Posted on 01/04/2023 9:49:35 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
In 2004, former President Bill Clinton had surgery to remove scar tissue around his lung. In the days that followed, who called him on the phone? Former President George H.W. Bush, anxious to check on him. “What do your doctors say? Are you sore? How much can you exercise? Are you using your treadmill?”
That is my favorite moment in a collection of stories that Liz Joyner and I have been calling “treasonous friendships.”
I grew up in the time and place where despising Bill and Hillary Clinton was just a rite of passage — a way of signaling you were on the right side of the culture war.
If anyone had a right to despise Bill Clinton, though, it was the man he kicked out of the White House. Yet on the day he had to leave the premises, Bush famously left a note on the desk for his successor that read in part, “You will be our president when you read this note. I wish you well. I wish your family well. Your success now is our country’s success. I am rooting hard for you. Good luck, George.”
That small act of generosity became a seed for something I find stunning. One year after that surgery, Bush and Clinton ended up on an Air Force plane flying overnight on a fundraising visit to an area in Thailand hit badly by a tsunami.
There was only one bed on the plane.
Bush remembered the moment this way: “He wouldn’t take the bedroom on the Air Force plane. I said, ‘No, come on, you go in there, and I’ll take the next leg.’” Recollecting how Clinton said, “No, no,” Bush remarked, “That means something to me. I’m older, and it was a very great courtesy.”
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It seems to me that whenever a guy on the Left and a guy on the Right become “friends” it ends up helping the guy on ther Left achieve his political aims.
I do not recall a time when hands were extended across the aisle and the result was a Leftist helping us to achieve a Conservative goal. That just doesn’t seem to be part of anyone’s equation.
Back when politics was not QUITE yet a blood sport.
But it was certainly the beginning of it.
Like when they said they were OK with Bill raping several women because his politics was ‘correct’ on abortion...
‘There is something downright revolutionary about true friendship, which Joseph Smith once described as “one of the grand fundamental principles” of the restored gospel. Such friendship, he added, was designed “to revolutionize and civilize the world, and cause wars and contentions to cease and men to become friends and brothers.” ‘
Maybe that’s why Romney is so eager to make friends with the commies.
“Two peas in a pod”
Absolutely! The 1992 general election was really a primary for the deep state. They are a treasonous friendship because both are traitors to their country.
I would have trouble calling someone who visited Epstein Island several times, friend.
I don’t need any preaching from the fraud Koseph Smith
So would I.
IMHO, dislike for the Clintons never goes out of style
No Jacob, if anyone had a right to despise the two Grifters, Bill and Hillary Clinton, it was the American taxpayers that this pair of scum ripped off for so many years.
As the commies/demoncrats and scumbag media continue to lose some of their power, expect many, many more attempts to sell "bipartisanship" and "can't we all just be friends?" articles like this one.
In our personal lives yes, people who are comfortable with themselves should be able to connect with almost anyone, and if you connect with all kinds of people alot you are going to come across that invisible attraction that friendships come from even though you have different politics or life experiences.
Confident people just don’t live brittle, fearful, neurotic lives of narrow social interaction.
“They are a treasonous friendship because both are traitors to their country.”
Brilliantly put.
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