A great picture, but a sad one, too.

A picture I saw on twitter today made me wonder about things. It was Bush 41, with President Obama, in the White House, along with Jeb Bush. Now say what you will about the elder Bush, but remember that he went into Kuwait only with a coalition, left Iraq and Kuwait on the coalition's timetable, and made the far right mad by raising taxes to help balance the debt. I think for a one-term President, history will remember him very well. And Obama seemed at ease, and yet still presidential. But it was Jeb that is at the forefront of the picture. Now, I don't think I could ever vote for him, and I know why he didn't run for President this time, but it did make me wonder what would would've happened if he or another solid, slightly moderate member of what use to be the Republican Party would have run. Maybe the Tea Party, the new GOP, would have ground him into small bite-size pieces. But the conversation on the GOP side would have been smarter, less divisive, and much less partisan. And that last part is what would have gotten him attacked by the Tea Party. But we would have been a better country right now if someone of his ilk would have ran. And isn't that what the whole idea of politics is suppose to be all about?