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Bush at 91: Irritated and Invigorated by ’16 Race
New York Times ^ | October 24, 2015 | JONATHAN MARTIN and MATT FLEGENHEIMER

Posted on 10/25/2015 3:30:14 AM PDT by maggief

He has given up his “C.S.I.” reruns, consuming campaign coverage on Fox News — intently but fretfully — when he is perched in front of the television in his Houston home.

He reads three print newspapers daily, dials into briefings given by advisers to his son Jeb’s presidential campaign and stays up late to watch prime-time debates — after sitting through the so-called undercard, too.

Former President George Bush, 91 and frail, is straining to understand an election season that has, for his son and the Republican Party, lurched sharply and stunningly off script. And he is often bewildered by what he sees.

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More is at stake in this race than Jeb Bush’s political career, friends of the family say. The Bush name has been prominent in national politics for three decades, and a rejection of the younger son by the electorate, especially in the primary, could be deeply wounding to a family proud of its role in American history.

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To: ClearCase_guy

“Why is this hard for the Bushes to see?”

If you are covered in mud to the point that you can just get your nose out to breathe, your ears are filled with mud and you have to close your eyes to keep the mud out of them, it is obvious to someone standing on solid ground and looking at you just what your problem is but all you know is that you can’t see or hear anything and you can barely breathe.


41 posted on 10/25/2015 7:13:22 AM PDT by RipSawyer (Racism is racism, regardless of the race of the racist.)
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To: maggief

41 is irritated because the NWO isn’t doing so well this season. The Dauphin is struggling.


42 posted on 10/25/2015 7:16:43 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: maggief

Indeed interesting and thanks.

Although I think Reagan’s choices were horrible. All a bunch of Establishment/Globalist.


43 posted on 10/25/2015 7:23:31 AM PDT by Enlightened1
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44 posted on 10/25/2015 7:46:57 AM PDT by Patton@Bastogne
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To: maggief

!Yeb, besa mu culo!


45 posted on 10/25/2015 7:48:21 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: maggief

Estoy Bush fatiga


46 posted on 10/25/2015 7:57:45 AM PDT by georgiegirl
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To: maggief

New tagline ....


47 posted on 10/25/2015 7:59:06 AM PDT by EternalVigilance ( I care about Jeb Bush's campaign exactly as much as he cared about Terri Schiavo's thirst.)
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To: frnewsjunkie

stay outa da bushes!


48 posted on 10/25/2015 4:26:30 PM PDT by heye2monn
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