I've had enough of this fawning fellatio filler passing as news to present stinking $cum elites as honorable and decent:
"Ideology, affection (and little else) bond Bushes" by Peter Baker, New York Times January 18, 2015
WASHINGTON — As former governor Jeb Bush of Florida gears up for a possible campaign for the presidency, he is seen as the brother of the last Republican to live in the White House and therefore, in some ways, the second coming of George W. Bush. But the reality is the Bush brothers are not especially close.
As if the New York Times had any connection to reality. They were the ones who told us Saddam had WMD and nuclear weapons.
While loving and supportive of each other, the two brothers do not talk that often, according to family intimates. Seven years apart in age, they travel in different circles and have distinct political networks.
Yeah, sure they do.
The older brother has been a vocal advocate of a Jeb Bush campaign, but like everyone else, he reportedly reads tea leaves about whether he will run.
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On issues, the two share a similar outlook and philosophy. While other Republicans repudiated aspects of the last Bush presidency, Jeb never did. “It’s just until death do us part,” he told an interviewer who tried to get him to disagree with his brother.
In other ways, though, the 43d president and the potential 45th president are a curious study in fraternal contrasts — in temperament, in style, in the paths they have chosen in life, in the ways they think and communicate and lead.
“You come away amazed that these two guys could be so different and be brothers,” said Jim Towey, a former Florida official who became so close to Jeb Bush that their families spent Thanksgivings together and who went on to work in George W. Bush’s White House directing faith-based initiatives. “I love them both. But they’re just very different people.”
Did Jeb shove firecrackers up frogs' butts?
Even if not, is this nothing but a promotion piece to get the stinky stain of W off Jeb?
The oldest two sons of George Bush, the 41st president, George W. and Jeb share many traits. Both are deeply religious, schooled in politics, enamored of sports. They are punctual and impatient, rushing through activities, like golf, where others prefer to linger.
Both worship their father. Both are conservative on such issues as abortion and gun rights, while pushing their party away from orthodoxy in such areas as education and immigration.
Yet watching them together might confuse the uninitiated. George, 68, likes to work a room. He teases and needles aides, lawmakers, or reporters until he gets a rise. He talks about issues in broad strokes, believes in delegating, and sometimes mangles his English.
Several inches taller, Jeb, 61, reads footnotes, e-mails frenetically, and talks in full wonky paragraphs. But in political settings, he sometimes seems to eye the exit, calculating how to get from here to there with the least fuss.
“Former President Bush is much more instantly gregarious, a bigger personality,” said Ari Fleischer, George W. Bush’s first White House press secretary. “When he walks into a room, he just takes it over, by style and by charm. Jeb is more intellectual, more pensive, and more articulate.”
Bunch of great guys, huh?
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They come at politics from different angles. “Public service seems to be a calling for George Sr. and George Jr., whereas for Jeb it is about a mission,” said Clint Bolick, who wrote a book on immigration with Jeb Bush. “It’s about policy and ideas. I never really got the impression that either his dad or his brother were really motivated by ideas and policies. For Jeb, politics is a means to an end rather than an end in itself.”
Uh-oh.
Their father’s successful 1988 presidential campaign whetted George’s political appetite. After his father lost the presidency four years later, he embarked on his own campaign in 1994 against the popular governor of Texas, a move that surprised his family even as Jeb was already gearing up to run for governor of Florida.
While neither admitted it, many detected a quiet competitiveness. Few expected George to win, but he pulled off the upset while Jeb went down to a surprise defeat.
The split result provoked a moment of sibling friction as George expressed frustration that his parents were focused more on Florida. “Why do you feel bad about Jeb?” he was heard asking his father. “Why don’t you feel good about me?”
As Jeb rebounded to win Florida’s governorship in 1998, George W. Bush was preparing his own run for the White House — one that would climax in the crucible of Jeb’s Florida two years later. On election night, when it looked as if Al Gore had won Florida, an emotional Jeb hugged George and apologized for letting him down. He was premature.
“Back from the ashes,” Jeb called out as more returns came in. For the next five weeks, Jeb’s Florida held the world in suspense until the Supreme Court ended a recount with George W. Bush ahead.
The recount sealed their relationship again, but the new president spent more time with other siblings during his White House years.
Marvin went to the White House to watch sports and spent weekends at Camp David.
Related: 9/11 Security Courtesy of Marvin Bush
Dorothy Bush Koch, their sister, visited often. Jeb was spotted mainly during holidays or governors’ conferences.
A Bush is also a Koch?
Jeb understands that his brother brings both advantages and disadvantages, but he is determined to stand on his own, advisers said.
Jeb’s inner circle does not include many from his brother’s team, although lately he has consulted Condoleezza Rice, the former secretary of state.
Not one of the people I want to see in the inner circle, sorry.
Related:
"Former secretary of state Condoleezza Rice on Saturday backed out of delivering the commencement address at Rutgers University after protests by some faculty and students over her role in the Iraq
War. Rice said she informed Rutgers president Robert Barchi that she
was declining the invitation to speak at the May 18 ceremony (AP)."
Never mind her 9/11 lies.
For George, a Jeb campaign could serve as a form of family validation....
Did you know Jeb was an original signatory to the Project for the New AmeriKan Century?
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So what does the map look like for the possible future president?
