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Bill Clinton Was George W. Bush's Secret White House Whisperer
http://news.yahoo.com ^ | September 8, 2014 | Russell Berman

Posted on 09/08/2014 8:34:17 PM PDT by NKP_Vet

George W. Bush was known – and often criticized – for being insular during his eight years in the White House, but he made regular calls to a surprising adviser during his second term: his predecessor.

Bill Clinton revealed on Monday that the second President Bush picked his brain twice a year for 30-45 minutes, in wide-ranging conversations that no doubt set the stage for the surprising, "brother-from-another-mother" relationship that the two ex-presidents now share.

Bush would call Clinton "just to talk," during his last four years in the White House, the Democrat said in a joint event at the Newseum in Washington.

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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: billclinton; bushsbrain; clinton; georgewbush; hillary2016; mythmaking; yahoobias
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And just think we all thought that Bush's brain was Porky Pig Rove. It was Bill Clinton all along. If anyone wants to know what has been wrong with the republican party since Reagan left office, now you know the answer. Remember this is the same RINO that never once vetoed a spending bill till his last year in office. He governed exactly like a big-spending democrat and was being told exactly how it's done by Slick Willie himself. This is enough to make real conservatives throw up.
1 posted on 09/08/2014 8:34:17 PM PDT by NKP_Vet
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The threadnaught has cleared the harbor. Full speed ahead.


2 posted on 09/08/2014 8:37:32 PM PDT by 1rudeboy
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“brother from another mother”
Bush: brother, Clinton: mother......


3 posted on 09/08/2014 8:37:48 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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Bill Clinton revealed on Monday that the second President Bush picked his brain twice a year for 30-45 minutes

It may have been a way to get him off the front porch like some pantsless version of a Jehovah's Witness. Hide the silver, keyboards and presidential daughters and let him in for a few minutes so he goes away for another six months.

4 posted on 09/08/2014 8:40:10 PM PDT by KarlInOhio (The IRS: either criminally irresponsible in backup procedures or criminally responsible of coverup.)
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Bush would call Clinton "just to talk,"

"Now, sir. We'll talk, if you like." "I'll tell you right out, I am a man who likes talking to a man who likes to talk."

5 posted on 09/08/2014 8:43:42 PM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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GW has always sought advice from a wide variety of people including his father, former officials under other Presidents and, yes, other Presidents.

This article focuses on Bubba, but he was hardly the only person GW sought out for counsel.


6 posted on 09/08/2014 8:44:10 PM PDT by Rembrandt (Part of the 51% who pay Federal taxes)
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Bush was not insular. Compared to Obama? Puleeeze.


7 posted on 09/08/2014 8:46:20 PM PDT by Williams
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BJ sounds lonely. Good.


8 posted on 09/08/2014 8:46:54 PM PDT by No One Special (Never ask for whom the bell tolls, it tolls for thee.)
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So, Gore never picked his, supposed brain? Not amazing. By the by, you should be getting the Bushies along to comment, at any moment. The love fest was almost never ending.


9 posted on 09/08/2014 8:47:34 PM PDT by RedHeeler
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I hate to say this, but now I know Busch was not what he was supposed to be. We need a real republican conservative with teeth of iron and a lead backbone. No one on the horizon. What a bunch of whimps.
10 posted on 09/08/2014 8:47:39 PM PDT by Fungi (a)
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Clinton must have asked for this article for his ego or to help Hilary. Talking twicea year for 30 minutes is nothing.


11 posted on 09/08/2014 8:49:08 PM PDT by Williams
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We take bill Clinton’s word?


12 posted on 09/08/2014 8:49:42 PM PDT by Raycpa
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What I read was Bill Clinton shoots off his mammoth mouth trying to make the name of Clinton in line with a President that cared about America versus the one in office today running competition for Chief Liar of the Liars in Chief club.

Somehow this is supposed to make us like Hillary I guess.


13 posted on 09/08/2014 8:51:03 PM PDT by rockinqsranch ((Dems, Libs, Socialists, call 'em what you will. They ALL have fairies livin' in their trees.))
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And so it starts. Good old yahoo snooze, laying the groundwork for Hillary as The Great Bipartisan Hope by channeling her HINO.

We are doomed unless God is merciful and intervenes.


14 posted on 09/08/2014 8:51:52 PM PDT by txrefugee
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I came to that same conclusion about Bush long ago. He’s a fraud.


15 posted on 09/08/2014 8:52:33 PM PDT by VerySadAmerican (Liberals were raised by women or wimps. And they're all stupid.)
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there are a number on the horizon. The only question is can they win with a party not committed to those ideals.


16 posted on 09/08/2014 8:53:30 PM PDT by ilgipper
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I'm Calling Barbara Streisand here :

I talk to my bug man twice a year and that don't make him my brother from another mother...

just more Bush bashing to me...

17 posted on 09/08/2014 8:57:17 PM PDT by virgil283 (Dehrate digito)
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I don't find this too surprising. There have been fewer than 50 people who have held the job of President, the vast majority of them now being deceased. There aren't that many people around who may have dealt with the same issues a President faces, and the current President may think that the input of one of his predecessors may be of some value in dealing with this problem or that.

An exception to that is probably the current President, who appears to believe that he knows a lot more about everything than he actually does, but in his conceit, will not seek out more experienced counsel.
18 posted on 09/08/2014 8:57:35 PM PDT by Milton Miteybad (I am Jim Thompson. {Really.})
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"Clinton must have asked for this article for his ego or to help Hilary. Talking twicea year for 30 minutes is nothing."

I kind of saw it that way too. What better way to help Hillary than to let it be known he'd be a sounding board for her, like he was for Bush. There's another side to this as well. Anyone with class would have kept the calls a secret, or at least asked the other person if it was alright to mention them to the press. But Clinton being Clinton, he had to snitch about the phone calls so that he'd still appear to be important. That's why he was a security risk...he could never be trusted with a secret. Those few calls were nobody's business but his and Bush's, and he couldn't even keep his mouth shut about them.

19 posted on 09/08/2014 9:01:58 PM PDT by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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Heh, this could backfire on the dems; “Bush’s Fault” now is “Clinton’s Fault”.


20 posted on 09/08/2014 9:02:38 PM PDT by LegendHasIt
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