So apparently Jeb Bush (R-FL), the former governor of Florida and current brother of the worst leader in the history of civilization, is part of a team responsible for rebranding the Republican party.
Not surprisingly, the branding they’ve decided on is: “completely retarded and intellectually dishonest.” Whaddya know!? Same branding as before!
Seems Jeb sat down for an interview with Esquire (which he apparently doesn’t realize is only read by the gays and Democrats — same thing), and he couldn’t say for sure whether Barack Obama is a socialist. Here’s what he said when asked:
I don’t know. Define socialism for me. It’s a word… I believe he’s a collectivist. He believes that through collective action, through government, you can solve more problems.
Let’s break that down real quick. Jeb Bush has no idea whether the president is a socialist; it’s just too complicated! In fact, he doesn’t know what socialism is! We hasten to point out that Jeb is actually the smart Bush.
In fairness, maybe he hasn’t had enough time to consider the question because he’s been working at his communal farm since Jan. 20, 2009. Ya know, because we’re all socialists!
What Jeb does know, though, is that Barack Obama is a guy who thinks we can solve problems by working together and using government, which sounds like the kind of thing someone who, I dunno, works in freakin’ government would think!
Seriously, Jeb, if you don’t think collective action and government are capable of solving problems, why did you run for governor!? Why did you ever want to work in government!? Why didn’t you just buy weapons that matched your linen suits, and form some kind of Kennebunkport militia?
Sigh, whatever.
Next, Bush was asked about Obama’s popularity. Turns out that’s a sore subject…not surprisingly.
He downplayed the president’s approval ratings, which remain above average. “First of all, who cares?” he said.
Bush then plugged his fingers into his ears, closed his eyes, and ran around the room saying “lalalalalalalalalalalalalala.”
Seriously, Jeb? “Who cares?” Really? Your mom must be really proud of you.
Please, by all means, you must want to elaborate on that, right? Maybe try lying…
“His popularity is no greater – in fact it’s less – than what my brother’s was during the beginning of his tenure, in a time of unbelievable friction, if you think about it, because of the 2000 election. His approval ratings were higher than Barack Obama’s during his first one hundred days.”
Not only is that a lie, but it’s a big enough lie that even CNN caught it!
According to the most recent CNN/Opinion Research Corporation polls, Obama’s approval ratings have averaged several points higher than President George W. Bush’s were at the same point in their presidencies.
Just because there’s more to this article/interview, we’ll also add that Bush said Obama wouldn’t have won if he were honest about his intentions. Apparently Jeb Bush lives in a world where politicians always tell the truth, and keep their campaign pledges. Of course, given his sense of ethics, he must also live in a world where running a smear campaign that falsely says your opponent fathered a black baby and is mentally- and emotionally-unfit for office is a bad thing, right? Except wait, he had no problem with that when his brother did it to John McCain.
Well then surely he had a problem with the inherent dishonesty of publishing budgets that didn’t include fundamental spending like WARS, right? No, turns out he didnt’ have a problem with that either.
See, Jeb Bush is either intellectually dishonest or just regular dishonest. Either he knows what socialism is and knows Obama isn’t a socialist, or he doesn’t know what socialism is. For instance, Sec. of Transportation Ray LaHood (R-Ill.) responded to the ridiculous charge in March.
“I don’t agree with it,” LaHood said. “If you go out and interview these people working on this road in Maryland… these people are thrilled. They are thrilled that they are working in March on a good paying job building roads, which is what they were trained to do. That’s going to be happening all over America. So the idea that this is socialism — it is not socialism, it is economic development. It is going to provide an economic engine around communities all over American for jobs; good paying jobs; and help people pay their bills. I don’t call that socialism…. We are the model for the world when it comes to infrastructure. We are the model for the interstate system. I don’t call that socialism. Our $40 billion [for the Department of Transportation]: not socialism. It is good paying jobs that is going to drive the economies in a lot of states and a lot of communities.”
If anyone’s got a better plan, he should come forward with it. George W. Bush provided big government bailouts before he left office (and strangely that wasn’t socialism; that wasn’t a bold response). No one out there in the real world thinks this economy is good — it’s not — and an economy doesn’t fix itself overnight. To say these plans and efforts aren’t working is shortsighted, and to sit on the sidelines and try to incite hatred doesn’t help a damn thing. Fuck that. Here’s what Teddy Roosevelt would’ve said to assholes like Jeb Bush:
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.
Josh – You are wrong about the polls and Cracker Crusher just put YOU in the joke category for quoting CN fuckin’ N as a source. Bet you learnt that in gradumate skewel? For the record, show us the stats on which you claim Jeb’s statement about the polls is factually wrong? I won’t hold my breath because for every poll you throw out there, there is another one that you’ll have to refute – so now I get it – It’s just easier to quote CN fuckin’ N than actually work at it! Ya-hooooo! If you in fact took the time to read the primary data (read: the polls themselves), you would see that the real story is that Obama remains very popular, but that’s about it (read: he’s likable enough). On almost every issue (read: the things that make people vote one way or another), he down, way way down. Independents on the whole have flipped on Obama and that’s on the heels of having lost his Republican support not too far into March of this year. So laugh it up, stay lazy, and watch your man flame out as we roll into the six inning here…..Oh yeah, that Russia Summit was a real doozy. They laughed at him over there and the pols here at home gritted their teeth as their Saviour fled the scene of controversy over health care and cap and trade…..The moral of it all is poop-yalarity only gets ya so far buddy.
Cracker Crusher, you are immature and have terrible grammar, you are vulgar and have made yourself look like a child. It is obvious that Josh has sparked a FEARFUL FIRE in you and you feel threatened… I feel sorry for you.
Oh I get it, you are in LOVE with Barry. How cute. Do you want Barry to do you Josh? Do you, huh? Do? Would that count as social, ist? I mean if he did you, like, that? You know, do you?
i think cracker missed the point of this post, this blog, and possibly of life itself. on the bright side, he gave me the inspiration to write a song called “He Down (Way Way Down)”
Blunt:
Oh, Cracker Crusher (I realize that addressing you will only make it worse, but here’s my plea): Stop being a fake (as in, you’re not a real person), stupid, ignorant, disgusting, uninformed prick asshole.
And to think that some have the audacity to say Obama is a State Capitalist promoting fascism. Tut!
Hey look folks, Obama is selling us out. At least Jeb B. is telling it like it is, and I admit, his brother could not articulate. Obama cannot articulate without his prompts. He us selling us out and causing an even larger debt. Save the illegals and give more of my hard earned income to the lazy unemployed who don’t even go out looking for work. BS. and I am one of the many who are pissed off….Get it?
Get what? That you’re a primate?
lmao rotfl. you lefties are such a cute bunch. limited real world experience but full of words and opinions. seriously, why are you so married to this incessant Bush criticism? if you had half a bone of journalistic capacity you would at least focus on what is not happening in our current political culture versus what was promised during a lengthy vetting process over the last two years. but then again, that would suck for you since your guy hasn’t made good on one damn thing he said he would. get ready for higher taxes, Barney Frank up yer butt and Uncle Sam peeping into your medical records. take your vitamins, pray your mommy gave you good genes and don’t smoke because you will not want to get sick. oh yeah, and while you guys stay glued to your narrow interpretations of what is cool versus what is relevant, i’ll be watching the One’s favorable ratings sink like a ship. as Arnie says, I’ll be baaaahhhck when Obama’s unfavorables break the magical 45 (which will be in 4 weeks at this rate). but don’t take my word for it – do your own diligence…..me thinks you guys are the ones who are afraid because the reversion to the mean is happening and it ain’t the east coast elites who are going to benefit.
and for the record Obama is not a socialist, he’s a populist who is governed exclusively by political opportunism. in reference to the employing of folks to build infrastructure etc, that is a good thing in a down economy but if you believe that the stimulus package is mainly about direct employment for a finite time period, you need your head examined and it would be worth your while to at least read the budget because most of the approved stimulus is actually a permanent increase in the size of government, not the bolstering of private sector jobs. if you run that one out to its natural conclusion you end up with what many would consider to be socialism: state run services operating as monopolies and that structurally preempt the ability of private enterprise to compete in those markets. nighty night lefties…….
Who cares what jeb Bush thinks or how he defines socialism. Socialism/progressivism is not in question. It exists and there are many in office now who believe in every principle of that philosophy. No Obama’s not a socialist he is a flat out communist. Lets quote him…well Marx actually and see if this isn’t exactly what his whole redistribution of wealth plan is about:
” The distinguishing feature of communism is not the abolition of property generally, but the abolition of bourgeois [rich people's] property. But modern bourgeois [rich people's] private property is the final and most complete expression of the system of producing and appropriating products that is based on class antagonisms, on the exploitation of the many by the few.
In this sense, the theory of the Communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property. Abolition of property in land and application of all rents of land to public purposes…
-A heavy progressive or graduated income tax.
-Abolition of all rights of inheritance.
-Confiscation of the property of all emigrants and rebels.
-Centralization of credit in the banks of the state, by means of a national bank with state capital and an exclusive monopoly.
-Centralization of the means of communication and transport in he hands of the state.
-Extension of factories and instruments of production owned by the state; the bringing into cultivation of waste lands, and the improvement of the soil generally in accordance with a common plan.
-Equal obligation of all to work. Establishment of industrial armies, especially for agriculture.
-Combination of agriculture with manufacturing industries; gradual abolition of all the distinction between town and country by a more equable distribution of the populace over the country.
-Free education for all children in public schools. Abolition of children’s factory labor in its present form. Combination of education with industrial production, etc.
—Communist Manefesto, Karl Marx, Freidrick Engles May 1, 1890
Yep, that’s the Communist Manifesto, alright! So?
quite an explosive reaction you elicited (mostly fecal) …