Wall Street is all in for Jeb! Enron, Goldman Sachs and the forgotten Bush legacy - Salon
As expected, dynastic politics is prevailing in campaign 2016. After a tease about as long as Hillary’s, Jeb Bush (aka Jeb. And here’s a hint: don’t bet on Jeb not to make it through the Republican gauntlet of 12 candidates (so far). They know that, given his family connections, Jeb is their best path to the White House and they’re not going to blow that by propping up some Republican lightweight whose father and brother weren’t president, not when Hillary, with all her... The issue of political blood and family lines in Washington is not new. There have been four instances in our history in which presidents have been bonded by blood. Our second president John Adams and eighth president John Quincy Adams were father and son. Our ninth president William Henry Harrison and our 23rd president Benjamin Harrison were grandfather and grandson. And then, of course, there were our 41st and 43rd presidents, George H. W. and George W. If Jeb becomes the 45th president, it will be the first time that three administrations share the same blood and “dynastic” will have a new meaning in America. The Bush political-financial legacy began when President Ronald. Source: www.salon.com
