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.”
(Excerpt) Read more at sun-sentinel.com ...
Only Comrade Bernie offers a full throated, Trotskyite solution to the exploitation of workers.
The remaining clowns are pathetic Bourgeois Socialists (a term of art in CommieWorld).
I hate how Lincoln’s birthday and Washington’s birthday were conflated into one holiday, have these men been forgotten? Is it “any president’s” holiday now?
That’s why it can’t be done in the US without first blowing up the constitution.
Another closet or leftist. Posing as a Republican.
Nothing in the article is really bad. However, he needed to provide criticism of Pelosi, Schiff, and other dems, which he has not.
Shut up Yeb!, nobody wants to hear from you.
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“I probably could have knee-capped the guy.”
The horror. Have you no decency, Mr. Bush?
Thanks for saving me the trouble..lol.
“...to be admired by someone that you look up to.”
Is it just me, or does that make absolutely no sense?
Jeb - we needed jobs for Americans, trade deals that made sense, and a turning away from corrupt ‘elites’ that sold influence for pennies on the dollar.
There’s more to life than phonies ‘elites’ being ‘club polite’ for each other’s sake. We hire people to DO A JOB... NOT TO SIT AROUND impressing other phonies with the shallow polite society ‘manners.
YOU Jeb would have allowed the elites to continue ripping off the American people... so do us a favor - join a club and be impressed with how polite and superficial your fellow ‘elites’ are to each other. Do it on your own dime. Not on ours.
Don’t feel bad about this - even democrats are turning against their ‘elites’... they’re as sick of that crap as we were.
The democrats want decent Americans enslaved or dead. I see no reason to be civil to such people.
Jeb Bush’s idea of civility is backstabbing the Commander in Chief in retaliation for losing the election.
Yo Yeb, what was in the envelope?
He ought to be talking to the democrats and the media. Guess he forgot how they trashed his brother for 8 years.
love it... St. Pat’s Day isn’t without The Quiet Man
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Makes sense to me.
I used to play a high grade of racquetball about 50 years ago. I was pretty damn good, but I was aware of some great player from the other side of the state (PA).
It ended up that later in the year we ended up playing each other in a tournament, and it turned out he had heard about my game and he had "admired" it.
It was a sweaty mutual admiration society.
;-)
Ok, devil’s advocate:
If Jeb Bush had made the comment in a context similar to your example, it could have made sense, specifically due to the element of mutuality that exists in your story.
“...to be admired by someone that you look up to.”
The phrase itself does imply mutuality, which is precisely why it doesn’t make sense: there was no mutuality in the context of what Jeb Bush was saying.
He was saying that a President should be a good role model, should set an example to which younger people can aspire, should be someone deserving of being looked up to, and admired. He was saying the president was not deserving of such admiration.
Where is the mutuality? Was Jeb really saying that the younger people should be able to look up to a President who admires them in return? I don’t think so... he just screwed up and uttered a bit of nonsense.
It kind of reminds me of the nonsensical lyrics in the Turtles’ song Happy Together, where he sings: “The only one for me is you, and you for me”.
Obviously, the line was intended to describe reciprocity, but it doesn’t - it is just two ways of saying “you for me”.
PLEASE don’t tell me that makes sense to you! :^)
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