could Jeb Bush be president auesome?

Question

do you think the approval ratings for W will ruin Jeb's chances of ever becoming president .

side fact - right after 9/11 Bush's ratings were between 80-90%
( reading to much wikipedia , that site is awesome )

Answer 1

All I know is that right now Jeb has an approval rating of 80% in Florida right now...that does say something. But, also 20 yrs. of Bushes wow! Talk about Power amazing..so I think someone else should be given a chance. I think he will run in 2012 and depending on who the pres. will be at that time he might win..

Answer 2

Jeb Bush and the Bush family have destroyed this country and Bush will leave the country in so much debt that it will take years to undo all the damage he has done.Bush supporter: “Why doesn’t President Bush get credit for a great economy? I blame liberal media bias.” Informed economist: “But it’s not a great economy for most Americans. Many families are actually losing ground, and only a very few affluent people are doing really well.”...Many observers, even if they acknowledge the growing concentration of income in the hands of the few, find it hard to believe that this concentration could be proceeding so rapidly as to deny most Americans any gains from economic growth. Yet newly available data show that that’s exactly what happened in 2004.

Why talk about 2004, rather than more recent experience? Unfortunately, data on the distribution of income arrive with a substantial lag; the full story of what happened in 2004 has only just become available, and we won’t be able to tell the full story of what’s happening right now until the last year of the Bush administration. But it’s reasonably clear that what’s happening now is the same as what happened then: growth in the economy as a whole is mainly benefiting a small elite, while bypassing most families. Here’s what happened in 2004. The U.S. economy grew 4.2 percent, a very good number. Yet last August the Census Bureau reported that real median family income — the purchasing power of the typical family — actually fell. Meanwhile, poverty increased, as did the number of Americans without health insurance. So where did the growth go?

The answer comes from the economists Thomas Piketty and Emmanuel Saez, whose long-term estimates of income equality have become the gold standard for research on this topic, and who have recently updated their estimates to include 2004. They show that even if you exclude capital gains from a rising stock market, in 2004 the real income of the richest 1 percent of Americans surged by almost 12.5 percent. Meanwhile, the average real income of the bottom 99 percent of the population rose only 1.5 percent. In other words, a relative handful of people received most of the benefits of growth. There are a couple of additional revelations in the 2004 data. One is that growth didn’t just bypass the poor and the lower middle class, it bypassed the upper middle class too. Even people at the 95th percentile of the income distribution — that is, people richer than 19 out of 20 Americans — gained only modestly. The big increases went only to people who were already in the economic stratosphere.

The other revelation is that being highly educated was no guarantee of sharing in the benefits of economic growth. There’s a persistent myth, perpetuated by economists who should know better — like Edward Lazear, the chairman of the president’s Council of Economic Advisers — that rising inequality in the United States is mainly a matter of a rising gap between those with a lot of education and those without. But census data show that the real earnings of the typical college graduate actually fell in 2004. In short, it’s a great economy if you’re a high-level corporate executive or someone who owns a lot of stock. For most other Americans, economic growth is a spectator sport....

Answer 3

George W. Bush's ratings will absolutely affect Jeb's chances.

Answer 4

I hope he doesn't. Not that I don't appreciate the service he has done for this country by governing Florida, but I am awfully careful about dynasties. Look what a fiasco the Kennedy clan has become.

I never want to risk another royal family. People's attutude toward JFK scared the heck out me when his family started grooming replacements.

No kings or queens in the U.S.A., please. I don't want to take up arms if I don't have to. I like the system we have. It works.

Answer 5

Voting for the other Bush would be cutting the other proverbial wrist of a slowly dying nation. So why do it. Don't you love America.

Answer 6

you know you all bash the bush family leaders but the clintons and the kennedys have no room to talk and i wouldn't vote for most of the politicians out there because they don't listen to the people and our thoughts so pray about this a election..vote from your heart and how you feel....and what is best for you and be proud of how you vote..

Answer 7

I actual desire no longer. i'd have loved to ascertain Hillary Clinton as President, yet because the rustic is so adverse to legacies, there is no reason to have yet another Bush smash the rustic once back.

Answer 8

Oh my God! Two ugly Bushe(s) in our front yard is enough...don't you think so? If Americans elect Jeb, then we are committing a national suicide......please help us God!

Answer 9

I'm going to quote another Bush.

"Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice shame on me"

In a short answer: Never again another Bush for president.

Answer 10

God forbid!!! Not another Bush ... first Daddy Bush being an embarrassment, his son being an absolute ... words fail me ... and now his brother? Give me a break!!!!!!!!!