Fundy Gemini
3rd March 2012, 16:55
I found this an interesting read and obviously not something anybody is really thinking about -
a three page article, and worth a look ..
The Jeb Scenario: Can You Say “President Bush” Again?
Anyone who declares that Americans will not stand for another Bush presidency is sorely underestimating the Bush family.
source: http://www.alternet.org/election2012/154378/the_jeb_scenario%3A_can_you_say_%E2%80%9Cpresident_bush%E2%80%9D_again_/?page=1
My hunch is that the Bushes and the real establishment (that’s not the Tea Party, not the Santoriacs or the Gingrichites, folks) just love how bad the GOP field is. Obama is almost certain to be reelected. Which is just fine. Like Clinton, he’s played ball on all the big issues that really matter to the One Percent of One Percent—foreign intervention, oil, Wall Street bailouts. They figure he won’t do anything more radical in his second term, while, like another young president (Bill Clinton), looking forward to cashing out to an extremely comfortable life after the White House. And they figure as long as Obama does not make Hillary his veep, that the electorate will tire of the Democrats in 2016 and be ready for….another Bush.
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Jeb has been carefully laying a scenario in which he could indeed run—and could be very well received. He’s traveled the country extensively as a kind of elder statesman. And recently he criticized the GOP presidential candidates’ behavior:
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That we are not already paying enough attention to this prospect is telling about the state of the American media – and electorate—today.Our lack of collective memory, our failure to examine deeper forces and patterns in this country, our perpetual rush to “move on” and our staunch resistance to possible insights and lessons from the past, will come back to haunt us.
a three page article, and worth a look ..
The Jeb Scenario: Can You Say “President Bush” Again?
Anyone who declares that Americans will not stand for another Bush presidency is sorely underestimating the Bush family.
source: http://www.alternet.org/election2012/154378/the_jeb_scenario%3A_can_you_say_%E2%80%9Cpresident_bush%E2%80%9D_again_/?page=1
My hunch is that the Bushes and the real establishment (that’s not the Tea Party, not the Santoriacs or the Gingrichites, folks) just love how bad the GOP field is. Obama is almost certain to be reelected. Which is just fine. Like Clinton, he’s played ball on all the big issues that really matter to the One Percent of One Percent—foreign intervention, oil, Wall Street bailouts. They figure he won’t do anything more radical in his second term, while, like another young president (Bill Clinton), looking forward to cashing out to an extremely comfortable life after the White House. And they figure as long as Obama does not make Hillary his veep, that the electorate will tire of the Democrats in 2016 and be ready for….another Bush.
>
>
Jeb has been carefully laying a scenario in which he could indeed run—and could be very well received. He’s traveled the country extensively as a kind of elder statesman. And recently he criticized the GOP presidential candidates’ behavior:
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>
That we are not already paying enough attention to this prospect is telling about the state of the American media – and electorate—today.Our lack of collective memory, our failure to examine deeper forces and patterns in this country, our perpetual rush to “move on” and our staunch resistance to possible insights and lessons from the past, will come back to haunt us.