Posted on 11/20/2013 7:30:58 AM PST by SeekAndFind
But would they drink beer together?
President Obama will award former President Bill Clinton the Medal of Freedom on Wednesday at the White House, a public display of admiration belied by the enduring tensions between the two men.
Mr. Obama will bestow the nation’s highest civilian honor on Mr. Clinton for the work during his presidency and, more recently, as head of the Clinton Global Initiative.
Fifteen other honorees will attend the ceremony in the East Room, but all eyes will be on the president and his sometime nemesis, the former president.
It will be their first face-to-face encounter since Mr. Clinton publicly encouraged a Democratic rebellion last week against a portion of Obamacare and urged Mr. Obama to make good on his promise that Americans could keep their health insurance plans. The comeuppance fueled speculation that the Clintons are starting to distance themselves from the increasingly unpopular Mr. Obama in preparation for a presidential bid by Hillary Rodham Clinton in 2016.
“The White House told me they don’t have any problem with what [Mr. Clinton] said; I also don’t believe them,” said a Democrat with ties to the West Wing. “There will always be a suspicion among Democrats that [the Clintons] are only in it for themselves.”
But an adviser in the Clinton White House, Lanny Davis, predicted that the episode last week will not mar Wednesday’s ceremony.
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Other recipients this year include:
-Former Chicago Cubs legend Ernie Banks for being, as the White House puts it, “one of the greatest baseball players of all time.
-Ben Bradlee, former executive editor at the Washington Post, who oversaw coverage of the Watergate break-in.
-Sally Ride, the first American female astronaut to travel to space. Ride died last year.
-Former Sen. Daniel Inouye of Hawaii, who died last year
—Country music star Loretta Lynn, for, “breaking barriers in an industry long dominated by men”.
- Women’s rights activist Gloria Steinem, for her leadership “in the women’s liberation movement.
Clinton received an even higher honor from the Red Chinese...
I wonder if Loretta Lynn will accept her award she is a strong Republican. Maybe she will accept so she doesn’t look lke she is a racist accepting an award from a Kenyan.
Well, if Gloria Steinem gets an award, I wonder when the other Gloria — Allred, will get hers?
I think bubba will take this opportunity to stick it to obie again.
“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it”, George Santayana
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