Posted on 05/14/2015 8:54:36 AM PDT by jimbo123
Jeb Bush has taken three attempts at answering the following question: "Knowing what we know now, would you have authorized the invasion of Iraq?"
Here are my three translations of his answers:
First attempt: Of course, I would bring about the same disaster for my nation and several others. Did you think I was going to disrespect my brother?
Second attempt: Well, I don't know what I would have done about Iraq. Hypotheticals only tell us that we can't really know anything for sure. Did you really think I was going to disrespect the laws of logic and epistemology?
Third attempt: Actually, I can't answer hypothetical questions because so many people paid the ultimate sacrifice. Did you really think I was going to disrespect our dead soldiers?
Feel free to check the above against the originals. In fact, it was even worse than that, with him adding, "The simple fact is mistakes were made, and we need to learn from mistakes of the past to make sure we're strong and secure going forward."
Besides being the most shopworn cliché of moral cowardice, "mistakes were made" is not even an answer an insurance agent would accept for a home flood. Why should we accept it from a man who has the benefit of hindsight and the ambition to be commander-in-chief?
It is a little disconcerting that Jeb Bush, who has so far run the smoothest, most professional, and well-conceived campaign in the Republican field, has given so little thought to the most easy-to-anticipate policy question about making another Bush president.
(Excerpt) Read more at theweek.com ...
Never vote for a person solely based on:
1. Gender
2. Race
3. Last name
Bush has nothing going for him but his last name.
A good response would be to ask the questioner if he would like to have next weeks Wall Street Journal now.
Jeb should have been prepared for that question.
And he should have been prepared for that college student’s question blaming his brother for ISIS.
He has no clue and neither do his advisors and donors.
Hillary has her husband's last name and we suspect her gender.
Did his Mexican wife tell him to do this? lol.....
I wouldn't be at all surprised if some of the same names show up on Hilary's donor list.
The correct response is to challenge the questioner about what the questioner now “knows” about Iraq. That would elicit either a lot of fumbling or a load of BS that is easily disproven.
If he had any savvy, he would have said “That’s a very understandable question and something I’ve given a lot of thought to and...” then debunk her question and assumptions with some well thought-out responses.
He looked like a fool while he was fumbling to try to compose himself.
This momma’s boy is running because momma wants him to.
He doesn’t even pretend that he’s done any substantial thinking on the Iraq questions.
For him it’s all about Mexico and Amnesty and that’s it.
All this from “the smart one.” What a laugh.
I saw the original, Megan Kelly, interview. This article is a complete lie about what he said.
Basically, what he said was this: I would have done the same, given the information we had at the time. But looking back, given the information we have now, I would do differently - and Dubya has said he would as well.
It was very plain to me at the time, and has now been frothed completely out of recognition - beginning with Laura Ingraham’s reactionary squealing . I am not a Jeb supporter, but I don’t like to see lies propagated, especially by conservatives or here on FR.
just keep Diggin, Jebby.
No joke..... Me just speculating that she might be Jebbie’s brain trust
Read my lips, no more Bushes.
“He looked like a fool while he was fumbling to try to compose himself.”
Which really shows one thing: he hasn’t prepared.
Any candidate who goes through the standard prep for a campaign would have advisers think of all the common “gotcha” questions the media will throw at him, and drill into his head one or more responses for each of those. If Bush is stumbling over such an obvious “gotcha”, then he must not have such advisers, or he is isn’t listening to them.
He probably thought that the race was full of weak candidates and he could coast on name recognition and hasn’t bothered to do the basic prep work.
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