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Thu Apr 16, 2015, 10:44 AM Apr 2015

George admits he's a problem for Jeb - babbling incoherently, he gives a good demonstration why

George Bush at a health IT conference:

“It’s an easy line to say, ‘Haven’t we had enough Bushes?’ After all, even my mother said, ‘Yes,’” the former president told an audience of 7,000 health IT experts here on Wednesday.

“That’s why you won’t see me out there, and he doesn’t need to defend me, and he’s totally different from me. The role of family is not to be a political adviser or a policy adviser — there are plenty of those around — the role is to say, ‘Hey man, I love you.’

“The president needs people around him who are there to say they want to help. Imagine if instead Laura had been saying to me, ‘What the hell did you get us into this for?’ You’re living in a museum. It’s cold. It’s not your furniture. It’s Jefferson’s furniture.”

“My two girls had no desire to see me run for office. Their response was, ‘You’re not as good as you think you are; you’re going to lose.’ And when that didn’t’ work, ‘You’re going to ruin our life.’”

“So I said to Jeb, ‘Hang in there; you can do the job. Will you win? I hope so but I don’t know. But if he does he’d be a damn good president I’ll tell you that.”


read: http://www.politico.com/story/2015/04/george-w-bush-jeb-bush-2016-117020.html
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George admits he's a problem for Jeb - babbling incoherently, he gives a good demonstration why (Original Post) bigtree Apr 2015 OP
Isn't "W' the smart one in the Bush family? FSogol Apr 2015 #1
I thought it was Jeb? leftofcool Apr 2015 #2
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