"He's got a very, very high problem to overcome: He's got a record of success."

As presidential talk steadily grows around him, a fundamental question lingers over Jeb Bush: Does he, as probable rival Chris Christie recently said, have the "fire in the belly to do this?"

Two appearances last week in starkly different settings — a black-tie dinner Monday in Manhattan and a commencement address Saturday at the Christian college that bears this town's name — suggest that the former Florida governor is summoning the energy and exposing his strengths and weaknesses for a 2016 campaign.

Read more at the Tampa Bay Times.