Nope, don't like Jeb the RINO in the least and if he runs I hope he is defeated early on in spite of all the Bush dynasty $$.
Jeb Bush's bond with Barack Obama on education poses 2016 challenge for him Standing before a massive American flag, Jeb Bush began a withering attack on President Barack Obama.
"On energy, he waffles. On immigration, he hasn't led. On foreign policy, he doesn't lead, even from behind. On the family, he is captive to the special interest of the left."
On the economy, "he is an utter and complete failure"...
The speech came at a June 2013 dinner for the Conservative Party of New York State, foreshadowing Bush's entry in the 2016 presidential race. But the indictment conspicuously avoided the subject the former Florida governor knows best: education.
Bush and Obama have been unlikely partners on education, sharing similar goals, praising each other publicly and appearing together at a high school in Miami as Obama was gearing up for re-election...
Bush's problem over the Common Core education standards is well known, but the backstory is his symbiotic relationship with the Obama administration and the political crumbling of a reform movement that Bush once led but is now a liability as he faces the GOP nominating gantlet.
The shift could do for Bush what health care did for Mitt Romney, who as governor of Massachusetts oversaw reforms that served as a basis for Obamacare.
With Republicans hostile toward Obama on all fronts and conservatives seething over what they view as the federal takeover in Common Core, Bush's signature issue may be diminished...
"Jeb Bush wants to talk about the particulars of education, and conservatives want to talk about constitutional authority and that could be a point of tension...
Bush had reason to reach out to the newly elected Obama. He had recently set up his Foundation for Excellence in Education, and he called up Duncan, who had been the public schools chief in Chicago and was not afraid to challenge the teachers union.
At the time there was talk of overhauling No Child Left Behind, the education policy enacted by President George W. Bush, and the former Florida governor wanted to ensure that some of the flaws were exposed — changes he had called for years earlier...
Obama was already receptive to some of the ideas Bush and other Republicans were pushing. During the 2008 Democratic primary, Obama talked of more teacher accountability and other reforms and, once elected, he had Duncan pursuing them along with an expansion of charter schools.
"I'm excited … because I think for the first time in my political life, there seems to be more consensus than disagreement across the ideological spectrum about education reform," Bush said during a 2009 speech at an education forum in Nashville. "I'm very encouraged about Secretary Duncan's advocacy of challenging the status quo, and I'm excited that Republicans seem to be not wanting to get into a food fight about this but to join forces and to find common ground. . . .
By 2010, the Common Core education standards had emerged, developed by stakeholders at the state level. Today, the notion that the federal government was involved stems in part from Obama's "Race to the Top" grants that encouraged states to lift education standards and innovate. Common Core wasn't a focal point but adopters got a small boost in their overall score.
Bush supported competitive grants, though, his staff stressed, he opposed the overall stimulus from which the money came. States were not compelled to seek the billions in funding but many did, including Florida...
As the Bush-Obama alliance strengthened, murmurs of a federal takeover of Common Core were growing among conservative activists in good part because of Race to the Top...
Still, Bush stuck by Obama. In early 2011, the White House reached out to him to say the president was headed to Miami to do something on education and Bush suggested Miami Central Senior High School, a long dismal performer that underwent a transformation...
Obama clasped Bush's arms then honored him as a "champion of education reform" — not quite the hug then-Republican Gov. Charlie Crist shared with the president in 2009, but an image that will surely be fashioned into a campaign attack ad...
Having Bush on stage was beneficial to Obama, who was preparing for what seemed like a brutal re-election in the face of a struggling economy and growing unrest overseas. It demonstrated Obama, whose support for charter schools and standardized testing infuriated teachers unions, was willing to move to the center...
Democrats were uneasy, if aghast, with the Obama-Bush alliance. After the high school event the president went to a fundraiser at the Fontainebleau hotel and the mere mention of Bush's name brought boos. "Even though Gov. Bush and I disagree on a range of issues," Obama said, "we agree on the importance of education to America."
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