Rachel Maddow: Jeb Bush, "Mistakes Were Made"..."I Am My Own Man"

[JDPriestly]

4. Brilliant!

Rachel Maddow did not just put forth the bankrupt foreign policy of Jeb Bush. She demonstrated the empty cache of Republican Party candidates.

Not a one of these guys knows anything about the world. All that money and they haven't really lived or learned or read or thought about anything but themselves or any people but their own kind or any experience beyond theirs.

Republicans: It's me, me, me, and only me all the time. That's all they are capable of. Not a one of them can go beyond their own petty interests.

I suggest that DUers who are up to slugging through it read MacMillan's book, 1919, Six Months that Changed the World. It is an eye-opener.

When "mistakes are made" by presidents and world leaders, the consequences are grave. We are still paying for the mistakes made by a group of four men and their advisers in Paris way back in the aftermath of WWI. And their mistakes were due to mistakes made before them.

Jeb Bush is just a rich Sarah Palin.

Barack Obama is maybe the most knowledgeable president in a long, long time when it comes to foreign policy. And still, some mistakes are made. But not nearly as many as with the Republican presidents.

I think that Jimmy Carter had great understanding of foreign policy. Kennedy, son of an ambassador, probably also did although his presidency was far too short. The Roosevelts traveled and knew the world. Wilson was a scholar. He knew the world but not well enough.

But Jeb Bush. All that money and what ignorance. It's really a waste.