Jeb Bush Says U.S. Leaders Now Must Have "Intellectual Curiosity"
I think my irony meter just redlined:
Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush (R) remains something of a powerhouse in Republican circles, so it seemed noteworthy that he doesn't seem to have much respect for a certain former half-term governor of Alaska.
In a recent interview with Newsmax, Bush was asked whether he thought Palin was a viable candidate for president. Though he had some nice things to say about her "charisma," it was clear that Bush thinks Palin doesn't have the intellectual heft to occupy the oval office. He said that Palin's success depends on her willingness to add a "depth of understanding of the complexity of life we're living in today" to her rhetoric.
"That's up to her," he said. "I mean, I don't know what her deal is, but my belief is in 2010 and 2012, public leaders need to have intellectual curiosity."
Seriously? The need for "intellectual curiosity" wasn't necessary in 2000 or 2004, was it, Jeb? The mind boggles.
ZOMG - If irony killed they'd be so dead!
The depths Palin has hit already are plenty enough for me.
:)
"I know that there are people who do not love their fellow
man, and I hate people like that! " ~ Tom Lehrer (1928 - )
would never put anyone as smart as a chimpanzee in office.
Be as you wish to seem
has her work cut out for her. First thing she'll need is a time machine to go back about twenty years or so. That would give her some time to catch up on her studies. Before beginning those studies she'd need some foreign experience to some place like the Forbidden Planet where, with any luck, the Krel would have left some sort of brain boosting machine that she might use.
Hasa Diga Eebowai
For intelligents... If that was the case they would support no one..
There method of leadership is to have their Christian schools to start there brainwashing before preschool..
This is why they are in full mode to privatize the public shool system..
They want our tax money to be given to the private schools to destroy the public educational system..
I still believe Obama is more of a corporate republican than he is a democrat...
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But because I was a smart ass not a dumb ass.
related.
Hasa Diga Eebowai
There's a photo missing, that of famed movie chimp Ronald Reagan.
With a script in his hands aways.. No matter if it was in the movies he made or when he was play acting president..
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A steaming heap over grossly overcooked vegetables to which are attached the electrodes of an EEG monitor. The ultimately perfected Republican.
BTW, intellectual curiosity is, of course, a necessary trait. But it does no good if it is not established on top of a solid foundation of scrupulous intellectectual honesty, a thing that no Republicans, and few "Democrats", that I see possess.
"A steaming heap over grossly overcooked vegetables to which are attached the electrodes of an EEG monitor. The ultimately perfected Republican."
With a voice recording yelling "tax cuts!" over and over and over again.
but isn't Phase 4 a repeat of Phase 2 in that poster?
less than a minute . . .
Corruption favors the wealthy.
2001: A Space Odyssey
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
... 2001: A Space Odyssey has EVOLUTION in it. And it's not God, it's some space alien device thingy, a black monolith that could very well be SATAN!
occurs independent of the fact that #1-3 don't believe in it...
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
evolution exists when he said at CPAC that conservatives don't want to evolve.
If they want to go the direction of the Cro-Magnon and Neanderthal peoples, I say let them...
"The greatest tyranny is censoring information in order to be better able to control people." - Cristina Saralegui
Actually, Annaleigh, modern humans are Cro-Magnon. Just sayin'.......
What's the difference between Phases 2 and 4? (or 1 and 3 for that matter?)
Corruption favors the wealthy.
is smarter.
What is your conceptual, continuity?
Right on!
....leave it to the Canadian women's hockey team to do to the U.S. what the men couldn't so far.
The Canadian women's hockey team makes me proud.
Go, gals!
do very well. It's so tragic what happened to her mother yet she's skating beautifully and with such courage and poise...
"The greatest tyranny is censoring information in order to be better able to control people." - Cristina Saralegui
She must be riding an emotional rollercoaster right now.
Life can be so cruel.
To you and your Nation...great moment.
Yeah!!!
Good game for you!
Only when the last tree has died
and the last river has been poisoned and the last fish has been caught
will we realize we cannot eat money.
And congrats to all our Canadian friends.
Well Done.:)
What is your conceptual, continuity?
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"The greatest tyranny is censoring information in order to be better able to control people." - Cristina Saralegui
... as for the men's hockey final ... who knows what will happen ...
*gulp*
;)
...but I hope we don't see your guys again.
:)
You haven't seen nothin' yet!
;)
...look as if someone died.
:(
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Diabolus est Deus Inversus
http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=fhHVMKYz...
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
Got to get this on at-shirt ASAP!
Phase 4 would be the best option. Hands down.
What is your conceptual, continuity?
for empathy is much higher in Phase 4 than any of the other three.
"The greatest tyranny is censoring information in order to be better able to control people." - Cristina Saralegui
JOKING???
That think stupid is just fine!
republicanism/conservatism is a mental illness, it has almost totally destroied our economy, our morals, and the sprituality of America!
Newsmax? speaking about "intellectual heft" and "intellectual curiosity?"
That is the definition of irony, when you consider the source as well.
me-oww!
Bush II was the guy you wanted to have a beer with, not anyone you thought had an iota of intellectual curiosity. Well, not anyone I wanted to have a beer with, anyway.
So which was he, Homer Simpson or Barney Gumbel?
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
intellectually curious, after your shoe-size IQ brother has nearly destroyed this country with his idiocy!
"The greatest tyranny is censoring information in order to be better able to control people." - Cristina Saralegui
about how intellectually curious Jeb is.
Hasa Diga Eebowai
curious enough themselves to read and research for themselves what kind of formal education Jeb has and if/how he personally keeps himself informed and well read, and will take those articles at face value. *sigh*
"The greatest tyranny is censoring information in order to be better able to control people." - Cristina Saralegui
most important. It is the biological presence of a CONSCIENCE! RePUKES, in general, are born without one. This makes for an antisocial personality disorder and crimes against humanity. Just think about it! You'll see that I'm right.
THAT'S how intellectually curious Jeb is.
and a BLIMP... (full of hot air with no SUBSTANCE)
and another CHIMP.
I would put the chimpanzee as number two!
statusquObama, change you can only pretend in
we add up the IQ's of all four, we might not make it to the average...100.
"Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of Stupidity" - Frank Leahy
100 is the mean IQ for humans, not Republicans.
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
had an 83.
It's a little late for the Republican to acquire "Intellectual Curiosity" don't you think? In fact it would be insane to expect anything of the sort.
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
hope for it or expect it. Sad...
"The greatest tyranny is censoring information in order to be better able to control people." - Cristina Saralegui
http://southdakotapolitics.blogs.com/south_da...
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
Jeb: "U.S. leaders must have intellectual curiosity."
W: "What's that?"
GOP: "Bingo."
The GOP are the ones who have brought about the end of the age of reason.
They are only interested in profit and personal gain.
They will obviously say anything. I think they know in their heart of hearts how totally insincere they and their pathetic arguments are.
"I know that there are people who do not love their fellow
man, and I hate people like that! " ~ Tom Lehrer (1928 - )
...a brain and a conscience, neither of which exists anywhere in the GOP. All resluglicons are criminals.
Where can we find this poster?
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what the 'DEAL' was with brother W, but my belief is that no one in the Bush Crime Family has any INTELLECTUAL Curiosity....or any intellect at all.
Jeb should just fade away quietly....
"Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of Stupidity" - Frank Leahy
about how coke gets into Miami...
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
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Jeb knows about that. So does his father and brother W!!! (They know ALL about such evil doings, because they are a part of those doings!) See waynemasdenreport.com (members section, $30 per year.)
And I don't mean it like 'we only drink wine'. I mean it like I'm not the kind of guy who likes to just shoot the shit with someone I barely know, let alone the leader of the (so-called) free world.
No offense intended, but many of us have more important things to do or think about. Why do people put so much emphasis on this 'every guy' fantasy when clearly not every guy is like that?
Because people are idiots.
When angry, count four, when very angry, swear.
-Mark Twain-
a grown man who's supposedly literate but can't spell "potato," a grown man married to a librarian and who's read My Pet Goat but failed to read one of the most important memos in our nation's history, a grown woman allegedly literate but can't name anything she reads, and finally, an intelligent, empathetic creature.
"The greatest tyranny is censoring information in order to be better able to control people." - Cristina Saralegui
That picture is great, it's going into my political motivators folder.
When angry, count four, when very angry, swear.
-Mark Twain-
A 'Thug who doesn't need viagra?
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
:D
me-oww!
the fourth in the series? Would be apropos.
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
The fourth was Conquest of the Planet of the Apes.
Return to the Planet of the Apes was the cartoon series. Very much apropos.
Love,
The Pop Culture Police
... Boehner's forehead, Cantor's hair, McCain's scowl, and the combined intellect of #'s 1, 2, and 3.
Yup, the plan is right on schedule.
Edit: Hmmm. Kind of has Bobby Jindal's eyes, come to think of it.
asked about her reading material, she had just named dropped some right-wing tomes. It wouldn't be very good reading material, but it would have been so much better than only being able to say, "I uh, duhhhhh....everything?"
"The greatest tyranny is censoring information in order to be better able to control people." - Cristina Saralegui
... because she gave the same answer when Beck asked about her favorite founding father.
"Um, all of them, really."
Beck had to spoon-feed her George Washington's name.
Glad I'm not her.
"The greatest tyranny is censoring information in order to be better able to control people." - Cristina Saralegui
You might've wanted to think about this before that chimp brother of yours fucked this country up. If you truly believe this, you should've talked W out of running in the first place.
the majority of americans lined up to vote for bush jr.
this is a rep of the mentality of americans.
then hope came along.
but hope proved to be short lived.
but you have gotten your history lessons all twisted up in a Rethug knot.
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The 2000 Presidential election was rife with corruption. Gov. Jeb Bush (R) Florida, his Sec State (FL), Cheney & the Turd-Blossom ( aka Rove ) were involved in a conspiracy to steal the election -- voter caging, delaying the count of absentee ballots, failure to engage in a full state-wide recount, and the "spontaneous" Rethug borderline violent recount protests were all in play. The 2000 election was decided by the Supremes (aka SCOTUS), of whom many were appointed by Raygun and Bush Sr. The Supremes, when anointing Dubya, stated that their one-time decision could not be considered to be setting a precedent.
The only silver lining to be found in this election was that the Whore of Jerusalem (aka Joe Lieberman (I) AIPAC) was kept out of the White House -- Gore would have been a marked man as President, and I think he knew that.
The timid, cowed, and spineless political opposition (aka Congressional Democrats) then proceeded to vote for the "Help America Vote (Our Way)" legislation in 2002, which flooded the States with recount-disabled electronic voting machines. This paved the way for the theft (vote fraud) of the 2004 Presidential election -- most notably assisted by Ken Blackwell in Ohio, as well as major fraud in Colorado, Nevada, and Utah.
In both elections, the Neo-Liberal Democratic candidates folded their campaign challenges like a cheap polyester suit -- not really surprising, since they shared the very same Corporatist masters. That legacy continued to this day, with a win for Obama. The only real difference? Howard Dean's 50 State grassroots organization, which was promptly suborned by Rahm Emanuel, and Dean being thrown under the bus.
Hope & Change (TM) was just a Madison Avenue/K-Street marketing campaign -- sorry that you / we all didn't get sent the memo on that bit ...
Welcome to reality! Yeah, I know, it really sucks ...
"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable."
-- John F. Kennedy
And 2004 was corrupt as well. Then, they killed off the guy that corrupted it, burning him to a crisp in his small plane, just as he was to testify about that corruption. This country is dirty, and the media keeps it quiet. We are all under surveillance, first by Bush, and now by Obama. Why doesn't Obama stop Bush's Domestic Spy garbage? Because he is just as evil as Bush, only a little prettier and a lot smarter. Just not smart enough to get this liberal to support him, ever again! It really doesn't matter, however, because we continue to vote on corruptable electronic voting machines, whose source codes can be rigged, just as the one in Ohio was rigged in 2004 for Bush! This country is doomed, because the media and the government are keeping the people uninformed with propaganda!!!
The vast majority of Prostiticians behave in a manner that would embarrass a child molester. They have become:
The Poster Child for:
I Want It All and I Want Yours Too and I Want It Now
I W I A I W Y T W I N
They choose their own facts and they create a special world, stacked high, and wall to wall with shining priceless works of striking beauty, purchased frugally, from the gaunt, ink and scar adorned geniuses, Just outside the park or along the sweltering street or sleeping out in the freezing cold, with nothing but a three box home, and a Sterno stove, a bucket and little else, except some tattered shirts and pants, just one of each was whole. EVERY DAY, when it is possible. Painting with fluid animation, he dances intimately, with the canvas and the brush. His work reveals beauty in a Totally unique way. I have seen many great painters; he belongs among the few. And here is where we find him ,selling his sole talent for grub and change.
Try to help him, and he would mutter a soft "no." And never allow it. "My art is my business partner. Together, we have lived another day."
As night falls, a chill begins to creep in ever so imperceptibly. "I hope he has a warm place to sleep", he muses. He takes his newly gained bounty, bought for near nothing, yet priceless, and breathtaking, and carefully and gently, places the treasure in the back of his G Wagen, farm use tagged.
He never asked the creator, pauper, if he had shown in the City Gallery, (he's been on the Board of Directors for years). He never goes unless the press is there. He could have shocked the world with brilliance and newness. instead he will prefer to secret the painting away in a controlled environment, waiting for the man to die, The prices will go through the roof. Every one of them will be worth millions, post mortum.
Why do they walk on by,after bargaining for sport, to get the lowest price. Never knowing how, the artist donates his well being to the lowest bidder.
Why do those who love his works, despise the creator and fear his company ?
Because they don't trust anyone. They would die if anyone really cared about THEM. They think everybody wants something of them. They hold their possessions tightly, lest they lose them. They lock up securely, the sparkling and magnificently colored rare gems and lustrous pearls.
Stacks and stacks of bars of 24 Ct. gold, and bags and boxes of rare coins and stamps; In Silver and in Gold, filling the safe to capacity.
A full safe cannot replace an empty heart.
To own much, and to have nothing is even sadder than, to own nothing, and have nothing.
Sharing concerns does not replace sharing wealth.
If George W. Bush has "intellectual curiosity", then I'm the Queen of Sheba...
Good grief! My irony meter didn't just redline...the damn thing went ***TILT***!
Never trust anyone who insists that patriotism requires you to blindfold yourself with the flag.
That poster is offensive and grossly unfair. To chimps.
Oh, by the way, Nicole -- could you please furnish a link to where that poster can be purchased? It looks like a keeper, a classic, to me. Thanks in advance ,,,
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"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable."
-- John F. Kennedy
Jeb might want to tread lightly on this subject, lest he fail the GOP Purity Test. On of Lord Reagan's first budget cut attempts was against Pell Grants and government student loans. He said that the government had no business paying for students "intellectual curiousity". He figured students could work their way through college like he did--as life guards and cafeteria workers. You know that those jobs pay plenty well enough to cover the cost of a college education.
I think I see the point of creationism: how can anyone look at these images and think that humans represent an evolutionary advancement from the apes?
Needs to have "intellectual curiosity" , good one Jeb .
Insanity , it is what it is , there is no understanding it .
Interesting choice of words since his own brother was accused of lacking intellectual curiosity. It's pretty sad that Palin practically makes Bush look like a brainiac. However, I disagree with Jeb that "it's up to her". You either have it or you don't. She's not capable cultivating intellectual curiosity, whether she wants to or not. Sarah has always faked her way with charisma, always. But once you peel back the layers, there is nothing there but a personality disorder.
Insult to the chimp .
Republican intellectual curiousity reached its' peak prior to Bonzo's reign, then stalled out and started falling rapidly. Since the intellectual curiousity of most species is limited by their brain capacity, which at its' lowest denominator places self survival as its' basic instinct, it is no wonder that the success of Republican strategy hinges upon finding leaders whose intellectual curiousity is limited to self preservation. The question remains whether the citiizens of this Nation have fallen for their propaganda and also share in their limited vision.
by continuing most of Bush's policies. The people don't want 2 wars, domestic spying, paying off Wall Street to the exclusion of Main Street, deal-making with lobbyists, and a complete lack of spine, etc.
We the people want a president who has courage and the will to LEAD, even when it goes against corporations who contribute to his campaigns. That's not happening, and we all can see that. Obama and most of the Democrats say one thing and do another! They are not as unpalatable as the RePUKES, but they are not who they say they are, and I for one am sick to death of it! If they don't have me (liberal2thecore), who DO they have? Sure, the opposition is completely ignorant and evil, but I am done with picking the least of 2 "EVILS!"
"I've seen lack of intellectual curiosity up close, and man, it's scary!"
LOL. Good one Jeb. Thanks for Florida 2000.
1. I love the poster -- I hope they are offered for sale somewhere.
2. I notice ads on C&L for Meg Whitman, who is running for governor of California. She is a Republican, who according to press reports only started voting in 2003. She says she wants to fix schools, but does not say how she will do it. I will vote for the Democrat.
...Americas' elected leaders are less intellectually curious and more morally inept.
Government + the Federal Reserve = organized crime
Give me a break. She's just as big a dunce as his brother.
With regard to the comment: "Seriously? The need for "intellectual curiosity" wasn't necessary in 2000 or 2004, was it, Jeb? The mind boggles."
I have little or no respect whatsover for Jeb and the entire Bush Village of Idiots. However to make a comment such as this chastising Jeb is misplacing one's anger or blame. Jeb Bush did not elect George W. or his father, or even Ronald Reagan. The American voters did that. I have to agree that intellectual curiosity is a rather vague term, but if that implies our political leaders should use their heads for something other than hatracks, I have to agree with the statement.
And as for Sarah Palin, it was John "Brainiac" McCain who chose her, not Jeb Bush.
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