485 posts)'cause then he could get drunk in the White House, while visiting, and not get in any trouble........
Obnoxious_One
(97 posts)I can hope can't I?
jakeXT
(10,575 posts)intaglio
(8,170 posts)Oh, can't be they're not funny.
bvf
(6,604 posts)that they were doing their damnedest to keep this idiot out of the news.
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Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)That would be even worse than electing Hillary.
Octafish
(55,745 posts)What a smart guy said:
The Bush Family: A Continuing Criminal Enterprise?
Gary W. Potter, PhD.
Professor, Criminal Justice
Eastern Kentucky University
The S&Ls, the Mob and the Bushs
During the 1980's hundred of Savings and Loan Banks failed. Those bank failures cost U.S. taxpayers over $500 billion to cover federally insured losses, and much more to investigate the bank failures (Pizzo, Fricker, and Muolo, 1989; Brewton, 1992; Johnston, 1990). More than 75% of the Savings and Loan insolvencies where directly linked to serious and often criminal misconduct by senior financial insiders (Pizzo, Fricker and Muolo, 1989: 305). In fact, less than 10 percent of bank failures are related to economic conditions, the rest are caused by mismanagement or criminal conduct (Pizzo, Fricker and Muolo, 1989: 305).
A good example of the Savings and Loan failures can be found in the activities of Mario Renda, a Savings and Loan insider who often worked in close collaboration with organized crime (Pizzo, Fricker and Muolo, 1989: 123-126;302). Renda served as a middle man in arranging about $5 billion a year in deposits into 130 Savings and Loans, all of which failed (Kwitny, 1992: 27). Many of these deposits were made contingent on an agreement that the Savings and Loan involved would lend money to borrowers recommended by Renda, many of whom were organized crime figures or people entirely unknown to the banking institution involved (Kwitny, 1992: 27).
SNIP...
Prescott Bush: The Yakuzas Frontman
Finally, and perhaps most seriously, the Bush family pioneered the practice which has now become commonplace of collaboration between corporate and organized criminals. Prescott Bush, uncle of the current President and brother of the former President, played a key role in helping the Japanese Yakuza extend their financial and real estate holdings to the United States. In 1989, Prescott Bush made arrangements for a front company for Japanese organized crime groups to buy into two U.S. corporations and to make a sizeable real investment in the U.S. (Helm, 1991a: 1; Isikoff, 1992: A1). West Tsusho, a Japanese corporation, was identified by Japanese police officials as a front company for one of that countrys largest organized crime syndicates. Prescott Bush was paid a fee of $500,000 for his help in negotiating West Tsushos purchase of controlling interest in Assets Management, a U.S. corporation (Helm, 1991a: 1; Isikoff, 1992: A1). Bush also assisted the Japanese mob in investing in Quantam Access, a U.S. software company, which was ultimately taken over by the Japanese (Helm, 1991b: 10; Isikoff, 1992: A1). Both companies ultimately went into bankruptcy (Isikoff, 1992: A1; Moses, 1992).
George Bush Sr.: Shutting Down the Organize Crime Strike Forces
Despite assessments from senior law enforcement officers and experts on organized crime that efforts to control organized crime would be crippled, in December 1989, the administration of George Bush, Sr. abolished all 14 regional organized crime strike forces (McAlister, 1989: A 21; Struck out, 1990). The organized crime strike had been created as independent entities so they would not be subject to political influences or bureaucratic wrangling within federal law enforcement. In the two decades of their operation the strike forces had secured convictions of major organized crime figures in several U.S. cities (Struck out, 1990). It is at the very least curious to note that the federal strike force in Miami had been responsible for indicting Miguel Recarey, the man for whom Jeb Bush had intervened with regulators. Organized crime strike forces had similarly indicted Mario Renda, the organized crime liaison to the S& Ls, as well as several other key figures in the Savings and Loan Fiasco (Pizzo, Fricker, and Mulolo, 1989: 112, 120-123, 303, 337).
CONTINUED...
http://critcrim.org/critpapers/potter.htm
That's the way a professor of criminal justice puts it. Bartcop, to get a better handle on War Inc's first family, called them the "BFEE" for short.
"the administration of George Bush, Sr. abolished all 14 regional organized crime strike forces"
It is little wonder we are mired in corruption.
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RoccoR5955
(12,471 posts)Everything Dubya says, actually means the opposite!
Read my lips, "NO NEW BUSHS IN THE WHITE HOUSE!"
Helen Borg
(3,963 posts)So, let's do the calculations: 0 * 10 = 0
sendero
(28,552 posts)... really, its beyond pathetic, this is the best we can do.
And FWIW, if there was ever a contrary indicator list for the selection of president, endorsement by the DictatorTot would be at the top of it.
olddad56
(5,732 posts)seems to me that the Clinton did a much better job than Papa Bush and the nation will never recover from GWB. If my only choice for the next President was a Clinton or a Bush, I'd be going with the Clinton.
liberal N proud
(60,302 posts)olddad56
(5,732 posts)sofa king
(10,857 posts)Everything W. puts a hand on turns to poop. Please, George, talk about your brother more often!
Jefferson23
(30,099 posts)Sunlei
(22,651 posts)We have to watch RW turd polish their choices for years and years.
At least, it is republican billions and billions they spend on their 'wanna be presidents' & all that spending is good for our local economies.
SummerSnow
(12,608 posts)smartphone
(87 posts)I'm all for this, and for Sarah Palin as his running mate.
Democrats will win the White House yet again, and the House and the Senate as well.
Romney/Ryan, McCain/Palin was worse enough for Republicans. This will be their death knell.
Let's all help Republicans be the laughing stock of the nation and the world.
By the way, and to be serious for a moment about Republicans, (if that is ever possible). Once the last 12 years of Jeb's record become obvious to most voting Republicans, he doesn't stand much of a chance of getting the nomination.
Octafish
(55,745 posts)Wars for profit continue without end; traitors, torturers and war criminals go unpunished; NSA and CIA spy on and blow up innocent people; banksters loot trillions; the rich are richer than ever; and it's austerity for the 99 percent ever since.
At least Ukraine's IMF debts are taken care of.