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."
I think that Poppa Bush was "set up" tonight by the ABC announcers asking him about his relationship with Clinton...
Remember, it was ABC that had he and Stephanoplis yesterday, when Clinton "went off" on his son.
I think they were told to push that line of questioning, hoping for a sound-bite to feed to the dems...but, Poppa Bush is too much of a politician and a gentleman...
However, if I were him...I would be calling my son right after the TV interview and telling the POTUS...it was just for the TV!!! LOL
My mother always said:
"Don't stoop to their level."
It always sounded like the right thing to do, but boy is it hard.
This is the same man who gave Teddy Kennedy an award for his "distinguished" public service. You figure it out.
I would, but I absolutely despise Bill O'Reilly!
It seems 41 is learning from his son. Feed the dog knowing he will bite you and then with everyone looking, say kind words about it and pet it.
the third one.
I am afraid that the age is catching up on him. Pity.
Compromise: Clinton, Bush and the C.I.A. Read it. Aloha!
or the clintons have something big on the Bushes (FBI FILES)....
It will be a sad day when #41 goes to the Lord. He is such a role model of class. Someone your children can look to as an example of American dignity.
What a classy man. Clinton could learn a thing or two from him.
But the mainstream media is picking up on Clinton's waffling. On AOL's homepage they have an article called, "The Two Faces of Clinton". I have also checked out some of the liberal blogs and they aren't all that enamored with Clinton either.
Yeah. But why is it that I'm disappointed he didn't give him a thrashing?
Don't make me bring out the barf picture :)
Dear Presidenr Bush 41;
Apparently Bubba doesn't like you or 43 very much!
WAKE UP!
But sooner or later they will figure out that BJ will never go away!
Bubba is coming up for the half-time interview!!!! Maybe he'll bad mouth Barbera this time.
My GOP has less of the 'Pious Wimp', and far more of the 'Crusader Warrior'.
I'd give up W.F.Buckley, George Will and G.H.W. Bush for Ann Coulter, Rush Limbaugh and Ronald Reagan any day - much more my kind of Republicans.
It was only the courageous and confrontational Freepers armed with the 'Sore Loserman' campaign that saved the 2000 elections.
The modern RINO GOP simply has no balls.
But shouldn't we turn the other cheek? - yeah, sure - of my ass!
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