Jeb Bush: "There were mistakes made in Iraq, for sure" VIDEO: http://t.co/P6rnoKOHOe pic.twitter.com/84C3oEMz1I
— Tim Hanrahan (@TimJHanrahan) February 18, 2015
Jeb Bush has rolled out his “shock & awe” campaign launch, and the guys at Politico are so excited they may have had to change their underwear. Report from the Chicago Council site:
… In the most-noted passage, the former Florida governor said his foreign policy would not clone those of his father, George H.W. Bush, or his brother, George W. Bush…
Bush spoke to a lunchtime audience of 750 people at Chicago’s Fairmont Hotel. Much of his speech took aim at President Barack Obama, who also gave his first major foreign policy speech as a presidential candidate to a Council audience here eight years ago.
Interestingly, Bush’s speech touched several of the themes that Obama struck then—the need for US global engagement, for restoration of American stature in the world, and for increased defense spending. In that speech, Obama criticized the “bluster and bombast” of the sitting president, whose brother returned the criticism here…
If only the world had been flash-frozen in amber for the last thirty years, and a good Republican establishmentarian could campaign on continuing the “morning in America” theme — why, Jeb would be as good as President already!
And that’s exactly how his Shock’n’Awe handlers have decided to present him: as a bulky figurehead facing a blank slate, where nobody remembers those other two President Bushes, much less all the changes that have happened in the larger world since the GOP’s dream campaign against Walter Mondale…
would have been smarter for Jeb Bush to wait to give this speech until he had actually developed some distinct ideas
— Peter Beinart (@PeterBeinart) February 18, 2015
…[I]t is not really journalism to lay out the case that Jeb (!) is completely for sale, and then use it, not to demonstrate that Jeb (!) is selling his ass by the ounce but, rather, to make the case that he is a towering political juggernaut… — Charles P. Pierce
Build time machine, un-invade Iraq in 2003 RT @NickRiccardi: Not hearing Jeb articulate a plan to stop ISIS.
— daveweigel (@daveweigel) February 18, 2015
.@igorvolsky Jeb 2015: "Who's George W. Bush?"
— Billmon (@billmon1) February 18, 2015
Building on his brother's accomplishments, Jeb pulls together a crack foreign policy team.
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— Billmon (@billmon1) February 19, 2015