Bush really wants Clinton to like him

[JI7]

when i see bush around clinton i'm reminded of grade school and how there are some kids who really want the popular kids to like them or approve of them. clinton doesn't come off as arrogant or anything like that though. he just comes off as a guy comfortable with who he is and a very kind person. but bush seems like the kid who wants the popular person (in this case bill clinton) to be his friend and to like him.

[gatorboy]

1. He's trying to trick voters into thinking he's a moderate...

..Kinda like what he did during the 2000 election.
It's funny how everyone compares him to Reagan now, but when he was running, they talked about how he was getting away from the Reagan Conservatives and softening up......Suckers!!!!

[smada]

10. a moderate???

By calling for a constitutional amendment barring gay marriage, openly advocating the overturn of Roe v. Wade, and suspending the Constitution and sending out the gestapo with the "Patriot Act".

Yeah, those are real moderate positions.

[Malva Zebrina]

2. No, I think it is all part of the plan

bush did his evil work from the first day in office. He continued on in the bully mode with a kick ass attitude. Never has a president beent his hated. For the rest of his term, it was said he will suddenly become a kinder gentler man and he has--it is all part of the plan. It is all staged.

[Zinfandel]

9. Absolutely, Rove has each and every move his chimp will make,

planned month's ahead of time...Everything Bush does, is Rove scripted---and just like in 2000, the plan is to have Bush seem so moderate, almost as if Bush is a Democrat...So that the voters will believe there is very little difference between Bush & Gore or Bush & Kerry...so you (the uninformed millions of voters) might as well just stay with Bush, "who is very tough on the terrorist, you know".

The ONLY way to combat Rove's plan is to expose it. However Karl has that figured out too...The corporate media is republican owned...

It's going to be tough, this is going down to the wire, Rove know it.

No time to get smug now Democrats.

Rove has lots of tricks, smears, distortions and lies right up until the election...smears & accusations at the last minute that can't possibly proven otherwise until after the election.

[LittleApple81]

3. You must be kidding. He just puts on a mask so that Clinton doesn't

squash him like a bug with this erudition and quick, calm, wit.

[Solly Mack]

4. The resident malaprop wants everyone to like him

and doesn't understand it when people don't.

The boy blunder believes that when people don't like him that there is something wrong with them...not him.

It's all part of his run-away ego.

[coloradodem2005]

8. Funny, I thought that he did not care that people hated him.

[Solly Mack]

11. But that's just it...if you hate him, he sees it as your problem

but he wants you to like him.

Meglomaniacs want people to like them...they just react cruelly when people don't. You can't be a meglomaniac and not be insecure.

[AlCzervik]

13. Oh yeah, and he doesnt pay attention to polls either.

[JI7]

5. so you all think he is afraid of Clinton ?

clinton does have the ability to be critical of someone in an effective way where it comes off as a legitimate criticism and not personal. and this would do a lot of damage to bush.

but i have read that clinton is working with kerry and discussing ways clinton can promote kerry while he is promoting his book.

[napi21]

6. I don't believe that! I think he hates Clinton.

I listened to Shrub's speech today at the unveiling, and kept wondering who in the world wrote THIS speech? I'm sure this is just his attempt to try to convince voters he's the good guy and those who still loke Clinton shouldn't hate the Shrub.

I couldn't believe what I was hearing, and it wasn't only me! Right after the speech, the CNN announcer was talking to one of their political reporters and she said "if I hadn't been watching this myself, I would have thought the copy I was to read was a joke and never believed it!"

[calimary]

7. Actually, I think he's trying to get the Clinton lovers to like him.

He obviously thinks this is his chance to show what a Great Conciliator he is, and, LOOK! How MODERATE! LOOK! How nice and gracious and welcoming and warm he is to his political opponents! LOOK! Watch how he rises above all that political acrimony! WOW! WHOTTA GUY! Let's all vote for him, then, shall we?

SORRY, bushie. Hell has not yet frozen over. Therefore, I am not fooled. I don't think anybody else is, either. Hey, jackass, it's gonna take a LOT more than just a few moments of making nice-nice for the Clintons before all the cameras before you can rehabilitate yourself. Two-faced schmuck! You think just saying a few nice things about Clinton that you certainly don't mean, and didn't even write, will make up for all the savaging you've done of our civil liberties, our privacy, our budget surplus, our American dignity and stature in view of the rest of the world, our national security, our integrity, our safety, and so much more, don't you? In that case, you're even MORE stupid than I already knew you were. Cut the crap, asshole. I'm sure, though, that he's thinking he's presented a nice, new face to moderates and undecideds, and maybe even a few "wavering" (HAH!) Dems. NOT A CHANCE, CHUMP!

I'd almost want to run for president myself, so that if I won, I could relegate YOUR presidential portrait to the basement. Or maybe the room just outside the kitchen where they prepare the garbage for removal.

[Lugnut]

17. I second that.....

Calimary rocks!!!

:yourock:

[argyl]

12. He's not the second Reagan,he's the second Clinton.I'm voting for him.

Smirk in 2004.Yep,that legendary Bush charm has me reeled in.

[grasswire]

14. He was a lot nicer to the Clintons today...

...than his haggish mother was to them in December of 2000, on the occasion of the 200th anniversary of the White House. After President Clinton spoke and made warm remarks about Ma and Pa Bush and their son (the recount was still going on) Clinton made his way past the guests seated at the head table. All greeted him warmly except for Barbara Bush, who purposefully shifted in her seat and turned her back to him rudely.

I will never forgive her for that. It showed her true nature. She thinks she's better than Bill Clinton.

May she live to experience the karma.

[calimary]

15. She's just a big, fat, horse's ass. barbara bush is the poorest excuse

for a First Lady I have ever seen, and I remember 'em back to Jackie. Every single one of them was a credit to her husband, even if her husband wasn't the paragon. Even Pat Nixon didn't leave you with a bad taste in your mouth. I loved Lady Bird. I LOVED Rosalyn Carter. I LOVED-LOVED-LOVED Betty Ford. And I STILL love Hillary. But barbara bush - well, to paraphrase a signature comment of hers - "...rhymes with runt." You look at her, and watch her behavior, and you come to some understanding of why her son is the jackass that he is. Learned it from his mom.

And by the way, even though Nancy Reagan was not my favorite First Lady, she's since redeemed herself in my eyes, and not just through last week, either. And to thumb one's nose at her in her big hour of grief (after a long week of grief) at the National Cathedral by wearing that nice light gray number instead of the muted, respectful black or dark-colored clothing, was just too transparent. NOBODY'S FOOLED BY YOU, bar. NOBODY. We ALL saw that. We SAW how you contrived to make yourself stand out, and to grab attention - away from the widow and family, and everyone and everything else except for your fat, selfish, smug, imperious self. And let's not forget the bright, sparkling, Pillsbury Doughboy outfit she wore to the coffin viewing in the Rotunda. Okay, bar, you didn't have enough of a spotlight all to your little, spiteful self? What a shitty, spiteful, SMALL creature you are. To take one last little subtle jab at Nancy. GEEZ. You'd think for all the upper-crust Connecticut/Maine elite blue-blood crap she pulls, she'd at least feel a little of the noblesse oblige that's SUPPOSED TO GO WITH IT.

My wish for her is that everybody, and I MEAN EVERYBODY, eventually feels toward her the way I do. I know damned well that's how I'M gonna remember you, babe. She's the first to dump on Hillary in that high-handed way of hers, but let's not forget that Hillary never said an unkind word about her, or about anybody else. Old bar has no class. She may think she's the queen mother of America's new "royal family," but she's nothing but dogshit to me. Even Nancy was never that haughty.

[lanparty]

16. She thinks she's better than ...

... Everyone ELSE in the world!!!!! She's sees herself as Queen Mum of the planet!!!!

When Barbara Marie Antoinette Bush passes, the world will be a better place!!!!!