On Tuesday's Daily Show, Jon Stewart checked in with the 2016 presidential race, poking fun at various things the candidates said over the weekend — Mike Huckabee on hawking diet pills, Ben Carson on his various outrageous analogies, Ted Cruz's... well, interviewer Mark Halperin's terrible, patronizing questions for Cruz. Then he turned to the frontrunners, each tied closely to a previous occupant of the Oval Office.
In many ways, Hillary Clinton appears to be running against her husband's legacy. "Trouble in paradise, if you know what I mean," Stewart said, immediately clarifying: "By paradise, I mean a politically symbiotic partnership based on mutual ambition for global domination."
Jeb Bush, not so much. Stewart shook his head in disbelief at Bush's recent apparent embrace of George W. Bush's foreign policy baggage. "I think that at this point, most of America agrees that when it comes to foreign policy, George W. Bush is an excellent painter," he said, politely, before turning to Jeb's statement that he would still have invaded Iraq in 2003. "When an Iraq War question starts with 'Knowing what we know now,'" Stewart sighed, "'Hell yes, I'd still do it' is not an acceptable response." Short term, hugging W.'s Iraq legacy "might be appealing to a small fringe of dead-enders," he added, finishing the thought with a crude analogy, then ending with a weird aside about President Warren G. Harding and beastiality. So. Watch below. —Peter Weber
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