Copyrighted Image? DMCA | "In November 2013, Jeb Bush took to the rostrum at New York's Marriott Marquis for the annual meeting of the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association, alongside such industry stars as Goldman Sachs' Lloyd Blankfein and Blackrock's Larry Fink. Bush's remarks, and his chatting afterwards, left many attendees convinced he was preparing to run for president. Word of Bush's interest ricocheted around the political world.
But Bush, a private citizen for eight years since leaving the Florida governor's mansion, had no real infrastructure to handle such an endeavor. And as the third member of a storied political family to seek the presidency, just five years after his brother left office with near record-low approval ratings, he had no clear message or answer to the inevitable questions about why he was the right man for 2016." |