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Nobody does Babs.
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/barbara_bush_doesnt_want_jeb_bush_presidential_run
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"I hope he won't, because I think he'll get all my enemies, all his brother's, all -- and there are other families," she said. "I refuse to accept that this great country isn't raising other wonderful people."
It's not clear what enemies the former first lady was referring to. Jeb Bush's brother, former President George W. Bush, has repeatedly said he's not concerned about how history will judge his administration's disputed decisions, from the Iraq War to the response to Hurricane Katrina.
The matriarch of the Bush family would clearly prefer that Jeb Bush, whose name is often floated as a potential 2016 contender, stay out of that kind of political spotlight. She told C-SPAN that the United States deserves a leader that comes from outside a political dynasty.
"I think this is a great American country, great country, and if we can't find more than two or three families to run for high office, that's silly, because there are great governors and great eligible people to run," Bush said. "And I think that the Kennedys, Clintons, Bushes, there are just more families than that."
Mass
(27,315 posts)snooper2
(30,151 posts)She got well enough to get out?
more Friday bad news
Solly Mack
(90,767 posts)and what wonderful things they are doing and how surely there are more families out there as wonderful as her family is....surely. She refuses to believe otherwise! She refuses to accept! (which sounds like she secretly believes it might be true) Surely other families are raising "public servants" - because we all know what a servant to the public Shrub was. (and Neil and JEB and Poppy)
Oh, cruel fate! Why must you torment her beautiful mind?
vanlassie
(5,670 posts)just a sweet little old lady!
Beacool
(30,247 posts)Unfortunately, there have been two Bushes........