Politics – Former President Bill Clinton has offered praise for President Bush and several of the foreign policy steps he has taken in his second administration.
"Clinton�s remarks about Bush were not included in Conde Nast Traveler�s print edition, but they do appear on the travel magazine�s Web site."
If they printed anything favorable to Bush, Howard Dean's agents would burn the magazine's offices to the ground.
lol
Yes, heaven forbid some of the wackos in here finding out that President Clinton said anything nice about President Bush or for that matter any Democrat saying anything nice about any Republican. They're too busy with their hate.
They're too busy in their fervor for hating Bush to see the obstacles this poor man has been beset with since his 9th month in office. Had a Democratic President managed to keep it together as much as he has I would have praised him. I had an admiration for JFK but for Teddy? Mostly disdain.
Yeah, old Howard Dean would be having a real bad hair day? Don't tell the wackos....they'll all go biserk!
No we're not!!!! You can pick and choose all the sound bites and statements you want, but saying a couple of good points about an A**Hole doesn't mean anything! You all are grasping at straws to find SOMETHING that bushco has done. Put a line down a chalk board and list the good and the bad Bush has done and you would need more blackboards for the bad and none for the good.
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Clinton said Bush "has done three things that I think the world generally approved of: restoring cooperation with the Latin American countries, making a diplomatic agreement with North Korea instead of continuing to have a frigid standoff, and sending Americans to the conference to discuss the future of Iraq with the Iranians and Syrians.
"Those are, all three, things that signify we're trying to do better in the world."
Clinton said the more hard-line positions the Bush administration took earlier on those and other issues were understandable in the aftermath of the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
I guess three things in 6 years is okay!!!;-)
Damned by faint praise, yet the bushtapo winguts link arms and sing halleluiah. "HE DID THREE GOOD THINGS!!"
This thread will be another bush dead-ender, glory-to-the-empire, campfire sing-along. Enter at your own risk.
JS,
Which is worse...to be damned by faint praise,or praised with faint damns???
I would think having former Clinton praise you would almost be like having your neighbors dog pee on your leg, the neighbor you cannot stand. But you have to understand, from most conservative Republican views, Bush Jr is a liberal. No harm, no foul then?
Clinton lied before jurys and grand jurys, and regardless of what they were about, all he had to do was what Governor Romer of Colorado did. When he was confronted about his affair, the man stepped up to the plate, admitted it, and nobody even remembers her name, let alone gave her 1.7 million dollars afterwards.
Like Georgie had a choice. These outcomes were as far removed from Bush's preference list as you could get. Clinton's mocking him.
LOL I agree. It's could be his way of using a kind of insult to say that finally he did what had to be done after all else failed. Besides it blows the Republicans mind that they now have to agree on something Clinton has said.
By no means was Clinton speaking off the cuff; one need only remember what a Machiavellian mastermind he is to know his words were precisely chosen, and their effect well thought out. The Clintons as a team will good cop/bad cop the republicans right down into the dirt -- which of course is where they belong.
Actually JS,
I was thinking about 75 floors down below the gutter...
OBL offered to USA by the Sudanese in 1996. Clinton confirmed this actual happened, but said OBL hadn;t committed any crimes against the USA in 96.
If he hadn;t committed any crimes against the USA in 96 Why would the Sudanese offer him up?
Why did the Sudanese THINK we were after him?
Cause they were smarter than the Clintons and they were already wanting to get rid of the creep?
"The Clintons as a team will good cop/bad cop the republicans right down into the dirt"
You are right jasperneed, they are so much smarter than the Repugnacans, they think they are so high and mighty, it will be childs play for Mr and Mr Clinton to bring them to our level!
Hilary in '08!!!
I'm not so sure.... those things seem to be good. Also, recall that the food-aid proposal is opposed by big business and many Congressmen, and yet Bush is still behind it.
and what did Clinton do in eight?????? oh yes the Devil with the Blue Dress, Blue Dress, Blue Dress ( my apologies to Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels) launched some cruise missiles at an aspirin factory, did nothing about the 1993 WTC attack emboldening Osama Bin Laden, , pulled the Rangers out of Somalia further emboldening Bin Laden, the 1995 Saudi Arabia bombing, the 1996 Khobar Towers bombing, the 1998 US Embassy bombing in Africa, the 2000 USS Cole bombing all of which no action was taken.
and yes lets not forget the stellar record of his administration
http://prorev.com/legacy.htm
and lets not forget letting Bin Laden go
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qgKAsfp_lc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqdpAQFQlHQ
pc25 "and lets not forget letting Bin Laden go"
Oh! Did Bush finally catch that guy? Thank Jesus! I'll sleep better tonight.
-- End of Sarcasm --
no sarcasm on my part justplain facts
and no response to his dismal record on national security?
Hey, just because Bill Clinton didn't make us any safer, doesn't mean he didn't do a good job on national security! Maybe if he wasn't so busy getting impeached an sex acts, he could have done his job!
If Newt Gingrich hadn't put a Contract on America; and lead a multi-million dollar "Moral Pursuit"of Bill Clinton;(By The Way...At this time, Uncle Newtie was HIMSELF having ANOTHER extramarital affair!!!)Get off it about Bills Hummer!!!
Hey!! Don't forget his attack of Iraq in 1991 called the Gulf War/Desert Storm that used Saudi Arabian land to make the attack. That really got OBL pi$$ed. Oh wait, that was G.H.W.Bush wasn't it?
i think the whole world was in on that including France an Germany everyone afraid that after invading Kuwait he was going into Saudi Arabia......
The point is that it was the one that started OBL quest to bring punishment on the world and what better place to start than to attack the strongest nation in the world in the pocketbook. Reagan and Bush created the monster just as they created the Iraq situation by their meddling in poor foreign policy. And before you try to lay praise on them for the fall of the Soviet Union, the USSR brought on their own downfall financially just as we are about to bring down our own with wild spending.
Every Western Government as well as oil rich Saudi Arabia was responsible for the birth of Al Qaeda by funneling billions of dollars to fight the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan. Wealthy Arab fanatics, like Osama bin Laden, provided millions more. As his unclassified CIA biography states, bin Laden left Saudi Arabia to fight the Soviet army in Afghanistan after Moscow's invasion in 1979. Do not try and lay this solely at the feet of Reagan or Bush as every western country wanted the Soviets out of Afghanistan.
key word here is fanatic.........he was a fanatic before the Gulf War. He needed no impetus from the Gulf War.
http://govt.eserver.org/gulf-war/un-resolutions...
Why didn't Bush Jr get the same UN agreement before he went in March 2003? I'll tell you why. They knew that Bush , Cheney, and Powell were lying.
NO, they didn't.
They were in bed with Saddam. Follow the money.
Remember the oil for food scandal?
Remember all the other business enterprises that were getting fat in Europe and Asia?
Remember the medical supplies found in a warehouse when the nearby hosp had none?
Remember that all the rrest of the world's intelligence agencies said saddam had WMDs? NOT ONE SAID DIFFERENTLY!
DO NOT REWRITE HISTORY
One man with resolve is a majority!
The UN also knew that they were lying because no WMD's were found. The inspectors said that there were no WMD's to be found and everybody that wanted Saddam out of power assumed that the information was false. You can assume that your spouse is cheating on you but unless you have positive proof, you keep your thoughts to yourself.
Yes there was corruption going on but that happens everywhere even in the good old US of A. Still, that was not sufficient reason to attack a nation and remove the leader from power just because you think he is doing something and hasn't attacked you and I'm not counting the attempt to kill his daddy. That would make it personal, would it not?
No WMDs ???????
everyone in the world supplied them to him
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/inatl/long...
the men with the little blue hats were so complicit with the corruption going on in Iraq that it is incredulous
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/36...
http://www.rferl.org/featuresarticle/2004/10/44...
http://craig.senate.gov/releases/ed032604a.cfm
To take your comments at face value, one would be left with the impression that Bush valiantly went onto Iraq after intolerable provocation, with no ulterior motives whatever. I, for one, doubt that this is the case.
Further, neither the French, nor the Chinese, nor the Russian intel agencies said that Saddam had WMDs. Even MI5 expressed concerns regarding the methodology used by the CIA to support the assertion.
because France, Germany, China, Russia, all had their little side deals going on with Iraq..... the corruption that went on with the UN and Kofi Annon
http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/12/01/annan...
http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/rosett200...
http://www.opinionjournal.com/columnists/cRoset...
Russia Germany France were all complicit in all sorts of shady deals with Iraq.....
now with the new Governments in Germany and France with the progress being made in Iraq coupled with the problems of a growing Muslim population in those countries and the unrest that it is causing they are trying to smooth over relations with this country and President Bush.....
http://article.wn.com/view/2007/08/21/Frances_t...
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070821/ap_on_re_eu...
why not after this country paid the freight on the war
another link worth reading
http://www.hoover.org/publications/digest/30574...
and another
http://patterico.com/2007/08/21/the-french-want...
the French want to help now? where were they 5 years ago?
THEY WERE IN BED WITH SADAMM
Wrong again, Fergie. The U.N. and most of the security council was up to its eyeballs in profits from "Oil for Food"
Former President Bill Clinton has offered praise for President Bush
Humm? I wonder what else was in that ;long awaited; CIA report form the other week?
Debt of USA when Clinton was in charge = $0.
Debt of USA when Bush was in charge = ($More than all over American Presidents - combined)
no matter how good the statement is, you have to turn it into something nasty.
Oh grow up.
ha ha ha
She's got a point you know... criticise Bush by all means, but when the IPP points out the good things he's done, at least allow him credit for them....or your books won't be honest.
and is that a picture of Bill Clinton or W.C. Fields???
a negative vote on that comment ........where is your sense of humor?????
Clinton only praised him on issues that weren't considered neoconservative issues. Like Darfur, North korea, etc. He didn't praise him for invading Iraq, or eavesdropping on citizens, or putting our country into debt. Let's face it, no one can be absolutely wrong on all the issues. But Bush came damn close!
Well if Bush had made the idiotic decision to invaded North Korea as he was implying he might, we would be in WWIII now instead of Iraq. China would not have stood by and let that happen without getting involved. Bush had no other choice but to let China negotiate an agreement with North Korea.
Clinton's campaigning for his wife and trying to smooth some unhappy republicans. What is it they say about wolves, they run in packs.
STAND BY FOR YOUR DAILY DOSE OF LIBERAL CONSPIRACY THEORY.....