The Bishop and the Butterfly: Murder, Politics, and the End of the Jazz Age
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    Jeb Bush Mulling Run for the White House?

    By oldenGoldenDecoy on Sun, 12/14/2014 - 5:08pm |

    Let the questioning begin...

     

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    ~OGD~

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    He really isn't very charismatic as the general public out side of Florida is being led,  Just wait until you meet his family.  LOL...they have quite a interesting rap sheet.


    by trkingmomoe on Tue, 12/16/2014 - 4:13pm

     With thanks to Mike Maiello . . .

     

    See the Story at  Forbes

     

    ~OGD~

    (Edited to repair link)


    by oldenGoldenDecoy on Wed, 12/17/2014 - 2:53pm

    You know who really looks and acts like Bush II?

    Perry.

    Perry is an idiot as far as public speaking and such and he looks just like Bush.

    Jeb doesn't even look like his  bro and is a better speaker.

    But Perry...I have little in the way of means, but if he gets into office, I swear I will move to Canada.

    Of course I only have to move about 90 miles.

    Jeb by the way does not even know who he is.


    by Richard Day on Tue, 12/16/2014 - 4:53pm

    Jeb isn't the sharpest knife in the draw either.  He has done some really stupid stuff.  His wife and kids have had their share of arrests and bookings.  I don't know how they will hide all that. His oldest son was known for his bar room fighting.  He holds office now in Texas but I guess being arrested for that don't matter in Texas.  Then again our media won't spend time on that. 

     


    by trkingmomoe on Tue, 12/16/2014 - 5:49pm

     Then there is this question . . .


    See the Guardian: The Bush dynasty and the Cuban criminals

    Also: Cuba Confidential: Love and Vengeance in Miami and Havana, by Ann Louise Bardach

    ~OGD~


    by oldenGoldenDecoy on Wed, 12/17/2014 - 12:57pm

    You sly duck.  You remember the contra connection and how the Bushes got Bosch out of prison.  He did retire from blowing up planes.

    In reality many of the the old Cuban exiles have passed away.  Their grandchildren don't have the same view of Cuba and their politics is as diverse as non Cubans'.  The Cuban American National Federation don't have the clout it once had.  Most of Little Havana is now populated with Caribbean, Central and South Americans.  The children of  Cuban exiles have moved away and those that were born in Cuba are 55 years old and older.  Those that fled here in the decades following the revolution have no real desire to return except to visit.  They came here for a better life.

    I don't think Jeb is a match for Hillary. She will give him a hard time. I just wonder how much hard ball the Democrats are going to play in the next 2 years?  Releasing the "torture report" and setting up an embassy in Cuba is a good start.

    Keep in mind that he is married to a Mexican Nationalist. She was arrested for Customs violations and also shop lifting when he was governor.  His daughter was a drug addict and was arrested for stealing and writing drug prescriptions. By the time this had happened she had been in and out of very expensive rehab.  I don't remember if she got jail time or not.  Mom might have been protecting her with the shop lifting. This all happen while he was in Tallahassee Governor Mansion.  I think this was the real reason he did not move on to run for Senator.

    One more thing he was a CEO of a Savings and Loan that went bankrupted in the 1980's.    


    by trkingmomoe on Thu, 12/18/2014 - 1:46am

     Yeah... Jeb was in on the gravy...

    Although brother Neil was the BIGGER Bush S&L perp...

    ~OGD~


    by oldenGoldenDecoy on Thu, 12/18/2014 - 1:44pm

    These guys annoy me. At least Neil isn't running for office and has a tolerable personality.

    But Jeb---argh! On a tony island in Florida I was approached by his security fullbacks---well, I wasn't used to driving a golf cart and how was I to know Jeb was gonna walk out from behind a patch of bougainvillia. But his Terry Schiavo fiasco is what really sticks in my craw.

    There was an article recently about Jeb's most recent venture capital dynasty and the fact when money is raised there are usually signed agreements that principals stick to the business at hand. Don't know how an active candidacy possibly fits with that.  


    by Oxy Mora on Thu, 12/18/2014 - 3:54pm