Posted on 11/05/2007 4:05:06 PM PST by no dems
Former President George H.W. Bush says the post-White House friendship he has nurtured with the man who turned him out of office won't make him go any easier on his successor's wife, Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton.
Bush and former President Clinton in recent years have worked together on numerous charitable causes, including jointly raising money for victims of the Indonesian tsunami in late 2004 and Hurricane Katrina in 2005.
"And I might say I've enjoyed playing golf with the guy," Bush said.
But none of that will make him hold his tongue against Hillary Clinton, who leads the Democratic presidential nomination race.
"I'm enough older that he has treated me with great deference and I would say friendship. And so there is a friendship there," Bush said of former President Clinton in a taped interview broadcast on "Fox News Sunday."
"But just as he's not going to tiptoe about his differences with the president, I wouldn't tiptoe with my differences with Hillary," Bush said. "But I don't plan to be all involved in this."
Bush also was asked to explain the country's attachment to the Bushes and Clintons. A Bush or Clinton has been on the ballot in every presidential contest since 1980; Bush's son, George W., is finishing his second term as president.
"Well, I don't know that it's an attachment to families. I think it's being in the right place politically at a certain time," the elder Bush said.
He said the American people have a way of sorting these things out.
"They go to caucuses or go to the primaries and just work, grind your way up the — to whatever lies ahead, and that's what's happened. There hasn't been any anointing in the process," he said.
The former president also said he's not as sure as he once was that Hillary Clinton will win the Democratic nomination.
"In her own party there seems to be more willingness to take her on and to argue about stuff," he said. "But she's a formidable opponent and she's done very well, in my view. Now would I be for her? No."
He declined to say which Republican presidential candidate he is for.
Awww, I guess we have to take pity on senility.
my best guess is that even Bill is very afraid.
As Reagan The Great would say of his once-VP, ‘George, there you go again.’
Add Dole to the mix and you can go back to 1976.
Why doesn’t he just keep his mouth closed.
You want the Truth? My Gut of Gut’s tells me that Bill want’s Hillary to Lose, and Lose Badly. They are a competitive team, and lets face it Bill is the Cool One.....
George W. needs to come out and endorse Hillary every few weeks. It will not only freak out the moonbat Left but leave others staring at his negatives and wondering how much his endorsement might hurt her.
It would be Rovian brilliance.
I like Barbara, but not George.
could be payback for years of misery.
No Question, and I don’t Claim to know the man, I just feel I know the man, Dig ?
I don’t much care for Bill, Hillary or GHWB. At least 41 wasn’t a crook. Policy wise he lost me resigned from the NRA.
wow! so this is what we’ve come to. we feel his pain. where’s the koolaid?
Huh?
Bush Sr. Another globalist. Yawn.
I met Bill Clinton back in 1994. As much as I despised everything he stood for, I have to admit he was a very charming guy. He gave you the impression that you were the only person in the world that he wanted to talk to right now.
Except for 1964, a Nixon, Dole or Bush has been on every Republican presidential ticket since 1952.
[I met Bill Clinton back in 1994. As much as I despised everything he stood for, I have to admit he was a very charming guy.]
I live in the Arizona desert. We have rattlesnakes. I can’t tell a rattler from bill!
He likes snails, not broccoli. Figures. Ronalds one true, everlasting mistake, the Bush curse.
LLS
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