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On Presidents’ Day, Jeb Bush urges return to civility in politics
Sun Sentinal ^ | 2/17/2020 | David lyons

Posted on 02/18/2020 5:12:24 AM PST by bkopto

Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush told a Presidents’ Day audience of investors and money managers that it’s time for a return to civility in the nation’s politics. And the man who was ousted early from the Republican primaries of 2016 gave a decidedly mixed review of the first term of President Donald Trump

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As for such "kingly’ duties as setting an example to which younger people can aspire, Bush found the president deficient.

“The duties say if you can work hard and play by the rules you can be just like him … that’s an ‘F,’” Bush said. “That’s an important part of this, to be admired by someone that you look up to. This president doesn’t achieve that.”

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KEYWORDS: bush; florida; jeb; jebbush; pleaseclap; trump
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To: Zathras

30 nothing, in 1989 the House launched hearing to investigate “serious charges” that Pappy had flown on an SR71 to Paris for secret meetings with the Iranians to convince them to hold the hostages till after the election.


61 posted on 02/18/2020 5:59:28 AM PST by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: bkopto

It’s amazing how clueless a human being can be, especially one in politics.

He’s just ... unreal.


62 posted on 02/18/2020 5:59:37 AM PST by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: bkopto

That would be like getting into a bar fight with a group of Hell’s Angels and adhering to the Marques of Queensbury rules. There’s a name for someone who does that. Dead man.


63 posted on 02/18/2020 6:00:36 AM PST by Gen.Blather
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To: Still Thinking
1) On its face, that’s not unreasonable. However in the current political environment, coming from an (R), it sounds like pining for R’s to go back to good sport hapless loser mode.


Exactly. I refer to it "gentlemanly loser" mode.

Is Jeb contemplating 2024? Gosh, I hope not.

64 posted on 02/18/2020 6:03:29 AM PST by The_Media_never_lie ("The media is the enemy of the American people." Democrat Pat Caddell)
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To: rdl6989

Maybe Yeb! now carries hot sauce in his purse.


65 posted on 02/18/2020 6:03:40 AM PST by Paladin2
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To: bkopto

Anything to make waves for speaking fees. Doesn’t he have enough money or is it attention he craves? Please clap.


66 posted on 02/18/2020 6:04:42 AM PST by 1Old Pro
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To: bkopto

Jeb, you do know that you did not become the President, right?


67 posted on 02/18/2020 6:07:36 AM PST by kempster (w President of all time.)
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To: bkopto

$100,000,000 is a lot of money!


68 posted on 02/18/2020 6:07:56 AM PST by Savage Beast (The malevolents' great fear is Trump's commitment to truth. That's scary to the untruthful.)
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To: bkopto

Nothing like a lecture on civility and then attack our current president. Is he nuts? What a putz...


69 posted on 02/18/2020 6:17:12 AM PST by Thank You Rush
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To: bkopto

Noblesse oblige, the burden bestowed on the Bush family...


70 posted on 02/18/2020 6:21:21 AM PST by silverleaf (Remember kids: You can vote your way into communism, but you have to shoot your way out!)
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To: bkopto

“civility in politics”

Back to the good old days when people who supported the Constitution as written, as well as people of faith, were called “backward” and “racist” and “sexist” and “supremacist” and “Nazi” and “Fascist”, and “imperialist pigs”, and they accepted those labels quietly and obediently. That sort of civility.


71 posted on 02/18/2020 6:21:57 AM PST by rightwingcrazy (;-,)
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To: bkopto
Who wants to aspire to a leader, who looks good, sounds good and acts good but who doesn't do sh*t in advancing the solutions to the country's problems?

That's why I voted for Trump. He just wasn't another faceless "face" that central casting picked out to play the role of president for the next four years.

Trump has got his rough edges but don't we all? I'd rather have him as an effective president, flawed as he is, instead of a flawless president who doesn't get anything done.

For a president, I don't want phony looks anymore. I want real action.

Unless the demoCLOWNS go along with it too, it is just more worthless, wishful thinking.

Yeb can go taking a flying leap off his return to civility in politics agenda. I am so glad Trump knocked him off early.

Imagine what it would have been like if he was president. "Obama's economy is not so bad." "Illegal immigration is a Act of Love."

72 posted on 02/18/2020 6:22:02 AM PST by HotHunt (Been there. Done that.)
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To: bkopto

If I could talk to this dough-faced twerp no one would ever have heard of if not for his father, I would ask him one thing. His honorary sister, Hillary Clinton, said civility would be possible when Democrats control one or both houses of Congress. Well, they have one. When are they going to start? I don’t see if yet from their leadership or from the rank-and-file.


73 posted on 02/18/2020 6:23:10 AM PST by Southside_Chicago_Republican (The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog.)
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To: bkopto

was he standing on his tippy toes?


74 posted on 02/18/2020 6:24:40 AM PST by TexasTransplant (Damn the Torpedoes! Full Speed Ahead!)
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To: bkopto

You first Jeb


75 posted on 02/18/2020 6:26:38 AM PST by sauropod (David Horowitz: “Inside every progressive is a totalitarian screaming to get out.”)
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To: bkopto
Yeah, Jeb is the man I want to listen to!

Jeb's the least qualified person in any room he enters.

76 posted on 02/18/2020 6:29:31 AM PST by COBOL2Java (Hillary Clinton: Just like Joe with only half the dementia.)
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To: bkopto
it’s time for a return to civility appeasement and compromise with evil and submission to evil in the nation’s politics.
77 posted on 02/18/2020 6:34:08 AM PST by mjp ((pro-{God, reality, reason, egoism, individualism, natural rights, limited government, capitalism}))
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To: bkopto
¿Jeb? sucks.
78 posted on 02/18/2020 6:50:17 AM PST by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change with out notice.)
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To: bkopto

“Return To Civility”

This is the problem with people so out of touch with reality it is painful to even listen. Leftists hate you, and they want you dead. Now that’s a fact.

I’m not of a mind to be “civil” to anybody trying to kill me. As a point of order, it was the left that long ago jettisoned common public standards of decency, etiquette, deportment, politeness, and the rest of it in the first place. Weak, squishy pseudo-republicans are useless as tits on a boar. Go away Jebb.


79 posted on 02/18/2020 7:00:34 AM PST by Freedom4US
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
The Bush family supports any and all of the Democrat nominees. If that's not it, they need to shut their mouths for a couple of days, then endorse the reelection of President Trump. I didn't say enthusiastically, because they don't have or show enthusaiasm for anything, must have been wrung out of 'em in those finishing schools they all attended.
“The duties say if you can work hard and play by the rules you can be just like him … that’s an ‘F,’” Bush said. “That’s an important part of this, to be admired by someone that you look up to. This president doesn’t achieve that.”
Jeb is a Democrat In All But Name (DIABN, I know, it's a lousy acronym).

80 posted on 02/18/2020 7:01:44 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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