Jeb Bush (with or without last name) made a fine debut speech at Miami Dade College Monday, right up there with Marco Rubio’s several weeks ago. Must be something in the Florida water. (Manatees?) They were both far better than the stultified, rigid Hillary, who can’t even quote The Beatles without sounding like a schoolmarm teaching Wordsworth to third graders. (Talk about “Yesterday”!)
Problem is, as I wrote in late May, I still wish Jeb wasn’t running. I had reasons then and they haven’t gone away — and this is with no offense to the former governor who, for all I know, could be the best potential president currently running from either party.
The overwhelming issues for me are democracy itself and defeating Hillary Clinton. Enough already with royal families. Are we Argentina? This is the USA (still… maybe…). Sure politics can be a family business like anything else, but there are limits. And the presidency is one of them, indeed the most important of them.