Posted on 08/31/2010 10:33:44 AM PDT by STARWISE
President Barack Obama called former President George W. Bush Tuesday hours before he was set to deliver an Oval Office speech on the drawdown of U.S. troops from Iraq, the White House said.
Obama made the call aboard Air Force One on his way to Ft. Bliss, Tex., where he will visit U.S. troops.
White House Deputy Press Secretary Bill Burton said the “private” call lasted “a few minutes,” but declined to give further detail.
Obama telephoned Bush in February 2009 before announcing his plans for withdrawing troops from Iraq.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
oops! ;*)
‘..had zero called Cheney.
THAT’S the call I would want to be a fly on the wall for!!!’
LOL!! Yep, me too!
Thanks for the mid-afternoon smile!
Ohioans, usually level headed, are obviously getting their senses back after a disastrous moment of insanity in 2008.
(But who in the world are those 3% of Republicans who say Obama's preferable?? They gotta be leftists lying about their party, don't they?).
Just like Clinton calling on Nixon, that time and asking for his advice---the very man he and his wife worked tirelessly to impeach. So sad. I pity these people for having no moral compass and then trying to take others down with them... Oh...and birds of a feather...their little flocks fly together
Thanks for the pics, Starwise! Yes, our troops always had huge smiles and pushed forward to shake hands with President Bush.
Mr. Obama probably called President Bush to ask what to say about Iraq. President Bush has such class, I’m sure he was gracious to the man who takes every opportunity to critcize the past Administration.
My pleasure .. ;)
Just went back to the article .. it was from Kos’s pollster .. LOL.
“A new GOP-boosting blockbuster from Rasmussen? Not quite: This comes from Kos’s new pollster, PPP.
The Bushitler over the Lightworker in the paradigm midwestern swing state — by eight points.
On a gut level, that strikes me as more amazing than even yesterday’s Gallup blockbuster.”
9http://hotair.com/archives/2010/08/30/gallup-gop-takes-unprecedented-10-point-lead-on-generic-ballot/)
http://hotair.com/archives/2010/08/31/ohio-bush-50-obama-42/
Apparently you’re a bushbot. I’m sorry.
And remembering that W is a stammering fool and can’t say one sentence without hemming and hawing and sucked up the the dems (I’m PROUD to be the first president to say ‘Madam Speaker.’”)has nothing to do with being political astute. Nothing funny about it either. It’s simply remembering recent history.
Oh, and another piece of recent history “I appointed a democrat treasury secretary ‘cause I want to be a uniter and not a divider and he tells me we need to spend $750 Billion dollars bailing out his friends. So, I’m all for it.” Nothing funny about that either.
I hope Obama gives our President the credit he deserves and congratulates him for a job well-done.
In every live setting, he was articulate and well versed on whatever subject he was speaking about.
If you had ever heard him at a Town Hall meeting, you would realize how intelligent and articulate he was (no notes, totally off the cuff).
So you see, you don't "remember" that he was a "stammering fool." You just reveal yourself to have been brainwashed into thinking that by the left.
I guess us "bushbots" are just more well informed than the sheeple who swallow leftist lies, eh?
The truth always wins out, Terry.
Bush was many things....but he isn't a fool.
The guy in the WH currently can run rings around Bush....as a stammering fool.
You are wrong.
That's gonna leave a mark. :)
Post #55
You must just LOVE and worship at the feet of
the ‘eloquent’ Barack Hussein Obama, eh?
Yes .. reference: BDS and PRIORITIES & PERSPECTIVE, #55
“It also means that as we transition in Iraq, that the one thing I will insist upon for however long I remain President of the United States is that we serve you and your families as well as you served us.”
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Strange. He could have simply said, “It also means that as we transition in Iraq, that the one thing I will insist upon (as) President of the United States is that we serve you and your families as well as you served us.”
Poor script or cryptic message? IMO, his words are carefully measured and intentionally obscure, (though, not to the muslim world). What happens when he is king of the world?
Exactly and that will be the MSM spin
has gotten so bad around here, I don't hang out like I once did.
Generally, I just picture President Bush in my mind's eye and move on when they pour out all their venom on him ...
It is good to see you, Wolfstar. I've been thinking about you a lot lately -- what with the 5th anniversary of Katrina and all -- and the wonderful date/time stamped pictorial guide to Katrina you produced. It disproved EVERYTHING the mediots, and their sycophants were blabbering about at the time.
... so very much!
The Iraqi's thank President George W. Bush ...
...and so do I! 
And of course, as always ........ 
Awwww, poor baby. You can't take the same kind of invective that you spew toward GWB when it's turned around on you. Tsk, tsk, tsk.
There was I time I resented the "bushbot" epithet, for obvious reasons. It is intended to shut up anyone who disagrees with you -- a tactic, I might add, that is a favorite of the Left. Come up with some label (bushbot, racist, homophobe, whatever), attach a negative connotation to it, and hurl it around at anyone who isn't 100% on your page. These days, with a bona fide avowed Marxist in the presidency to compare and contrast, I'm damned proud to be called a "bushbot."
As for you being old enough to remember Ronald Reagan, whoop-de-do. You and how many millions of others. *rolls eyes*
I remember Ronald Reagan also. The real man, not the phony caricature too many on the Right have created -- a caricature, as I said earlier, that RWR would neither recognize nor appreciate.
President Reagan was a warm, kind, humorous man who had a keen understanding of politics and the American political spectrum. He was, indeed, a truly great man. However, if he were alive and in office today, people of your stripe would use the internet to skewer him just as viciously as you did GWB. Why? Because, as governor of California, he raised taxes, signed a bill legalizing abortion in the state, and believed that blacks and Latinos were not being treated equally in the state hiring system. He greatly increased hiring of those minority groups in the state government.
You can read the man's own words here at RonaldReagan.com. The site has extensive passages from President Reagan's autobiography.
As president, Reagan signed the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986, still the only true illegal immigration amnesty in the nation's history. What is little known or remembered by conservatives today is that President Reagan asked the Congress to pass such legislation in 1981, not long after his first inaugural. Here's what he said at the siging ceremony:
In 1981 this administration asked the Congress to pass a comprehensive legislative package, including employer sanctions, other measures to increase enforcement of the immigration laws, and legalization. The act provides these three essential components. The employer sanctions program is the keystone and major element. It will remove the incentive for illegal immigration by eliminating the job opportunities which draw illegal aliens here. We have consistently supported a legalization program which is both generous to the alien and fair to the countless thousands of people throughout the world who seek legally to come to America. The legalization provisions in this act will go far to improve the lives of a class of individuals who now must hide in the shadows, without access to many of the benefits of a free and open society. Very soon many of these men and women will be able to step into the sunlight and, ultimately, if they choose, they may become Americans.
Those are very nearly the identical terms President George W. Bush used in his proposals regarding illegal immigration.
In one way, GWB was truly greater and more courageous than RWR. When the Marine barracks were bombed, Reagan turned tail and ran from Lebanon. GWB never turned tail, but instead took the fight to our enemies in radical Islam. I, for one, will always be proud to have supported both RWR and GWB, but, to be honest, I'm more proud of GWB. His was the hardest road any U.S. president has had to face since FDR, in some ways, since the Madison administration. GWB did it with class, courage, fortitude, decency and true leadership.
In addition, the man you mock as being unable to speak coherent sentences sure gave some mighty fine speaches when it counted most. My absolute favoriate GWB quote comes from his First Inaugural:
After the Declaration of Independence was signed, Virginia statesman John Page wrote to Thomas Jefferson: “We know the race is not to the swift nor the battle to the strong. Do you not think an angel rides in the whirlwind and directs this storm?”Much time has passed since Jefferson arrived for his inauguration. The years and changes accumulate. But the themes of this day he would know: our nation’s grand story of courage and its simple dream of dignity.
We are not this story’s author, who fills time and eternity with his purpose. Yet his purpose is achieved in our duty, and our duty is fulfilled in service to one another.
Never tiring, never yielding, never finishing, we renew that purpose today, to make our country more just and generous, to affirm the dignity of our lives and every life.
This work continues. This story goes on. And an angel still rides in the whirlwind and directs this storm.
I am not ashamed to say I love and honor President George W. Bush. Perhaps I am the last person standing to say so, and perhaps I'll be mocked by small ones such as you for it, but so be it.
Hi Justa. I don’t hang out here much anymore for the same reason. I just got so tired of all the whiny, bitter, closed-minded types who have dominated FR for too long now.
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