Posted on 01/30/2006 12:22:36 PM PST by Tulsa Ramjet
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President George W. Bush says Bill Clinton has become so close to his father that the Democratic former president is like a member of the family.
Former President George Bush has worked with Clinton to raise money for victims of the Asian tsunami and the hurricane disaster along the U.S. Gulf Coast.
Asked about his father and Clinton, Bush quipped, "Yes, he and my new brother."
"That's a good relationship. It's a fun relationship to watch," Bush said in an interview with CBS News broadcast on Sunday.
While attending Pope John Paul's funeral, Bush said, "It was fun to see the interplay between dad and Clinton. One of these days, I'll be a member of the ex-president's club. ... I'll be looking for something to do."
He said ex-presidents share rare experiences that others cannot understand. "And so I can understand why ex-presidents are able to put aside old differences," he said.
Bush said he checked in with Clinton occasionally.
"And you know, he says things that makes it obvious -- that makes it obvious to me that we're kind of, you know, on the same wavelength about the job of the presidency. Makes sense, after all, there's this kind of commonality," he said.
Bush jokingly referred to speculation that Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, the former president's wife, will seek the Democratic nomination for the presidency. He had earlier referred to the former first lady as "formidable."
"Bush, Clinton, Bush, Clinton," he said, referring to how Bill Clinton had followed his father, and Hillary Clinton could follow him.
"Bush, Clinton, Bush, Clinton"
All in the family. :D
Bush, Clinton, Bush, Clinton, Bush (Jeb).
Clintoon will suck up to anything and anybody to gain respectability that he so desperately needs to benefit his cow's political aspirations. Gotta remember that clintoon and the cow are amoral, and ethically-challenged members of the human race.
It goes back to 1989 in an education conference in VA, when then President Bush began to gush uncontrollably over having Governor Clinton at the conclave. Or maybe, it's no different from Gerald Rudolph Ford, Jr., gushing over GA Jimmy Carter.
Neil lobbied for a new brother that would make him look less shitty by comparison.
Keep your enemies close to you.
The scary thing is, they did just finish playing a game of Risk -- a real game of it, using the actual Earth.
I think you are right. Having these type of articles is an attempt to legitimize her as a politician by association. In other words, if ol' Bill is okay with the Bushes, then he and his wife must still be acceptable to others rather than the pariah they are. But other than be First Lady of Ark, and First Lady White House, and her carpet bag approach to US Senator of NY, truly what has she done?
You have to remember that while the CIA was running drugs and guns in and out of Mena, Arkansas, good old Bill was the Guv.
George H W Bush was the head of the CIA at the time.
So they probably have a relationship based on keeping each other out of jail. Alternatively it may be a keep your friends close and your enemies closer approach on the part of the two former presidents.
Lay down with dogs...
Frankly, its an embarrassment to
Nauseating.
We can only speculate....or expectorate....
LOL - I wouldn't read too much into this - although I've finished a few Risk games in my life that have indeed ended the relationship back in the real world!
"You have to remember that while the CIA was running drugs and guns in and out of Mena, Arkansas, good old Bill was the Guv.
George H W Bush was the head of the CIA at the time.
So they probably have a relationship based on keeping each other out of jail. Alternatively it may be a keep your friends close and your enemies closer approach on the part of the two former presidents."
Next thing you know, we are going to find out that Dennis Hopper has been secretly running the whole mess based on the hidden discourses written by Col. Kurtz in Apocalypse Now.
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