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."
One wishes he had the same pair of cojones to fight against the Democrats on Capitol Hill that he had when he was fighting against the Japanese in the Pacific theater.
Sorry, but I'm going to leave you boys to your macho club. I'm going to find some grown ups to talk to, KAY??
Feel free to grunt and spit, and scream obscenities......
Back in '52, I once spit a rock clean bounced off the moon and landed in grandma's pickle jar.
/GHWB style of 'class'
Lying is NOT class.
I'm sure GHWB would be happy to let Bill Clinton visit with one of his granddaughters.
Keep your friends close and your enemies closer?
....he was trying to, he even told one of them to get back to his job!
I do believe this was not the time and place to trash Clinton.
I still hate Clinton.
I would pay $100 to hear her uncensored comments.
BRAVO SIERRA -- you don't have a clue but once again some of you are out to defame an honorable man because he doesn't get down in the gutter with Clinton!
Imagine Ann Coulter or Rush Limbaugh reacting like GHWB?
Not a chance.
There are two GOP's today.
One, obsolete, wimpy and fading into oblivion, championed by GHWB.
The other that will eventually have to be to be elected to rid the world of Islamofascism, and Liberals - the Enemy Within.
Very well stated! Could care less what Clinton has to say except that his ravings once again remind everyone of his "I did not have sex with ..." or what is the meaning of "is" -- heard both of those a lot today. Let Clinton keep talking and the Bush's hold their fire.
Will take class over the gutter anyday as will most people!
Clinton is tanking Hillary's chances everytime he goes on a rampage. Some folks on here don't have a clue!
And still jumping out of planes. Wuss? I don't think so.
This incident was the climax of a disgusting public display of affection between the Bush family and Judas Clinton.
Deservingly so, the Bush family was betrayed, and while the deer in the headlights response by GHWB was understandable given his history and character, it also underscored the incredible naivety of the Bushes.
Fool me once, shame on you.
Fool me twice, shame on me.
Fool me repeatedly like a sack of hammers, shame on the Bush family.
I heard two people, Howard Fineman and some Newsweek editor, on Imus this morning each letting it rip with the Bush bashing. Imus was coaxing them, and I at first thought he was just seeing how far he could get them to go in agreeing with him.
The Newsweek person said that Clinton is actually helping rehabilite the reputation of George H.W. Bush by pointing out what a loser W. is as president. He said that this is all great for the senior Bush because now he's seen as a better president than is son because he wasn't stupid enough to invade Iraq and was seen as a good manager. I'm paraphrasing, but that was the gist. Fineman said of Clinton's breaking with precedent that that is just how younger former presidents act and said that Teddy R. treated Taft similarly. No big deal.
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