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Posted on 03/06/2005 4:05:40 PM PST by Jean S
NEW YORK - On their tour of tsunami damage in Southeast Asia, former President Bill Clinton (news - web sites) once allowed his predecessor, former President George H.W. Bush, to sleep on the plane's only bed while he stretched out on the floor.
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The government plane in which the presidents toured the disaster area had one large bedroom and another room with tables and seats, according to an interview with Bush in this week's Newsweek.
Bush, 80, said Clinton offered ahead of time to give the older former president the bedroom so he could lie flat and avoid paining his body. Clinton, 58, decided to play cards in the other room that night.
The next morning, Bush said he peeked in and saw Clinton sound asleep on the plane's floor.
"We could have switched places, each getting half a night on the bed, but he deferred to me. That was a very courteous thing, very thoughtful, and that meant a great deal to me," Bush said.
Bush said he and Clinton are not close, but have been compatible on the tour, partly because Clinton respects his age.
The March 14 issue of Newsweek hits newsstands Monday.
I assume that whoever goofed on prior seating arrangements certainly expected that the older man would get it anyway.
I wouldn't give credit for ANYTHING to Klintoon. He can use any situation and some rain to turn himself into Sir Walter Raleigh.
Leni
I heard his wife sleeps in a coffin.
The real reason was that the bed wasn't big enough to sneak a stewardess in.
A decent act is a decent act, no matter who does it. I was going to make a joke about how dogs are supposed to sleep on the floor, but decided to restrain myself.
Oh come on....
My Father is 82. I am 56.
It would never cross my mind or any normal person's as to who gets to sleep in the only bed.
You can look far and wide and it is unlikely you will find anyone who despises Bill Clinton like *I* despise Bill Clinton, but I will say 'that was decent of Clinton'.
Now having said that, I cannot believe it myself when I say it, but it would not surprise me if at some future point, Bill Clinton were to have another 'experience' like his near death event when he was hospitalized, except this time he might just have his own Damascus-road experience, realize the enormity of the things he has done (and did not do), and completely repent of his past deeds, actually CONFESS the wrongs he did, and that will be the straw that breaks the camel's back of Hillary and Bill staying together for the sake of political (and legal) expediency.
God has a way of using people who appear to be thoroughly wicked, just ask Saul (aka 'Paul') of the New Testament.
Wouldn't that be something?
Wow. He moved up "one click" on my scale of what it takes to be a human.
Time Begins----Pond Scum-Bill Clinton---Other Species & Stuff----Walking Upright----Lucy----Today's Homosapien----All Future Discovered and Confirmed Alien Lifeforms----My Soul in Heaven----Time Ends
Well, at least it's not the sofa again.
Klinton was in the plane's washroom bopping the ....., oh, never mind. We all know.
LOL! I stand corrected.
From what I can tell it wasn't Clinton blabbering about it.
Keep in mind just because he's a self-centered jerk it doesn't mean he can't do an act of kindness.
It is a truly nice story. It really is. The problem here is that it isn't a story. What it really is is the MSM continuing to salivate over Bill Clinton. The liberals complain that we won't move on and quit picking on him, but here they are again dedicating an entire article to what should have at best been a little blurb in another article.
However, he also must have known what the headline would have been had he NOT done this.
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