The Matriarch of the Bush family said it long ago: “There have been enough Bushes in the White House.” She was right then, and she’s even more correct today. Jeb Bush is a long shot for winning the GOP presidential nomination in 2016. He’s not only losing poll numbers, he’s also losing supporters. I have been in doubt for a long time if he truly wanted to become our nation’s president, and what occurred in the last couple of days supports my supposition.

Tuesday a book by our 41^st president, George H.W. Bush ‘hits the newsstands.’ ‘Destiny and Power: The American Odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush’ contains criticism of members of Bush 43’s administration, specifically vice-president Dick Cheney and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld. What the mainstream media failed to tell, the father of the president who invaded Afghanistan and Iraq, and bankrupted a nation, voices the truth.

The senior bush paints Cheney and Rumsfeld as the villains responsible for his son’s legacy.

“I don’t know, he just became very hard-line and very different from the Dick Cheney I knew and worked with,” Bush reportedly told Jon Meacham about his son’s vice president. “The reaction [to 9/11], what to do about the Middle East. Just iron-ass. His seeming knuckling under to the real hard-charging guys who want to fight about everything, use force to get our way in the Middle East.”

Bush also told Meacham that he was never a fan of Rumsfeld, who served as his son’s secretary of defense during 9/11. “I don’t like what he did, and I think it hurt the President.”

“I’ve never been that close to him anyway,” Bush explained. “There’s a lack of humility, a lack of seeing what the other guy thinks. He’s more kick ass and take names, take numbers. I think he paid a price for that. Rumsfeld was an arrogant fellow.”

Here’s where Jeb Bush displays his lack of desire to become our 45^th president. He backed everything his brother failed at while in office and supported Cheney. He had little to say about Rumsfeld.

First of all; if he wanted to become our nation’s leader, he would have divorced himself from his brother’s failed and immoral presidency. Anyone, including myself, who had ever considered voting for Jeb Bush is guaranteed not to look twice at him ever again. Second of all, supporting Cheney instead of his father is unheard of in the Bush clan. Bush 41 was a well-respected public servant, both as Director of the CIA and as our president. The same cannot be said about his two sons.

What this also proves is what everyone knew, but the right wing denied; Bush was the president in name only; Cheney ran our nation and selected his cronies as cabinet members and aides. It was Cheney who decided to invade Iraq because of his investments in the military industrial complex, and it was Cheney who ordered torture of our suspected enemies. None of us ever believed that George W. Bush was intelligent enough to plan all of the former atrocities.

Jeb has proven himself to be less intelligent than his older brother. Who would he choose as his vice-president?

Op-Ed

By James Turnage

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