Posted on 01/17/2010 12:49:15 PM PST by presidio9
Presidents George W. Bush and Bill Clinton have joined President Obama to spearhead American relief to victims of Haiti’s devasting earthquake. During a Saturday interview for "Face the Nation" at the White House, the two politically opposite former President’s admitted how close a relationship they actually have.
Moderator Bob Schieffer asked both men if they consider one another good friends. “Yeah I do,” Bush replied. “Me too,” Clinton echoed.
“My mother…calls him my fourth brother,” Bush admitted. “The black sheep of the family,” Clinton joked.
President Bush admitted that on occasion he would call his predecessor while in the White House.
“I was always pleased when he called me,” Clinton said. “I’d try to make it a practice never to bother the president. I don’t call President Obama either, I don’t think it’s you know, they’ve got plenty to do. But I, we have developed a very honest, good friendship,” Clinton explained.
“We’ve made our disagreements respectful and we’ve had a good time doing it,” he added.
Politicians are such actors! The put on an act that they don’t like each other, that they disagree with each other, that they are fighting against their evil competition to keep the country safe, they have the country divided by politics and then, when no one is looking, they slap each other on the back for their performances.
sickening...like they don’t actually get the seriousness of their jobs. like immature idiot teenagers!
So were you greatly offended by what Trent Lott said about Strom Thurmond?
No. Why? Is there some similarity?
Both are insincere compliments given at times where such are traditional. Lott complimenting Thurmond at his 100th birthday party and G.W.Bush complimenting Clinton as they try to raise funds for Haiti relief.
Times like my too examples above are like toast at a wedding dinner. No one expects wedding toast to be anything but complimentary, no matter how the one offerring the toast actually feels. But it is amazing how many people in political sites claim not to understand such things. It is one thing for the race baiter to pretend that Lott was serious about Thurmond. I expect no better of the race baiters. It is another thing for people here not to understand such customs. I expect better of people here.
Like kids sharing candy. One for you, two for me, Two for you, two for me. When the media is hyping you a GOP candidate look out but most important look at what the heck they actually stand for and in Bush's case who they have stood and stand with. You can send a N.E. Liberal Rockefeller Republican to Texas to live for business reasons but he'll still teach his children to be Rockefeller Republican liberals. No more Bush.
Gosh, I just feel so badly that I "do not inderstand such customs." I'll try not to disappoint you in the future.
How did Cheney put up with him for eight years? Good luck with your memoirs, Dubya...I won't be buying your book.
Lott’s attempt was not failed nor awkward until the race baiter got ahold of it. It was a typical sometimes sincere, sometimes insincere compliment given at weddings, funerals, birthdays etc.
Bush’s attempt at complimenting Clinton was if anything more awkward as it pointed out that he does not really have a family of his own and that it would be surprising for a classy family like the Bush family to treat him as one of their own. But it is necessary when they are joining together to raise disaster relief funds.
Whether you disappoint me in the future is of no accord. Social skills are often important in peoples lives. And since this is a political board, you really need to understand in politics saying someone is your best bud may be an insincere compliment whether it is in the Senate or someone in your party or even an opponent. It may and of is meaningless when people in politics toss around a compliment.
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