When Jeb piously declared his brother 'kept us safe' the crowd erupted.
"In a bit of ugly sparring over who did or did not support the Iraq War, Jeb Bush, in a moment of pique, jumped in with, “You know what? As it relates to my brother, there is one thing I know for sure, he kept us safe.”
"The audience, comprised of Republican primary voters went nuts, and so Bush doubled down on his claim that having 3,000 citizens die from a terrorist attack -- the largest in American history -- “kept us safe."
“You remember the rubble? You remember the firefighter with his arms around it?,” he railed. “He sent a clear signal that the United States would be strong and fight Islamic terrorism and he did keep us safe.”
"Liberals on Twitter, including myself, sternly disagreed that safety was maintained if you’re standing on a pile of rubble where, just hours before, one of the largest office buildings in the world had stood. In the grander scheme of things, it’s also hard to really buy the idea that safety was best secured by using this terrible terrorist attack as a pretense to start an irrelevant war in Iraq that diverted resources from actually fighting terrorism. Not to say, it’s questionable that anyone is kept safe by the fallout from that war, which led to the deaths of almost half a million people and stoked instability and resentment against the United States."
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/jeb-bush-9-11-terrorism-debate
One point of correction: the audience was less stacked with just Republican primary voters as with GOP insiders and Jeb people.
That's why there was all this applause. Still, if Jeb thinks this is the line to use out on the stump, he should go right ahead.
Run on the Third George W. Bush term.
Here is a quote by Rosie Brown in the comments section at CNBC.
"Every headline , every talking head has Trump losing , but every poll has him winning by a landslide. This guy scares the insiders to no end , and I think it's great!!"
http://www.cnbc.com/2015/09/17/the-beginning-of-the-end-of-donald-trump-commentary.html
I've noticed the same thing.
"In a bit of ugly sparring over who did or did not support the Iraq War, Jeb Bush, in a moment of pique, jumped in with, “You know what? As it relates to my brother, there is one thing I know for sure, he kept us safe.”
"The audience, comprised of Republican primary voters went nuts, and so Bush doubled down on his claim that having 3,000 citizens die from a terrorist attack -- the largest in American history -- “kept us safe."
“You remember the rubble? You remember the firefighter with his arms around it?,” he railed. “He sent a clear signal that the United States would be strong and fight Islamic terrorism and he did keep us safe.”
"Liberals on Twitter, including myself, sternly disagreed that safety was maintained if you’re standing on a pile of rubble where, just hours before, one of the largest office buildings in the world had stood. In the grander scheme of things, it’s also hard to really buy the idea that safety was best secured by using this terrible terrorist attack as a pretense to start an irrelevant war in Iraq that diverted resources from actually fighting terrorism. Not to say, it’s questionable that anyone is kept safe by the fallout from that war, which led to the deaths of almost half a million people and stoked instability and resentment against the United States."
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/jeb-bush-9-11-terrorism-debate
One point of correction: the audience was less stacked with just Republican primary voters as with GOP insiders and Jeb people.
That's why there was all this applause. Still, if Jeb thinks this is the line to use out on the stump, he should go right ahead.
Run on the Third George W. Bush term.
Here is a quote by Rosie Brown in the comments section at CNBC.
"Every headline , every talking head has Trump losing , but every poll has him winning by a landslide. This guy scares the insiders to no end , and I think it's great!!"
http://www.cnbc.com/2015/09/17/the-beginning-of-the-end-of-donald-trump-commentary.html
I've noticed the same thing.
http://lastmenandovermen.blogspot.com/2015/09/the-media-says-carly-fiorina-won-but.html
I agree. I doubt that audience was very representative of the Dixicrat Old Confederacy base of the GOP.
ReplyDeleteDid you happen to catch that link I left you on one of your posts ... the old article from 2009 about "The politics of ressentiment" (not resentment, ressentiment). I thought that was great.
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