Jeb
Bush Criticizes Obama for Using ‘Big Syllable Words’
By Samuel
Warde
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| Jeb! could never accuse his big brother of using big words. Or at least, not correctly. |
On
July 10, Bush told New Hampshire’s The Union Leader that
to grow the economy, “we have to be a lot more productive, Workforce
participation has to rise from its all-time modern lows. It means that people
need to work longer hours and, through their productivity, gain more income for
their families. That’s the only way we’re going to get out of this rut that
we’re in.”
As Liberals Unite reported earlier
today, Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders (I-VT) was quick to
jump on those comments, saying that Americans already work longer hours than
employees in most other countries and shouldn’t be forced to “work even longer
hours than they currently do.”
However, there’s another portion of that interview that is equally controversial – that part where Bush talks about foreign policy. During the interview he criticized President Barack Obama for the pending negotiations with Iran over nuclear weapons, saying that “This is the Clinton-Kerry-Obama foreign policy playing out.”
He
went on to attack the president for having nuanced positions and using
“big syllable words,” adding that “our enemies need to fear us.”
You
don’t have to be the world’s policemen, but you have to be the world’s leader
and there’s a huge difference. This guy, this president and Secretary Clinton
and Secretary Kerry – when someone disagrees with their nuanced approach where
it’s all kind of so sophisticated it makes no sense. You know what I’m saying?
Big
syllable words and lots of fancy conferences and meetings and – We’re not
leading. That creates chaos. It creates a more dangerous world. So restoring
the alliances that have kept the world safer and our country safer – getting
back to a position in the Middle East where there’s no light between Israel and
the United States.
The notion that the president has moved away from Israel – I
think because of personal reasons – he has a bad relationship with B.B.
Netanyahu is not — you don’t have to have good relationship with your
counterparty, you have to recognize the security importance of that
relationship. It’s not just for us and for Israel, it’s for the Middle East.
And
recognizing that, recognizing the importance of North America we’ve managed to
insult our neighbors to the north, our largest trading partner. Those
relationships need to be restored.
There
needs to be a sense that the United States is going to have the back of our
friends and allies or they’re going to change their patterns and their paths.
And our enemies need to fear us. That’s the lessons of history.
You
can watch Bush in action by going to this clip on C-Span,
edited specifically to show only the excerpt above.
Samuel
Warde is a writer, social and political activist, and all-around
troublemaker.