It must be good news to realize we can go back to the Bush years.
"Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush (R) on Sunday said that he's learned from George W. Bush's (R) successes, which include keeping American citizens safe."
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/oliver-stones-w-backfires/
Stone, the writer, Tom Hoopes complains, demonizes Bush baselessly. Yet, the fact is that it does appear to be factual that Bush sometimes would have conversations while on the toilet.
According to Jon Pessah's account of the inside power brokers of baseball-which is a fascinating read independently of it's account of W. who was a minor character in the book; the major characters were, fittingly, Bud Selig, George Steinbrenner, and Don Fehr-while Bush ran the Texas Rangers he'd do this when he visited the Rangers stadium.
As to why someone would have a conversation on the toilet, I can say that Bush is hardly the first to do this; it seems to me to be a case of what the economists call 'signaling'-where people of great power do this to show their power-and their arrogance in their own power.
That is comes across as arrogant and off putting is the point. LBJ would do this to0 while in the White House.
In the presence of a true man of power-and I've come across anecdotes that certain women who've come into considerable power have pulled this trick as well-who people aren't in the habit of contradicting, even here people will not think of contradicting him. Think of it literally has 'holy shit'-there are stories that when the Japanese emperor took a shit at someone's home, they tried to save his shit after he left.
You could, however, say that this gesture on Bush's part is an apt relationship of he and his whole family to the American public for many years.
"Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush (R) on Sunday said that he's learned from George W. Bush's (R) successes, which include keeping American citizens safe."
"Bush said he didn't see his brother as a major obstacle and said it was hard for him to criticize his brother."
"This is not something I'm comfortable doing," he said. "But I'm my own person. I have my own life experience."
"Bush added that he asks George W. Bush for advice, and that he's learned from his successes and failures."
"When asked by Schieffer what he learned from his brother, Bush listed his brother's success protecting the U.S."
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"Well, the successes clearly are protecting the homeland. We were under attack, and he brought -- he unified the country and he showed dogged determination. And he kept us safe," Bush said. "And you can talk about a lot of stuff, but when you're president of the United States and you're confronted with that kind of event, to respond the way he did is admirable. And I have learned from that."
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/jeb-bush-learned-w-protecting-homeland
As a Democrat for Hillary-I don't care about the alleged Socialist Bernie Sanders who's somehow running in the Democratic primary nor Martin O'Malley now jumping in; to me those are just candidates for the sake of having more candidates-I think Jeb should keep talking. I think whenever he talks it's good for her.
I don't see the GOP nominating anyone but him and he's just a big problem starting with his name that he seems so happy to embrace.
P.S. Ok, on a personal level I can't fault him for loving his brother and wanting to be loyal to hm-or at least I understand it. But he's not realistic if he thinks that saying nice things about W doesn't hurt him. No, he can't attack him, but if you're his campaign manager wouldn't you counsel him to try to mostly avoid talking about him?
Look we can debate the accuracy of Oliver Stone's book about W. but the end part where he kind of speculates that W, while making up for his father's defeat ends up sullying the family name-we have a scene where his father's voice rings his mind calling him a failure who has sullied the name-there is truth in it.
Even though, in real life I'm sure that his father never said any such thing-and is deeply and viscrerally offended by it. The fact is, W did sully the Bush name. When he ran in the late 90s the Bush name-and the confusion of some who thought it was his father running again-helped him in the polls, whereas it's the opposite for Jeb now.
The irony is that W tended to distance himself more from Bush I, though Poppy Bush had a much better public standing than W has now.
P.S.S. Here is a review of Stone who didn't like the movie. They claim that Stone failed because the movie too obviously doesn't like W. I didn't necessarily find W in the movie wholly unlikable.
It criticizes Stone for a scene where Bush has a conversation while on the toilet.
"Deliver lines from the toilet. Stone stages a scene such that Bush is handling toilet paper while sitting on a toilet preposterously close to his bed, where Laura converses with him."
Stone, the writer, Tom Hoopes complains, demonizes Bush baselessly. Yet, the fact is that it does appear to be factual that Bush sometimes would have conversations while on the toilet.
According to Jon Pessah's account of the inside power brokers of baseball-which is a fascinating read independently of it's account of W. who was a minor character in the book; the major characters were, fittingly, Bud Selig, George Steinbrenner, and Don Fehr-while Bush ran the Texas Rangers he'd do this when he visited the Rangers stadium.
As to why someone would have a conversation on the toilet, I can say that Bush is hardly the first to do this; it seems to me to be a case of what the economists call 'signaling'-where people of great power do this to show their power-and their arrogance in their own power.
That is comes across as arrogant and off putting is the point. LBJ would do this to0 while in the White House.
In the presence of a true man of power-and I've come across anecdotes that certain women who've come into considerable power have pulled this trick as well-who people aren't in the habit of contradicting, even here people will not think of contradicting him. Think of it literally has 'holy shit'-there are stories that when the Japanese emperor took a shit at someone's home, they tried to save his shit after he left.
You could, however, say that this gesture on Bush's part is an apt relationship of he and his whole family to the American public for many years.
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