Posted on 06/14/2004 12:09:41 PM PDT by ambrose
(06-14) 11:54 PDT WASHINGTON (AP) --
President Bush offered a glowing tribute to former President Clinton on Monday as the White House unveiled the official portraits of the 42nd president and his wife, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton.
Bush rode into office on a promise "to restore honor and dignity" to the White House after eight years of Clinton, and he was bitter at Clinton for defeating his father in the 1992 presidential contest. Moreover, Clinton plans to campaign for the man trying to oust Bush from office, Democrat John Kerry.
But on Monday, Bush delivered a lengthy, forceful defense of his predecessor, and welcomed dozens of Clinton administration officials back into the White House. It was Clinton's first return to the White House since leaving office, said a spokeswoman, Tammy Sun.
"As a candidate for any office, whether it be the state attorney general or the president, Bill Clinton showed incredible energy and great personal appeal," Bush said. "As chief executive, he showed a deep and far-ranging knowledge of public policy, a great compassion for people in need and the forward-looking spirit that Americans like in a president."
Bush left Clinton laughing so hard that his face turned red with a jibe about Clinton's optimism in campaigning in Texas for George McGovern in 1972.
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How much more of this are we supposed to take?
Shrug. That's politics. It costs President Bush absolutely nothing to say "Clinton sure tried hard" and "had a lot of energy" and "sure made it clear that he cared a lot".
Did Clinton fall asleep?
Anyway, GW is once again a class act.
Bush was honoring the office. He was also giving a pair of crude bums a lesson in class.
Bush should have permanently banned The Rapist from ever entering the White House grounds again.
Anyone care to interpret or was it just the drugs speaking.
Hide the silverware. Put the china away. Lock down the keyboards. The Clintons are back in the White House.
It was getting pretty cow pie deep in that Clinton portrait session. Hillary got her stony features memoralized too. What a waste of canvas and paint on those two.
Come on, Clinton's no more a rapist than OJ is a murderer.
Still, politics ain't pretty. Some necessary things simply make you want to gag - and this was one of them.
...and for once, the bastard bilkster wasn't lying.
The nonpartisan reporting of AP is to love. Using "love" as it is in tennis that is.
I wonder who Clinton invited to the occasion: Betty, Sid? But AP reporters aren't interested in any factual information- they're trained journalists.
This is just the beginning - the only good thing about this is that Clinton is now stealing the spotlight from Kerry. And Clinton is using his Book tour to help Kerry? That's is the biggest joke around. Clinton will be stealing the spotlight BIG TIME From him. Kerry was hardly in the news today.
Reminds of Bush having a White House screening of that film celebrating Kennedy and Bobby defusing the Bay of Pigs situation. Can't remember the title, but it starred Kevin Costner. Bush invited prominent Dems to the viewing and in effect, honored the memory of JFK.
Kerry's poll numbers go up whenever he is out of the news.
Oops--better get the Mr. Clean and scrub down the walls again!
Oh poop!
When I first saw this I looked at the source and thought for sure it would say "The Onion"! LOL!
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