Bush daughter: Hillary Clinton should run

[hack89]

Source: Politico

President George W. Bush’s daughter Barbara said she would like to see Hillary Clinton run for president in 2016.

Barbara Bush, 31, called Clinton “unbelievably accomplished” in an upcoming interview with People magazine, saying she wants to see the former first lady mount a campaign.

The former Republican president’s daughter said that her respect for Clinton wouldn’t necessarily mean she would vote for the former secretary of state, however. “I don’t know who she’d be running against,” said Bush, who is politically unaffiliated but supports gay marriage.

Bush’s comments came up during an interview primarily about her work as the CEO of the nonprofit Global Health Corps, through which she works with the Clinton Health Access Initiative and Michelle Obama’s “Let’s Move” campaign





Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2013/08/bush-daughter-hillary-clinton-2016-should-run-95578.html

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Interesting read.

[Scuba]

1. I'm sure the Bush family would be pleased to see Hillary in the Oval Office.

[avaistheone1]

6. It would be just like one of the Bush family running the country again.

%3Fw%3D588

[valerief]

21. More securities deregulation. nt

[alp227]

47. "FreakingNews.com" = right wing site n/t

[avaistheone1]

58. I didn't know that.

Then the photo is even more appropriate given Hillary isn't going to be doing things much differently than Bush or Obama. jmo

[WI_DEM]

2. Good thing she has a mind of her own--I don't judge the children by who their father is

or grandfather for that matter.

[pnwmom]

20. Like the Reagan son who is very progressive. n/t

[Rosa Luxemburg]

55. I wish Ronnie would run for president

[pnwmom]

56. Or for almost anything. n/t

[Rosa Luxemburg]

57. I wonder will he?

[olddad56]

41. especially when you don't know who the father actually is.

[Beacool]

3. I'm not surprised.

I think that both Bush girls voted for Obama. Their mother also said in an interview that Hillary was her favorite Democrat.

They may vote for her in 2016 if she runs, unless Jeb is the Republican nominee.

[Drunken Irishman]

4. Didn't one of the twins vote Obama?

[NYC Liberal]

22. Both of them did, supposedly.

[Cal33]

53. I remember having read that when GW Bush was running for POTUS, both daughters were trying to

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persuade him not to. I was wondering why. A couple of years into his presidency, I guessed
the reason was -- they knew their father only too well. I wouldn't be surprised if both daughters
are not even Republicans.

[maddiemom]

5. I often wonder if Barbara grew up thinking, "Marcia---er, no, Jenna, Jenna,Jenna."

You never heard as much about her as you did her twin, but I was curious and checked out what she's been doing. Much more impressive work; but, again, you rarely hear about her. She seems a very admirable young lady, whatever a lot of us think of her father.

[zeemike]

7. Well one thing you can count on.

Is that this is part of a political strategy.

People in their class do not say things like that just out of their head...everything that goes public is controlled, and if the went public it has a reason behind it.

And I could speculate on why, but who cares...it means nothing to me what they think, and I won't net it direct me except to notice that they want Hillary to run.

[JI7]

8. no, the Bush Daughters have never been right wing, they weren't raised as such either

they are liberal on most social issues like abortion rights and gay rights.

[zeemike]

12. Sure so is Jeb...or so we are to believe.

But the truth may be quite different than what they tell us.

And the PTB don't give a shit about abortion or gay rights....they can get an abortion anytime they want...and many of them are gay
Those are just things they use to stir up contention among the "little people" to keep them distracted from noticing the things they are doing to benefit themselves.

[Rebellious Republican]

16. Where did you come up with the JEB referance?

I live in Florida, and everyone down here knows he is as right of center as they can get. I had to suffer through two terms by that "Liberal". Got links to back that up!

[zeemike]

19. I remember him saying something liberal sounding a few months ago

But I can't remember what it was...oh now I remember.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014426819
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014133873
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023035892

[Rebellious Republican]

23. Thanks for the links, I took some time to read through them.....

From your own links....
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014426819
Bush is considering a presidential run in 2016. He's coming off an uneven first entry into the fray earlier this month, when his rollout of a book on immigration was dominated by news coverage about his back-and-forth position on immigration reform.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/15/jeb-bush-cpac-speech-2013_n_2857496.html

A Huffpo article

Arianna Huffington (née Stassinopoulos; born Αριάννα Στασινοπούλου; July 15, 1950) is a Greek-American author and syndicated columnist. She is best known for her news website The Huffington Post. At one time a liberal democrat[1][2] she later became a popular conservative commentator in the mid-1990s, after which she adopted liberal political beliefs in the late 1990s.[3] She is the ex-wife of former Republican congressman Michael Huffington.
In 2003, she ran as an independent candidate for Governor in the California recall election.[4]
In 2009, Huffington was named as number 12 in Forbes' first-ever list of the Most Influential Women In Media.[5] She has also moved up to number 42 in The Guardian's Top 100 in Media List.[6]
In 2011, AOL acquired The Huffington Post for US$315 million and made Huffington president and editor in chief of The Huffington Post Media Group, which included The Huffington Post and then-existing AOL properties such as Engadget, AOL Music, Patch Media, and StyleList.[7]


http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014133873
A Bloomberg Article
Is Bloomberg.com Liberal? Columnist Mark Gilbert?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2423296/posts

Link does not work to SF Gate
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2012/06/01/bloomberg_articlesM4Y3VP07SXKY01-M4Y9Z.DTL

The San Francisco Chronicle has recently activated a devious system by which it deceives commenters on its website, SFGate.com. Here's how it works:

If you make a comment on an article posted at SFGate, and if the site moderators then subsequently delete your comment for whatever reason, it will only appear as deleted to the other readers. HOWEVER, your comment will NOT appear to be deleted if viewed from your own computer! The Chronicle's goal is to trick deleted commenters into not knowing their comments were in fact deleted. I'll give evidence below showing how they do this.

http://investigatethemedia.blogspot.com/2007/11/san-francisco-chronicle-deceives-its.html


http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023035892
"It will be based on what I believe and it will be based on my record," Bush told the Christian Broadcasting Network . "I will be able to, I think, manage my way through all the chirpers out there."

Your quoting CBN really, need I say more?

Thanks for all the conservative links, I guess it must be true, JEB is just a down right scoundrel and a Libtard to boot.

[zeemike]

24. Well I don't know what Jeb is and don't pretend to know

I only know what he and the Bush family wants to think.
And is that maybe the Bush family name is not so bad after all.
It is all part of the PR campaign to rehabilitate the brand after W fucked it up....and it seems to work on some people.
IMO.

[Rebellious Republican]

26. I can agree with that....

believe me, its all hype and John Ellis Bush is all hat and no cattle. Lots of people know it. Except for the usual ignorant few. Trust me on this, if he makes a run in 2016, he is toast. He has more baggage than most know at this point, and we are waiting to share it with the world. Mittens was a light weight compared to JEB. You will see the truth come out and he knows it. Hence his own mother saying that there have been enough Bush's in the white house. Momma knows!



Barbara Bush urges son Jeb not to run for White House
http://www.independent.ie/world-news/americas/barbara-bush-urges-son-jeb-not-to-run-for-white-house-29223257.html

[zeemike]

33. W had lots of baggage too.

And you see how they handled it...and they can handel any baggage Jeb has just fine.
And in the meantime they will make that family seem just like normal people...even somewhat liberal, with a mom that tells us not to through Jeb in that brier patch.
PR firms make money doing such things.

[Rebellious Republican]

34. OK, if you say so. In the mean time could you at least try to come up with some better links.

[HumansAndResources]

38. This ^^^ They Don't Care for a Good Reason

When I was young, the Rethugs loved abortion - for racist reasons in the South, and to get rid of those "...Of no use to society" (Sanger) in the North. The Right raising Abortion to "major issue" status was a contrived wedge-issue plant to split the Catholic vote, get every Evangelical to the polls, and fill our courts with Anti-Civil-Liberties Totalitarians (how else to "enforce" a prohibition on abortion but a Totalitarian State?). This strategy worked very well on all three fronts. It was a Pure Evil Genius move that gave new life to the dying Rethugs after Nixon.

Rich Rethugs can, of course, sleep with whoever they want, so that was never their concern. When are people going to get a clue and quit falling for these "wedge" tricks?

The Primary issue upon which all other freedoms are based, is "Who controls the Natural Wealth of 'Our' Nation" The question of what de-facto homeless workers living by "paycheck-permission" are "allowed" to do on their "off work time" ... ??? How did we even get to this pitiful framing of the issues?

[zeemike]

40. You have explained it well.

They make wedge issues work because liberals care about things and they use that against them.

And you are right...it is about who controls the natural wealth of this country, and increasingly it is the 1%.

And Welcome to DU

[Rebellious Republican]

9. You must either be to young or do not remember this Republican POTUS daughter...

Patti Regan Davis....



and again more recently at age 58 in 2011....



And we can not forget Ron Regan Jr......

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=MYqHFq66_Hk&t=17

[zeemike]

11. Reagan was not a part of the elite class.

No actor could ever be.
He was an actor they hired to play the part pf...
And I remember it all well.

[Rebellious Republican]

13. Ya know you are right, now that you mention it, he was not elite. He was only a saint in the eyes...

of the GOP. I guess thats why they never invoke the name of Reagan or go crawling to the feet of his widow for an endorsement.

[Jackpine Radical]

17. Reagan is not in a class with the Rockefellers, DuPonts, Mellons, etc.

"Ordinary" Republicans may mistake him for one of the Elite, but not the true owners of the Party. To them he was at best one of the nouveau riche, and in fact not actually that riche. Therre's a lot of difference between a few million and a few billion.

[Rebellious Republican]

18. Well kiss my grits, no shit! Thanks for the education. What about the JEB thing?

[Journeyman]

14. Nonsense. Julia Louis-Dreyfus comes from one of the richest families on the planet. . .

Throughout her career, she's received three Emmy Awards, a Golden Globe Award and five Screen Actors Guild Awards. She is the only woman who has won the Emmy three times, for three separate comedy series. She also the most nominated actress in Emmy Award history with a total of fourteen nominations for her supporting role on Seinfeld, and her leading roles on The New Adventures of Old Christine and Veep, surpassing the record long-held by Lucille Ball. She also received nominations for producing the first two seasons of Veep, taking her total Emmy tally to sixteen nominations.

So I believe we can all agree, she's an actor.

And as to her being part of the elite class: Her father, William Louis-Dreyfus, is the chairman of Louis Dreyfus Energy Services and the great grandson of Léopold Louis-Dreyfus, founder of Louis Dreyfus Group, a French global conglomerate involved in agriculture, oil, energy and commodities, as well as international shipping. William Louis-Dreyfus has a net worth estimated at greater than $3.4 billion. You may wish to read up on him. He doesn't fit the DU stereotype of the rich.

[zeemike]

15. There is a difference between an actor becoming and elite

And an elite becoming an actor...and the difference is as you pointed out...famly connections.

[YOHABLO]

10. The Republican party has no female in their ranks of Hillary's calibre .. She'll be the next Pres.

[Rebellious Republican]

35. Well by GOP standards, Michele Bachmann comes to mind...

The FBI has jumped into a multi-pronged investigation of alleged misconduct by the failed presidential campaign of Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.).

She is a ringer for the GOP once they clear her name of any wrong doing.

[coldbeer]

25. Hilary will not be the next POTUS

She is too GOP!!!

There is another Barack out there.

Maybe that economist from Massachusetts?

[Doctor_J]

31. Hil's a Republican, and Obama is not??!!?

stop, you're killing me

[Beacool]

48. Yeah, because Obama is a liberal...........

[Ash_F]

61. She is a little bit to the right of Obama.

I wouldn't call either GOP. The GOP is quite crazily to the right these days, thanks to a Dem party that has also moved right.

I do think the Dems should elect someone closer to the center than the both of them.

[Demeter]

27. Accomplished?

Not by my standards. She hasn't had a single real-life experience. "%1 Princess" is not a life experience, but a suspension of reality.

[hack89]

28. Senator and Secretary of State are not real life? ok. nt

[Demeter]

29. Nope, not by any definition

[hack89]

32. So what life experiences qualify one to be President? nt

[Rebellious Republican]

36. I think you got your % and 1 bass ackwards in your princess post.

[Evergreen Emerald]

43. Princess? She worked her ass off to get where she is today.

You might want to check her history and background.

[Beacool]

50. Clueless.........

Hillary paid for law school herself. She held various jobs, including one summer working in a cannery in Alaska. Even her enemies admit that she's very hard working.

I can't believe the crap one has to read on a supposed Democratic site. It's verbatim what the Right is saying.

[Beacool]

49. Wow, Google is your friend.

[LanternWaste]

54. what is the precise and relevant definition of "real-life experience" in this particular context?

It does however, beg the question: what is the precise and relevant definition of "real-life experience" in this particular context?

Is that definition all-encompassing, and does it apply merely to potential candidates you dislike?

[magical thyme]

60. Hillary grew up strictly middle/working class.

Wasn't a 1%er then, isn't really now. More of a 10%er, and worked hard to get there.

She is, however, an armchair warrior, and I have a serious problem with that.

[Doctor_J]

30. Republicans for Clinton!

I'd vote for her over any Repuke on earth, but IMO we can do better

[kwolf68]

37. Just one member of the aristocracy endorsing another

A dynasty family returns. Man I am just giddy thinking about voting for Hillary.

[Evergreen Emerald]

46. Aristocracy? Please define your term

She was middle class and worked her way up --graduated college, went to law school, her brilliance catapulted her to the top of what ever she set her mind to.

She was not raised with money. She did not inherit her wealth. She worked for it.

She is the ideal of an American success.

[PSPS]

39. Sorry, it doesn't work that way.

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Note to self: When a headline seems too bizarre, check to make sure you have read it properly.

[leftynyc]

42. She's already been a senator

until she was picked to be Sec of State. Not sure what your point is at all.

[Enrique]

44. Rip Van Winkle?

is that you?

[PSPS]

45. LOL. I guess so! I misread the headline!

[Blue_Tires]

51. Who in the hell asked one of the Bush daughters?

It's not like she's going to spearhead Hillary's campaign or something...

[SummerSnow]

52. So if uncle Jeb ran...she's not voting for him? lol

[magical thyme]

59. try actually reading the OP, lol nt

[SummerSnow]

62. read the Op...I was being funny in my comment.