Jeb Bush blames Barack Obama for the rise of Donald Trump

CBS News ^ | December 22, 2015 | Jake Miller

[Zakeet]

Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush has been frequently vexed by Donald Trump during their respective bids for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination. And in a recent interview with "Face the Nation," Bush said he knows exactly who to blame for the Trump phenomenon, which has dominated the Republican primary and divided the party.

"He would not exist were it not for Barack Obama," Bush said of Trump. "He is the [antidote] in some people's minds to the politically correct, divisive policies of Barack Obama."

[Zakeet]

According to Jebbie himself, unlike Trump he is qualified to lead ... because he has thoughtful views approved by lobbyists and crony capital ... he seeks out advice from these bosses ... he knows what he doesn't know, which is just about everything, and has the ability to recognize that ... he seeks out best advice he can get from other RINOs ... and he knows how to put the blame for his failure on others!

Note: I may have added a few tidbits to Jeb's insightful self-analysis for clarification purposes. :)

[Gaffer]

He’s one third right. The other dual-award goes to George Bush for letting Democrats run rough shod over him and the Republican GOPe who are the biggest bunch of quisling, simpering, lying appeasers in history.

[exDemMom]

Jeb showed his colors when he refused to prevent a man from starving his helpless wife to death with legal sanction.

The people who stood up for that woman’s rights remember that.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Donald Trump may be wrong on some things, but politically he’s about as honest as we’ve seen. If he calls for something he means it, not something else.

That’s superior to Jeb’s guacamole bowl!

[XEHRpa]

Well said!

[ImNotLying]

Wow, that ole Jeb is an Albert Einstein isn’t he!

[urbanpovertylawcenter]

I blame Obama on Hillary, the weakest candidate since Mondale, so you see it is Hillary we have to thank for Obama and ultimately for Trump.

I thank God above for Trump. After all, don't you think America is best when led by Americans!

[HiTech RedNeck]

Indeed, a case of fearing man more than God.

Jeb may yet have a redeemed role in the future, but it’s not as our upcoming president. He needs to learn a lot.

[Gaffer]

Trump had nothing to do with why we have Obama. He WILL have something to do in how we replace Obama AND defeat our own GOPe full of elitist traitors.

[grania]

GWB has a lot to do with the rise of Donald Trump. Some of us remember. GWB campaigned as a conservative. He backstabbed us, creating massive debt, being way too friendly to invaders coming into the US, a foreign policy that destabilized the Mideast, increases in federal programs such as Education and Medicare Pharmaceutical, being best buddies with the Saudis.....

One can't help but wonder if Obama would've have been as able to destroy the US if GWB hadn't opened so many doors and also neutralized Constitutional Conservatives.

[kearnyirish2]

I blame GWB for the rise of Obama.

[Gaffer]

Yes, to a point. But if the Republican Party had really been on our side, we wouldn’t have gotten John McCain and Mitt Romney as our champions. The GOP is just as much to blame.

[Cringing Negativism Network]

I completely disagree.

Obama is a problem, basically because he is a democrat, and democrats have become a huge problem for America.

All of them.

The thing is, and the big problem in America right now is that there is a MASSIVE section of what should be our party, who is sold out to, and completely in bed with communists and foreign competitors to America.

Bushes have been good in some ways for America. But they have been a complete DISASTER for American workers.

Jeb is yet more of the exact same problem.

The GOP is the exact same problem. Every single candidate. Except for Trump.

Trump is very important for bringing back what used to be America’s strength. For bringing back American jobs, and American growth.

Trump is the only one, saying that. Anywhere.

[Netz]

Instead of bellyaching about the other guy, maybe Jeb should take a good hard look at his candidacy and organization and why he's coming off like cold oatmeal... spoiled grapes...

[kearnyirish2]

True, though I don’t put Romney in the same category as McCain. Romney was Palinized from the gate; he was too white, rich, old, and male. Hillary’s problem now is that she is 3/4 of those things...

[ZULU]

The ghost of Terri Schiavo will follow that gutless coward forever, as well as Elian Gonzales’ mother’s ghost who died to free her son only to have this gutless coward fail to prevent that dyke Janet Reno from sending him back. As TR would say, he has all the backbone of a chocolate eclair.

[Gaffer]

At the first sign of kickback when he questioned Benghazi, he retreated to the rear, never again to get back to where the battle was going on. He chickened out and ran a gentleman’s campaign when the other side was using shivs.

[Netz]

Not fair.

Ovomit is a unique phenomenon in US political history. He is the culmination of naivete, wishful thinking and Messiah-Multiculural-fanatsy of a disabled and increasingly removed from reality nation.

[sneakers]

I will NEVER forget that!!! That is what I always think of when I think of Jebbie - Tery Schiavo!!!

[cowboyway]

I blame political correctness for 0bama. Because of his melanin enriched skin tone he was untouchable by everyone for fear of being labeled ‘racist’. Add the millions who voted for him just because of his skin color and BAM! a communist grabs the Oval Office.