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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWill it stick?!1 Vanity Fair: Jeb Crow Shrub elitist arrogant prick, stoner, goofy, slob, freak.
How did Jeb Crow Shrub get pegged as "the smart one"? Entitled goofiness is in the family genes, start with Poppy. And Shrub's goofiness is well documented. Then take a glimpse at "Access Hollywood" where one Billy BUSH is on display. And recently at a doctor's waiting room I looked at a business/financial magazine I wouldn't otherwise ever see and there was a profile of one Jonathan BUSH, as a flaky nutty bozo cashing in as CEO of some kind of healthcare (Athenacare?) company, cashing in on OBAMAcare, the family m.o. being feeding at the public trough - with company conferences full of costumes and booze.
I haven't delved into the Jeb Crow Shrub psyche beyond a scattered detail about his business dealings with 1stGenExile/CIA Cubans, milking Medicare, involving boarding private planes with suitcases full of cash. And Neil Shrub's Savings and Loan bailout from the public. And Poppy fuming at reporters, "My boys have a right to make a living!1"
Yet Jeb Crow Shrub has somehow built an image of being sober and thoughtful. Now it's clearer why he didn't have a meltdown over his kids' (Jeb George Pee Shrub now officially elected in Texas) crashes with the law, since it's a family marker.
Also, for such an elitist family, he comes across as having the hinterland's chip on the shoulder toward "Eastern elites."
Photograph by Jeff Mitchell. The author's article Brother Dearest, published in the July 2001 issue of Vanity Fair.
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http://www.vanityfair.com/online/daily/2015/jeb-bush-bad-behavior-andover
6:45 PM, January 23 2015
[font size=5]Revisiting Jeb Bushs Bad Behavior at Andover[/font]
By David Margolick
Perhaps because it seemed Jeb Bush could never be presidenthis brother had just been elected and, even then, the thinking was that two Bushes would be quite enoughhis classmates at Andover reminisced quite freely about him with me in 2001, when I profiled him for Vanity Fair.
There was a kind of arrogance to him, one of them told me, describing Bushs membership in a clique of wealthy kids. I remember him smoking a lot of dope, he added. ....
LeBoutillier urged reporters to investigate the matter further, comparing it to the widely-reported story of a young Mitt [FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: yellow"]Romney pinning down a gay student[/FONT] at his Michigan prep school [FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: yellow"]and cutting off his blond bangs[/FONT], which for some reason hed found offensive. If that event is worthy of the front page of the Washington Post, wrote LeBoutillier, then [FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: yellow"]the Jeb Bush Illegal[/FONT] Drug and [FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: yellow"]Liquor Distributorship[/FONT] is certainly something the votersespecially GOP primary votershave a right to know before they begin to choose a 2016 candidate. ....
Jeb steered clear of politicsno mean feat during the Vietnam era. I dont recall his ever being particularly interested in anything we did, recalled Andrew Bridges, who headed the Progressive Andover Republicans. Like many of Bushs classmates, Bridges sort of liked the guy. But others disagreed: one told me he was slightly snarly and spoiled. I wouldnt associate ideas with Jeb, said Peter Halley, who became an artist. He was laid backa little bit [FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: yellow"]goofy[/FONT].
Andover back then was a thoroughly cliquish place, divided neatly into jocks, nerds, freaks, and zeroes. Bush was hard to pigeonholehe was captain of the tennis team and was friendly with several black studentsbut was also, improbably (as one classmate called him) a budding hippie. If you found him sitting, it was further toward the [FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: yellow"]freak[/FONT] end of the dining room, Lincoln Chafee, later a United States senator and governor of Rhode Island, told me in 2001. He was kind of a [FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: yellow"]slob[/FONT], actually. ....
Though they had more pressing matters to discusslike how they can run for president simultaneously without knocking one another outperhaps Bush and Romney swapped prep school stories during their powwow in Utah this week. But while Romney famously forgot the hair-cutting episode, Bush seems to have some insight into his former preppie self. [FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: yellow"]I was,[/FONT] as he once put it, [FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: yellow"]a cynical little turd at a cynical little school.[/FONT]
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djean111
(14,255 posts)The GOP has no problem with having a powerful VP, thus - Cheney.
BrotherIvan
(9,126 posts)The party loathes Mitt. They lurve the Bushes, and Jeb is the chosen one. Mitt will be the scapegoat for the early clowncar appearances to provide a racing draft for little Jebby. I've been saying since 2010 that it will be Jeb, but I knew they would wait and see what Clinton was doing. Obviously, they think they can beat her so he's running now.
UTUSN
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http://www.vanityfair.com/dam/2015/02/Brother%20Dearest.pdf
[font size=5]Brother Dearest[/font]
Vanity Fair, July 2001
David Margolick
p. 94 With George Herbert Walker Bush and George W. Bush, one always gets the feeling of being importuned, of almost being begged to like and respect them. Jeb, by contrast, has the ease of someone whos not trying to win anyone over, whos not trying to be someone hes not or come across as tougher or smarter or more macho than he really is. He needs no pork rinds or cowboy boots to earn his spurs. He seems to now he will be liked and respected there is no way he cant be and if he is not, well, then maybe that person is just not worth being liked and respected back. ....
p. 96 At the same time, Jeb finds himself saddled with labels never attached to his father and brother such words as arrogant, stubborn, cocksure, self-righteous. ....
Stories abound of retribution meted out to anyone who displeases Jeb. ....
(Democratic mayor of Tallahassee Scott) Maddox says. If youre always used to being given what you want, you react poorly when you are opposed. ... ....
Critics say that Jeb doesnt listen to other people, that hes a zealot surrounded by sycophants. Hes not getting very much information, says Tom Rossin, the Democratic leader in the state senate, first, because he doesnt listen to it; second, because hes a one-way guy, and the people who really argue with him somehow disappear.
p. 142 Hes tired, too, of the usual bait and switch: journalists claiming they want to explore bond issues when their real agenda is to talk psychobabble and to stoke sibling rivalry. Forced to speak about his family, Jeb has perfected the pre-emptive platitude. He loves his (pick it) brother/father/wife/children more than life. Hes incredibly proud of them all. And no superlative is ever too strong: he once said his father was as close to perfection as a human being can be. ....
p. 143 With few exceptions, Jebs relatives dont speak. Jebs staffers are young, inexperience, and ferociously loyal; they are often compared to a cult. (Shiite Republicans is what one Democrat calls them.) ....
None of his friends were invited to the wedding. She came from a totally different culture, a different planet from our perspective, one college classmate recalls.
p. 144 He met Armando Codina, a prominent Cuban-American real-estate developer and one of the Senior Bushs earliest supporters; Codina made him an extraordinary offer, particularly for someone with no experience in real estate: join him, invest no money, and have Bush added to the company name (at the very time that Bush Sr became vice president).
p. 145 Some $2000 million in Medicaid funds was missing, and Recarey was indicted for conspiracy, bribery, obstruction of justice, and illegal wiretapping. He fled the country in September 1987 and is still listed as a fugitive. Asked about Recarey in 1998, Jeb said hes less gullible now. Similarly, in 1990,Jeb lobbied his fathers administration and helped win parole for Orlando Bosch, an anti-Castro terrorist widely suspected of blowing up a Cuban jetliner in 1976 with 73 passengers aboard. he is one of us, Jorge Mas Canosa, the late strongman of Miamis Cuban community, said of Jeb.
Asked what he would do for Floridas blacks, Bush gave a slightly longer and more nuanced answer that was reduced to an oft cited, poisonous sound bite: probably nothing. Although Jeb himself had used plenty of government help amassing his own fortune, he questioned how much anyone else needed it. ....
...most benefactors (donors) were Republican Party stalwarts: U.S. Sugar, Outback Steakhouse, Philip Morris, Eckerd Corp. Blockbuster founder and Florida Marlins owner Wayne Huizenga, and Al Hoffman Jr., later general fiance chairman of Jebs second gubernatorial campaign and now fiance chairman of the Republican National Committee. ....
p. 146 ...the most famous footage ever of Jeb Bush, in which, talking to an aide and unaware that the cameras are rolling, the smoldering governor hisses, Kick ... their ... asses ... out! Jeb later said that it was to the press, and not to the two black legislators, that he had been referring. ....
p. 147 ...suggestions that Jeb and Cynthia Henderson were an item were all over Tallahassee... .... ...she kept moving up in his administration despite a set of scandals and ethical lapses that would have doomed anyone else. ....
Even Jebs allies say that he and Columba have little in common and that she is abusive both to him and to his aides, especially if they happen to be pretty women.
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UTUSN
(70,641 posts)The nephew of one President and the cousin of another, Bush has seen his company prosper in the age of Obamacare.Photograph by Andrew Hetherington for Fortune
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"Bush dressed as fictional talk show host Ali G. at an Athena event in 2012, at the White House with cousin George W. in 2006, and driving an ambulance in New Orleans during College."
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"Bush (left) in 2005 with his Athenahealth co-founder, Todd Park.
Photograph by Michael Edwards"
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http://fortune.com/2014/12/29/athenahealth-ceo-jonathan-bush-bubble/
[font size=5]Is Athenahealth CEO Jonathan Bush in a bubble?[/font]
The Athenahealth CEO believes his company can become the Amazon of health care. But hedge fund manager David Einhorn and others are betting that his soaring stock is ready to burst.
Jen Wieczner December 29, 2014, 7:00 AM EST
Jonathan Bush is having a lot of fun for a guy under attack. As he barrels around his 387-acre Maine resort at night in an all-terrain vehicle, weaving through trees and bumping over curbs, the co-founder and CEO of health care technology company Athenahealth doesnt appear to be worried at all about a short-selling assault by hedge fund manager David Einhorn, who is very publicly betting against Athenas highflying stock. Moments earlier, Bushnephew of President No. 41 and cousin to No. 43was regaling his guests with tales of the time he nearly had sex at Camp David. Now its past midnight, and he should really be getting to bed, because at 7 a.m. hell be leading a group on a jog to a serene but bone-chillingly cold pond for a swim. Then the ATV rumbles up to the afterparty cabin, where a few dozen venture capitalists, investors, health care startup CEOs, and Athena execs are playing drinking games, and Bush cant stand to miss out. The night before he had ended up shirtless while playing something called flip cup. And when a Morgan Stanley portfolio manager, Athenas largest shareholder, joked that he was selling his stock because Bush was buying everyone beer, Bush threw his hands in the air and yelled, Yayyyy!!!
Welcome to Athenahealths fourth annual More Disruption Please conference, the Animal House of corporate gatherings. The setting for this early-fall event is Point Lookout, a resort Athena purchased in 2011 as an employee-training and client-entertainment facility. A four-hour drive north of the companys headquarters outside Bostonand some 120 miles up the Maine coast from Walkers Point, where the presidential side of the family spent summers in officePoint Lookout also doubles as a wedding venue, a vacation destination, and the local bowling alley. Despite the rustic surroundings, there is rarely a quiet moment whenever Athenahealths hyperactive, no-filter goofball of a chief executive is around. Bush, who last May published a book titled Where Does It Hurt? An Entrepreneurs Guide to Fixing Health Care, says the ultimate point of his antics is to foster irreverence for the status quo. At MDP he brings together investors with startups that might someday make his own company obsolete. Bushs rallying cry, as always, is the need to reform the U.S. health care system through innovationand by whatever means necessary. And hes not afraid to look like a doofus in the process. Ive got to go past the rules of this game to the new game, says Bush, 45, in a typical moment of rhetorical crescendo. And Im going to win the new game, even though it hasnt been invented yet. You can call that visionarya willing- ness to withstand emotional pain and isolation.
Bushs gonzo approach to corporate leadership has worked spectacularly well at Athenahealth ATHN 1.49% so far. Since the company went public in 2007, its shares had returned 266% through mid-Decembermore than double the Nasdaq (87%) or the Russell 1000 Health Care Index (130%) over the same period. The rocketing stock price has pushed the market value of the company to around $5 billion. Investors have been attracted to the companys rapid growth in a vast market that is suddenly undergoing radical change thanks to Obamacare. Athenahealth has seen average revenue gains of 32% a year by selling cloud-based software services to doctors offices, including electronic medical recordsa business that, spurred by government incentives, has caught fire in recent years. The global health care IT market, now worth about $40.2 billion, has grown 35% in the past five years and is projected to surge another 64% over the next five, to more than $66 billion in 2020, according to Global Industry Analysts. And research firm MarketsandMarkets predicts that health care cloud computing in North America will nearly triple by 2018. ....
Bush co-founded Athenahealth in 1997 with Todd Park, a fellow former health care consultant who left Athena in 2008 and started Castlight Health, before being tapped by President Obama to serve as the U.S. chief technology officer. Since late August, Park has served as a government technology adviser in Silicon Valley. They were offended as Americans that health care is as dysfunctional as it is, and they had a zealots sense of mission to make it better, says Hull of Bush and Park. ....
The companys early success surprised even members of Bushs own clan. Jonathan managed to score a meeting in the Oval Office with President George W. early in his first term. Reenacting that visit, Bush imitates the incredulous look on his cousins face when he mentioned Athenahealth: He was like, Youre CEO of a company? And in my head I was like, Well, if you can be President, I can be CEO! ....
As Bush plots the future path for Athena, hes also redefining his own life. Hes going through a divorce from his second wife. Now hes trying to find balance between running his company and spending time with his five kids from his first marriage. Bush took a step back this year when he took an eight-week sabbatical, taking advantage of an Athena employee policy. He skied, he traveled to the Sochi Olympics, and he spent a week shadowing an Army colonel at Fort Hood to glean leadership lessons. He says he never checked Athenas stock price once. ....
This story is from the January 2015 issue of Fortune.
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UTUSN
(70,641 posts)Octafish
(55,745 posts)Michael Moore wrote he met the guy and got scared just talking with him for a few seconds.
That takes some doing.