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DonViejo

(60,536 posts) Fri Jan 30, 2015, 06:02 PM Jan 2015

Jeb: I Drank and Smoked Weed [View all]

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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Jeb: I Drank and Smoked Weed [View all] DonViejo Jan 2015 OP

want the best drugs ? olddots Jan 2015 #1

This message was self-deleted by its author 1000words Jan 2015 #13

That will win the undecided GOP/Koch/Libertarian vote. As if he didn't have it already. freshwest Jan 2015 #2

A big dumb bully. No thanks. JaneyVee Jan 2015 #3

See, he's cool! TwilightGardener Jan 2015 #4

I drink and smoke weed, too. Every time I think about another Bush as president. Gidney N Cloyd Jan 2015 #5

And sold cocaine as part of the family business... Matariki Jan 2015 #6

and the poppy Dont call me Shirley Jan 2015 #9

Yeah because those are the worst things he's ever done. Oohhh smoked weed. SammyWinstonJack Jan 2015 #7

He has a plan you can bet on that madokie Jan 2015 #10

He did this at a time when non rich kids were going to jail for it, especially non white NoJusticeNoPeace Jan 2015 #8

...and he committed electoral fraud. roamer65 Jan 2015 #11

Jeb: I Drank and Smoked Weed - Yet somehow he still turned out to be a dildo. ChosenUnWisely Jan 2015 #12

Just as I thought, a snotty rich kid. Kingofalldems Jan 2015 #14

"his grades were so bad that he was almost expelled" Terra Alta Jan 2015 #15

I'll never onethatcares Jan 2015 #16

He's lying for votes JonLP24 Jan 2015 #17

So did many others who also shouldn't be President. lovemydog Jan 2015 #18