The second -- and current -- President Bush suggested today that his younger brother, Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, would make a "great president."

"I would like to see Jeb run at some point in time, but I have no idea if that's his intention or not," Bush said in an interview with Florida reporters, according to a story on the St. Petersburg Times Web site.

If that sounds familiar, the Bush brothers' father, former president George H.W. Bush, made a similar statement last year, telling CNN's Larry King that Jeb Bush would be "awfully good" as president.

"This guy's smart, big and strong. Makes the decisions," the first President Bush said then.

Great. Can he talk in complete sentences? That would be refreshing.

Jeb Bush, who cannot seek reelection after his second term as governor ends in January, has repeatedly said he will not run for president in 2008, when his brother will leave the White House.

But that hasn't stopped his father and older brother from planting the idea.

President Bush said in the interview today, at the end of a three-day trip to Florida, that he has "pushed" his brother "fairly hard about what he intends to do."

The president said: "I have no idea what he's going to do. I've asked him that question myself. I truly don't think he knows."

Well, maybe so. I doubt if Republican activists are eager to anoint Jeb as their standard-bearer in 2008.

But a fella can dream, can't he?