Jeb Bush: I just said something nice about your president

By David Edwards and Ron Brynaert
Tuesday, July 27, 2010 15:45 EST
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Multiple media outlets ignore Republican’s praise for Obama

One of the top names in the Republican party not only said he wouldn’t pursue President Barack Obama’s job in 2012, he also offered praise for the president.

But, curiously, multiple media outlets ignored the praise part of the interview, even the TV station which landed the scoop in the first place.

“Former Florida Governor Jeb Bush tells WHAS11 News he is ‘not running for President,’” Joe Arnold reports for the Louisville, Kentucky station.

The Republican’s name has been widely circulated in recent weeks as a potential contender in the 2012 race. A Jeb Bush candidacy would perpetuate the Bush political dynasty which includes the presidencies of his father and brother.

The Hill, Politico, The Wall Street Journal and Rupert Murdoch’s NEWSCORE all reported the story, linking to the site and the video, but none noted that the former governor of Florida, son of one US president and brother to another, also complimented the Democratic opponent he would likely face if he chose to run.

“Reforms have to be done state by state,” Jeb Bush told the WHAS11 reporter. “You can’t impose the kind of reforms we had in Florida at the federal level, but you can have federal partners.”

“This is one place where I think President Obama deserves some credit,” Jeb Bush added. “He’s challenging the states to be open minded about teacher effectiveness, accountability, about really focusing on the kids that have been lagging behind.’

He added, “I give him credit for that.”

Then after walking away from the reporter, Jeb Bush greeted an unidentified woman with an embrace while joshing, “You hear me say something nice about your president?”

This isn’t the first time Jeb Bush has praised Obama with regards to education.

Last October he told ABC’s Teddy Davis, “The fact of the matter is, the guy is on the right track, and his [Education] Secretary is as well.”

“Bush said he did not initially know that the new president was willing to cross swords with the teachers’ unions but he showered praise on the president for being willing to do so,” ABC News reported.

Last year, Jeb Bush added, “I didn’t know at the beginning that that would be the case, but it’s happened and I think it’s really important for people to be supportive, and if there’s common ground, to express it, so kudos to the president for focusing on children first.”

This video is from WHAS, uploaded July 27, 2010.

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  • peterlawrence

    I think the most important thing that Rawstory isn't reporting is that he said “your president” which I guees means “not his” which I think I'll agree with considering he's from a Fascist and racist family that would never refer to a black man as “his president”.

  • motorfingaz

    No more bush bitches.

  • lm945

    “You hear me say something nice about your president?”

    YOUR president?! Since when did Jeb Bush renounce his citizenship? Or does he see himself as somehow different or separate from THE PEOPLE? Is he better than the rest of us?

    And they call liberals elitist.

  • hopper_i

    Because in bizzarro kookee crazy GOP world somebody else is his president.
    http://guttertruth.blogspot.com/

  • overdoneputaforkinit

    Take any insane family and there will be one sane person quietly staying in the background. Typical pattern here.

  • airjackie

    Daddy Bush told his idiot son Jeb to say something nice to help the Family image which is clearly damaged.

  • greylox

    **And just exactly WHO is Jeb Bush's President?

  • oktoss

    Jeb has 2 alcoholic sons and a crack-whore daughter. Sometimes he thinks he's a rock star.

  • sanchosdad

    dont worry, douchebag. your brother was never MY president. so no offense taken.

  • Prattvictory

    Let's be fair. Barbara Bush considers Bill Clinton her fourth son.

    Its a family thing and they need some time to work it out with Pappy before she admits that Barack Obama is her fifth son.

    Sounds like Jeb's got some issues dealing with it too.

  • ericroded

    Hmm, what else is there not to like about Florida, Texas, Mississippi, Alabama, besides the redneck secessionists?

    Oh, that's right.

    The lungful of benzene.

    Breathe deeply, kennebunkport good ol' boys.

    Those oil spill toxins are for you.

  • peterlawrence

    That's because Clinton was almost as much a Republican as his son… Barack Obama is a DINO but not as far right as Clinton.

  • gypski

    Jeb, please go back into isolation with the rest of your criminal family. I don't believe another Bush Family member should ever run for elected office ever again. Frankly, your family is a lying bunch of parasites who have lived off of and bleed the government nearly dry along with your cronies.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Patricia-Ebey/100000808471054 Patricia Ebey

    You want a friggen medal?

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Patricia-Ebey/100000808471054 Patricia Ebey

    You want a friggen medal?

  • n3542576

    How do you know “Jeb has 2 alcoholic sons and a crack-whore daughter?”

  • n3542576

    How do you know “Jeb has 2 alcoholic sons and a crack-whore daughter?”

  • http://voxmagi-necessarywords.blogspot.com/ VoxMagi

    So…everybody forgotten about that old Fla. HUD of Jeb's scandal yet? It's been awhile…but looking it up can't hurt ya…especially if he does throw his hat in the ring later.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_UI6XV7OBIOS6D3KN5J4YNXXIIE Perry

    He doesn't consider Obama HIS President ……

  • chrislib

    What a fucking asshole he is. He didn't praise anybody. He called Obama, “your president.” It reminds me of when resluglishits said Clinton wasn't their president. Fuck Jeb, fuck everyone in the bu$h crime family, fuck all rethugliCONs, dead, living or yet to be spawned.

  • panamarick

    Fuck you Bush, I live in Florida. No lie you can tell will ever cover up the destruction you and your cronies caused here. America has a new saying “not one more Bush, not one not ever!

  • palmharbor

    I live in Florida too, and you did for Florida what BP did for the environment.
    You left office in contempt of court b/c you would not restore voting rights to
    those you put illegally on a list. Crist had to restore those people.
    I would say something nice about you if you were to move to Argentina.

  • palmharbor

    Because they were arrested for these offenses!

  • donofcali

    And you know that shit was slated to be the president who would solidify our government's complete capture by the Plutocracy.

    What's the matter Jeb? Did big brother piss up your pool?

  • donofcali

    And you know that shit was slated to be the president who would solidify our government's complete capture by the Plutocracy.

    What's the matter Jeb? Did big brother piss up your pool?

  • tk422

    No more landscaping.

    I'm all done with bushes.

  • Prattvictory

    Obama, like Clinton is good with the sugar words. They sound sweet but they have no value.

  • hmpmttysg

    Well, I NEVER called Gee Duhbya MY president. He may have been THE president but he sure as hell wasn't mine. I suppose it's only fair that ole Jeb, the condescending ass, say “your president” about Obama. It is Amurica after all.

  • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/2ACDKT2VKMZGOPW7DBPZV4Y5GM ANTHONY PERONE

    Jeb Bush…the circuitous candidate. If I were running for a guys job, I would praise him and agree with his best decisions.(How could they vote against somebody so wise and generous?) I would even restrain any impulse to cirticize his mistakes and to minimize them. But slowly, words like 'tired' and 'blocked' would come into my language when referring to the incumbent. Most important: I would totally behave like the sweetest White Guy you ever knew. Who could then deny me? 'I'm white, I'm smart, and I'm qualified!' Who else do the Reds have, anyway?

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_VGK5YO6DNDRUTTQ54Z2WPEKLI4 pete

    As a native Floridian, I personally dealt with the fascist paranoia known as JEB! Make no mistake, he's no dumb-ass dubya. He's devious and uses his billionaire right-wing fascists (or visa-verse) to accomplish their teabagger utopia of no public funding for schools and nothing but tax breaks for the rich. He and his boot-licking cronies destroyed our infrastructure by gutting the tax base with unbelievable tax breaks and exceptions for the ultra rich while, jacking-up every imaginable fee to the working masses.

    His apparent dream of a Florida as a 1959 Cuban-styled Batista banana republic of rich fat cats and millions locked out was nearly complete. Jebby left Florida in financial chaos and a crony legislature filled with incubating Alien pods of right-wing, teabagger crazies!

  • Christine Block

    I said something nice…………….. to stay out of prison!!!! He knows Obama could end wars, get us off oil, and get us off military, health, and prison, industrial complexes but knows he won’t because thats were the jobs are now………..thanks Jeb!!! , thanks Bush Crime Family!!!!

  • beakie

    Whenever you see a car or truck driving around spewing smoke, we call that a “jeb”. He got rid of mandatory emissions testing here in FL.

  • robertlmills

    I think Jeb is setting up for 2016.

  • panamarick

    Fucking A Pete!

  • doosmom

    Same thing Engler did to Michigan. Raped the state and when we elected Granholm almost 8 years ago now, she struggled trying to recover from Engler's damage plus then the economy was going down the tubes along with the auto companies. People are incredibly short sighted and of course blame her for everything. Michigan will probably elect a Repub this time and the state will be gutted even further.

  • doosmom

    Extremely disrespectful. I am not surprised.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_VGK5YO6DNDRUTTQ54Z2WPEKLI4 pete

    You nailed it!

  • llkernj

    “YOUR” president? FU Bush.

  • http://www.facebook.com/tom.aiken2 Tom Aiken

    At least Jebby won't have to deal with the Repugs “Hispanic Problem”. I can hear him now: “I married one'a y'all. Now gimme all your money.”

  • christopherlaw

    EXCUSE ME!!!
    He's OUR president, you Dick!
    Well, he does have the same genes as the spawn of the Devil :-)

  • shag11

    I am glad he's not running. We don't need another idiot Bush in the White House. We'll be suffering the ramifications of the errors of the Bush II for decades to come.

  • dennycrane

    …”Jeb Bush: I just said something nice about your president”….

    So, your fucking narcissistic brother is still “your” president? Go fuck yourself

  • peaceloveunderstanding

    hmmm I wonder if that's becuase this doesn't fit into the whole , Republicans are so different from Democrats lie they want us all to believe. Why WOULDNT he like Obama? he is carrying all of Bush's bad policies.

  • Crispus Attucks

    Once again… BEWARE OF LIZ CHENEY!

  • KDee

    Note to Jeb: He is your president, too.

  • http://www.facebook.com/brandon.m.wherry Scott Burnell

    It would be best to Ignore anything coming from the Bush crime family

  • leggs67

    “Your President?” I always thought the Bush's considered themselves residents of their own private domain. Who's your president Jeb?

  • realclass

    NOTE TO JEB BUSH HE IS YOUR U.S. PRESIDENT TOO!!!AND BEWARE OF THE CHENEY KLAN….ESPECIALLY DICK CHENEY HE STILLS LIVES!!!!

  • w000t

    The heir to the throne…be afraid.

  • azhermit

    I'm an old man little jeb… I don't give a fuck about what your opinion. Your family and its crew is a gang of nazis… plain and simple. the blood of millions of humans throughout the world drips from you coven's fangs. the cries of widows, children and orphans scream for justice from their graves! FUCK YOU jeb! FUCK THE MOTHER THAT BORE YOU AND FUCK YOUR DEMONIC NAZI FAMILY! However, I will pray for your soul because my God commands me to love the evil persons of this world. FUCK YOU!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Tim-Murphy/100000477313235 Tim Murphy

    You should praise him, he is doing just what you want. Where you attempted to privatize education with a sledge hammer, Obama is doing your bidding with cash. Just say no the RttT!

  • tchdab1

    Why is the next electable member of this criminal racketeering family given any national forum, other than “your honor, I plead not guilty”?

  • damnadamzama

    Jeb Crow. Remind us again about Choicepoint, your brother's phony FL election, and the purging of 90,000 black voters from the rolls by replacing them with felons.

  • damnadamzama

    Jeb Crow. Remind us again about Choicepoint, your brother's phony FL election, and the purging of 90,000 black voters from the rolls by replacing them with felons.

  • damnadamzama

    Jeb Crow. Remind us again about Choicepoint, your brother's phony FL election, and the purging of 90,000 black voters from the rolls by replacing them with felons.

  • bobrandall

    Reading thru the comments it sounds as if the the authors are all infected with rabies. Like mad dogs filled with hate.

  • thewizard1566

    Just what this country needs, another Bush in the White House. I guess we haven't figured out that when we have a “President Bush” the country goes to sh*t. Why is it we elect democrats to run the country, have unrealistic expectations for them, and give power back to the republicans the next time around.

    Really at this point there are no differences in the political parties anymore. But that doesn't change the fact this guy would hurt our country. At least this one isn't claiming to be a Texan when the Bush clan comes from the wide open prairie's of Connecticut. Remember republicans, you love Palin. Vote for Palin in 2012.

  • yvonneo

    Jeb apparently doesn't consider obama to be HIS president. Hmmmmm…. And who gives a rat's a$$ anymore about whether little sociopath jebby approves or disapproves of obama? He has no credibility. And the only time he's had to honestly work hard for anything was when he fought for and won a race against millions that gave him a lifetime membership in the lucky sperm club which came with a silver spoon–nothing more.

  • yvonneo

    The bush crime family has so much innocent blood on their collective hands (a century's worth at least), that the very sight of any of those ghoulish, cannibalistic creatures makes me want to vomit.

  • Big_Alpha1

    And here's some nice words about you Jeb: You ain't a governor anymore fuckwad, so anything you might say about anything doesn't mean shit! Course it didn't when you was the gov – nor.

  • Genessender

    30 years of increasing corporatism (that's fascism with a corporate spin to you) will make sane people pretty cranky. The 25% of humanity that are authoritarians or sociopaths don't seem to mind as much.

  • Genessender

    For some fun reading, may I recommend googling “Bush” and “Dixie Mafia”?

  • mick

    If you met Hitler before he came to power ,would you shoot him knowing what you know today ?

  • hmpmttysg

    HELL YES!!! we're angry!!! You would be too if you would only wake up and realize you've been RAPED by Bushco, et al. WE know it. Pull your head out from where ever it has been hiding and pay attention to the real world.

  • Anonymous

    He lives in the multi-national corporate world. Where the $ is the president to everything. Just like all the other Bushies.

  • Anonymous

    The Bushies live in the multi-national corporate world. They don’t really care about anything except $

  • jimthebeam

    Bush was not my president because by objective measure he did not win the election in 2000 or 2004. He was posted in the position by those that needed him in that position. So perhaps we are discussing literally two different Americas with two different presidents. Legitimately elected and the other…the shrubya president.

  • Elim

    He's not going to run for president because he knows George has ruined the Bush family name forever.

  • howiebledsoe

    No surprise Jebby like Obama, Obi is goose stepping right along with Chimpy.

  • MikeHaas82

    I got to hear Jeb speak at the ECOT 2010 graduation ceremony at Schottenstein Arena in Columbus where a friend of our daughter graduated. Very, very impressed with his stand on education outside the “norms” of the current status quo. Very, very impressed with the kids who graduated as well. Quite a few of them had already earned their Associate's Degree while working on the ECOT curriculum. Most of them had firm plans for other College and Military pursuits. So I'll return the favor and say “something nice” about Jeb Bush.

  • MikeHaas82

    So I'm no fan of the Republican Party or W (or his Dad), but the comments I'm reading about Jeb seem to be based on his family association rather than his own record. I'll also admit I've never followed his career so if you have info to share, please do.

  • christoofar

    “You hear me say something nice about your president?”

    YOUR president? And where exactly do YOU live , asshat?

  • ctcadguy

    People do tend to get mad at the war criminals who ran this country.

    Why aren't you mad that these sickos who gave us 911, torture, WMD's, Iraq war, Afganistan war, a crashed economy etc……….?

    Are you drinking the Rush (pedophile drug addict) koolaide?

  • beakie

    He just did, look it up.

  • worstcountryintheworld

    I hate it when a Democrat makes a Bu$h Crime Family member happy.

  • worstcountryintheworld

    I hate it when a Democrat makes a Bu$h Crime Family member happy.

  • coinms

    Well, if Jeb likes Obama, then Obama must be worse than I thought. That's like getting an endorsement from a thief.

  • MikeHaas82

    Sorry – read that as W's “checkpoint”, not Jeb's. I'll look it up.

  • chrislib

    If I met George W(orstpresidentever) bu$h before it came to power…

  • chrislib

    I have 100,000 reasons to hate the bu$h crime family and all their associates for the damage they've done to my country over the past 70 years. Prescott's helping Hitler, the family's friendship with Saudi Arabia and two wars for oil top the long list. Thousands of Americans are dead, fucked up, bankrupt or homeless while the bu$h motherfuckers are filthy rich.

  • chrislib

    “Our” president was elected, which is more than Jebya's brother can say. But at least w can brag about being the biggest criminal in America history.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=75303837 Kevin Johnson

    As a life-long Tallahassee resident, I've lived through several republican governors now – and they've all sucked. The last quality governor we had was Chiles, who died shortly before his last term was set to end. His son talked about jumping in the '10 governors race – but decided not to. Crist largely continued the policies of Jeb. Crist's recent swing to the left (vetoing an abortion bill, an education bill, etc.) has actually brought some of the first sane actions seen in this state in a decade.

    I love the Republican attack ads on TV right now. None of the candidates run on their records, except Alex Sink actually, because their record is TERRIBLE. Rubio was speaker of the FL state house and was one of the worst state politicians in living memory – the kinds of ideas that flew out of this guy's ass were amazing in their stupidity.

    So what do we have in FL right now? Well, after over a decade of republican governance we are broke, get no revenue from any taxes, we have the worst public education in the country (but of course, some of the lowest property taxes!), and this is only the tip of the iceberg. Jeb was a disaster, Crist was a different kind of disaster. Crist is all about what is best for Crist – he once said he was “the people's governor” and that the governor's mansion was “the people's house.” He sure as hell isn't saying that any more.

    My larger point is that as bad as Jeb is individually, he's really only a symptom of a larger problem for us in Florida, the dominance of the RPOF for the last twenty years.

  • Foxhunter

    “YOUR President”?? A backhanded compliment if I've ever heard one.

  • bruman

    One must understand that the Bush family (aka The Bush Crime Family) considers itself as its own entity, not members of the USA. They are too important, rich and powerful to follow the rules and laws of our Constitution, which, they feel, only apply to the “little people”. When Dubya's grand-pappy, Prescott Bush, was making deals with the Nazi Party before WWII, nobody thought it odd that the Bush was consorting with fascist scum. Apparently, some things never change from generation to generation..

  • tazdelaney

    when you hear a politician say that they are not running, it's time to look into the fundraising.

    and a little background on the bush dynasty…

    back in 1942, the wall street firm of brown bros harriman was convicted of 'trading with the enemy.' at the time, senator prescott BUSH of connecticut was an officer and board member of the company. some $4.2 billion in money and technology were routed to the nazi party of germany by these entities while FDR watched, backing the fascist federico franco. prescott bush wasn't personally chrged, though he had to be fully cognizant of the deals. these funds were mostly from the richest american industrialists, namely rockefeller, dupont, ford, chrysler, GM, carnegie, kennedy… the usual suspects. as albert speer testified and wrote in his journal, without those funds and in particular the tank and tank tread manufacturing facilities built for the germans, there never would have been a nazi empire and they couldn't have invaded the sudetenland, much less the whole of europe. so who gave us WWII?

    amazingly enough, my guess is that perhaps 5% of americans has ever even heard about this bush family connection to the german nazis despite the fact that between bush's time as director of CIA, his terms as reagan's VP, his own term as president, and gw bush's 8 years, that is over 22 years at the top of american governmental power!

    jeb bush should run as hillary clinton's VP… remember back in 2004, babs bush, the real head of the dynasty, hugged bill clinton and called him “my son!” funny thing is… i think jeb bush is more 'liberal' than hillary. he's even had naughty things to say about israel…

  • MRAMERICA4U

    LOL,the funny thing is Jeb corrected himself as he was saying “yours”.Nobody hears him say “ours” evidently..Mob mentality.

  • blatella

    unfortunately for students, public schools and teachers all over America, Jeb's endorsement of Obama's ghastly and destructive education policies reflects the domination of ruthless immoral corporate profligates trampling over our nation's basic rights.

  • pinroot

    It just shows there's no difference between the two. Wake up…

  • worstcountryintheworld

    I am awake! It's everybody else. ;- [

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