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Is Jeb Bush a Republican Obama?
The Atlantic ^ | February 4, 2015 | David Frum

Posted on 02/05/2015 6:33:01 AM PST by C19fan

Margaret Thatcher famously said that her greatest success as a politician was the rise of Tony Blair to lead a party he called New Labour: “We forced our opponents to change their minds.” As yet, Barack Obama can make no similar boast. Just the opposite: He radicalized his Republican opponents, and empowered most those who agreed with him least. With the presidential campaign of Jeb Bush, Obama can finally glimpse Thatcher-style success. Here, at last, is an opponent in his own image.

What can the son and brother of a president, grandson of a senator, and great grandson of the founder of the Walker Cup have in common with the son of a failed Kenyan politician? Look beyond the biography to the psychology.

Unlike his more guarded elder brother, Jeb Bush talks openly and candidly about himself. Of course, there are limits to candor. Jeb Bush has spent almost all of the past 20-plus years either in public office or in pursuit of it. He understands self-presentation and is adept at it: There is artfulness in his artlessness.

Yet when a man speaks for the record as often as has Jeb Bush, he deposits there enough material to learn something interesting about the man he is, rather than the boy he was.

Jeb Bush will tell you that, thanks to his marriage to his Mexican-born wife, he is bicultural. Here he is speaking at New York’s 92nd Street Y in November 2013:

(Excerpt) Read more at theatlantic.com ...


TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2016; bush; potus
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Dauphin Bush is like Obama in that both identify themselves as citizens of the world than Americans.
1 posted on 02/05/2015 6:33:01 AM PST by C19fan
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In before someone posts “The Atlantic? Who cares what they have to say?”


2 posted on 02/05/2015 6:36:00 AM PST by don-o (He will not share His glory and He will NOT be mocked! Blessed be the name of the Lord forever!)
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Bicultural is just another acronym for ‘diversity’. Because he is married to an Hispanic woman isn’t cause to betray the sovereignty of his own country. His “they’re here because of love” crap is really “I’m saying this because I love my wife’s heritage more than my country.”


3 posted on 02/05/2015 6:39:04 AM PST by Gaffer
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I read ole Jeb wants to reinvigorate dilapidated Detroit with tens of thousands of illegal dreamers.
4 posted on 02/05/2015 6:39:37 AM PST by TexasCajun
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To: C19fan

Interesting question.

He heavily identifies with the Hispanic parts of his family.

However, I doubt he’s a Muslim.

I even think he’s US-loyal, but even more All-World-Loyal. Unlike Obama, he’s not (IMHO) a covert foreign (Islamic) agent.

So, maybe on a scale of 1 to 10, he’s a half-or one-third-Obama.

Please, GOP, don’t let the primaries be manipulated to make him your candidate.


5 posted on 02/05/2015 6:41:29 AM PST by Pearls Before Swine
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Here’s a question. Who in the hell is gonna hire them to mow their lawns? Another illegal? Or, would they all just subsist on Section 8, TANF, SNAP, WICs, EITC, ObamaPhone, utility assistance, church food pantries, etc.?

In the end, all that will REALLY count is whether they show up and vote Democrat.


6 posted on 02/05/2015 6:42:18 AM PST by Gaffer
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Well Obama is a democrat Bush.


7 posted on 02/05/2015 6:42:51 AM PST by stockpirate (Islam, the Church of the Anti-Christ, submit or die!)
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To: C19fan

Correct, given that he is just is inept as Dorkbama, and the Republican Party is simply the slightly right side of the new Uniparty.


8 posted on 02/05/2015 6:44:14 AM PST by Da Coyote
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Is Jeb Bush a Republican Obama?

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No. Certainly not. A Republican Clinton? Oh yes. Bill AND Hillary all tied together in one little Jebbie.


9 posted on 02/05/2015 6:44:48 AM PST by Responsibility2nd (See Ya On The Road; Al Baby's Mom!)
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A Republican Obama? Talk about a way to make him unappealing to everyone...


10 posted on 02/05/2015 6:44:48 AM PST by BookmanTheJanitor
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To: don-o

“The Atlantic? Who cares what they have to say?”
“Know your enemy” Sun Tzu “The Art of War”


11 posted on 02/05/2015 6:50:21 AM PST by MCF (If my home can't be my Castle, then it will be my Alamo.)
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Frum my have viewed this as a puff piece, but it’s far more of a kiss of death to Jebbie than a genuine hand up, since it says Jebbie will continue Obola’s plan of sodomizing the US into a third world outhouse.


12 posted on 02/05/2015 6:50:44 AM PST by libstripper (")
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Frum is one of the few pundits who understands the role immigration plays in causing economic troubles for the middle and lower classes.


13 posted on 02/05/2015 6:53:15 AM PST by C19fan
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To: Pearls Before Swine

I even think he’s US-loyal, but even more All-World-Loyal.


BINGO!


14 posted on 02/05/2015 6:53:24 AM PST by laplata ( Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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With Jeb running for President, we’re finally going to hear David Frum say something nice about a Republican again.


15 posted on 02/05/2015 6:57:10 AM PST by Opinionated Blowhard ("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
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16 posted on 02/05/2015 6:59:01 AM PST by MtnMan101
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Damn straight.


17 posted on 02/05/2015 6:59:02 AM PST by AdaGray
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Jeb is a mulatto? Damn! I didn’t know that.


18 posted on 02/05/2015 7:04:43 AM PST by Cowboy Bob (Isn't it funny that Socialists never want to share their own money?)
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“I even think he’s US-loyal, but even more All-World-Loyal.
So, maybe on a scale of 1 to 10, he’s a half-or one-third-Obama.
Please, GOP, don’t let the primaries be manipulated to make him your candidate.”

“Shemp” Bush learned at his globalist father’s knee just like his older brother W. His defining difference is that he’s a Mexican Catholic, who let’s his hIspanic wife blow in his ear at bedtime.
No votes coming for him from this household. He would be death by a thousand cuts.


19 posted on 02/05/2015 7:13:10 AM PST by vette6387
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Jeb would be very bad for the nation but there is only one obamaterrorist.


20 posted on 02/05/2015 7:16:57 AM PST by bgill (CDC site, "we still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
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