Posted on 09/14/2015 7:37:21 PM PDT by jimbo123
Jeb Bush’s presidential campaign has brought with it a resurgence of the idea that he’s the smarter of the two political Bush brothers. Experts on the Bush family say it’s an old idea, but it may not be correct.
The notion that Jeb is the smart one has its roots in the brothers’ youth, according to Bill Minutaglio, the author of “First Son: George W. Bush and the Bush Family Dynasty.” “Growing up,” he said in an email, “Jeb’s older brother was given to the kind of backslapping, grinning and preening that led some family members and friends to believe he was not entirely a sober, serious individual with the requisite gravitas to be presidential timber. He was great at social lubrication but a dud in the classroom, and hardly remembered by anyone at Yale for his academic achievements.”
Thus, when the family considered the brothers’ futures, “it wasn’t that Jeb was oozing an arching intellect or compelling profundity as he grew up. It was just that, in juxtaposition with his more careening brother George Walker Bush — the one who drank, who ran into problems with the police, whose fraternity was accused of hazing and branding pledges — Jeb appeared more stable.”
(Excerpt) Read more at takingnote.blogs.nytimes.com ...
Show us the SAT test #’s.
Pure drivel, not even worth the paper it is written on.
Frankly, they’re both jerks.
I can’t stand Jeb, but where were the NYT on Obama?
¡Yeb! is not the smart one
They just told him that to make him feel better.......
Neil was the smart one.
Don’t care. I’m tired of the dynasty must break free.
Ask Mark Levin. “Jeb, the dumbest of all the Bushes...”
Yes, I just heard earlier today that Jeb was the nerd and should show it. ROTFLOL!
This is all so ridiculous, and it falls in the same place as the bs that Hillary is the smartest woman in the world.
Fodder for fools.
“Fodder for fools.” Classic! Love it.
When he went to lenscrappers.....
Seriously it is the glasses, Jeb is dumber the W
:)
Neither one is fit to shine Ted Cruz’s shoes in that regard.
Lol, back in the old days, this wouldn't have made it to print. Now, with the Internet, anything poured out of drool cup can make it online.
Dubya didn't come off smart, like bammey the imposter fraud who says big words but can't string them together in any original thought.
we KNOW that Dubya was in grad school...we don't know shinola about the fraud.
All of them do, even the supposed dumb one, W.
Comes from being raised by a Mexican nanny.
Sir, you are not only rude, but wrong.
another Bush bash.....will they ever end....
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
When he withdraws from the race.
Not a minute before then.
I agree.
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