Bush sending brother Jeb to Asia seen as savvy

[kskiska]

TALLAHASSEE — Political experts say President Bush's decision to send his brother to grief-stricken Asia is a savvy move to stem criticism of the United States' initial response to one of the world's worst natural disasters.

It also may set the stage for Gov. Jeb Bush's own run at the White House in 2008, despite his insistence he is headed back to the business world in Miami. The governor's staff says he is perfectly suited for the mission after overseeing disaster relief in Florida following four hurricanes.

"It's not that he brings a special expertise about emergency management," Larry Sabato, a political scientist at the University of Virginia, said Friday. "It's that he's the president's brother, and symbols are important. This is partly a public-relations operation. The president got off on the wrong foot here and got a lot of criticism."

(snip)

Lance deHaven-Smith, a Florida State University political scientist, went further.

"I take it to be a clear indication that he's interested in higher office," he said. "When you watch his denials about not running for president, he says, 'I like the job I'm doing.' You never him say, 'I'll never run for president.' It's a masterful appointment to send him overseas."

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http://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/content/news/epaper/2005/01/01/a5a_BUSH_0101.html

[neverforget]

1. The Bush family dynasty courtesy of SCOTUS and fraud

:puke:

[warrior1]

2. only to them

the world pretty much knows this family is evil..

[UpInArms]

3. I am so sick of the BFEE that I could scream

[saltpoint]

4. Jeb Bush

-- is a clueless mediocrity.

His only strength is an innate instinct for deceit and manipulation.

[Nothing Without Hope]

8. Well, I heard his daddy called him "the smart one"

but then, considering those to whom he was being compared, that's not saying much.

[saltpoint]

17. : )

[robbedvoter]

5. Jeb "Devious plans" Bush? A better ambassador we couldn't dream of

And I know the articles about his "victory" are already written (just like the 2004 election article that was posted here and discounted as SOP), and I know many of even you will believe in it and you'll urge submission, assimilation, butt kissing in the name of strategery - and you'll have fights over our candidate for 2012.....Welcome to the 1000 years of darkness (unless the Earth blows up sooner)

[Nothing Without Hope]

6. So on top of everthing else, they have to launch another Bush

presidential campaign. How honored those devastated nations must feel.

[Botany]

7. Gee Thanks!

After all the suffering and death we send them Jeb.

:puke:

[Wilber_Stool]

9. I don't think Jeb has fixed Florida

after the hurricanes has he?

[medeak]

28. but he's capable of showing capassion

albeit fake...better than dubya

[bear425]

29. No, Jeb has not fixed Florida.

I live in Florida, fortunately, not in a hurricane path, this year anyway. People are still living with tarps on their rooves and there is much clean up needed, still.

I don't know if we can survive another 4 years of *, but if Jeb runs in '08, I'm definitely outta here!

[Deja Q]

10. More like slick & as I recall on DU, Jebbiekin's handling of hurricanes

was not all that remarkable.

But if those in Florida still like him, that's not my problem.

[janx]

11. The media are all over this "Jeb 2008" theme now.

Maybe they think it will make us keep watching/reading.

It won't.

[aquart]

20. I only want Frist to read it.

And the other Republican hopefuls.

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

34. Yeah, as much as it chokes me to say this...

If I had to choose between Bill Frist and Jeb Bush, it would be Jeb in a heartbeat.

It doesn't get worse than Bill "Cat Killer" Frist, unless you start dredging the bottom of the "Zell Miller Swamp."



http://www.workingforchange.com/article.cfm?ItemID=14308

Dr. Bill Frist: moral monster
U.S. senate is going to be led by the cat world's answer to Dr. Mengele

As for Bill Frist, the millionaire Tennessee sawbones, everything you need to know about this unpleasant man was contained in one short paragraph of a profile of Frist by Michael Kranish in the Boston Globe Sunday magazine for Oct. 27, 2002, when Frist was in Boston, first at Harvard Medical School and then at Massachusetts General Hospital.

"Frist is an animal lover who said his decision to become a doctor was clinched when he helped heal a friend's dog. But Frist now found himself forced to kill animals during medical research. And his new dilemma was finding enough animals to kill. Soon, he began lying to obtain more animals. He went to the animal shelters around Boston and promised he would care for the cats as pets. Then he killed them during experiments. 'It was a heinous and dishonest thing to do,' Frist wrote. 'I was going a little crazy.'"

So now the U.S. senate is going to be led by the cat world's answer to Dr. Mengele! A man who can do that is capable of any infamy. Can't you just picture this oily Tennessean cooing and clucking over the tabbies and tortoiseshells at the shelter, solemnly wagging his head as the shelter staff counseled him on proper cat procedures, then dragging the poor creatures into his lab and torturing them to death? I call on the Humane Society to demand that Frist publicly apologize for this appalling, indeed ineradicable stain on his character, and pay substantial reparations out of the vast fortune that has accrued from the Hospital Corporation of America, founded by his father and brother.

While serving as an ardent toady of business, especially the health care and pharmaceutical cartels, Frist projected a "caring" image, accepted without demur by all except his former interns at the Vanderbilt Medical Center in Tennessee, where he amassed big bucks as a heart/lung transplant surgeon. "He was a complete asshole," recalled one intern to my brother Andrew recently, "Arrogant and unhelpful."

[bunny planet]

42. Bill 'Mengele' Frist

This guy has got to go. He's a monster and a Crook (notice capital C)

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

49. Well, he IS a monster, and more people need to know about it

A person doesn't have to be an animal lover to see the deep psychosis at the core of this "man"...

1). He LIED to obtain these animals, and while that makes him perfect GOP material, lies are like M&Ms. Those who favor them generally don't limit themselves to just one.

2). Anyone who has a pet can appreciate the trust that an animal gives its human owner. It's not the idea that Frist KILLED these animals...it's the sense that he GAINED their trust, TREATED them as pets for several days, and then EVISCERATED them with a scalpel.

THIS MOTHERF**KER needs to be exposed to the light of day. Before Karl Rove is able to prop him up into any kind of serious candidacy, the American public-at-large needs to know WHY this evil little prick is called Bill "Cat Killer" Frist.

As politically aware and well-informed as the average DU poster may be, every once in a while someone will reply to a Bill "Cat Killer" Frist reference with "What's that all about?"

SO...it makes you wonder how "unknown" the facts are OUTSIDE of DU. We need to keep this one kicked for the next four years...spread it around...and if God forbid, this sick bastard GETS a shot at running, we need to iron it onto T-Shirts and wear it everywhere.

THIS guy should not have his finger on the button.

[bunny planet]

50. His family owns the largest group of hospitals in the country. They were

under inditement for defrauding Medicare and several other organizations. I don't know the details but they were pardoned or allowed to pay off officials to shut down the investigation, something like a 6 million dollar fine which was not publicized of course. Randi Rhodes had a whole hour devoted to information about Bill Frist and his family. I also wrote extensively in the Pfizer thread in latest breaking news (part 1) about Bill Frist's addendum to the Homeland Security Bill that indemnified Eli Lilly from paying any damages to families whose children were injured from vaccines. He is a crook of the highest order, his conflicts of interest are glaring.

Cat killing aside, and I am an animal lover, this guy should not be anywhere near our government making policy, let alone the Majority party leader. He is a criminal period.


Fortunately if his speech at the Republican convention is any indication he badly needs a charisma transplant as well, so his run for office will have to overcome that hurdle. I think he is not well liked even in his own home state of Tennessee. I have Republican relatives there (believe me I've tried to convert them already to no avail). They are animal lovers though, so if I tell them about Frist's little animal experiments these particular people will spread the word. I think I need to tell them right away and get a jump on the anti-Frist publicity for 2008.

[leesa]

12. I think the "political experts" will be proven wrong. It's tacky and

there is probably some underhanded business deal going on.

Hey, Bush...no one trusts you, or anyone in your family or administration.

[zann725]

21. Perhaps another Bush-designed disaster...another Bush-designed

military intervention, and Bush profit-margin "relief" plan.

Unlike 9/11, this time they didn't even have to start a war to justify sending our military. This time, no bogus aerial photos of WMD to justify the soldiers we sent (SUPPOSEDLY ONLY to help with the 'humanitarian' aid). Does anyone want to bet that even once the place is cleaned up, that our soldiers find a reason to stay on...and build 'bases?' The Indian government didn't want our "humanitarian" aid for a reason. Once again a brown-skinned, non-Christian people who as a result of a "disaster," need Bush "intervention."

[bleedingheart]

13. This also helps give Jeb "foreign policy experience for '08"

[mitchum]

24. Yep!

They are so obvious

[Rose Siding]

14. It's opportunistic and self-serving

Criminals can be "savvy" and "masterful", too.

[rodeodance]

16. the world is on to our "savay' stuff--even as most of us are NOT!!

[Cha]

15. Then why could Everyone see Right Through it..

the second it happened? I told my co-worker/friend that after the next four more years of the carlyle candidate that Americans wouldn't want to hear the word "bush" again. She said.."I hope not"!

[zann725]

18. Wasnt' it said in the Bible, "Whereth a Bush goes, so goes the military?"

"Masterful?" Me thinks not.

[Miami Liberal]

19. "Back to the business world in Miami"

Yeah right

[TahitiNut]

22. Well, I'd say it's symbolic. Indeed.

And the Lord said unto Cain, Where is Abel thy brother? And he said, I know not: Am I my brother's keeper?
And He said, What hast thou done? the voice of thy brother's blood crieth unto me from the ground.
-- Genesis 4: 9-10 (KJV)

---

As the Busoilini Regime, in concert with "Cain Christians," murders tens of thousands of Abel Muslims, could it be more symbolic of the moral and ethical bankruptcy of a cabal that proclaims itself "Christian"?

So, Jeb, are you your brother's (zoo)keeper?

[OldLeftieLawyer]

23. I wonder if his thieving wife will accompany him

She could maybe go shopping and pick up some nice designer clothes and stuff at a good markdown - I mean, who's shopping the Phuket today, right? - and then she could try smuggling them through Customs.

Ah, she fits right in with that family of Satan's Mutants. I'll bet Mother Caligula, Big Bar, just loves Colomba.

[Tinoire]

25. Still can't find Cheney huh? - Jeb. Savvy. LMFAO! n/t

[AngryWhiteLiberal]

26. The Bush Political Dynasty MUST END.

It's time to pass a Constitutional amendment to BAN political family dynasties.

Fuck this Roman Empire-like BFEE shit.

J

[Zing Zing Zingbah]

27. I argee.

I don't think someone should be allowed to run for president of this country if one of their close relatives (mom, dad, sibilings, 1st cousins, aunts, uncles, grandparents, children) was president once. There are millions of people in this country. I think we can manage to find presidents who are not related to each other.

[NIGHT TRIPPER]

46. who's going to pass it? the puke majority in the House? or the Senate?

Get ready for permanent Chimp.
He's never leaving,
never.

[Child_Of_Isis]

48. Why should he?

Hell, he doesn't do anything but clear brush in Crawford. And he isn't held accountable for anything. The Dems make a little noise then go on about their business. Anybody who isn't aware that this (stolen) election paved the way for Jeb has their head stuck up their ass, and no longer deserves our support, nor our votes.

[w4rma]

30. savvy = very good at deceiving people (nt)

[Cobalt Violet]

31. Why is Jeb going to pretend to run? The Corportations will install him.

Why bother going through

Jeb 08! GET OVER IT!

</sarcasm>

[jonnyo]

32. Indonesian prostitutes are Jeb's speciality as I recall.

[Dudley_DUright]

35. Actually, that was Neil Bush

Jeb's talents lean more toward shady business dealings in third world countries (which in W's eyes, makes him perfect for this delegation).

[NIGHT TRIPPER]

45. Well darn, why doesn't he send Neil ! -- I'll bet Neil's pissed about that

maybe Neil can get to go later.
Hate for him to miss out on some of those homeless children.

[VegasWolf]

33. I guess that's why these guys are "political experts", they know words

like savvy. I guess if you can't handle calculus,
medicine, science, social studies, or business management
then you become a "political expert" television "personality".

ed sp

[mountainvue]

36. They're setting up Jebby for '08.

We must disgrace these people and run them off like the plague.

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[Pithy Cherub]

37. Jeb's last errand for his weak brother...

Jebster is going to come back and say "mission accomplished" :puke:

[rocktivity]

38. PUFF PIECE ALERT!!!

From the Palm Beach Post...as in Palm Beach, FLORIDA???

:puffpiece:
rocknation

[soup]

55. Puff jeb Alert!

Florida Gov. Jeb Bush talks to reporters before leaving Miami on the first leg of his journey to Bangkok, Sunday, Jan. 2, 2005. Gov. Bush and Secretary of State Colin Powell will assess damage to the affected areas of Southeast Asia hit by the quake and tsunami. (AP Photo/Marianne Armshaw)

This is BEFORE he even left?

edit to add link: http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/galleries/149-154.html?SITE=FLPET&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT

[Piperay]

39. 'Savvy'???

:wtf: It's pretty obvious it is NOTHING but a way to shove him into the WH in 2008...duh! :silly: This obvious politcal ploy must look pretty selfish and self-centered to the rest of the World, he's not fooling anyone except some of the idiots here in the US! :argh: :mad:

[0007]

40. jeb is the worst natural disaster to ever hit Florida almost

as bad as junior appointing John Negroponte, a convicted Iran/contra convict, to Iraq to install death squads democracy.

[proudbluestater]

41. Will we never be free of this family and Rove?

Seriously don't think I can stomach another stolen election. They seem to do that with ease now.

[NIGHT TRIPPER]

44. don't worry, there will be no more elections in the U.S.A.

No need for them.
Chimp is staying in permanently.
Seriously, I and a lot of others truly believe that he has no intention of ever stepping down as dictator.
Watch it unfold. A new terra "crisis", an unprovoked U.S. led nuclear attack on some country (Iran?), protests here met with iron curtain style remedy->permanently "detaining" all involved. Patriot act II.
When all is said and done there will likely be no one left to oppose the permanent Chimp.
Solution?
I'm with all the smart Germans who bailed when they saw it comming in the 1930's.

[neweurope]

47. Unfortunately I agree with you. See the writing on the wall.

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Remember Fallujah

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[Dinger]

51. Maybe Jebbie Should Go To Iraq Till That Mess Is Over

if he wants to be "savvy."

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[NewYorkerfromMass]

52. one big

:puke:

[KansDem]

56. Maybe he heard about all that free sex in Asia...

...he's brother Neil enjoyed.

Neil Bush tells of hotel trysts in Asia

UNUSUAL SEX: Documents for a defamation suit against his ex-wife recounted the younger Bush brother's carnal adventures while in Thailand and Hong Kong

THE GUARDIAN , NEW YORK
Friday, Nov 28, 2003,Page 6

{excerpt}
In a court deposition, taken in March and released this week, Neil claims that attractive women came to his hotel door looking for sex while he was on business trips in Hong Kong and Thailand. And as a big-hearted Texan, Neil, the third of five Bush children, merely did as he was asked.

"You have to admit it's pretty remarkable for a man to go to a hotel room door and open it and have sex with her," said his ex-wife's lawyer, Marshall Davis Brown.

"It was very unusual," Bush replied. He insists he didn't know them, did not see them afterwards and didn't pay them.

"Were they prostitutes?" he was asked.

"I don't know," he said.

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http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/world/archives/2003/11/28/2003077560

Hubba-hubba!!!

[not fooled]

57. jeb needs to start upping his phony religious quotient

as long as he can fool the fundies into supporting him, he's virtually guaranteed the nom in '08. however, he has to show more overt fake christianity, like *. he already has the only really important 'puke support, wall street and the corporatocracy. just need to fool enough morans with jeebus talk!