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:
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Bush with a GOP Congress will be worse than anything Obama can do for the next two years or PIAPS in the WH.
Nope. If only because BO was a far better campaigner who actually won.
Is this the same David Frum who was wowed by the crease of Obamas pants?
Cultural relativism is the the rejection of an objective standard that can be used to evaluate the superiority of some cultures or societies over others. This leads to the belief that there is a moral equivalency of a free,rational, and capitalistic society that believes in natural rights, and where one can achieve happiness and life a life proper to a rational being, and gain knowledge with one that rejects all of these.Cultural relativism is the belief of evaders of reality.
Yes Jebbie’s family is now tied at the hip with Bill Clinton. Would not surprise me if Jeb is just a stalking horse for Hillary. Lets run Jebbie so he can lose and let Hillary win.
Jeb Bush is, IMO, a Progressive Republican, plain and simple.
David Brooks was the crease lover.
Oh, yes. Thanks for clearing that up.
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