Elder Bush nixes Clinton trip idea

[ProSense]

Elder Bush nixes Clinton trip idea

Bill Clinton said Monday he and former President Bush would go on a diplomatic mission if Hillary Clinton became president.

WASHINGTON (CNN) — Former President George H.W. Bush has shot down his successor Bill Clinton’s idea of a diplomatic mission under a Hillary Clinton presidency that would send him and other notables abroad to assure other nations that “America is open for business and cooperation again.”

The move came one day after Bill Clinton made the suggestion on the campaign trail in South Carolina, in response to a question from a supporter about his wife’s “number-one priority” upon reaching the White House.

In a statement sent to CNN Tuesday afternoon, former President Bush’s chief of staff Jean Becker said that he “wholeheartedly supports the President of the United States, including his foreign policy. He has never discussed an ‘around-the-world-mission’ with either former President Bill Clinton or Sen. Clinton, nor does he think such a mission is warranted since he is proud of the role America continues to play around the world as the beacon of hope for freedom and democracy.

“President Bush is excited about several of the excellent Republican candidates running for president, and looks forward to discussing their candidacy once the Republican nominee is determined.”

The old fool doesn't realize his son is a war criminal who belongs in jail.

[cali]

1. LOL

sorry bill, this really makes you look the fool.

[ColbertWatcher]

3. Or...

...it makes Daddy Bush look like a tool.

Take your pick.

[MadBadger]

8. How bout both?

[Cha]

36. Try both..

cause then you'd be right.

[Virginia Dare]

20. Makes you wonder if this was a set up....n/t

[bunnies]

2. Ha!

The asshole doesnt know what the elbow is doing. classic.

On edit: I think its "ass" not "asshole". Paging Dr. Freud.

[Cha]

37. Not Dr Freud but

I get the slip!

[bunnies]

43. Good point.

I dont want to associate sex with either of those two. I feel dirty.

[rodeodance]

4. yup--the old fool

.........The old fool doesn't realize his son is a war criminal who belongs in jail.

[TwilightGardener]

5. Owwwwchh!! Big Dawg tried to use Poopy Bush for a little triangulating magic

and got his paw swatted away. Bwahahahahahahahahaaa!!!!

[balantz]

29. And he always thought they were such good friends!

Doesn't Poppy remember that beautiful Mexican getaway they enjoyed together?

:cry:

[tekisui]

6. More fumbles from the Clintons.

I thought they were a Machine?

[Cha]

38. A 1984

machine that needs to be deleted.

[EVDebs]

54. Yep, a meat-grinder for anything progressive. Go Edwards ! nt

[MadBadger]

7. Wow, this really makes them BOTH look like idiots.

[Cha]

39. Cool...we wiped out both

with their Petards.

[Vickers]

62. I finally looked up "petard"...

I always thought they were spats. :P

[Benhurst]

9. Is it possible to sink any lower?

Slapped down pandering to a war criminal.

[JackORoses]

10. ahahahahahaha! Where are the Hillarite defenders of Poppy, now?

[mike_c]

11. oh no, I think he knows EXACTLY what his spawn is....

Frankly, I think Poppy Bush will be just as happy as the rest of us when dubya is done. Dubya's fuck-ups fall just as close to the tree as his accomplishments. Oh wait....

[amandabeech]

21. I agree with you. Poppy has been cleaning up after Dubya for a long time.

It wouldn't surprise me much if Poppy did help out another Clinton presidency, but it would be very quiet.

If a pubbie wins, Dubya will be begging to be sent out to patch up Jr.'s mistakes.

The relationship between father and son in the Bush family is very, very complex. I don't like it played out on the world stage.

[Tom Rinaldo]

12. “President Bush is excited about several of the excellent Republican candidates" HA!

Even HE can't pretend that he's excited about all of them.

[babylonsister]

13. Oopsie! Old foot-in-mouth Bill strikes again! nt

[BOSSHOG]

14. Regardless of who the next President is, is that not a good idea??

Sending forth two former Presidents to spread good cheer to the world which has been intentionally absent by our current regime of anti-intellectual morons in the white house. Fuck bush, let Clinton-Carter go forth.

[Dems Will Win]

16. Clinton-Carter OK, Not Bush-Powell

I think she will name Colin Powell Secretary of State!

[BOSSHOG]

22. My two cents worth

General Clark - SECSTATE
General Powell - SECDEF (he's been retired ten years right??)

[Virginia Dare]

24. Clark would be fantastic...

but I hope that no Dem gives that tool Powell a position that powerful. He's still too close to the Bush's for comfort.

[BOSSHOG]

28. When it comes to General Clark

I'm borderline FAN!! I truly respect the man. Agree with you about powell but believe he is a good man away from "them."

Think I'll head to New Orleans in the next couple of weeks to see if I can find that Virginia Dare Christmas ornament. It might require an intense search of every bar for several square blocks.

[Virginia Dare]

56. Hoist one for me if you find it, BOSS!!...n/t

[babylonsister]

46. I lost all respect for Powell, so can't agree.

Clark sounds good though, but Powell? He should have resigned the minute he found out he was lied to about the WMDs, or lack thereof.

[BOSSHOG]

52. I have

the utmost respect for my number one source of news Babylon Sister. You make an outstanding point and I am possibly being myopic. Powell's actions were sadly baffling at the least. I defer to your judgement. Lets hope that its a Dem who gets to choose the next SECDEF.

[Hippo_Tron]

58. Agreed, send Clinton-Carter not Clinton-Bush

[tularetom]

15. Clinton needs to wake up and realize he's irrelevant

He's such a friggin egotist he thought he could charm daddy bush into going around the world trashing his dumbass son. Far as I'm concerned this was a badly needed slap in the face to a guy who thinks this election is a referendum on him. I'm tired of hearing from and about him and I wish he'd just STFU.

[Catherine Vincent]

27. Feel better now?

[Cha]

41. clinton could have taken

another path and made himself relevant but instead he chose the bfee over The People..him and his warmongering, bush-sychophant wife.

[maddiejoan]

17. I'd say it worked just as Bill intended

Hillary winds up looking good for reaching out to the Republicans, and doesn't even have to bother with the old fart.

Makes the Clintons look big. Makes the Bush's look small.

[MadBadger]

19. I forgot again, is she trying to win a general election, or a Democratic primary?

[maddiejoan]

31. Both I would hope.

[JackORoses]

26. yeah, this is just great for Hill. It makes Bill look like a liar or a buffoon.

Keep up the good work!

[Armstead]

32. No it makes Bill look stupid

To even imagine that a father might want to go on a highly publicized trip to tell the world that his son was a complete screw-up.

[lyonn]

60. Yeah, sounds like someone hasn't gotten the msg. about our

current president, the international criminal. The one who started a war without provocation. The one that ignored that "piece of paper" called the Constitution, all agreements made by past Presidents, like the Geneva Convention, etc. Called Germany, France, etc., Old Europe.

Is this how a Democratic President will get things done, by cozying up to the Repubs - again??

We need to wipe the slate clean and let the world know that George was a fluke and criminal. No more excuses.

[goclark]

50. The Bush Crime Family has always been small

and now the Clinton family wants the world to know how "chummy" they are- then Bill gets the slap down from Poppy.

Bill~ don't you know blood is thicker than water?

[Tarc]

18. That's the kind of message a toady writes for the boss

Highly doubtful that any of that reflects the sentiments of Senior. For all his faults in other areas, he at least had the common sense to know that toppling Hussein would be a colossal blunder. Only the true, die-hard kool-aid drinkers could ever say that they are proud of America's current global standing. Personally, I am ashamed of it.

[Virginia Dare]

23. There is some bizarre dynamic going on here..

but I can't seem to wrap my mind around what it is.

[Catherine Vincent]

25. Why would Clinton suggest that?

Doesn't he realize how old the elder Bush is?

[bunnies]

34. Hillary suggested it initially.

Im sure thats why Bill mentioned it as well. Whereas they seem to be so close (Clintons and Bush 1), I'd think they'd get their stories straight.

[balantz]

30. Big Dawg forgot his proper place in the scheme of things!

:rofl:

[flpoljunkie]

33. Has Bill lost it? This kind of stuff really makes you wonder.

[lyonn]

61. My thoughts too

He looks thin and seems to have lost his really great speaking skills. It could be his health and medication for someone that has had bi-pass surgery? He may be pushing himself too hard with this campaign?

[BeyondGeography]

35. Methinks Poppy just called Bill naive and irresponsible

[oasis]

40. Hitler refused to shake hands w/OlympianJesse Owens and the sprinter's popularity soared.

The Obamamite Imp Society would do well to curb their enthusiasm.

[Cha]

42. And all you hillary fanz do

is call people names cause you have nothing else.

[oasis]

45. "hillary fanz". Shoe meet kettle.

:rofl:

[Cha]

47. There's no other explanation

for such sychophantic adulation when she's done nothing but enable bush for 5 years.

[oasis]

51. Don't look now but the Blue state of New York elected her to office. Twice.

Are you saying you know more about Hillary's Dem creds than they?

[Cha]

53. red-herring shit from

hillary's bfee wannabees.

[Hippo_Tron]

59. Hitler didn't actually refuse to shake hands with Owens

He was told by the Olympic committee that he had to shake hands with all of the athletes or none of them and he only wanted to shake hands with the German team.

The media sensationalized the story creating the myth that Hitler specifically snubbed Owens.

[polichick]

44. Yep Bill, keep thinking those Republicans are your friends! nt

[PATRICK]

48. I can picture George I blushing

Not yet Bill. And it isn't about having the honeymoon cruise blabbed about in the press to boost his wife- somehow?- as a wisely embracing unity candidate. It is because they have no intention at all, whatsoever of letting the Clintons slide into the Oval Office. Bill may not know it again but he about to be jilted, left abandoned on the dock, the champagne boiling in the sun, left to tragically wander alone
the foreign capitals and corporate offices stroking his ego and smiling at the adoring availables.

This is a humiliating shadow of a once great candidate whose major gifts were tragically(for all of us) limited to his own success.

[Donnachaidh]

49. more like the chicken refusing to come out of the henhouse

That old fart would rather hide in a root cellar than admit his son is a war criminal. And I guess Bill doesn't have the *close relationship* with Poppy he's been trying to use to his advantage.

Uhhh, big ole WHOOPSIE Bill. :rofl:

[ProSense]

55. Kick! n/t

[saltpoint]

57. There's a keen demand for a foreign ambassador to go to places like Japan

and puke up on the prime minister.

Frankly, I'd counted on Poppy to be our go-to guy for global puke-on duty.

Now, with him out of contention, we're at a national loss as to who can perform this crucial function of Statehood.