Jeb Bush: My Brother's 9/11 Response Was 'Awe-Inspiring'
Source: Talking Points Memo:
Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush (R) again praised his brother's actions following the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, describing President George W. Bush's leadership as "awe-inspiring."
"The case study of leadership is how George responded to 9/11, period, over and out," Jeb Bush told the audience at a Houston event for donors to Bush's campaign, according to The Hill. "And the idea that a candidate could think that they could make political hay to create a new
narrative on the reality on how he led is a joke."
During a conversation with his brother on stage, Jeb Bush applauded George W. Bush's efforts to unite the country.
"People were united. And people really got it that he had a heart for them," Bush said, according to The Hill. "At that time, as you know, kids were crying. All around people, children and grandchildren didnt know what was going on."
Read more: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/jeb-george-w-bush-9-11-awe-inspiring
Jeb is defending his brother's "leadership" as being "awe inspiring." And he qualified it by saying, "response to 9/11" as if that is all there was. Jeb thinks he can get away with that. Keeping it focused on a time directly after 9/11. The conversation that follows will be about the totality of his brother's leadership. If/when that conversation takes place, Jeb can take a long vacation from this job. No one in the puke party wants that conversation about the totality of that person's leadership.
I got to add something else. I thought for a moment this was from "The Onion." Talking Points Memo usually has accurate stories. It is taken from "The Hill" I suppose that is accurate too. Maybe this is Jeb's swan song. I don't know. But this was what happened. Here is the link from "The Hill"
http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/258144-jeb-brothers-response-to-9-11-was-awe-inspiring
hobbit709
(41,694 posts)But not in the way Jebbie thinks.
Jerry442
(1,265 posts)w0nderer
(1,937 posts)localroger
(3,605 posts)LastLiberal in PalmSprings
(12,539 posts)hobbit709
(41,694 posts)lastlib
(22,981 posts)How about "near absolute certainty"?
TrollBuster9090
(5,953 posts)And then turning around a few years later and allowing the Republican House to screw him and all the other firefighters out of their asbestos-related health care treatments was truly awe-inspiring. I have to agree, I've never seen anything like that before.
SusanaMontana41
(3,233 posts)I'd forgotten that.
Scarsdale
(9,426 posts)W was so awesome, other countries want to get their hands on him for war crimes. He is the ONLY US president who is afraid to travel outside the country, for fear of being arrested. He has been warned, along with Dickless Cheney and a few others.
wordpix
(18,652 posts)while Darth Vader hid in the WH basement or other undisclosed location, running things.
Yes, I was truly inspired to follow the prezeldent from that day forward.
Hissyspit
(45,788 posts)tanyev
(42,360 posts)mpcamb
(2,855 posts)I mean, as a general rule, it DOES inspires awe of a certain kind.
I can't quite bring myself to put a sarcasm icon on this.
BeyondGeography
(39,284 posts)Frank Cannon
(7,570 posts)I'm almost convinced he really, really doesn't even want the job. It's just something Poppy is making him do.
TrollBuster9090
(5,953 posts)Thanks for reminding me of that. Too funny.
w0nderer
(1,937 posts)that's just cruel!
imagine forced sex with the Bush fam...*shudder*
Cosmocat
(14,543 posts)that is my thought, too ...
he may wear glasses, but his campaign's primary achievement is showing that somehow he is Bush with the lower wattage grey matter.
erronis
(14,955 posts)He knows he better start buttering his toast on both sides.
trusty elf
(7,349 posts)[img][/img]
erronis
(14,955 posts)JackInGreen
(2,975 posts)He's out of his mind, their entire litter and parents are out of their effin minds.
blondie58
(2,570 posts)She did Say that enough Bushes Had Been President. Why Isn't Jebbie Listening to his Mama?
JackInGreen
(2,975 posts)Laying in their own shit because her bouncing baby bonzo didn't care enough, so....Mamas about as bent as the boys IMO.
blondie58
(2,570 posts)Amazingly snobbish. What were the people supposed to do?
We do have two Classes (if not more) of people in this country.
erronis
(14,955 posts)We're never going to be in their class. Not that I would want to be, but it sickens me to see what their money and desire for more is doing to the world.
FiveGoodMen
(20,018 posts)Satan worships her.
SusanaMontana41
(3,233 posts)madaboutharry
(40,153 posts)One thing we all now know is that Jeb! is as clueless and dumb as his brother.
Skittles
(152,967 posts)he has removed all doubt quite publicly now, as did Goodhair Perry
Myrina
(12,296 posts)Yeah, awe inspiring in it's cowardice.
LastLiberal in PalmSprings
(12,539 posts)The detour was never explained.
lark
(23,003 posts)That was after the 3rd plane had hit that he finally left the school. He hid out so Cheney could take control and make sure he got his war excuse.
Skinner
(63,645 posts)skypilot
(8,848 posts)*
lastlib
(22,981 posts)The most awe-inspiring clueless, vacuous, blank-minded stare ever recorded on camera! WoW! How were we so, um, "lucky" to have that kind of leadership that would see an attack by Saudi nationals and respond with an invasion of Iraq? "Brilliant," Watson.
(Like a box of rocks.)
KansDem
(28,498 posts)Oh, wait! He was waiting for more information even though the video shows no communication between him and Card.
Or...or...
Hey! Prezidentin' is hard work!
wordpix
(18,652 posts)worst pres ever
Gothmog
(144,005 posts)raouldukelives
(5,178 posts)marble falls
(56,359 posts)news while reading a children's book and he then went down the "rabit hole" circling the US for hours in AF1. Before Cheney got him calmed down and "in control"
truebluegreen
(9,033 posts)when emerging from said rabbit hole was to reassure us HE was OK! Yea!
Asshole.
marble falls
(56,359 posts)is the deciderer.
DinahMoeHum
(21,737 posts)LuckyLib
(6,814 posts)background vocals saying, "WTF do we do now?"
I could never figure out why he didn't spring from his chair with an announcement "I have an emergency, and must leave now. Thank you for sharing your classroom with me."
DinahMoeHum
(21,737 posts)There is a saying:
"Never attribute to conspiracy what can readily be explained by stupidity"
polynomial
(750 posts)Bush did not spring to announce an emergency because
He knew, and was waiting for the second plane to crash into the other tower.
Thus the beginning of the war drama, a media banquet elegantly loaded with commercial revenues jam packed with big time bonus bucks all delivered though the war profiteering cash cow Iraq/ Afghanistan new war.
Its what the Republicans within their military industrial complex do best.
Now, and it took courage in that Tony Blair makes an apology on CNN. He knows the Intelligence was bad, thus declaring that with an open apology. The war was a mistake
From my view the Intelligence likely was fraud. All this controversy in this time line, within the presidential elections is cycled away from Bush.
There are legions of the population that went along with this terrorist charade. Especially the media across the spectrum are from this time forward as criminal causing the illusion perpetuating the Bush family as doing the Right thing.
It would be a hoot for big time media people and wall-street people placed into internment camps.
When I say a lot of the population is involved in this psychotic terror plot to make money, it proves there are individuals insane, psychopathic, lunatic, mentally ill; mad, disturbed ...positioned in leadership roles.
Good example is Dennis Hastert, now we know a long time pervert as speaker of the house. Imagine all the legislation put through under his watch that is questionable, at least seven years worth.
Many can argue that half the country needs to be within an Internment Camp. Most of the western states especially Texas Rick Perry who does not know where first base is or cant count to three.
George Herbert Walker Bush is named after a wealthy railroad investment financer close friends of Harriman that famous Nazi connection during world war two, likely part of what Eisenhower warned as the military industrial complex, in that Prescott Bush did profiteering in the highway system parallel with his railroad friends.
Also, Herbert Walker, Harriman, and Bush worked together to build Americas biggest railroad system the Union Pacific which is neglected and depreciated with important censured healthcare issues, has a footprint as the largest railroad in the western America. But always lobbying for free tax money yet delivers a constant dividend.
My point here is for the past decades it is known and written but completely suppressed by mainstream media and academia that the Bush family is and has been close friends and business partners with the Bin Laden family, thus begging the question did Bush commit treason?
An Iraq war crime investigation is required
dorkzilla
(5,141 posts)I love that the Bush legacy is ending on the high note that is Jeb!
wordpix
(18,652 posts)Not just the "awe-inspiring" warmongering and waste of taxpayer funds in the trillion$, but even in the shrugs, the arms held out to the sides, and the whole bearing of the man. Thanks, Jeb!
Scuba
(53,475 posts)SmittynMo
(3,544 posts)Yes, people were united, but it had absolutely nothing to do with Bush.
This guys is so out of touch with reality. Unbelievable!!!
And of course, the entire event quite possibly could have been prevented if W didn't ignore all the warnings. Yeah, he kept us safe alright. What about the 3K people killed? Not to mention the people killed in Iraq war, which was a direct result of 9/11.
WOW. This guy is toast. People should see right thru his bullshit.
Awe inspiring?
Botany
(70,291 posts)He read "My Pet Goat," ran away from D.C., let Osama get away, invaded the wrong country,
and caused the creation of ISIS.
brush
(53,475 posts)Botany
(70,291 posts)blackspade
(10,056 posts)Festivito
(13,452 posts)It's only the rest of the country that's under attack.
Awe-inspiring... cowardice and stupidity.
Gidney N Cloyd
(19,781 posts)BlueMTexpat
(15,349 posts)brush
(53,475 posts)You can't re-write history to make it look like W didn't preside over the 9-ll attacks, especially such recent history.
Everyone knew that this Bush's highest hurdle to running was his fu_king last name and what to do about his brother's horrendous neglect, inattention to and then pooh-poohing of intelligence warning of Bin Ladin's intent to attack in America and then the wars and devastating job loses and housing crisis and ruining of the economy and on and on and on nobody but wants another Bush anywhere near the White House.
Deal with it Jeb.
And you wonder why your poll numbers and enthusiasm level for your Quixotic campaign are so low.
DetlefK
(16,423 posts)"Be afraid... but not really since we are keeping you safe."
"Iraq has weapons of mass-destruction that could kill all of us any time... but this won't really happen because we are keeping you safe."
lastlib
(22,981 posts)"We're fighting them over there so we don't have to fight them over here."
Jeenius!
restorefreedom
(12,655 posts)his campaign is over. and every time I think he's had his shining jump the shark moment, he manages to top even himself. He really needs to go away now, he's embarrassing himself.
truebluegreen
(9,033 posts)keep Rubio or someone else (is there anyone else?) semi-sane or semi-plausible from gaining traction, and let the Pukes nominate Trump or Carson. Let them feast on the meal their pandering and bullshit hath provided.
restorefreedom
(12,655 posts)of the colossal disaster of his brother's vice presidency under cheney, so i guess thats a good thing...
truebluegreen
(9,033 posts)very difficult to ignore the past when it is sitting at the table with you. Heh.
Seriously, how smart is anyone in that family if they thought 7 years was enough time to forget all the crap?
restorefreedom
(12,655 posts)Kelvin Mace
(17,469 posts)of "awe", which meant "to inspire fear or dread".
NCjack
(10,279 posts)wordpix
(18,652 posts)by the end of his prezeldency
RKP5637
(67,032 posts)mdbl
(4,972 posts)Now it should be evident that Jeb wasn't the smarter one.
PSPS
(13,516 posts)Gore1FL
(21,034 posts)MyOwnPeace
(16,888 posts)Yep - good one!!!!
"People were united."
Yes they were - look at the votes he had from Congress regarding anything related to 9/11.
But what did "Dimson" do with that support?
Lied and let us go into a war that will take years and years to pay for, cost us support from allies, created more enemies, and killed thousands of Americans and hundreds of thousands throughout the world.
And this jerk wants us to respect that and ask him to lead us onward?
DisgustipatedinCA
(12,530 posts)He kept flying to undisclosed locations while Cheney ran the operation (9/11, the federal government...both). Bush spent time that day hiding in Louisiana and Nebraska. Bush was a coward. Thanks for the reminder, "smart brother".
truebluegreen
(9,033 posts)was reassure us that HE was all right...made it pretty clear who or what he actually cared about, didn't he?
malthaussen
(17,066 posts)It's unfortunate, but he was the POTUS at the time, and it is SOP to ensure his safety when there is a threat, just as it is SOP for the VP to go hide in a hole and be separate from the POTUS, for government continuity. This doesn't mean he wasn't a coward, just that the actions taken at the time do not necessarily reflect that.
-- Mal
AgentStepford
(19 posts)I understand being grabbed by the secret service and being hauled out of danger, and having to keep safe, but he shut down. I remember seeing footage of him on a tarmac and he looked scared shitless. In no way was he plugged into the developments, he was flotsam at that point.
He was Commander in nothing. I wouldn't be surprised if he didn't have the wherewithal to ask for his own water in those hours.
malthaussen
(17,066 posts)I was also "in awe" when I saw him addressing the Atlanta firefighters a few weeks later. At the risk of being charged under Godwin's Law, he reminded me of Hitler, both in the gestures he was making at the podium, and the way he was lapping up the adoration those sorry suckers were giving him.
-- Mal
WinkyDink
(51,311 posts)your alleged "SOP" was demonstrably ignored.
tabasco
(22,974 posts)The President of the United States is not bound by any bullshit SOP (that you just made up). He takes whatever leadership actions he feels appropriate and is under the protection of the $1 trillion U.S. military at all times.
carla
(553 posts)won't be POTUS is that he keeps trying to rehab his brother's reputation. But Dim Son and Dim Bulb are both the same kind of spoiled rich brats that we all wanted to beat the shit out of in college. They have no sense of right and wrong but feel they are experts at the complexities of politics. May I suggest that Herr Bush go and shove a red hot poker up his behind and then shove it further until it comes out of his front anus/mouth? No one and I mean even his own fucking criminal family members want this turd elected for anything anymore. Fuck BUSH! ALL of them, even the next generation...wait, especially the next generation.
Maeve
(42,224 posts)"All around people... didn't know what was going on" which included Dubya...
Despite having little or no respect for him, I really hoped the man would rise to lead--great events calling out greatness sort of thing---but the speech he finally gave when he came out from hiding was weak and he gave every appearance of being in WAY over his head. Then he attacked the wrong country and lied...and lied...and LIED.
Jeb, go home. Do all those exciting and fascinating things you could be doing instead of making a public ass of yourself. It's over.
llmart
(15,501 posts)telling the public that now was the time to go shopping!
Maeve
(42,224 posts)Then there was the anthrax scare right after that--I remember a story about a "suspicious white powder" episode at a cosmetics counter (I kid you not!)
AzDar
(14,023 posts)We REMEMBER , Jeb.
LibDemAlways
(15,139 posts)Jeb inherited the family "stupid" gene.
displacedtexan
(15,695 posts)... because he had no idea what to do. Unless, of course, he thought being surrounded by children would keep him safe from an attack. Chilling, if so.
Then he ran away and hid in a hole.
Sure, Jeb. Awe inspiring.
Assholes, the lot of them!
PatSeg
(46,804 posts)What planet has he been living on? That narrative has been around for years, but I suppose he couldn't hear it inside his Bush Bubble.
malthaussen
(17,066 posts)I was in awe the whole time that he was getting away with that... (expletive deleted)
-- Mal
olddad56
(5,732 posts)hibbing
(10,076 posts)I still have a faint hope that he will get the nomination. I can't imagine them nominating either of the two leading idiots, but then again, they did nominate McCain. I just want the Bush to go away, but I'm sure there are another 20 of them that will be running for offices until I have left this planet.
They are so used to just lying and not getting called on it, it is interesting to watch.
Peace
corkhead
(6,119 posts)Baitball Blogger
(46,576 posts)Probably a reference to Shock and Awe. Did you all pick on what that "strategery" was all about? They began the attack before the deadline was up with the intention of killing Saddam in the first hour of the maneuver. They thought they were going to Pearl Harbor him. For support, they told all their inside pals, like religious leaders, that there would be no American blood spilled.
And Bush and Cheney were wrong. Everything after that was a "flying by the seat of their pants" reaction. And I'm still shocked by how easy it was to reach their supporters here in the U.S., who walked around like invading conquerors of their own country. They bullied anyone who was not on board with them, and if you were a PoC, you were given dirty looks just for walking in the room.
The undesired consequences of that era will be felt for decades to come.
tabasco
(22,974 posts)Jeb watches too much Fox "News."
truthisfreedom
(23,113 posts)Jack Rabbit
(45,984 posts)So let's give praise to the man most responsible for uniting us: Osama bin Laden.
I guess if Jeb did that it wouldn't go over too well.
niyad
(112,435 posts)Duval
(4,280 posts)Noooooooo And please do not campaign with "W". Most of us can hardly stomach seeing his face.
maxsolomon
(32,992 posts)Needless to say, I was in the 10%, AKA "The DUers". I had a huge argument afterwards with my Parents, who basically told me I hated America and I should leave.
Leadership would have been doing something other than exactly what OBL predicted we'd do.
lark
(23,003 posts)His response to 9/11 was to blink and keep reading a story to elementary school children. That's not leadership, that's hiding so that Cheney can be in charge. He gathered up all the bin-ladens and had them flown out of the country and wouldn't let the FBI interrogate them - ??? Why would he do that? He started a war in Iraq using many different lies. He totally lost the country by minimalizing more than 1/2 the population (Sunni's) and let the Shia militias devastate them. He supported leaders that had lived in Iran for decades, giving Iran more influence there. Basically he blew it bad, both before and afterwards.
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)Trying to polish the turd that is his idiot brother is like watching a duck try to fuck a football.
lunatica
(53,410 posts)The Donald simply stated a fact and now they won't be able to use it ever again.
It's like saying "the emperor has no clothes".
frizzled
(509 posts)That's sort of the last thing Republicans want to hear, though.
I can't think of anything else creditworthy W. did before or after.
WinkyDink
(51,311 posts)chapdrum
(930 posts)is that we are obliged to take this demented family seriously, at all.
randome
(34,845 posts)[hr][font color="blue"][center]Stop looking for heroes. BE one.[/center][/font][hr]
Octafish
(55,745 posts)vimeo.com/64772466
Madmiddle
(459 posts)then we understand why Jeb, could/should, never ever run for any political office ever, ever again. And, he needs to drop out of the presidential race, because he's an idiot!!!
Vinca
(50,170 posts)How many Bushes enlisted and served in the Iraq War?
cindyperry2010
(846 posts)do you even say to this kind of idiotic blabber.
olddad56
(5,732 posts)Paper Roses
(7,468 posts)Give me a break. When will we be rid of this family? Idiots all!
keithbvadu2
(36,369 posts)Bush ignored national security and the threat of terrorism as he led America into 9-11.
That's still the true narrative.
2naSalit
(86,061 posts)what a clueless POS. Obviously his ilk don't understand that they have yet to completely eliminate those of us who can still think and/or remember.
City Lights
(25,171 posts)WinkyDink
(51,311 posts), children and grandchildren didnt know what was going on."
Bizarre wording, bizarre visual....Reveals a COMPLETE INDIFFERENCE TO THE ACTUAL ATTACK.
George II
(67,782 posts)SHOCK AND AWE, major fail.
Response to Stuart G (Original post)
Name removed Message auto-removed
houston16revival
(953 posts)of a tarnished deity made of pyrite and tin
0rganism
(23,856 posts)was how the entire M$M simultaneously bent itself backwards to fellate all things W for the next 66 months
now THAT was something to see - very impressive
no_hypocrisy
(45,774 posts)Ladies Home Journal:
Peggy Noonan (the interviewer): You were separated on September 11th. What was it like when you saw each other again?
Laura Bush: Well, we just hugged. I think there was a certain amount of security in being with each other than being apart.
George W. Bush: But the day ended on a relatively humorous note. The agents said, youll be sleeping downstairs. Washingtons still a dangerous place. And I said no, I cant sleep down there, the bed didnt look comfortable. I was really tired, Laura was tired, we like our own bed. We like our own routine. You know, kind of a nester. I knew I had to deal with the issue the next day and provide strength and comfort to the country, and so I needed rest in order to be mentally prepared. So I told the agent were going upstairs, and he reluctantly said okay. Laura wears contacts, and she was sound asleep. Barney was there. And the agent comes running up and says, Were under attack. We need you downstairs, and so there we go. Im in my running shorts and my T-shirt, and Im barefooted. Got the dog in one hand, Laura had a cat, Im holding Laura
Laura Bush: I dont have my contacts in , and Im in my fuzzy house slippers
George W. Bush: And this guys out of breath, and were heading straight down to the basement because theres an incoming unidentified airplane, which is coming toward the White House. Then the guy says its a friendly airplane. And we hustle all the way back up stairs and go to bed.
Mrs. Bush: And we just lay there thinking about the way we must have looked.
Peggy Noonan (interviewer): So the day starts in tragedy and ends in Marx Brothers.
George W. Bush: Thats right we got a laugh out of it.
NEVER FORGET THIS.
tclambert
(11,080 posts)like he has every important thing in his life. Like he might attack the wrong country in retaliation or something."
Response to Stuart G (Original post)
Skittles This message was self-deleted by its author.
Spirochete
(5,264 posts)As in "Awe, for fuck sake - what is that evolutionary throwback pinhead doing now?"
That's right, Jeb - keep digging...
prouddemfromaustin44
(52 posts)Honestly, is Jebbie on drugs or something? It doesn't exactly take a genius to realize that Dubya's response to 9/11 was nothing short of idiotic. I mean, the man started a pointless and bloody war over false pretenses in Iraq, which helped to created the volatile situation that we're still struggling to deal with. All in all, the Bushes have screwed up everything they've touched, which is why they need to be kept well away from office.
RobinA
(9,878 posts)here is this guy's number one problem as a candidate and proof he is getting terrible advice. Why is he addressing, at all, his brother's record. He should have shut any discussion thereof down from day one, and he should refuse to be drawn in to stupid, irrelevant battles about it. He should neither defend nor debate in any way GWB's actions. Bush II should be the previous Republican president and only the previous Republican President.
I can't imagine why he keeps debating what his brother did. Hilary does not spend her time debating Obama except where it suits her. Jeb is getting hopeless entangled in a mess he should have simply walked around.
hedgehog
(36,286 posts)Downtown Hound
(12,618 posts)patsimp
(915 posts)Typical bush.
JudyM
(29,122 posts)left-of-center2012
(34,195 posts)People wanted to see what was so fascinating to "W" that he kept reading a child's book after the towers were hit.
"the very first publication lifted to prominence by 9/11 was a childrens story called The Pet Goat.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/bushs-911-school-visit-pushed-pet-goat-into-spotlight/2011/09/08/gIQAYpXtFK_story.html
pansypoo53219
(20,906 posts)BigDemVoter
(4,149 posts)This might be one of the most dumb-fuck stupid things I have ever heard, and yes, I have heard it before. . . It still makes me think, WTF is wrong with these people?
Dawson Leery
(19,348 posts)His brother was a fraud who stole an election. Jeb is a loser who is now paying for his role in stealing the election in 2000.
marble falls
(56,359 posts)yurbud
(39,405 posts)BobTheSubgenius
(11,535 posts)...bizarre, angry, counter-productive, and ultimately treasonous."