Watch the ad that tells Jeb Bush his brother didn't keep America safe

[Attorney in Texas]

Source: Vox.com

Jeb Bush got thunderous applause from the Republican audience at last week's presidential primary debate when he said his brother, former President George W. Bush, "kept us safe."

But he's about to get something very different from a liberal outside group called Americans United for Change: An ad reminding him that his brother was president during the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attack on the US, the American invasion of Iraq, the failed federal response to Hurricane Katrina and the 2008 financial crisis.

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"It’s as if Jeb Bush believes his brother’s presidency began on September 12th, 2001. But we’re not letting Jeb rewrite history," Brad Woodhouse, the president of AUC, said. "It’s convenient but not honest to ignore the facts that the worst attack on American soil since Pearl Harbor happened on George W. Bush’s watch after dismissing warnings from U.S. intelligence officials weeks before 9/11 that Osama bin Laden was ‘determined to strike in US’ and that his terrorist network might hijack American planes."

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AUC says the ad will start running Monday on cable television across the nation.

Read more: http://www.vox.com/2015/9/19/9357333/ad-bush-kept-us-safe

[ReactFlux]

1. Two thumbs up!!

[chervilant]

2. Simply put:

Proof positive that Jeb is as delusional as Dubya.

[wordpix]

12. they live in the rarefied air of the 1% where delusion is reality

to them

[chervilant]

15. Sadly,

we have a plethora of Bush sycophants here in the Ozarks.

Oh, and Trump is really popular, too...

[Enthusiast]

19. Delusional is the word.

[allan01]

3. he wanted a war from the very begining . bah humbug.

dubya 2.0

[LuvNewcastle]

4. I like that!

Whoever made that ad needs to be working for the DNC. It's high time we took the battle to them.

[Auggie]

6. Agree. Start by canning Wasserman Schulz first ... she's been worthless as DNC chair.

[Enthusiast]

20. She has got to go! Now!

[gvstn]

32. Yup.

Years ago, I thought she had a mouth on her, and would be a great spokesperson for the Democratic party but she has been terrible. God, I wish someone like Bernie Sanders could be elected. He just doesn't care what others think about him. He would actually fight Congress to get his bills passed.

[Cal33]

40. And what makes you think the DNC would have allowed an ad such as this to be made public? nt

[Tikki]

5. You do know when boosh was talking about keeping people safe, he meant his money grabbing .....

capitalist swine, bankster wall street buddy types. Just like jr.,...jebby only knows the rest of us are even here

when we raise our voices loudly and it sounds like a buzzing in his ears.

Tikki

[sorechasm]

43. By 'Us' Jeb must have been referring to the guys on stage.

'He kept us (the 1%) safe and richer than our dreams! What's wrong with that equation?'

[Tikki]

44. I remember back when...When some would say "jr's just like me, a good old boy"

Made me want to gag...

The truth is, a politician is either fighting for the middle class and those who are even poorer or fighting against us.

If they are fighting against us you have to wonder why.... We must have a lot of potential power.

Let's not get fooled again.

Tikki

PS California chucked fiorina out the door, people need to know why.

[sorechasm]

45. 'If they are fighting against us you have to wonder why.... We must have a lot of potential power. '

Well said Tikki! The Bernie campaign should use your quote.

Re inds me of this quote in 'Bug's Life'

https://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=&imgrefurl=http://quotesgram.com/bugs-life-quotes/&h=720&w=720&tbnid=yhTJdtKnM_bjMM:&docid=nx0rb3p_qcRmyM&hl=en&ei=RQv_VZzgBc3AgwTWqZPwBw&tbm=isch&client=safari&ved=0CCQQMygGMAZqFQoTCNyW3M2uhsgCFU3ggAod1tQEfg

[Tikki]

46. PERFECT

Tikki

[mountain grammy]

7. Great! Run it!

Run it here in Colorado where every ten minutes we're told how wonderful it is to be a Republican..

Run it for the goddam truth that fucking Bush kept us safe from nothing!

[fizzgig]

47. those republican ads make me want to throw something at the tv

it's also a bit amusing that they have to spend their money here to soften their image.

[arely staircase]

8. Awesome. nt

[oasis]

9. An answer to the "Big Lie".

[Depaysement]

10. He was President during the worst attack ever on this country

He was the worst President this country has ever had.

Nothing more needs to be said.

[KansDem]

34. And while that attack was occurring, he did nothing...

[SusanaMontana41]

58. Andrew Jackson was pretty bad.

He and 43 have a lot in common.

[wordpix]

11. and we'll have to keep repeating for more decades the facts of the * prezeldency

b/c BushCheney never stop trying to rewrite history

[hollowdweller]

13. Imagine if Gore, or Obama, had been president during 9-11.

It was really masterful how Bush presided over the largest terrorist attack on the US ever and managed to manipulate the media and democrats into not really criticizing him for it and even turned it into a political plus.

However he was overconfident and used the confidence of the US people and lack of oversight he got from the media into the Iraq war.

But look at the Benghazi thing to see what would have happened if the shoe was on the other foot. If a dem had presided over a large terror attack, a war, and a financial collapse the GOP could have parlayed that into probably 20 years of GOP rule.

[Enthusiast]

21. Great post!

The media is totally complicit. The Fairness Doctrine existed for a reason. A very good reason. They had a ten year plan to gain control of the media. We're fucked until we fix the damage they have done. We must have an equal and opposite media presence some how. The internet is keeping us alive.

[Frustratedlady]

14. I'm SO happy to hear of this group that is fighting back on the lies.

It should have been done in the last two elections, as well. My head would have felt a lot better if I hadn't been banging it against the nearest wall so often.

People are working too hard to keep their heads above water, so they read headlines and listen to sound bytes, which we know are sadly lacking in the truth. All these issues need to be condensed down to get our point across and maybe be shocking enough that they get the air time needed to deprogram some of these people who have been given the wrong "facts and figures". It's an uphill battle, but I'm sure it can be done.

Good show!

[Enthusiast]

22. ...

I am with you, Frustratedlady.

[Marie Marie]

16. About time someone spells it out and reminds the idiots

who believe and applauded this just who was President on 9/11. And yet, you have Gov PotatoHead saying on Bill Mahr that Bush can't be blamed because he was only in office 8 months. WTF??

[3catwoman3]

30. WTF, indeed.

They were more than happy to blame President Obama for everything about 30 seconds after he took the oath of office.

[Efilroft Sul]

17. Not hard-hitting enough. Does not go for the jugular.

It should have mentioned the number of foreign intelligence services warning for months of the type of attack we faced on 9/11.

It should have mentioned the number of people who perished in the three attacks and how their surviving family members might beg to differ.

It should have mentioned the number of anthrax episodes and deaths related to them.

It should have mentioned how many Benghazi-like events happened to our foreign service on his brother's watch and how many Americans were killed.

And it should have ended with the tagline, "His brother kept us safe? Who the hell does Jeb Bush think he's fooling?"

Get rid of the introspective piano soundtrack and replace it with an ominous, single note that builds to a crescendo at the end. I don't want people to feel sad or wistful. I want them pissed off. Always mention the number of attacks, always mention the number of Americans killed. Pound those facts into people's heads and call Bush out on his bullshit. Don't play nice, don't play coy, just go for his fucking jugular.

[Enthusiast]

23. You are 100% correct. We need to hear the whole truth, nuttin' but the truth!

[Efilroft Sul]

25. We need to make Jeb Bush's political campaign a casualty of his brother's war.

That would be sweet, sweet poetry. The sooner he gets knocked out of the running, the better off our country will be.

[Enthusiast]

26. He's knocked out. It's a done deal.

A majority of citizens recognize the filthy governance that we had under Dubya Bush. I doubt they could cheat enough to get him elected. The Democratic nominee will be elected. The country has had about a belly full of their nonsense.

[Samantha]

29. I agree with you

I was immediately disappointed when I saw the ad. My first take was it just went to easy on Bush.* Clinton verbally warned Bush* about Osama bin Laden as he was leaving the Oval Office. I think a very stark mention of the fact that Bush* was handed intelligence warning that said bin Laden was determined to attack the U.S. and ignored that warning should have been more forcefully presented. Yes, the loss of jobs was bad, but that very day 9/11/2001 was on the Bush* watch, regardless of how long he had been in office, and the failure to stop it lies on his shoulders.

Sam

[ybbor]

38. Hell Fucking Yes to this ^^^!

It must be repeated loudly and often! Hell to the yes what you said!

[smirkymonkey]

50. I completely agree. I was not impressed.

It was a bit lightweight as far as I'm concerned.

[thecrow]

57. "He kept us safe.....remember the rubble?"

Jeb's words...use them!!!!

[tclambert]

18. George Bush never made a get-tough-on-terrorism speech until the evening of September 11.

I thought as a Republican pro-war type he would say something about terrorism, maybe accuse Clinton of being soft on terrorists, during his campaign or early in his presidency. But no, he didn't, not until that evening. his "terrorism task force" never had any meetings. Only low level staffers wasted their time on the subject and could never get senior administration officials to pay any attention. They never did anything in response to the attack on the U.S.S. Cole. Seeing the World Trade Center collapse is what it took for him to take terrorism seriously.

I don't know if Bush could have done anything to prevent the 9/11 attacks. But I do know he didn't even try.

[Enthusiast]

24. LIHOP

[Frustratedlady]

27. Who was it that he said to, "OK, so now you've CYA..."?

It was as though he was tired of hearing the warnings...a get outta here type of comment.

It would also be interesting to know what he did the rest of the day. Play golf? Leave for the ranch? Actually check into the warning? Nah, I doubt that.

[Efilroft Sul]

52. He said it to an unnamed CIA briefer, according to Ron Suskind.

Many assert (on this site as well as the blogosphere) that it was CIA Director George Tenet, but I don't believe that was ever proven.

[msongs]

28. the 9/11 reference at the end should have been the twin towers, more explicit nt

[ybbor]

39. The towers collapsing ...

The terrified people running through Manhattan in front of the debris cloud. Safe my ass!

[Lychee2]

31. Great ad, but I think they are beating a dead horse.

I guess at the time they made it, he still had a live chance of winning the nomination.

[Gothmog]

33. This is a great ad

[oasis]

35. Kick because lies must be exposed

[NewJeffCT]

36. Also, don't forget

the anthrax attacks took place AFTER 9/11. Much of America was terrorized by them.

the DC Sniper was a self-proclaimed terrorist as well - and that was AFTER 9/11. They had the DC area terrorized for weeks.

Not to mention the nearly monthly attacks on family planning clinics around the nation as well during the Bush years.

[restorefreedom]

37. this has to go viral

and be watched over and over

these peope have to be called out on their delusion

[lark]

41. Think it should have started with 9/11, then Katrina then jobs loss.

However, I don't think this is going to be needed, because it now looks like Jeb won't be the nominee. If by some strange Repug cheating way, he does manage to be the general nominee for the repugs, this or ads similar should be run all the time.

[perdita9]

42. The Anthrax Mailer is still at large

The FBI has never found him (or her) despite a $100 million investigation, famous for identifying 2 scientists who had nothing to do with it.

[rhett o rick]

51. I suspect the NSA/CIA Dark State. The FBI forgot to look there. nm

[Dont call me Shirley]

48. By "us" Jeb meant his oligarch buddies.

[allan01]

49. this column is the main reason why i stick around .

you did it again sce .

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[Gothmog]

53. This is a great ad that needs to go viral

Jeb is making W look like the smarter brother

[oasis]

54. Kick

[mercuryblues]

55. Why do they

always skip over the Anthrax terrorism?

[restorefreedom]

56. needs another kick

cheney was a vile and evil president, with a dunce for a puppet.

and jeb! is a moron for pushing this lie.

thought he was the "smart" one....