Posted on 06/14/2013 9:29:29 AM PDT by drewh
What is it with Chris Christie and Democratic presidents?
First, the Republican governor from New Jersey surprised his party by embracing -- both figuratively and literally -- President Obama.
Now, Christie's headlining the closing ceremonies of Bill Clinton's annual international forum in Chicago.
Intimates of both men say the real story behind today's event is the private friendship that has developed between the ex-president and a governor who would like to be president. The two have met, traded war stories, talked on the phone, all inside the four years since Clinton campaigned hard on behalf of then-Gov. Jon Corzine, the incumbent Christie beat in 2009.
People familiar with the private conversations between the governor and the former president said this is the second time Clinton invited Christie to play a starring role at the Clinton Global Initiative in Chicago. Christie had been tentatively scheduled to attend last year but was scrubbed from the final agenda.
In other words, this particular "bromance," they said, has been going on longer than Christie's new, high-profile attachment to the latest inhabitant of the White House, Obama.
Insiders say the unlikely pair of Clinton and Christie started with Clinton's taking note of Christie's political acumen even as the ex-president was working against Christie. At the time, Clinton was crisscrossing New Jersey to aid Corzine's floundering re-election bid.
As he worked crowds across the Garden State, Clinton painted Christie, 50, as hostile toward women, the middle class and working people while he openly questioning "why are we having an election?"
Clinton, 66, insisted that the poor economy was making people think ill of Corzine, and that he needed to travel New Jersey because "It matters what the governors do, it matters what the states do," so voters needed to send Corzine back to Trenton.
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Excellent insight. I was predicting DeVal Patrick but fatboy is an even better pick for her.
Bill Clinton has no “war stories”. He’s a draft dodger.
What a fun time that must be. (Better put some ice on that lip, Chris.)
time for a new party...
you watch.. this guy is going win the nod on the repub ticket in 2016...
Chris Christy for President! Woo! Woo!
<Sorry Doughty Couldn't help myself.>
LOL: Ged ouda here... :^))^:
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