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kpete

(71,997 posts)
Mon Jan 5, 2015, 10:39 PM Jan 2015

Wow. Jeb Bush, Of All People: The Compassionate Conservative's little white slip is showing

The Compassionate Conservative's little white slip is showing

by digby

Wow. Jeb Bush, of all people, came down hard on white people who complain constantly about having to pay taxes to support the services they enjoy and conservatives who constantly whine about all the racial minorities stealing their jobs and destroying the American way of life. This is from his 1995 book with the highly original title "Profiles in Character":



That's about as scathing a view of white privilege I've ever heard from a Republican.

Oh, wait, sorry. I didn't see the whole excerpt:


Zeke Miller ✔ @ZekeJMiller
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.@jebbush in his 1995 book Profiles in Character on "modern victim movements"
3:00 PM - 5 Jan 2015
https://twitter.com/ZekeJMiller/status/552238342562414593


Sorry. It turns out that Jeb Bush is just a typical snotty, rich right winger scolding people who have the nerve to complain about being treated like doormats and relegated to second class citizen status in the land of freedom and opportunity. Never mind.



http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2015/01/the-compassionate-conservatives-little.html
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Wow. Jeb Bush, Of All People: The Compassionate Conservative's little white slip is showing (Original Post) kpete Jan 2015 OP
Jeb needs a movement of a different kind brer cat Jan 2015 #1
"The Gay Rights Movement"??? Dawson Leery Jan 2015 #2
George Jr. isn't a racist? Wabbajack_ Jan 2015 #10
Not overtly. Dawson Leery Jan 2015 #12
Please. GW was the King of racists reddread Jan 2015 #14
oh those pesky black people who see themselves as victims...of slavery and jim crow. how dare they? msongs Jan 2015 #3
Oh, those poor victimized RICH PEOPLE for having to pay taxes out of white guilt.... Spitfire of ATJ Jan 2015 #8
I wonder if"the system" edhopper Jan 2015 #4
smug little entitled bastard Skittles Jan 2015 #5
seriously. n/t BlancheSplanchnik Jan 2015 #6
I would LOVE IT if anybody ever gets a chance to shut him down with that line renate Jan 2015 #11
I'll elevate my status to a poor black, gay woman and live the live of Riley! Whoo hoo! Kablooie Jan 2015 #7
"Those people"...... czarjak Jan 2015 #9
give back all the money you stole Jeb, easychoice Jan 2015 #13

Dawson Leery

(19,348 posts)
2. "The Gay Rights Movement"???
Mon Jan 5, 2015, 10:44 PM
Jan 2015

Gays had very little in terms of rights in 1995. In several states one could be arrested for participating in sex with someone of the same gender. Blacks are still treated as second class citizens by the judicial system. Blacks go to jail for marijuana possession while whites get a slap on the wrist. Jeb is worse than his brother. Unlike the drunk frat boy older brother, Jebby is an outright racist.

 

reddread

(6,896 posts)
14. Please. GW was the King of racists
Tue Jan 6, 2015, 05:16 AM
Jan 2015

when some drummed out coke fiend fratboy election thief has the nerve to joke that he
"cant wait to hang it" about MLK Jr's portrait in front of cameras and the family of
Martin Luther King Jr?
just because the press corp laughed doesnt make him any less of a filthy racist.
simply untouchable, a boy king figurehead who provided cover for the unnamed forces that put him there.
and people like to make fun of North Korea's leadership.
you might want to rethink.

msongs

(67,420 posts)
3. oh those pesky black people who see themselves as victims...of slavery and jim crow. how dare they?
Mon Jan 5, 2015, 11:18 PM
Jan 2015

according to the bushes

 

Spitfire of ATJ

(32,723 posts)
8. Oh, those poor victimized RICH PEOPLE for having to pay taxes out of white guilt....
Tue Jan 6, 2015, 01:12 AM
Jan 2015

That's the kind of thinking expected from being raised bottle fed with Jim Beam.

easychoice

(1,043 posts)
13. give back all the money you stole Jeb,
Tue Jan 6, 2015, 01:25 AM
Jan 2015

maybe that would separate you from the scum you have for a family.I doubt it ,but give the money back and we'll talk.

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