Posted on 01/29/2006 12:48:43 PM PST by notes2005
Well based on your definitions your entire life will be lived under liberal Presidents and liberal Congresses. Have a nice day.
This is nothing but a political ploy to draw the Bushes close to them. Clinton will use this to demonstrate they're not socialists, and to put RINOs at ease. It will split the GOP base and demoralize it.
this is a case of peeing in the gene pool if I ever saw one....
He WAS about to give amnesty to illegals in August 2001; it seemed to be a priority.
Who is playing who, though?
IT ISN'T FUNNY, IT'S JUST PLAIN TERRIBLE. AND YES, I AM YELLING.
Did you ever think there was a "dime's worth ..." ? They're the Ruling Class. They're better than us.
Do you think Steve Forbes, Alan Keyes or Pat Buchanan ever get invited to Kennebunkport?
So,
~go Hillary! Go, go, Hillary, go far, far away, Hillary, go!~
Nice sentiment, but I don't think so.
Before the '92 elections I saw an interview with GHW Bush and Katie Couric.
The old man said, You may not believe this, Katie, but I really do like Bill Clinton.
Katie, (with a smile) Really?
That was enough to make me barf.
I believed him then and I believe him now,
because they are cut from the same cloth.
I think that being ex-president makes you a member of a very small club. I have hears that Jimmy Carter and Gerald Ford became close friends after leaving office. Someone on Fox said it is not uncommon for ex-presidents to become close friends even of they were bitter rivals during an election. I have read that Bill Clinton has spent a great deal of time with Bush 41 because they were both raising funds for the Tsunami victims.
This is probably the first time in Bill Clinton's life when he has gotten to be around a sane family and a solid marriage. I don't blame him for wanting more of that, do you?
Jimmy Carter had a brother too...... Remember Billy Beer?
Uhhhh... I wouldn't kick Steve Forbes out of the ruling class.
well ive never seen them here.
...of Senator Fulbright from what I hear.
IIR, GHW Bush was once CIA....just a thought.
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George Bush sees partisan politics as petty and ultimately meaningless. We see partisanship as the indispensable stuff of freedom. At election time the Bushes will hold their nose and dip into partisanship. But it is not in their essential nature to wage war for tactical political advantage.
George Bush wants what Bill Clinton wanted: To fashion a legacy. He does not want to be remembered as the man who cut a few percentage points from an appropriation bill but as the man who reshaped Social Security. I've come to the conclusion that the Bushes see politics as smarmy, fetid. It must be indulged in if one is to practice statesmanship but it is statesmanship alone that that is worthy as a calling.
They are honest, they are loyal, they are patrician. They would have been admired and respected if had lived among the founding fathers. But it is Laura Bush and Momma Bush who really and truly speak for the family and who tell us what they are thinking and who they are. There's not a Bush woman who does not believe in abortion. They believe in family, they live in loyalty, they believe in the tribe, but they do not believe in partisan politics.
I believe it is time for us to decide no longer to be used by the Bush family as useful idiots and instead to begin to use the Bushes as our useful idiots . I say this with the utmost admiration and respect for everything the Bushes stand for. Who would not be proud beyond description to have a father or an uncle who was among the first and youngest of naval aviators to fight in the Pacific and to be twice shot down. Not a stain or blemish of corruption or personal peccadillo has touched the family (except for the brother whom I believe was cleared of bank charges). They are the living embodiment of all that is good and noble in the American tradition.
But they are not conservative.
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