Posted on 09/19/2005 6:33:57 PM PDT by wagglebee
Thirty-six hours after ex-president Bill Clinton bashed and trashed his son on everything from his handling of the Hurricane Katrina crisis to the Iraq war, former president George H.W. Bush says he still likes Clinton.
Appearing during commercial breaks on ABC's "Monday Night Football," the president's father was asked how he and Clinton managed to get along.
"I like him," Bush 41 said, despite the verbal thrashing Clinton administered to his son on ABC's "This Week" the day before.
Given two more opportunities to comment on his relationship with Clinton, Bush Sr. declined to say a single negative word about his successor.
Mr. Clinton, on the other hand, demonstrated no such graciousness when asked on Sunday about the Bush administration's response to Hurricane Katrina.
"You can't have an emergency plan that works if it only affects middle class people and up," Clinton told ABC's "This Week."
He said the allegedly slow federal response disproportionately affected African Americans and was caused by the Bush tax cuts.
"This is a matter of public policy," Clinton told his former communications director, George Stephanopoulos. "And whether it's race-based or not, if you give your tax cuts to the rich and hope everything works out all right, poverty goes up and it disproportionately affects black and brown people."
Carter broke it first!!
Read my lips 41. You have the right to remain silent.
He just knows better than to get into the mud with a jerk who's clearly not worth the bother.
He knows how the game is played too. You guys' opinion of this man is WAY below reality.
Leadership is defined by taking people where they want to go.
Everyone, you admit, wants to throttle the Clintons, by exposing them to the truth.
NOT ONE ELECTED GOP of any level of authority will do it.
Are they all civil, sophisticated and pure?
Or all just pure wimps?
I want a GOP president with the courage to lead.
I don't know, I don't think I could still profess to "like" or be "friends" with someone who is actively trashing my son day after day. Oh well, that's just me.
Yeah true. I just don't have a clue why those two are hanging around each other so much though...all chummy. It's disgusting, surely GHWB doesn't share the same set of morals as Bubba...you know the saying "birds of a feather"...something is up.
"I am afraid that the age is catching up on him. Pity."
On looking back, I realized that my mom was afflicted with Alzheimers long before we recognized it. Could it be? That's the only explanation I have that 41 would "still like Clinton." Ugh!
;)
Yep. Don't wrestle with a hog. You'll both end up dirty and he will enjoy himself.
Tell us, at what point G.H.W.B. would react?
If my colleague insulted my son, the President, on national T.V., by spouting lies and vitriol, it would be past time to dispense with civility, and either shut the f up, or say something truthful.
"I like him" is not the response of a real man.
I repeat...........most of you armchair macho men don't reach the buckle of GHW's belt when it comes to courage.
You could make your point by saying you wished he would say more, but to say he is not a 'real man' makes a joke out of everything you say.
And puts you in complete agreement with Time Magazine in 1992.......they called him a 'wimp' too, and they were just as wrong as you are.
But at least they were leftists, and doing what is expected. You're supposed to have more sense than that.
Exactly.
Someone else said it on this thread:
Encapsulated in this one incident is everything one needs to know about why G.W.H.Bush served a single term.
I suppose anyone who disagrees with that assessment is getting into the mud, even if they don't use words like "chump" and "enabler." Apt though they be.
Liars should not be endorsed, and that's what former Pres. Bush did for Clinton.
Woe unto them that call evil good.
In spite of four years of reading this nonsense, I still expect more from freepers. Guess I'm just a hopeless optimist, eh?
WTF are we supposed to do? Go out there every F***** day and pretend these things never happened? All for the nickel and dime people who come out with this F****** kind of stuff? Rip that MF! Rip that country C-S like he does us!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Excuse me. For a moment there I thought I was Lee Elia. Please don't tell me you are also a Chicago Cubs fan.
I have the sense to know why the GOP sat on the sidelines for 8 years while Judas Clinton sold out America.
Making nice with an enemy sworn to your destruction is like embracing Islamofacism.
Turn the other cheek? Not with my children, Ohio.
Thanks for the histrionics here, but GHW didn't do any such thing.
I'm obviously not going to get you out of your frenzy, however, with the facts, so I'm going to leave you to your emotions.....
Ooo. I've been called an "extremist" because (gasp) I wouldn't give the time of day to a maggot like Billy Boy.
If that's being an "extremist," sign me the hell up.
Sr. doesn't have to say a negative word about Clinton, but he also doesn't have to parade himself all over the place with this POS. It's sickening. Let's be honest here. If these 2 men had done their job(Iraq/OBL)-W wouldn't be dealing with this crap now.
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