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GEORGE P. BUSH: A BUSH CAN SURVIVE IN TRUMP POLITICAL WORLD
AP ^ | May 21, 2:40 AM EDT | WILL WEISSERT

Posted on 05/21/2016 3:49:32 PM PDT by lqcincinnatus

DALLAS (AP) -- George P. Bush was talking about his future political plans - and how Donald Trump wouldn't reshape them - when two women approached, giddy with excitement. Eighteen months after he was elected Texas land commissioner and a few weeks past his 40th birthday, Bush is quietly continuing his family's legacy. The grandson of one former president and nephew of another, he remains a rising star in America's largest conservative state and is keeping alive the possibility that a political dynasty declared dead by many when his dad flamed out of the presidential race could yet again return to national prominence. Bush said he was part of a national conservative movement concerned about Trump's candidacy. "He has the ability to win us over if he clarifies many of his remarks and he demonstrates that he has humility and that he doesn't besmirch peoples' character as the motivating factor for why he's running for office," Bush said.

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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: absentee; bush; convention; dallas; depublican; georgepbush; lazy; neverbush; texas; trump
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The land commissioner's office has sometimes led to better-known posts. It's hard to imagine Bush challenging Texas' popular and ideologically similar Gov. Greg Abbott, in a 2018 Republican primary. But Bush, an attorney, could be a favorite in the state's race for attorney general.
1 posted on 05/21/2016 3:49:32 PM PDT by lqcincinnatus
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To: lqcincinnatus

Maybe. I just know about me and that I will never vote for another Bush, for anything. NO matter how good they seem, no matter what they are running for.

Seems kinda unfair to you? Sue me.


2 posted on 05/21/2016 3:52:50 PM PDT by DesertRhino ("I want those feeble minded asses overthrown,,,)
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To: DesertRhino

The Definition of Bush League, is Jeb losing and his Daddy, Brother, both ex Presidents, joining Jeb in not endorsing Trump.

BUSH LEAGUE SORE LOSERS and RINOS


3 posted on 05/21/2016 3:54:56 PM PDT by Zenjitsuman (Y)
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To: lqcincinnatus

Outside the Bushies, who cares if they can survive in a Trump party?


4 posted on 05/21/2016 3:56:38 PM PDT by OrangeHoof (Join the Jihad! Al Qaeda Members For Hillary! Keep John F. Kerry Sec. of Appeasement)
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To: lqcincinnatus

Just say “NO” to family political dynasties!


5 posted on 05/21/2016 3:56:40 PM PDT by Artcore (Trump 2016!)
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To: DesertRhino

Screw da bush.


6 posted on 05/21/2016 3:57:19 PM PDT by shelterguy
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To: Zenjitsuman

P. Bush rarely shows up at his job. He took months off to work for Jeb’s campaign, but before that was most absent Texas official on the Job. If it wasn’t for his surname he would have been fired for being AWOL from work.


7 posted on 05/21/2016 3:58:01 PM PDT by Zenjitsuman (Y)
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To: lqcincinnatus

“He has the ability to win us over if he clarifies many of his remarks and he demonstrates that he has humility and that he doesn’t besmirch peoples’ character as the motivating factor for why he’s running for office,”

A steaming bushie pantload. It demands he change his positions (clarify his remarks) because only a jackass or a Bush could not understand Trumps positions. They want humility, like poppy and W. Meek pussies who place the meek gentleness of the office above every other thing. And this young Bush mexicano whelp says besmirching people character is the REASON Trump is running for office. I’m glad he told us who he is early.

But like I said, at this point, being a Bush automatically disqualifies him.


8 posted on 05/21/2016 3:59:14 PM PDT by DesertRhino ("I want those feeble minded asses overthrown,,,)
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To: lqcincinnatus

After 50 years in various forms of national power, don’t they think it’s about time someone else had a chance?


9 posted on 05/21/2016 3:59:32 PM PDT by OrangeHoof (Join the Jihad! Al Qaeda Members For Hillary! Keep John F. Kerry Sec. of Appeasement)
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To: lqcincinnatus

Not only NO but HELL NO to ALL Bushes!!!

Not only will they support Hillary, they will ruin this country even more...

GHWB sent Jeb to Caracas, Venezuela to work as a ‘branch manger’ and ‘vice president’ at the young age f 24. But Jeb was no ordinary ‘branch manager’. He was officially, Texas Commerce Bank’s top point man in the Venezuelan capital and unofficially, the CIA main financial liaison to the Venezuelan oil industry and the Colombian narcotics cartels. Jeb would regularly report to his CIA ‘official cover’ counterpart attached to the U.S. embassy in Caracas as a State Department ‘diplomat’.
While in Venezuela, Jeb cleverly managed to hide the Colombian cartel’s drug revenues as oil industry revenues of ‘front’ companies. Texas Commerce Bank was the bank of choice for Latin American drug cartels. It was later discovered to have stashed $7 million in drug profits for the Gulf Cartel of Mexico.

Texas Commerce Bank’s Houston skyscraper was sold to the head of the National Commerical Bank of Saudi Arabia, Sheike Khalid bin Mahfouz, in 1985. Bin Mahfouz was later identified as a key member of the Saudi Arabia’s support network for the 9/11 terrorist attacks against the United States, which is noted in the still-classified 28 pages of the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee Report on 9/11 intelligence failures. Bin Mahfouz, who lived in the River Oaks section of Houston near George H.W. Bush, died suddenly in 2009 at the age of 59. Bin Mahfouz, who was also an Irish Citizen, threatened with confansake lawsuits any publication that reported his links to 9/11 and his family ties to Osama bin Laden.

Jeb! and the Bush Crime Family pages 34-35

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GEORGE, JEB AND LULA

Derry Brownfield
March 2, 2008
NewsWithViews.com

Last March I discussed with my listeners that President Bush was in Brazil and the motive of his visit was to form some sort of a partnership with that country concerning the “biofuels” industry. Apparently we now have a US/Brazilian Biofuels Pact referred to as the Bush LULA Pact. The President of Brazil is Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva (for the rest of this article I will refer to him as Lula). I’ve not been able to get a copy of the PACT that was signed, if one does exist, however, on March 9, 2007 Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Brazil Foreign Minister Celso Amorim, signed a memorandum pledging closer cooperation on researching production of energy from alternative sources. The accord also promotes alternative fuels in the region and develops industry-wide standards and codes that could lay the groundwork for a global biofuels market.

Bush and Lula said they were committed to reaching a successful result in a new round of World Trade Organization negotiations. Thomas Shannon, Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs said, “The world knowing that the United States and Brazil are prepared to work together carries a lot of weight in the Americas.” (Bush has made eight trips to Latin America since he became president.)

Brother Jeb Bush became involved in Brazil prior to leaving his Florida governor’s office. While discussing the ethanol industry about a joint partnership with Brazil, he co-founded the Inter-American Ethanol Commission to promote regional production. Note that Jeb co-founded the Commission. The other co-chairs include Roberto Rodrigues, President of the Superior Council of Agribusiness of Brazil and Luis Alberto Moreno, President of the Inter-American Development Bank.

Agribusiness refers to the Multinational Agricultural corporations. Cevasa Ethanol Distillery in Sao Paulo, Brazil is the largest producer of sugarcane in Brazil. Cargill recently purchased 63 percent of its shares, giving Cargill majority control of the corporation. While Bush was in Brazil thousands of members of an international social movement made up of rural workers held massive, non-violent occupations of multinational agribusiness corporations throughout Brazil. Nine hundred women occupied the Cevasa (Cargill) ethanol distillery. Organizers of these protests claimed the actions were to protest the model of economic growth via industrialized agriculture for export. That while Brazil’s agro-export boom may boost Brazil’s Gross Domestic Product, at the same time it is creating poverty for the rural poor due to land concentration, environmental destruction, and unemployment and labor exploitation.

For every 100 hectares (247 acres) planted to sugarcane for ethanol production, only one job is generated, while on a family farm of this size 35 jobs are generated. In Brazil, agribusiness is controlled by a handful of multinational corporations that are usurping more and more Brazilian territory and expelling more rural poor to the already swollen urban centers. The organizers stated that the large scale, industrialized production for export to the Global North (meaning the US) is entirely controlled by multinational agribusiness corporations. Bishop Tomas Balduino said, “The pact between Brazil and the United States for the promotion of ethanol is sinister. It’s just going to promote death, marginalization, poverty and the destruction of the environment because it defends the interests of large multinationals.”

According to Joao Pedro Stedile, “The Lula government is stepping up its land occupations, including the seizure of lands that could be used for ethanol production. The Lula government is supporting the mode of agricultural production known as agribusiness that allies the landowners with the transnational corporations.”

The social movement supporters want Brazilian ethanol production in the hands of small farmers as part of a diversified agricultural system in which local food production for Brazilians is prioritized, assuring land, livelihoods and jobs for the rural poor. Brazil should focus on producing ethanol for its large internal market, not to sustain US consumption. The accord indicates that Lula is cooperating with Bush and agribusiness in order to ensure the industry remains controlled by large capital interests, while the Brazilian rural poor sink deeper into poverty. Bishop Balduino stated, “Today there is no more agrarian reform, there is agribusiness. Make no mistake; this accord will only benefit the multinationals and the elite.”

We live in a global world that lives by the Golden Rule. Agribusiness has the gold, so Agribusiness makes the rules, not only in the United States and Brazil but around the world. The Multinational Corporations have a choke hold on all natural resources. The more hi-tech farming has become, the greater the need for capital and the Multinationals have the capital. These institutions with unlimited capital have convinced their governments that high-priced machinery along with complex equipment is better for a nation than having more people working. These entrenched forces, for their own power and profit, intend to keep agriculture under their control.

© 2008 Derry Brownfield - All Rights Reserved


10 posted on 05/21/2016 3:59:43 PM PDT by HarleyLady27 ('THE FORCE AWAKENS!!!' Trump; Trump; Trump; Trump; 100%)
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To: lqcincinnatus

NO MAS!!


11 posted on 05/21/2016 4:00:22 PM PDT by WENDLE (Hillary is nose diving!!)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; ...

De-publican Party ping.


12 posted on 05/21/2016 4:01:39 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (I'll tell you what's wrong with society -- no one drinks from the skulls of their enemies anymore.)
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To: lqcincinnatus

He needs to be primaried in 2018 with a simple motto by a Conservative challenger: “I’ll show up to work.”


13 posted on 05/21/2016 4:06:06 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Resist We Much)
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To: lqcincinnatus

You know the GOPe will try another Bush. Another establishment, politically correct, illegal immigration, job exporting, Saudi loving, low energy loser.


14 posted on 05/21/2016 4:09:34 PM PDT by Lent
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To: DesertRhino

No more shrubs


15 posted on 05/21/2016 4:10:27 PM PDT by ptsal
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Poor, Poor Bushie!
16 posted on 05/21/2016 4:11:04 PM PDT by Fiddlstix (Warning! This Is A Subliminal Tagline! Read it at your own risk!(Presented by TagLines R US))
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To: lqcincinnatus

George IV? No thanks. Go away little boy.


17 posted on 05/21/2016 4:12:34 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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To: lqcincinnatus

The only thing I’ve ever agreed with Jesse Jackson about: “Stay out the bushes.”


18 posted on 05/21/2016 4:15:14 PM PDT by M. Thatcher
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To: fieldmarshaldj

http://www.mintpressnews.com/jeb-bushs-son-hiring-friends-and-family-as-head-of-texas-land-commision/209759/

He also hooked up all his best friends and other payoffs to family and Jeb’s supporters with cush jobs likely doing nothing.


19 posted on 05/21/2016 4:15:53 PM PDT by Sheapdog (Chew the meat, spit out the bones - FUBO - Come and get me)
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To: lqcincinnatus

A year and a half after and P still hasn’t found his Land Commissioner’s office. But he’s cashing those tax payer paid paychecks. Don’t count on him getting re-elected.


20 posted on 05/21/2016 4:16:24 PM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
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