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kentuck

(111,110 posts)
Mon Jun 15, 2015, 07:09 PM Jun 2015

Did anyone listen to Jeb's speech today?

Has anyone read it?

It is chocked full of whoppers and hypocrisy and exaggerated projection! Wow!

http://time.com/3921956/jeb-bush-campaign-launch-transcript/

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Already, the choice is taking shape. The party now in the White House is planning a no-suspense primary, for a no-change election. To hold onto power. To slog on with the same agenda under another name: That’s our opponents’ call to action this time around. That’s all they’ve got left.

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They have offered a progressive agenda that includes everything but progress. They are responsible for the slowest economic recovery ever, the biggest debt increases ever, a massive tax increase on the middle class, the relentless buildup of the regulatory state, and the swift, mindless drawdown of a military that was generations in the making.

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Leaders have to think big, and we’ve got a tax code filled with small-time thinking and self-interested politics. What swarms of lobbyists have done, we can undo with a vastly simpler system – clearing out special favors for the few reducing rates for all.

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We are not going to clean up the mess in Washington by electing the people who either helped create it or have proven incapable of fixing it.

.....more to read at the link if you can pick yourself up off the floor.

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Johonny

(20,895 posts)
1. I enjoyed the no tie, working class look he tried to pull off-Jeb!really is a stage show
Mon Jun 15, 2015, 07:39 PM
Jun 2015

He said nothing, candidate playing a role instead of himself, and simply spent $$$ on set and design but forgot the script.

 

KamaAina

(78,249 posts)
4. "The party now in the White House is planning a no-suspense primary"?
Mon Jun 15, 2015, 07:48 PM
Jun 2015

Bernie begs to differ. As does Martin O'Malley.

Stardust

(3,894 posts)
5. I tried to watch it but got bored after a couple of minutes. Saw some crazy clips on Tweety, though.
Mon Jun 15, 2015, 08:43 PM
Jun 2015

Talk about Red Meat! Very close to saying Liberals are to blame for all our woes...

Just when it seems like Liberals are coming out of the shadows and standing up for their beliefs.

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