Octafish
Octafish's Journal''When they were young, Jeb was somebody for George to torture.'' -- cousin John Ellis
From the So THAT's What Happened Department:
Bush brothers have a complex relationship, marked by fierce rivalry, wounded feelings
By MARK Z. BARABAK
Los Angeles Times, June 17, 2015
EXCERPT...
From early on the brothers forged strikingly different paths.
George W. Bush followed his father’s route through New England prep school and Yale, where he was an unimpressive student. After graduating, he eagerly partook of bachelor life in Houston — “I was a spirited lad,” he later said with wry understatement — and spent more than a decade knocking about the oil business, with middling success. Bush was married with twin daughters when he finally quit drinking, after a 40th birthday bash that was a haze, save for the hangover.
John Ellis Bush, by contrast, breezed through the University of Texas in 2 ½ years, married at age 21 and moved to Florida, partly because of the social ostracism faced by his wife, Columba, a native of Mexico. He became a father at 23 — the couple has three children — and grew rich in Miami’s booming real estate business. In the early 1980s, he became active in state Republican politics, helped along by the Bush name; his father was then vice president under Ronald Reagan.
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Jeb — the sober, dutiful son — had always been the one expected to assume the Bush political mantle. George W. was good for laughs, but not a lot more. It was a shock then, both inside the family and out, when Jeb lost his race and George W. won. The latter kept eager track of the competition with his sibling, checking the private Florida polling each morning to see where his race stood compared with his brother’s.
On election night, George W. was struck that his parents seemed more upset about Jeb’s loss than happy for his victory. “Why do you feel bad about Jeb?” he asked his father during a phone call that has become political lore. “Why don’t you feel good about me?”
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http://www.latimes.com/nation/politics/la-na-bush-brothers-20150617-story.html#page=1
It is a thing of terrible beauty, reading between the lines to discern the coming pretzeldental narrative.
You Dad Was for Main Street Over Wall Street. Democrats Today Should Be Too.
"If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich"-- Inaugural Address of John F. Kennedy, Friday, January 20, 1961
So, in the short time he had, President Kennedy did what he could to balance the interests of concentrated wealth with the interests of the average American -- necessary for the good of the country.
Professor Donald Gibson detailed the issues in his 1994 book, Battling Wall Street: The Kennedy Presidency.
From the book:
"What (J.F.K. tried) to do with everything from global investment patterns to tax breaks for individuals was to re-shape laws and policies so that the power of property and the search for profit would not end up destroying rather than creating economic prosperity for the country."
-- Donald Gibson, Battling Wall Street. The Kennedy Presidency
More on the book, by two great Americans:
"Gibson captures what I believe to be the most essential and enduring aspect of the Kennedy presidency. He not only sets the historical record straight, but his work speaks volumes against today's burgeoning cynicism and in support of the vision, ideal, and practical reality embodied in the presidency of John F. Kennedy - that every one of us can make a difference." -- Rep. Henry B. Gonzalez, Chair, House Committee on Banking, Finance, and Urban Affairs
"Professor Gibson has written a unique and important book. It is undoubtedly the most complete and profound analysis of the economic policies of President Kennedy. From here on in, anyone who states that Kennedy was timid or status quo or traditional in that field will immediately reveal himself ignorant of Battling Wall Street. It is that convincing." -- James DiEugenio, author, Destiny Betrayed. JFK, Cuba, and the Garrison Case --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
JFK would not back "Free Trade" that benefited the 1-percent over the People.
Systemic Corruption is Systemic
Corruption must be pulled out from the root, otherwise all you get are more Aspens.
Why? Because I pointed out some history few people seem to discuss?
It's only been the Have-Mores who get More and me and the middle class disappear for the last 32 years. In that way, I'm desperate: I want the middle class to thrive, not turn into the serfs and indentured servants of the 21st century, not to mention mopes for bailouts and cannon fodder for wars without end for profits without cease.
Do you believe that?
As an attorney for the Rose Law Firm, Ms. Clinton did all she could to advance the interests of the Walton family and their Walmart.
Later as a member of the Walmart board of directors while her husband was governor, Ms. Clinton did all she could to advance the interests of Walmart.
Today the Walton family is among the wealthiest on Earth. The people who work for Walmart are among the poorest working in the United States.
SOURCE: Clinton Remained Silent As Wal-Mart Fought Unions
We've always been at war with Iraq. Who do you think ARMED Iraq?
Know Your BFEE: Poppy’s CIA Made Saddam Into the Butcher of Baghdad.
Well, the hate coming at FDR Democrats these days is full throated and blood boiling.
Guy understood that if the Greedheads keep it all to themselves, they sooner or later end up losing their heads.
So....the Works Project Administration. And the rich kept their stuff and their hatracks.
Now, in a very different time in terms of wealth*, things are much the same. People who want PROGRESS are labeled commies, pinkos, democrat...etc. And no one notices that those doing the hollering and name calling are the chief beneficiaries of government policy and largess, the Have Mores. Except now they have the Supercomputerized Drone Police State going for them and its robotic claw is keeping the pendulum stuck on "Right."
* "Seven-eighths (7/8) of ALL wealth in human history created since 1980." -- David Stockman
The Scripted pre-Invasion Press Conference was grotesque
There was that scary press conference where what appeared to be a strung-out and sedated Smirko called on reporters and robotically read from a script answers to their obviously canned questions. The unelected moron even called one and said, "Oops. I wasn't supposed to call you out of turn. Heh heh heh." All the presstitutes could do was utter an embarrassed chuckle and go on pretending.
The BFEE cowers and intimidates and kills those who oppose them. I don't think I'm being paranoid when I say we haven't had a free press since 22 November 1963.
Scripted Press Conferences and the Lapdog Media
BUZZFLASH NEWS ANALYSIS
As we have mentioned over the last two years, the Republican Party is so brazen in its hypocrisy, it will sometimes just openly brag about its duplicitousness.
It happened when Andrew Card said in September of 2002 that the Bush Cartel waited until the fall to begin the drumbeats of war against Iraq, because, he argued, the summer is not a good time to roll out a "new product."
It happened again on Thursday night when Bush openly acknowledged that the news conference was scripted. Bush appeared to be referring to a list of reporters prepared for him that he was reading from, which excluded Helen Thomas, of course. As he read down the list, he told a reporter, in essence, to wait to ask his question because the reporter was further down on the list.
You can hear (557kb wav) the "script" comment yourself in an audio file created by a BuzzFlash Reader, who notes, "The relevant excerpt from CNN's transcript is included below -- notice the 'scripted' comment is conveniently scrubbed out."
BUSH: ...The risk of doing nothing, the risk of hoping that Saddam Hussein changes his mind and becomes a gentle soul, the risk that somehow inaction will make the world safer, is a risk I'm not willing to take for the American people.
QUESTION: Thank you, Mr. President. Sir, how would you answer your critics who say that they think is somehow personal? As Senator Kennedy put it tonight, he said your fixation with Saddam Hussein is making the world a more dangerous place.
(See: http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/03/06 /
bush.speech.transcript/index.html)
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Buzzflash link no longer works.
This was part of a DU2 thread: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x2613984
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x2613984
I think there's a lesson for this side of the pond.
We need to be thinking of not just some fixes, but thinking how to fix the system.
The way things are now, people have noticed, amount to lives of servitude for the Have-Mores.
The Scots were among the first to oppose the, um, "caste" system.
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