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Really Jeb?
from Addicting Info:
For years, George W. Bush embarrassed America constantly by demonstrating his lack of intelligence on the world stage and Jeb is poised to be just like his big brother.
During his interview with the New Hampshire Union Leader, Jeb whined about how smart President Obama is and claimed that his intellect creates chaos in the world.
You dont have to be the worlds policeman, but we have to be the worlds leaderand theres a huge difference. This guy, this president and Secretary Clinton and Secretary Kerry, when someone disagrees with their nuanced approachwhere its all kind of so sophisticated it makes no sense, you know what Im saying? Big-syllable words and lots of fancy conferences and meetingsbut were not leading, that creates chaos, it creates a more dangerous world.
In other words, Bush appears to be claiming that stupid people make better leaders and thats why America should elect him as the next president.
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Aristus
(66,310 posts)Warpy
(111,237 posts)We know he understands every word. He's just speaking up for his base and he knows how stupid people have to be in order to qualify as his base.
It's his way of being folksy. It's not going to work for him any better than it did for Romney.
deathrind
(1,786 posts)With the intelligence is bad meme. Bush jr showed just how disasterous it can be having a president who lacks even a rudimentary ability at critical thinking...and now here comes Jeb to reinforce that train wreck.
WinkyDink
(51,311 posts)pscot
(21,024 posts)To make it easier for linguistically impaired folks like the Bushies to sound them out.
WinkyDink
(51,311 posts)pnwmom
(108,973 posts)such that he will resonate.
Remember the No-nothing party?
Plenty of Americans think thoughtfulness is equivalent to elitism.
Skittles
(153,142 posts)Novara
(5,838 posts)....that "elect me because I'm stupid" just may work.
Boomerproud
(7,951 posts)CNN was Trump Central today. It was like watching a horror movie coming to life. I am as afraid for the future today as I've ever been.
Live and Learn
(12,769 posts)Can't wait to see the stupid Bush quote of the day tomorrow.
PatrickforO
(14,570 posts)We don't need no ed-um-eck-ation. And we don't need no gummint help! We is gonna pull us-selves- up right by them bootstraps!!!
Kalidurga
(14,177 posts)GW might be fairly intelligent, but then this interloper comes along and he puts a waste basket on his head and everyone oohs and ahs and laughs and talks about how funny the baby brother is. So, GW gets to thinking that people like it better if you act like a fool. Only problem is GW got to be way too good at acting like a fool.
3catwoman3
(23,970 posts)I once knew a dating relationship was over when the guy in question told me I would have to stop using such big words. When I asked what words, the one he could come up with was ambivalent. I had been a bit ambivalent about this guy, but after that, I no longer was.
spanone
(135,816 posts)Spirochete
(5,264 posts)when he reads. Something wrong with that man..."
SoapBox
(18,791 posts)No...More...Bush...EVER!
Spider Jerusalem
(21,786 posts)"Why bother talking to other countries when you can just wave your dick in their face? And we spend trillions on the military to make sure we have the biggest dick." Which is just the sort of foreign policy his brother had. (And look how that turned out.)