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."
Clinton is scum and there is no reason to get into the gutter with Clinton
So you would allow a pervert and a scumbag to lie about your son or daughter and not say or do something about it?
There's little doubt.
Please don't! I'm off to watch football. Who did you pick for tonight?
People watch Monday Night Football on ABC.
I know what Barbara Sr think it not good LOL!
Pinging Daily dosers
I think it's a pretty lame tradition, however old it is (which I don't know). Why shouldn't it be okay for an ex-president to criticize something he thinks deserves criticizing? I don't see any rational reason for it other than stupid old boy clubbism.
Giants and Redskins, no wagering on either, just the office pool.
Nobody's asking him to get down in the gutter, but there's nothing shabby about calling evil what it is.
Enough nobility, let's hear some righteous wrath.
I would have to agree with you. Clinton said some pretty harsh things about her husband and she has a long memory. Sort of like GW!!!
That's it - be a freakin' man!
Clinton has no tact, no shame, no class, no ethics and Bush41 is a gentleman.
Sorry - in this case I would say Bush is an idiot - or a liar! either way is NOT being classy.
You do not show manners by lying about a person - you either simply ignore the question or answer it in a manner that leaves the answer unecessary.
THAT is class!
Clinton is CRASS!
Couldn't he have said he's a likeable liar?
All due respect to W's dad, I think he should cut BJ loose like the venerial wart he really is. Eph the horse $h!+ political unity for a so called higher good. It isnt working and most people dont buy into it anymore. It worked for the tsunami relief but real Americans see the Katrina mess for what it really is.
What FBI files do you guys keep talking about?? links?
He could have said "he's got a good face - both of them".
He respects the PRESIDENCY. That's what decent men do.
The only thing necessary for evil to triumph, is that good men do nothing.
He's not even doing a simple nothing, but speaking up for the liar who is trashing his son---and President.
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