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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Fri Jan 30, 2015, 07:02 PM Jan 2015

Jeb: I Drank and Smoked Weed

Jeb Bush is owning up to all his childhood vices early in the game. In a Boston Globe profile, the potential Republican presidential candidate admitted to drinking and smoking marijuana as a teen studying at Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts. Along with this, his grades were so bad that he was almost expelled. According to peers, he was detached about politics and sometimes bullied smaller classmates. (Bush denies bullying.) At the time, a classmate recalled, Bush “was as far away from the political activism from that time as if he was standing on the moon.”

Read it at Boston Globe

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http://www.thedailybeast.com/cheats/2015/01/30/jeb-i-drank-and-smoked-weed.html

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olddots

(10,237 posts)
1. want the best drugs ?
Fri Jan 30, 2015, 07:08 PM
Jan 2015

Visit the fanciest prep schools.Naturally Prince Jeb is entitled to his discretions because he is part of the royal scam .

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freshwest

(53,661 posts)
2. That will win the undecided GOP/Koch/Libertarian vote. As if he didn't have it already.
Fri Jan 30, 2015, 07:10 PM
Jan 2015
Next he'll campaign on the 'who would you like to drink a beer with,' meme that worked so well to make GWB look populist.

SammyWinstonJack

(44,130 posts)
7. Yeah because those are the worst things he's ever done. Oohhh smoked weed.
Fri Jan 30, 2015, 07:22 PM
Jan 2015

Made bad grades at his fancy prep school and didn't bother with the family bidness....

I imagine he thinks this lets him off the hook for all the real damage he and his rotten family has caused this Country and it's citizens.

And no doubt thinks that the 'librul' media won't bring up all his rotten dealings including delivering his bro the state of Florida in 2000 as he promised he would.

I can't believe entitled a$$hole has the audacity to run for POTUS.

madokie

(51,076 posts)
10. He has a plan you can bet on that
Fri Jan 30, 2015, 07:36 PM
Jan 2015

it was supposed to be big head jeb when little boots ran. I'm sure the animosity between the BFEE and the cheneys is pretty intense. Only thing I can think of is that the dick knows where some bodies are buried otherwise he'd been toast long ago

NoJusticeNoPeace

(5,018 posts)
8. He did this at a time when non rich kids were going to jail for it, especially non white
Fri Jan 30, 2015, 07:26 PM
Jan 2015

kids, they still do actually.


Too bad these guys are such fucking hypocrites

Terra Alta

(5,158 posts)
15. "his grades were so bad that he was almost expelled"
Fri Jan 30, 2015, 07:59 PM
Jan 2015

And he's supposed to be the smart one?

I'm really not surprised to hear that he was a bully. It will be interesting to see him and fellow bully Chris Christie going at it in the primaries.

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