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Barbara Bush Refuses Additional Medical Care

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NBC News: “Former First Lady Barbara Bush will not seek additional medical treatment after a series of recent hospitalizations… In a statement, the spokesman said Bush, 92, would instead focus on ‘comfort care’ after consulting with doctors and family members.”

“It wasn’t immediately clear what Bush, the wife of former President George H.W. Bush and mother of former President George W. Bush, had been hospitalized for.”

Bush Jokes His Mother May Have Abused Him

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Jeb Bush said that his mother, former first lady Barbara Bush, is “not as great as everybody thinks she is,” Politico reports.

Said Bush: “I jokingly say that when we were growing up in Midland, in Houston, that mom was fortunate not to have a child-abuse hotline available.”

He explained that that “the discipline of learning right and wrong was her doing.”


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Barbara Bush Is Now On Board for 2016

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Neil Bush told Bloomberg that he thinks his mother has “come around” on the idea of brother Jeb Bush running for president in 2016.

[speech_bubble type=”std” subtype=”a” icon=”pwdome.jpg” name=””]The Bush camp has done their best to undo the damage of his mother’s comments earlier this year. [/speech_bubble]

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goddard-bw-snapshotTaegan Goddard is the founder of Political Wire, one of the earliest and most influential political web sites. He also runs Political Job Hunt, Electoral Vote Map and the Political Dictionary.

Goddard spent more than a decade as managing director and chief operating officer of a prominent investment firm in New York City. Previously, he was a policy adviser to a U.S. Senator and Governor.

Goddard is also co-author of You Won - Now What? (Scribner, 1998), a political management book hailed by prominent journalists and politicians from both parties. In addition, Goddard's essays on politics and public policy have appeared in dozens of newspapers across the country.

Goddard earned degrees from Vassar College and Harvard University. He lives in New York with his wife and three sons.

Goddard is the owner of Goddard Media LLC.

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