I think you can see why Trump's jibes at Jeb's brother are so lethal. Now even his old man is coming out and saying things that you always kind of figured he really thought.
"After years of holding back, former President George Bush has finally broken his public silence about some of the key figures in his son’s administration, issuing scathing critiques of Vice President Dick Cheney and Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld."
"In interviews with his biographer, Mr. Bush said that Mr. Cheney had built “his own empire” and asserted too much “hard-line” influence within George W. Bush’s White House in pushing for the use of force around the world. Mr. Rumsfeld, the elder Mr. Bush said, was an “arrogant fellow” who could not see how others thought and “served the president badly.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/05/us/politics/elder-bush-says-his-son-was-served-badly-by-aides.html?ref=topics
Bush, Sr lamented that Cheney and Rumsfeld had such influence in W's Administration. He does also admit that W is who empowered them.
For the entire eight years, Sr. held his tongue. Maybe it's seeing now how this legacy is sinking his other son's chances-who as is known was the one he and Barbra had really seen as the son with the future in politics-he is finally telling us what you know he always thought but would never say out of love and loyalty to his boy, W.
"In interviews with his biographer, Mr. Bush said that Mr. Cheney had built “his own empire” and asserted too much “hard-line” influence within George W. Bush’s White House in pushing for the use of force around the world. Mr. Rumsfeld, the elder Mr. Bush said, was an “arrogant fellow” who could not see how others thought and “served the president badly.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/05/us/politics/elder-bush-says-his-son-was-served-badly-by-aides.html?ref=topics
No question Iraq was the wrong decision but once you make that mistake Rumsfeld's radical de-Baathification policy was just disastrous.
Mr. Bush’s sharp assessments, contained in a biography by Jon Meacham to be published by Random House next week, gave voice to sentiments that many long suspected he had harbored but kept private until now. While he continued to praise his son, he did tell Mr. Meacham that the younger Mr. Bush was responsible for empowering Mr. Cheney and Mr. Rumsfeld and was at times too bellicose in his language.
“I do worry about some of the rhetoric that was out there — some of it his, maybe, and some of it the people around him,” Mr. Bush told Mr. Meacham. “Hot rhetoric is pretty easy to get headlines, but it doesn’t necessarily solve the diplomatic problem.”
"Asked for specifics, Mr. Bush cited his son’s State of the Union address in 2002, when he described an “axis of evil” that included Iraq, Iran and North Korea. “You go back to the ‘axis of evil’ and these things and I think that might be historically proved to be not benefiting anything,” he said.
This is why Jeb can't outrun his brother. Even his father sees the problem. Here is something that I certainly didn't know. In 1988 Jeb had urged W to drop Quayle from the ticket and Trump had wanted to be Sr's VP.
Here is Sr's book to be released next week.
http://www.amazon.com/Destiny-Power-American-Odyssey-Herbert/dp/1400067650/ref=sr_1_sc_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1446727196&sr=8-1-spell&keywords=george+bush+meachem
“I do worry about some of the rhetoric that was out there — some of it his, maybe, and some of it the people around him,” Mr. Bush told Mr. Meacham. “Hot rhetoric is pretty easy to get headlines, but it doesn’t necessarily solve the diplomatic problem.”
This is why Jeb can't outrun his brother. Even his father sees the problem. Here is something that I certainly didn't know. In 1988 Jeb had urged W to drop Quayle from the ticket and Trump had wanted to be Sr's VP.
Here is Sr's book to be released next week.
http://www.amazon.com/Destiny-Power-American-Odyssey-Herbert/dp/1400067650/ref=sr_1_sc_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1446727196&sr=8-1-spell&keywords=george+bush+meachem
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