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Bush says 2008 race wide open, Clinton 'formidable'
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| 1-27-06
Posted on 01/27/2006 6:12:43 PM PST by Indy Pendance
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President George W. Bush said on Friday the race for the White House in 2008 was wide open and called potential Democratic candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton "formidable."
"This is an unusual year because this is the first time there hasn't been a kind of natural successor in the party," Bush said in an interview with CBS News. His vice president, Dick Cheney, has ruled out a run for the top job.
Told that Clinton, a former first lady and current New York senator, seemed to be running pretty hard for the Democratic nomination, Bush replied, "She's formidable."
The president said it was "hard to tell" who the leading Republican candidates might be.
"The minute I start speculating, you'd make all kinds of news with it, and it would interject me in the race. ... Two wide-open primaries with no sitting vice president running in either primary, so this is -- I can't remember a time when it's been this open."
Bush said the presidency had not changed his priorities and he highly recommended the job.
"I will tell you, if given a chance to do it again, I would have said, 'You bet.' It's been a fantastic experience."
His biggest disappointment?
"The bitterness in Washington, D.C. ... the tone in Washington."
TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bush43; hillary2008
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To: Graymatter
As I was reading through all the Constitutional Amendments out there, I found another one.
H. J. RES. 9
As a side note, some of the bills that get submitted are totally off the wall like "Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States respecting the right to decent, safe, sanitary, and affordable housing."
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posted on
01/27/2006 7:28:14 PM PST
by
COEXERJ145
(Despite Popular Opinion, Tom Tancredo Does Not Support Deporting Illegal Aliens.)
To: Indy Pendance
"This is an unusual year because this is the first time there hasn't been a kind of natural successor in the party," Bush said in an interview with CBS News.Hey, George... call your brother in Florida...
To: COEXERJ145
Hey,in the dem's world that isn't such an off the wall resolution...
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posted on
01/27/2006 7:38:08 PM PST
by
Txsleuth
To: Indy Pendance
"This is an unusual year because this is the first time there hasn't been a kind of natural successor in the party," Bush said in an interview with CBS News. His vice president, Dick Cheney, has ruled out a run for the top job."If the Prez and GOP had half a brain, they'd replace VP Cheney NOW with a viable replacement and groom him/her (NO, not Condi) for the run in 2008.
To: Txsleuth
Hey,in the dem's world that isn't such an off the wall resolution... That particular bill (and most of the other moonbat amendments) was written by Jesse Jackson Jr.
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posted on
01/27/2006 7:43:15 PM PST
by
COEXERJ145
(Despite Popular Opinion, Tom Tancredo Does Not Support Deporting Illegal Aliens.)
To: Howlin
Who, me?
To: Howlin
Belieze? If so, its Central America with islands and mainland.
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posted on
01/27/2006 7:57:34 PM PST
by
Raycpa
To: COEXERJ145
"Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States respecting the right to decent, safe, sanitary, and affordable housing."You are against decent, safe, sanitary and affordable housing? You want indecent, unsafe unsanitary and unaffordable housing?
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posted on
01/27/2006 7:59:47 PM PST
by
Raycpa
To: COEXERJ145
Oh...yeah...chip off the old man's back.
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posted on
01/27/2006 8:02:51 PM PST
by
Txsleuth
To: Txsleuth
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posted on
01/27/2006 8:05:37 PM PST
by
Txsleuth
To: F16Fighter
If the Prez and GOP had half a brain, they'd replace VP Cheney NOW No it's a little to early. One day after the half way point in W's 2nd term VP Cheney will resign citing health reasons thus making room for 44's next promotion.
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posted on
01/27/2006 8:12:21 PM PST
by
ASA Vet
(Those who know don't talk, those who talk don't know.)
To: ASA Vet
"It's a little to early. One day after the half way point in W's 2nd term VP Cheney will resign citing health reasons thus making room for 44's next promotion."You may be right -- although I HOPE it's not Condi.
To: All
I hope it IS Condi. The democrats will go crazy if the first minority woman VP is a REPUBLICAN!
Go Condi! Go!
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posted on
01/27/2006 8:34:25 PM PST
by
ClarenceThomasfan
(It's like a plantation - and you know what I mean!)
To: COEXERJ145
"Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States respecting the right to decent, safe, sanitary, and affordable housing."That sounds like the residents of a FEMA camp near Baton Rouge who demonstrated today saying "Let us have everything free for 18 months." They were upset because they were going to have to begin paying for their own propane gas for their free trailers which include free electricity, free water, free sewage.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1566614/posts
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posted on
01/27/2006 8:46:03 PM PST
by
daybreakcoming
(May God bless those who enter the valley of the shadow of death so that we may see the light of day.)
To: Indy Pendance
This is an unusual year because this is the first time there hasn't been a kind of natural successor in the party," Bush said in an interview with CBS News.
2004 incumbent Bush
2000 VP Gore
1996 incumbent Clinton
1992 incumbent Bush
1988 VP Bush
1984 incumbent Reagan
1980 incumbent Carter
1976 incumbent Ford
1972 incumbent Nixon
1968 VP Humphrey
1964 incumbent Johnson
1960 VP Nixon
1956 incumbent Eisenhower
1952 neither incumbent nor VP
That's as far back as I can remember. Can anyone carry this further back?
To: The people have spoken
I think the point was, the presiding VP ran for presidential office. Cheney isn't planning on running.
To: Indy Pendance
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posted on
01/27/2006 8:53:11 PM PST
by
MrEdd
To: Indy Pendance
Agreed. My point was that this hasn't happened since 1952.
To: dubyaismypresident
Hey lurking DUmmies, did you hear that, W is going to run again...He could. According to their convuluted thinking, this is the start of his first term. Afterall, Algore won in 2000.
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posted on
01/27/2006 11:34:20 PM PST
by
BigSkyFreeper
(Proud to be a cotton-pickin' Republican on the GOP Plantation)
To: Graymatter
Lets make those Dem heads explode, with a bill to repeal Amendment XXII. I don't think the President really wants a third term, but it'd be fun to watch them freak.Bill Clinton suggested that shortly after Bush was sworn in in 2001.
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posted on
01/27/2006 11:39:22 PM PST
by
BigSkyFreeper
(Proud to be a cotton-pickin' Republican on the GOP Plantation)
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