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.”
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Bush will always be the Village Idiot.
Agree.
After 3000 Americans were killed, George W Bush left the border exposed. Then he did his act about caring for this country... How anyone could believe that when he left the doors open to the flotsam of the world...
He’s the more pompous brother.
Jeb has always been the dumber brother, and was directly referred to as that when he was Governor.
I found it apt and have stuck with the term.
Jeb is running for the democrat liberal nomination in the Republican party. How smart is that?
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