Jeb Bush Talks About His Foreign Bride

[1stworldview]

On Tuesday presidential candidate Jeb Bush spoke about the first meeting between himself and his future foreign bride, Columba. " It was love at first sight. I spoke little Spanish and she spoke little English, but when you are in love you can overcome those barriers pretty quick. There's another language that matters the most."

John Ellis "Jeb" Bush is an American businessman and politician who served as the 43rd Governor of Florida from 1999 to 2007. He is the second son of former President George H. W. Bush and former First Lady Barbara Bush, and the younger brother of former President George W. Bush.

Bush met his wife while in Leon, Mexico helping to build homes. León is a city in the Mexican state of Guanajuato. They married a few years later in Austin, Texas, and now live in Coral Gables, Florida.

Is there a difference between Jeb Bush's Foreign Bride and so called Mail Order Brides? Feminists and women rights groups have argued for years that men who travel across boarders for love take advantage of women that come from lower economic regions. In 2005 the Tahirih Justice Center and Senator Cantwell pushed legislation regulating foreign brides, stating that men take unfair advantage of women in foreign counties. The law (IMBRA ) requires marriage brokers to run background checks on all men that seek a foreign bride. Bush's wife was underage at the time they met and came from one of the poorest areas of central America. Did Jeb Bush then take advantage of his future wife Columba? After all she came from poverty and Jeb Bush came from a powerful, wealthy family.

Kenneth Agee, Marketing  Director of A Foreign Affair, a company that specializes in foreign bride match-making says, "Absolutely not! In our society and most societies women are always looking to find a better way of life. It is instinctual for females to find the best possible suitor for having a family, just like it is instinctual for men to be attracted to certain physical aspects of women. How would marrying into wealth make you a victim? The notion that men have economic control of women, at best, would not last long after marriage. It is equally invalid to say women have a control over men because of their beauty. The truth is, a negative situation can happen no matter where you meet and has more to do with character than economics or location. Personally, my wife is from Russia, is very strong-willed, and would never let herself become a victim. I find this to be true of most foreign women. I'm sure Jeb Bush would agree. Contrary to the opinion of Terra Justice Center, an INS study showed there were fewer issues with cross-border marriages than domestic marriages. In fact they have a much higher success rate"

And Jeb Bush is not the only candidate with a foreign-born wife. Candidate Donald Trump is also currently married to Melania Trump, a former model from Slovenia. Donald Trump's first wife, Ivana, is from the Czech Republic.

Marrying foreign women is becoming a trend for the elite. FOX News CEO Rupert Murdoch is married to Wendi Deng Murdoch from Jinan, China, with a 38 year age difference.

Yet feminists continue to argue that men seek foreign brides only because they lack the necessary social skills to find someone in the US. This is clearly not the case, as these successful men do not lack socials skills.

Society has changed greatly over the years and love has no borders. Looking worldwide for love is becoming the norm now. Each week companies like A Foreign Affair take dozens of men to countries all over the world where they attend social events, meeting hundreds of beautiful women and models, who like themselves are serious about finding true love and marriage. These men are from many varied walks of life: doctors, CEOs, policemen, businessmen, you name it. You don't have to be a Bush or Trump to see the advantage of looking abroad for real love.

With two candidates, Jed Bush and Donald Trump, both married to foreign brides, we could see our first foreign-born First Lady in the White House.

[Buffy]

Hi 1stworldview! Welcome to Hypography!

 

 

Yet feminists continue to argue that men seek foreign brides only because they lack the necessary social skills to find someone in the US. This is clearly not the case, as these successful men do not lack socials skills.

 

That's a straw man, dear. "Feminists"--as if that were a monolithic group--do not argue this at all. While the two you mention may not be well known for their activities or positions on topics of interest, you'll find Arianna Huffington--who "married in" as a native of Greece--is a hero to many Feminists.

 

To many feminists, it's well recognized that within the biases of current society, marrying power is a legitimate way to gain it--Arianna being just one example, Hillary another.

 

Now with individual examples, you might find specific concerns about the balance of power between the marriage partners, but that's usually an argument against the sexist attitudes of the male in the relationship. For quite a while it has been a topic of discussion that it appears a lot of American males with chauvinist tendencies have been marrying Asian women because they are assumed to be culturally more submissive. This has become recognized to be a misleading assumption, as Rupert Murdoch has found recently to his consternation.

 

 

Society has changed greatly over the years and love has no borders. Looking worldwide for love is becoming the norm now. Each week companies like A Foreign Affair take dozens of men to countries all over the world where they attend social events, meeting hundreds of beautiful women and models, who like themselves are serious about finding true love and marriage. These men are from many varied walks of life: doctors, CEOs, policemen, businessmen, you name it. You don't have to be a Bush or Trump to see the advantage of looking abroad for real love.

 

You'll get no arguments from me about finding real love. Just ask Jeb! or The Donald about same sex marriage on the campaign trail right now, though...

 

With two candidates, Jed Bush and Donald Trump, both married to foreign brides, we could see our first foreign-born First Lady in the White House.

 

Ha, ha, ha, ha! Well, I hope our first foreign born first lady or gentleman is not one of those two. :cheer:

 

Have you ever wondered why you *never* see Jeb!'s wife on the campaign trail?

 

 

Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet, :phones:

Buffy

[Moontanman]

No concern about jeb's bride being underage? 

[CraigD]

No concern about jeb's bride being underage?

Columba Bush was born 17 August 1953, Jeb Bush 11 February 1953. They were age 16 and 17 when they met, 21 and 22 when they married in were married 23 February 1974.

 

I don’t see anything age inappropriate here.

 

This doesn’t move me to like or approve of Jeb Bush, or any other conservative politician, though.

[Moontanman]

Columba Bush was born 17 August 1953, Jeb Bush 11 February 1953. They were age 16 and 17 when they met, 21 and 22 when they married in were married 23 February 1974.

 

I don’t see anything age inappropriate here.

 

This doesn’t move me to like or approve of Jeb Bush, or any other conservative politician, though.

 

 

I tend to agree, the age difference has been exaggerated but the power difference had to be extreme at least. Still, I am not one to question true love... My first wife was 18 when we married, i was 17 but we came from the same background socioeconomic status.. 

[CraigD]

Contrary to the opinion of Kenneth Agee, Marketing Director of A Foreign Affair, a company that specializes in foreign bride match-making says, "… an INS study showed there were fewer issues with cross-border marriages than domestic marriages. In fact they have a much higher success rate”

1stworldview, can you give a link or reference to the study Agee mentions?

[Buffy]

I actually don't care much for any of these folks you mention, but your entire post is premised on the assumption that "Feminists and women rights groups" are all unified in being up in arms about "foreign brides."

 

That's called a Straw Man, dear.

 

If you sympathized with those silly presidential wanna-bes, I suppose you'd call 'em "Golddiggers."

 

As one of my business school professors would say, "What's wrong with aligning your goals in seeking your own self-interest?"

 

 

Are we supposed to believe that the Founding Fathers wanted hippies to walk around un-punched? :phones:

Buffy, DFHF