Bill Clinton: A New Member of the Bush Family :.

[jonnygemini]

via: cryptogon blog

Not really new...

I was actually in Little Rock, Arkansas for the past several days. As the aircraft approached the Little Rock airport, I looked out the window at the mostly empty landscape.

I mumbled to myself, "I wonder how many bodies are out there..."

You see, Bill Clinton's relationship with George Bush goes back at least to the mid 1980s. Clinton's Arkansas was---according to the heaviest narcotics trafficker ever and CIA contractor, Barry Seal www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient-ff&ie=UTF-8&rls=GGGL,GGGL:2005-09,GGGL:en&q=%22barry+seal%22 ---a, "Banana republic." Anything and everything was for sale, and "tithings" could be paid to stay one step ahead of the curve. So, when Bush needed to move guns and drugs by the ton, he didn't go down to Georgia.

He went to Arkansas.

The Contra-related cocaine and weapons operations, which were run out of the Mena airport,
www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient-ff&ie=UTF-8&rls=GGGL,GGGL:2005-09,GGGL:en&q=mena+airport+cocaine
were ordered by Bush and facilitated by none other than Governor Bill Clinton. I guess those antics made for some strong bonds. At the minimum, Clinton got to play president for a couple of terms: A) as a reward; or, B) because he was in a position to take the Bush dynasty down with what he knew.

See:

Compromised: Clinton, Bush and the CIA
www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1883955025?v=glance

and

The Boys on the Tracks
www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0312198418?v=glance

In any event, it's all hugs and kisses now.

Make sure you send this story to all the dumbsh*t Democrats and limousine liberals you know:

President George W. Bush says Bill Clinton has become so close to his father that the Democratic former president is like a member of the family.

Former President George Bush has worked with Clinton to raise money for victims of the Asian tsunami and the hurricane disaster along the U.S. Gulf Coast.

Asked about his father and Clinton, Bush quipped, "Yes, he and my new brother."

"That's a good relationship. It's a fun relationship to watch," Bush said in an interview with CBS News broadcast on Sunday.

While attending Pope John Paul's funeral, Bush said, "It was fun to see the interplay between dad and Clinton. One of these days, I'll be a member of the ex-president's club. ... I'll be looking for something to do."

He said ex-presidents share rare experiences that others cannot understand. "And so I can understand why ex-presidents are able to put aside old differences," he said.

Bush said he checked in with Clinton occasionally.

"And you know, he says things that makes it obvious -- that makes it obvious to me that we're kind of, you know, on the same wavelength about the job of the presidency. Makes sense, after all, there's this kind of commonality," he said.

Bush jokingly referred to speculation that Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, the former president's wife, will seek the Democratic nomination for the presidency. He had earlier referred to the former first lady as "formidable."

"Bush, Clinton, Bush, Clinton," he said, referring to how Bill Clinton had followed his father, and Hillary Clinton could follow him.

HAHA. Get it? HAHA.

[jonnygemini]

February 9, 2006
Washington Memo
The Nation's Dual Political Dynasties Are Growing Closer Than Arm's Length
By ELISABETH BUMILLER

WASHINGTON, Feb. 8 — When the Bushes and Clintons held hands before 15,000 mourners at Coretta Scott King's funeral on Tuesday, it looked like a prayerful moment in the life of the nation. But as almost anyone watching America's two leading political families knew, underneath the tranquil image was a drama of ambition, rivalry, love and alliance that could shape the 2008 presidential election.

The scene, a riveting tableau in the six-hour celebration of Mrs. King's life and the political power of black America, offered complex layers of interconnecting relationships: father and son, husband and wife, president and former president, adversary turned ally and first lady turned senator turned probable presidential candidate.

It was one of the most public manifestations to date of the odd friendship and mutual need of two dynasties that, on the surface at least, have almost nothing in common. But as President Bush put it in an interview with CBS News last month, "Bush, Clinton, Bush, Clinton." Mr. Bush made the remark in a telling exchange with Bob Schieffer, who said, "Well, you know, if Senator Clinton becomes president."

"There we go," Mr. Bush said.

"Maybe we'll see a day," Mr. Schieffer continued.

"Bush, Clinton, Bush, Clinton," Mr. Bush responded.

Earlier in the interview, when Mr. Schieffer noted that Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton was "running pretty hard right now for the Democratic nomination," Mr. Bush jumped in and called her "formidable," an unusually friendly assessment that may have been one reason that Ken Mehlman, chairman of the Republican National Committee, fired back at Mrs. Clinton on Sunday as a candidate with a "left-wing record" and "a lot of anger."

People who know both the Clintons and the Bushes said Mr. Bush's remark about Mrs. Clinton was the more honest personal view. It reflected, they said, the growing friendship between Mr. Clinton and Mr. Bush's father, the first President Bush, and the powers of a shared experience that just five men alive — the two Bushes, Mr. Clinton and former Presidents Jimmy Carter and Gerald R. Ford — wholly understand.

"They've got this secret handshake that nobody else knows about," said Representative Rahm Emanuel, the Illinois Democrat who was a top White House adviser to Mr. Clinton.

Friends of both men say the current President Bush and Mr. Clinton have grown to like each other in Mr. Bush's time in office, even after Mr. Bush had disdained Mr. Clinton's relationship with Monica Lewinsky.

"Yes, President Bush had a personal distaste for Bill Clinton's private behavior," said Lanny J. Davis, a Washington lawyer who ran White House damage control in the Clinton scandals and who has been friends with Mr. Bush and Mr. Clinton for 30 years. "But President Bush would be the first to say that he went through a period of his life where his personal conduct was not something to be proud of. And so both of them have been through hard times, learned humility and learned to differentiate politics from the personal."

The friendship, Democrats and Republicans say, has a political dimension in that Mr. Clinton appears more statesmanlike and Mrs. Clinton more centrist in an embrace with the Bushes, even though the embrace is often fleeting.

By Wednesday morning, Mrs. Clinton had initiated a broad attack on the Bush administration as "playing the fear card" of terrorism to win elections. To the degree that Mr. Clinton and his personal conduct in office become an issue for Mrs. Clinton should she seek the presidency, the implied character reference from two generations of Bushes could be important insulation.

In the meantime, associates of former President Bush and Mr. Clinton say that the two have moved beyond their road show for tsunami and hurricane relief into a genuine friendship and that they have told members of each of their parties to stop complaining about the bond.

In June, Mr. Clinton stayed with Mr. Bush at the former president's retreat in Kennebunkport, Me., where they played golf and raced in Mr. Bush's speedboat. They have also gotten together about a dozen times in the past year for meetings, television tapings and private meals.

The former President Bush has also told friends how much he appreciates Mr. Clinton's deference to him. Last year, when the two men were headed for a four-day trip to the tsunami area, Mr. Clinton, now 59, insisted that Mr. Bush, now 81, take the bedroom on the Air Force plane on the flight over.

"I said, 'No, come on, you go in there, and I'll take the next leg,' " Mr. Bush told Time magazine in December. " 'No, no,' he said. I guess he wanted to play cards all night. But nevertheless, that means something to me. I'm older, and it was a very great courtesy. So the relationship is fun for me. And you have this feeling of doing something important, doing something bigger than ourselves."

Mrs. Clinton's staff members appear ambivalent about the friendship and its effects on her potential race in 2008. Asked what the friendship meant to Mrs. Clinton politically, Howard Wolfson, a top adviser to Mrs. Clinton, said: "Beats me. And it didn't stop the chairman of the Republican Party from attacking her this week."