Obama hails 'extraordinary gathering' - Obama has lunch with 4 presidents

AP on Yahoo ^ | 1/7/09 | Ben Feller - ap

[NormsRevenge]

WASHINGTON – President-elect Barack Obama hailed a rare Oval Office gathering of all U.S. presidents as extraordinary on Wednesday, while President George W. Bush wished him well and pledged that the office "transcends the individual."

"I just want to thank the president for hosting us," the president-elect said, flanked by former President George H.W. Bush on one side and his son on the other.

Presidents Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter, both smiling broadly, stood with them.

[wagglebee]

Nixon died in the spring of 1994. So, for just over a year there were six (Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush and Clinton) living current or former presidents. As far as I know, that is the most there have ever been at one time.

I expect that we will be seeing more situations like this in the future. Clinton, GW Bush and Obama all took office at relatively young ages and I expect that this trend will become fairly normal.

[Monkey Face]

*blech*
I think I’ll be sick.

[fanfan]

[GGG ping list members, I beg your indulgence]

[Radix]

"And we wonder why our nation is in such sorry shape. Take a good look at those goobers. What a sad and telling picture."

The only one of the bunch worth anything before being elected (Bush 41) sure sold us out after he got into Office.

We are so over as a nation.

[BlueAngel]

I agree.

[puppypusher]

I'd like to tell President Bush that If I were in Washington I would Not be wishing Obama and the democrats well.Nor would I be assisting them in the destruction of my country.

I'm going to give Obama the same disrespect he and the dems gave President Bush from the day his term began.

[Miss Marple]

I believe it was John McCain and recalcitrant Republicans who got Obama elected.

Please get over the idea that George W. Bush is to blame for everything.

[668 - Neighbor of the Beast]

GHWB, still no snow on the roof. Gotta be them Yankee genes.

[668 - Neighbor of the Beast]

Gee, he looks like...Beetlejuice!

[SunkenCiv]

http://www.guyandrodd.com/galleries/images/C07.jpg

[SunkenCiv]

sidebar... a coworker asked me today if I knew what Obama’s middle name was. She hadn’t known until today. Sure am glad she got to vote.

[Cincinna]

I just loved the part where Bubba, standing with the four other Presidents, says “I really love this rug”.

One would think the less said about the infamous rug in the Oval Office, the better.

[SunkenCiv]

Discretion is the better part of valor, and he has neither. :')

[DoughtyOne]

I guess we’re not actually over until foreign troops are operating on our soil, but essentially the A.N.S.W.E.R. organization and the illegals are foreign nationals operating on our soil. ANSWER is debatable, but they aren’t pro American so I tossed them in too. And then you have the muslim element that does not like the U.S. The tip off is that they hate Israel with a passion. When someone does that, they hate the great Satan the U.S. for backing it.

We are in a world of hurt right now.

[barker]

Clips on Fox showed W with his back slightly toward “That Won???” most of the time.

[Vermont Lt]

This morning on F&F Kilmeade was saying something like a “recent poll showed that 64% of Americans thought Carter was a good president.” Gretchen says, without thinking. “Were these people alive then?”

You get the most honest statements when they are completely unscripted.

[Cheetahcat]

Please get over the idea that George W. Bush is to blame for everything.

Wake up! Go ask that pantOload why he pissed off the core with his Stand on immigration/Sutton/Fence/Islam/Bremer/Spending Plus hiding his head in the sand instead of defending his position VIA the media (we are not mind readers) which let the Rats take the House in 06

[Polarik]

[Polarik]

[editor-surveyor]

O’bummer’s excellent adventure.