Michelle Obama: George W. Bush is 'my partner in crime' and 'I love him to death'
Source: USATODAY
Former first lady Michelle Obama said Thursday that ex-President George W. Bush has become her "partner in crime" after years of sitting together at official events.
"President Bush and I are forever seatmates because of protocol that's how we sit at all the official functions," Obama said on NBC's "Today" show. "So he is my partner in crime at every major thing where all the formers gather. I love him to death," Obama added. "He's a wonderful man. He's a funny man."
Obama expressed her affection for Bush after being asked about the moment when Bush handed her a cough drop at the Sept. 1 funeral of the late Arizona Republican Sen. John McCain. The moment, which happened at the National Cathedral in Washington, went viral on social media. Bush was handing a cough drop to his wife, Laura, when Obama leaned over and asked him if she could have one too. She said she didn't realize that anyone was watching the "simple gesture."
"And I will add that they were old cough drops," Obama said, describing them as being in an official White House box. "And I was like, 'How long have you had these?' They said, 'A long time. We got a lot of these.' " Obama, a Democrat, said her friendship with Bush, a Republican, defies labels. "Party doesn't separate us," she said. "Color, gender, those sort of things don't separate us."
Read more: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2018/10/11/michelle-obama-george-w-bush-my-partner-crime/1603296002/
I have no words...
tinrobot
(10,830 posts)Gotta admit, that's pretty funny.
delisen
(6,036 posts)Let his people slam all the Democratic White House workers who were leaving. Front pages everywhere.
Lots of laughs. It gave a huge boost to the right wing crazies machine.
George Bush is lots of laughs until you are the butt of the jokes or you personally suffer from his lobbying tout his frat brother on the Supreme Court, or a bomb obliterates your family in Iraq.
SWBTATTReg
(21,811 posts)our so called president is stealing from all of us that's truly bad.
JohnnyRingo
(18,563 posts)I have a set of Eat 'n Park soup spoons among many other souvenirs of my daily regimen.
delisen
(6,036 posts)We and the world paid heavily for the vote stealing in Florida and the machinations by the Bushes which resulted in GW Bush and Dick Cheney being installed in the White House by the 2000 Supreme Court decision-a partisan decision.
GW also "normalized" Putin as a fellow Christian.
Without that Bush family/ Republican election corruption I don't believe there would ever have been Candidate Trump in 2016. Kavanaugh has been a fixer for Bush
George Herbert Walker Bush nominated the unqualified Clarence Thomas to the Supreme Court.
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)to share. Those bags of 600 little 2-pacs will last a lifetime!
I think it's kind of cool these events of past presidents have a "seating chart". I guess that's so secret service can always protect them.
Freethinker65
(9,904 posts)BeyondGeography
(39,226 posts)W works for the other side, Michelle works for our side. They get along well. Bfd.
Stallion
(6,473 posts)Response to ansible (Original post)
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not fooled
(5,790 posts)add: stealing two elections...by hook and crook including purging 10s of thousands of primarily African-American voters...the list goes on and on.
ugh
SouthernIrish
(512 posts)Michelle is showing class and maturity. GHWB and Bill Clinton get along very well. A lot of former POTUS and FLOTUS get along fine. Saying something negative and demeaning about MO is something I would expect from a Trumpian, not a Democrat.
pat_k
(9,313 posts)and every public rejection of the perpetrators, is a step toward redemption of our national soul.
JackRiddler
(24,979 posts)Sunlei
(22,651 posts)Mrs Obama should say, "nothing"?
lapfog_1
(29,147 posts)and can transcend all other differences.
I don't expect Trump or Melania to join this elite group. Especially after all of the Treason is exposed.
Blue_playwright
(1,568 posts)How the former presidents and First Ladies are cordial and work together on charitable causes and events - supporting each others foundations and work. I dont see Trump doing anything when he is done except his library. Can you see him setting up to work on AIDS in Africa like W? Or like the global reach of the Clinton Foundation? How will they handle a disgrace in their midst? How was Nixon treated, I forget!
Glorfindel
(9,701 posts)At the time, I was irritated by the relationship, but I guess I have mellowed. It doesn't make me angry any more, and compared to W. Bush and the Orange Monster, Nixon was a saint.
https://www.nytimes.com/1994/04/25/us/for-clinton-and-nixon-a-rarefied-bond.html
Kaleva
(36,094 posts)Sunlei
(22,651 posts)I expect the trump family to take full advantage of that 'entitlement benefit' and to cost usa taxpayers billions in SS protection- as long as trump lives.
and he'll probably live a long, long, long time with presidents free lifetime medical care 'entitlement'
it's great that she can rise above it all; it is sad that he cannot
Kurt V.
(5,624 posts)is the most commented on subject in all of history.
FiveGoodMen
(20,018 posts)Apparently, when they go low, we become their best buddies.
badhair77
(4,175 posts)Guy Whitey Corngood
(26,474 posts)ZZenith
(4,107 posts)Doesnt seem like a bright thing to do.
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)the question about the viral tweet image?
helpisontheway
(5,002 posts)left-of-center2012
(34,195 posts)Sunlei
(22,651 posts)everyone in the convoy fleeing Kuwait.
probably millions died and millions more from all the garbage & toxins left behind ruining cities & towns like Fallujah.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallujah
Not even to mention our Iraq Veterans, Veterans who survived head injuries & other 100% disabilities cost 56 billion a year in medical care.
Submariner
(12,477 posts)How many have died in Iraq since 2003?
Iraq Death Toll Reaches 500,000 Since Start Of U.S.-Led Invasion, New Study Says. Nearly half a million people have died from war-related causes in Iraq since the US-led invasion in 2003, according to an academic study published in the United States on Tuesday.Oct 15, 2013
Iraq Death Toll Reaches 500,000 Since Start Of U.S.-Led Invasion ...
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/15/iraq-death-toll_n_4102855.html
Heckuva job Dubya...
Mike Nelson
(9,881 posts)
GW Bush is where I draw the line. He seemed, to me, he kind of "deplorable" that should never be accepted or acceptable. Palin is another one... but I will always like Michelle Obama and kinda see what she's doing; she's trying to be positive and look out for the country. I can accept this part of Michelle.
pat_k
(9,313 posts)Bush v. Gore was the beginning of the end. When you cut the voter out of the loop, you are a nation that is screwed.
Refusal to impeach that man for torture corrupted the soul of the nation.
The mindless group think of the beltway analstocracy is a affiliation that is in desperate need of a cure.
And so it goes. You don't need to be in D.C. to be trapped in the beltway sphincter.
50 Shades Of Blue
(9,728 posts)wellst0nev0ter
(7,509 posts)Why?
delisen
(6,036 posts)The lost years on climate action, the sucking up to Putin.
Kaleva
(36,094 posts)choie
(4,102 posts)can be lovable too, eh Michelle?
JackRiddler
(24,979 posts)It feeds the narrative of no difference at the top. This is politically irresponsible. She doesn't have to say anything on the subject. She made this "news."
Kaleva
(36,094 posts)They consider Bush to be RINO, a GOPe.
JackRiddler
(24,979 posts)you can be certain that Bush 2004 voters who are still voting today are mostly voting Republican.
Also, it's irrelevant. I'm sorry I even put it that way.
THERE IS NO EXCUSE FOR CODDLING WAR CRIMINALS IN PUBLIC RELATIONS CAMPAIGNS. NONE.
Kaleva
(36,094 posts)xor
(1,204 posts)The entire thing is laughable.
Kaleva
(36,094 posts)That's the thing with the far right and left. They are so extreme and far out there on the political spectrum that everyone else, even moderates, appear to be members of the opposite fringe.
Power 2 the People
(2,437 posts)Bluepinky
(2,256 posts)It feels like a betrayal that Michelle Obama is so friendly with W, after all his dirty tricks, lies and carnage. He worked with Karl Rove to win the primary (and slandered John McCain); he was complicit in stealing the Presidential election from Al Gore, the true winner; he passed several rounds of tax cuts for people like himself; he ignored warnings about terrorist attacks prior to 9/11; he lied about Iraq and WMD, to sell the Iraq War/invasion to the American people; he destroyed our economy by starting a long, drawn out war that wasnt paid for; and other reasons I cant think of right now. Even if he is funny, Michelle doesnt have to fawn over him. Hes still a rich, privileged guy who had his life handed to him on a silver platter. It doesnt look good for Democrats to flirt with the enemy.
FiveGoodMen
(20,018 posts)I wonder if they really DO care about us at all.
(Those I'd still much rather have Clinton or Obama in office than ANY R)
BannonsLiver
(16,133 posts)Sunlei
(22,651 posts)Admin focused on ACA HARDASS- those first few months of Obamas first term or we wouldn't have our OBAMACARE today.
renate
(13,776 posts)It makes it easier for a non-Trumpian Republican to consider voting for a Democrat--maybe just this once--if the Bushes and the Obamas can be friends, old-fashioned Republicans can be friends with Democrats.
melman
(7,681 posts)democratisphere
(17,235 posts)because of his support for Kavanaugh!
vi5
(13,305 posts)I love Michelle but seriously....
I'm glad they are all enjoying their little insiders club and pretending that all that is wrong is a lack of "sanity" or "civility" or whatever.
What is wrong is that the Republican party (War Criminal George W. Bush included) have been allowed to rot and fester and morph into the institution of hate and intolerance it ended up at today and which started during Mr. Bush's tenure (and I might add enabled by President Obama's obsession with all things bipartisan). Pointing out how much more rational and civil we are than them is not going to do a goddamned fucking thing to fix this problem.
blueinredohio
(6,797 posts)libdem4life
(13,877 posts)say, in a divorce case. To see them cheerily tossing back drinks and back slapping is shocking...especially when it's your attorney there. As in politics, they are in the same club.
magicarpet
(13,881 posts)* What about he election shenanigans and coup de tat at the ballot box..
* What about his military junta where bush/Cheney hijacked the mighty American war machine to pilfer and rape the US Treasury for self enrichment ?
* What about the war crimes committed ? Have you forgotten the torture done in our name ?
* We can not normalized that unfit, inarticulate, down right idiotic asswipe criminals are winning electoral contests and being seated in the Oval Office.
The more we normalize this - the further and further we slip down the slippery slope - Idiocracy is breathing down our neck like a fire breathing dragon. We must address and confront these issues of criminality in our White House or it will only get worse and worse. There is no making a mistake and then starting fresh. These Fascist are picking up where they left off and taking us deeper and deeper into the abyss of a Fascistic Hyper-Capitalist Theocracy.
Nixon got away, Reagan got away, Bush I got away, Bush II/Cheney got away, will trDump slip off and get away too with out our addressing and his team answering for their crimes against the USA ?
Do you notice a pattern here - they are getting progressively stupider and stupider - vacant, mindless, and Hyper Fascist Capitalist gluttonous fools. We must put our foot down and end this cycle of political debasement.
What was once considered shamefully abnormal and atrocious political conduct or behavior is openly allowed, a common every day occurrence, and normalized as acceptable as if to be expected. Bullshit we are better than this - it is our obligation to strive for higher ideals. Not get down in the muck and the mud as we scrape the bottom of the barrel looking for human and intellectual enlightenments in some rancid swill tank full of the rejects and failures of humanity.
TrDump is not the cream of the crop or 'la creme de la creme - by a long shot. This mad man must be stopped from bringing damage to America and finally made to answer for his long string of criminal conduct.
We must stop exhalting down right idiots and then crowning them our leaders and Kings. They are only imposters, they are charlatans, and they are a royal pain in the ass - they only seek to debase America for the personal gain of their criminal syndicates.
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Debase definition is - to lower in status, esteem, quality, or character, to reduce in quality or value; adulterate, is the process of spoiling something or reducing its value by combining it with another material (such as justice/blurred by criminality), to take part in debauched or otherwise immoral behavior.
Synonyms for debasement
noun perversion
corruption
degradation
deprivation