It's more or less constant. Both his father and his brother had their verbal tics.
"Bush comes by this naturally — congenitally, even. His brother, of course, was one of the world’s great malapropism artists during his eight years in office: “Is our children learning? . . . I know how hard it is for you to put food on your family . . . Families is where our nation finds hope, where wings take dream . . .Make the pie higher . . . Too many OB/GYNs aren’t able to practice their love with women all across the country.”
"A writer once suggested Bush’s condition was a medical one, to which he replied: “That woman who knew I had dyslexia — I never interviewed her.”
"George H.W. Bush, though more in command of his syntax, had an ear for the awkward phrase, as in: “We’re enjoying sluggish times, and not enjoying them very much.” Or: “It’s no exaggeration to say the undecideds could go one way or another.” Or: “For seven and a half years I’ve worked alongside President Reagan. We’ve had triumphs. Made some mistakes. We’ve had some sex — uh, setbacks.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/jeb-bushs-foot-in-mouth-problem/2015/08/28/b87c780c-4d80-11e5-902f-39e9219e574b_story.html
So he has a history working against him. Jeb's thing is saying things that don't sound at all good and then complaining he was taken out of context:
"During his first run for Florida governor, in 1994, Bush was asked what he would do for the African American community other than welfare. “Probably nothing,” he said. He recently said that the answer, part of a longer answer about the need for “equality of opportunity,” was “taken out of context.” During that same campaign, he said welfare recipients “should be able to get their life together and find a husband, find a job, find other alternatives in terms of private charity or a combination of all three.” When his primary opponent pounced, Bush said it was “totally out of context.”
"But Bush’s context, alas, is often difficult to contextualize. Consider his attempts in May to say whether he would have invaded Iraq, knowing what we know now about Saddam Hussein’s lack of weapons of mass destruction. First it was “I would have,” followed by “I don’t know.” Next, he said the hypothetical question is “a disservice for a lot of people that sacrificed.” Finally, he answered the question: “I would not have gone into Iraq.”
"Bush had a reasonable claim that his “longer hours” comment was misinterpreted. He was attempting to say that incomes would be higher if more people could find full-time rather than part-time work."
Yes and I did defend him in that case and argue that he seemed to just be talking about underemployment.
"Bush comes by this naturally — congenitally, even. His brother, of course, was one of the world’s great malapropism artists during his eight years in office: “Is our children learning? . . . I know how hard it is for you to put food on your family . . . Families is where our nation finds hope, where wings take dream . . .Make the pie higher . . . Too many OB/GYNs aren’t able to practice their love with women all across the country.”
"A writer once suggested Bush’s condition was a medical one, to which he replied: “That woman who knew I had dyslexia — I never interviewed her.”
"George H.W. Bush, though more in command of his syntax, had an ear for the awkward phrase, as in: “We’re enjoying sluggish times, and not enjoying them very much.” Or: “It’s no exaggeration to say the undecideds could go one way or another.” Or: “For seven and a half years I’ve worked alongside President Reagan. We’ve had triumphs. Made some mistakes. We’ve had some sex — uh, setbacks.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/jeb-bushs-foot-in-mouth-problem/2015/08/28/b87c780c-4d80-11e5-902f-39e9219e574b_story.html
So he has a history working against him. Jeb's thing is saying things that don't sound at all good and then complaining he was taken out of context:
"During his first run for Florida governor, in 1994, Bush was asked what he would do for the African American community other than welfare. “Probably nothing,” he said. He recently said that the answer, part of a longer answer about the need for “equality of opportunity,” was “taken out of context.” During that same campaign, he said welfare recipients “should be able to get their life together and find a husband, find a job, find other alternatives in terms of private charity or a combination of all three.” When his primary opponent pounced, Bush said it was “totally out of context.”
"But Bush’s context, alas, is often difficult to contextualize. Consider his attempts in May to say whether he would have invaded Iraq, knowing what we know now about Saddam Hussein’s lack of weapons of mass destruction. First it was “I would have,” followed by “I don’t know.” Next, he said the hypothetical question is “a disservice for a lot of people that sacrificed.” Finally, he answered the question: “I would not have gone into Iraq.”
"Bush had a reasonable claim that his “longer hours” comment was misinterpreted. He was attempting to say that incomes would be higher if more people could find full-time rather than part-time work."
Yes and I did defend him in that case and argue that he seemed to just be talking about underemployment.
http://lastmenandovermen.blogspot.com/2015/08/jeb-bush-hours-working-and.html
"But it’s dubious for him to claim that his remark about phasing out Medicare was misconstrued. He said it at a town-hall meeting in New Hampshire as part of a call for entitlement reform: “We need to figure out a way to phase out this program for others and move to a new system that allows them to have something — because they’re not going to have anything.”
Yes it's just happened too much:
"In July, he said that “people need to work longer hours”as part of an economic recovery. Then he said his remarks had been misinterpreted."
"A couple of weeks later he said “we need to figure out a way to phase out” Medicare. Then he complained that critics were taking his remarks out of context."
"A week or so after that, he proclaimed that “I’m not sure we need half a billion dollars for women’s health issues.” Then he said he misspoke."
Always he misspoke and the media took him out of context. Howie Carr mocks this tendency of his too.
"Juan’s poll numbers are lower than whale excrement, and dropping. But he’s still running around the country, sticking his foot in his mouth on any almost daily basis. Just google “Jeb Bush” and “misspoke.”
https://howiecarrshow.com/jeb-apologies-dropping-as-fast-as-poll-position/
I take that as a real good sign how negative Carr has been on him as Carr is another heavy hitter among the Tea Party folks-yes he's been calling Jeb, Juan.
The sad thing is that his brother is turning out to be the smart brother.
"But it’s dubious for him to claim that his remark about phasing out Medicare was misconstrued. He said it at a town-hall meeting in New Hampshire as part of a call for entitlement reform: “We need to figure out a way to phase out this program for others and move to a new system that allows them to have something — because they’re not going to have anything.”
Yes it's just happened too much:
"In July, he said that “people need to work longer hours”as part of an economic recovery. Then he said his remarks had been misinterpreted."
"A couple of weeks later he said “we need to figure out a way to phase out” Medicare. Then he complained that critics were taking his remarks out of context."
"A week or so after that, he proclaimed that “I’m not sure we need half a billion dollars for women’s health issues.” Then he said he misspoke."
Always he misspoke and the media took him out of context. Howie Carr mocks this tendency of his too.
"Juan’s poll numbers are lower than whale excrement, and dropping. But he’s still running around the country, sticking his foot in his mouth on any almost daily basis. Just google “Jeb Bush” and “misspoke.”
https://howiecarrshow.com/jeb-apologies-dropping-as-fast-as-poll-position/
I take that as a real good sign how negative Carr has been on him as Carr is another heavy hitter among the Tea Party folks-yes he's been calling Jeb, Juan.
The sad thing is that his brother is turning out to be the smart brother.
Thanks. I just looked up H.W. saying he and Reagan "had some sex" ... Haha... that's a new one for me.
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