President Bush Supports Hillary Clinton?

Townhall.com ^ | November 23, 2007 | Dick Morris & Eileen McGann

[libstripper]

Just when every poll has Hillary slipping, she has gotten a shot in the arm from a very unlikely source: President George W. Bush.

In an interview on Tuesday featuring the first couple and Charles Gibson, the president said of Mrs. Clinton "No question, there is no question that Sen. Clinton understands pressure better than any of the candidates, you know, in the race because she lived in the White House and sees it first — could see it first-hand."

By saying that she “understands the klieg lights,” Bush lent credence to Hillary’s campaign assertion that she could “hit the ground running” if she were elected president.

Would somebody please explain to us what Bush is doing, touting Hillary just as the rest of America is finally catching on to her artificial, evasive and contrived campaigning style?

[libstripper]

M & M do a really good job here of describing the pernicious and politically unnatural relationship between the Bushes and Clintons. However, they don't try to explain where it most likely came from: the nefarious activities that apparently occurred in and around Mena, Arkansas in the late 80s when the CIA was running guns to Central America, apparently in return for allowing the Clintons and their accomplices to run cocaine into the U.S. An extensive account of this appeared in the Opinion Journal. Here's the link; start reading with the 1985 entries and go on:

http://www.opinionjournal.com/extra/?id=110003549

[Types_with_Fist]

Bush needs to stop helping us.

[2ndDivisionVet]

Bush, Clinton, Bush, Clinton....does this remind anyone else here of a banana republic? There has been a Bush or a Clinton in the White House since January of 1981(including Vice President George H.W. Bush from 1981-89). What gives?

[Just mythoughts]

In an interview on Tuesday featuring the first couple and Charles Gibson, the president said of Mrs. Clinton "No question, there is no question that Sen. Clinton understands pressure better than any of the candidates, you know, in the race because she lived in the White House and sees it first — could see it first-hand."

I do not read this as a particular compliment, considering that Hillry has hidden away her co-president papers from the public view... I think there is a reason why President Bush would say sees it first.

[peyton randolph]

she has gotten a shot in the arm from a very unlikely source: President George W. Bush.

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Must have convinced him that she was the only open borders/shamnesty candidate.

 

[Always Right]

Bush is just stating the obvious. Of course Hillary understands the pressure, she was in the middle of so much of it. From bimbo-gate, to FBI files, to Craig Livingstone, to Hillary-care, to Whitewater, Hillary was smack in the middle.

[pnh102]

" ... is no question that Sen. Clinton understands pressure better than any of the candidates ... "

I think this article title is quite a stretch. How do you go from what President Bush said above and reach the conclusion that Bush supports Mrs. Bill Clinton? Wouldn't Bush just say "I think Mrs. Bill Clinton is the best candidate" or something to that effect?

[Types_with_Fist]

I think this article title is quite a stretch.

Sure, the title is a stretch. That's a given. What's disturbing is Bush's affection for the Clintons.

[Katya]

Bush’s quasi endorsement....does nothing to help Hillary in the primaries, where democratic whack job voters cringe at the thought of supporting anything Bush does.
Could be the GOP is cautious about undermining Hillary too much, for fear Obama has a chance.

[Waco]

Spareno expense in making her the next mucka-de-muck of Iran! That’ll learn em!

[Diogenesis]

What's disturbing is Bush's affection for the Clintons.

Affection? or something else?

[Dr. Scarpetta]

“This is not the first time Bush has rescued the Clintons. After they left the White House, both the former president and the new senator had low ratings in the polls.”

“But, Bush swept in for the rescue, picking the former president off the ash heap of history and elevating him to parity with his father in a two-former-president effort t o raise funds for the tsunami victims. By giving him a respected place alongside a former president of unquestioned integrity, Bush gave Clinton a tremendous way to climb out of disgrace and into the limelight.”
*****

Some good points in this article.

[jmaroneps37]

W knows the beast will be a problem for the rat. ITT will hurt down ballot where it counts as much as winning the top slot.

[Virginia Ridgerunner]

I’d like to see Karl Rove render his support to Hillary and watch the Kos crowd explode.

[Guenevere]

bttt

[Sacajaweau]

I see the President's statement as a sarcastic implication of the dirt that was under the rug when the Clinton's left the whitehouse in it's blackened state.

Never in the history of our country has "my house and yours" been so defiled.

[LegendHasIt]

Almost enough to make one believe that there IS a Bush-Clinton-Bush-Clinton conspiracy...
Especially given how Bush the Elder has adopted Bill Clinton as a son... (Billary is probably his second or third favorite son now, Definitely ahead of Neil, Maybe even ahead of G.W.)

But it IS a basically true statement about Hellary: There is tremendous pressure in:
Being the head of an Organized Crime syndicate,
Being a spy for Communist China,
Being an undercover Marxist operative,
Being a U.S. Senator
And running for President all at the same time.

I doubt I could handle the pressure of even one of those endeavors, much less all of them at once.

[incindiary]

I would say both. More people should read the book, 'Compromised' by Terry Reed.

And speaking of friendly relationships...>><< kinda funny and disturbing at the same time.

[woofie]

Actually a Bush endorsement may be the kiss of death for any candidate (as far as the moonbats are concerned)

[Ben Ficklin]

"Bush, Clinton, Bush, Clinton"

Moderate, Moderate, Moderate, Moderate.

One thing that far right and the far left have in common is their inability to discern the difference between the third way and compassionate conservatism.