The game done changed, Jeb–or is the game the same, but just got more fierce?
Dan Pfeiffer, senior adviser to President Obama, told the Huffington Post that Jeb Bush is like Cutty from The Wire—he was a good soldier, but he’s been out of the game too long.
In The Wire, Dennis ‘Cutty’ Wise is a once-great soldier in the Baltimore drug trade. After returning from fourteen years in prison, an older and perhaps wiser Cutty realizes he no longer has it in him to go around shooting people up at a drug dealer’s whim, and retires from the game to teach young men to box and pursue his old sweetheart.
“When I think about Jeb Bush here’s what I think about. I think he’s Cutty from ‘The Wire,'” said Pfeiffer.
“In his day, big deal. Out of the game for a long time, gets back in the game, games’s changed. Jeb Bush, it’s been a long time since he’s run for office. Politics has changed dramatically since his last race,” Pfeiffer said, observing that technology has changed the way campaigns will be run in 2016. “I think it will be very challenging for someone who has not been in prominent public life in the age of Twitter to go out on the campaign trail.”
Speculation on who could be 2016’s Avon Barksdale may now begin.
