'Jeb Bush and His Friends Have Spent a Lot of Time Explaining His Bad Business Deals'

[seafan]

So, Jeb wants us to believe his explanation that his lengthy history of association with business partners who turned out to be criminals is simply because they just 'took advantage of his naivete,' and he just would have to 'have better radar'.

So, he is either a terrible judge of character, or he is a liar. In this case, it would be both. Are these laudable qualities in a presidential candidate?? How will these qualities guide America out this morass caused by his brother? They won't. He is his brother.

Both of them have spent their entire lives capitalizing on their father's connections and political clout. And Jeb's now traipsing around the country, insulting us by claiming he did it on his own.

...Mr Bush said he was looking forward to telling a life story that was “full of warts and full of successes”, where he had had to make “tough decisions”.

No, Jeb Bush 'didn't build that'.

We are hoping that the specter of a Jeb Bush presidency won't be a tough decision for voters next year.


No, Jeb. Your criminal associates didn't 'take advantage of your naivete'. They took advantage of what you offered them, your daddy's name, his connections and his political clout. The benefits paid off handsomely for all of you, and you have thus far managed to skate away from the indictments, prison terms and escaped fugitives you associated with. This is called influence peddling of the highest order. Just grab the money and run. For president. Then you can pardon all of your criminal associates. Just like Poppy did on Christmas Eve, 1992.




New York Magazine has a must-read for those who have not seen the face of greed behind the mask.

The Washington Post has a story today about 2016 presidential candidate Jeb Bush's unfortunate habit of getting involved in business deals destined to crumble and make him look bad. The problem is widespread enough that his career is littered with a graveyard of hilariously halfhearted explanations for his mistakes from friends, staffers, and Bush himself.

In 1998 — shortly before he became governor of Florida, Bush told the St. Petersburg Times, according to the Post, “I’m 45 years old. I have to have better radar.” Bush's running mate in his failed gubernatorial bid in 1994, Tom Feeney, argued that the problem wasn't Bush, only the people he did business with. "The only documented allegations come down to the fact that he did business with people that later turned out to be deadbeats and crooks."

In the '80s, Bush helped the health-care company IMC with federal regulators. The company was later shut down after $200 million in federal funds went missing. IMC's CEO, Miguel Recarey Jr., is still hiding in Spain. When the Miami Herald asked Bush about the incident years later, Bush said, “At the time, I didn’t feel I was doing business with a crook. Unfortunately, I didn’t give it a whole lot of thought.”

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New York Magazine's Jennifer Senior wrote a story about Jeb Bush earlier this month that explained more of the context for Bush's history in business — one of his first bad ventures involved helping a company named MWI that was later sued by the Justice Department for "giving a Nigerian middleman $25 million to bribe officials in order to get government loans" — and how he continued to make bad mistakes after his gubernatorial career ended.

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Bush's bad deals aren't only from decades past. In 2007, Bush got involved in what Senior calls "his most eyebrow-raising venture": serving "on the board of (InnoVida,) a company that bled the Haitian government — and big charities that served to help it — at just the moment its people, homeless and starving, needed it most."

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Morally shameful.


Jeb Bush forms new company and gets into 'privatized' disaster response business, 2011

Jeb, Inc., 2008

Jeb Bush keeps a high-impact low profile, 2008
(Out of office but micromanaging from just offstage. Just like Poppy. Always in the loop.)


This Washington Post article, as referenced above, is a most excellent piece of investigative work on Jeb Bush's very shady past dealings, and we look forward to many more that dig out these facts for people to make an informed decision about him as he doggedly pursues the presidency.


Jeb Bush on repeatedly doing business with crooks: Unfortunately, I didn’t give it a whole lot of thought.”

George W. Bush in 2002 on the whereabouts of Osama bin Laden: "I truly am not that concerned about him."


"There's an old saying in Tennessee — I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee — that says, fool me once, shame on — shame on you. Fool me — you can't get fooled again." —President George W. Bush, Nashville, Tenn., Sept. 17, 2002



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[eppur_se_muova]

1. It's an old Bu**sh** family tradition. nt

[MisterP]

2. and let's not forget his role as intermediary to the Contras under his poppy's VP taskforce

y'know, the arms and cocaine smuggling that turned Miami into a boil on the country's nose?