Bill Clinton And George Bush Pal Up

[Purveyor]

By Dana Milbank Opinion writer September 8

Now it can be told: Bill Clinton was a secret adviser to George W. Bush.

“He used to call me twice a year in his second term, just to talk,” the 42nd president disclosed Monday, with the 43rd president at his side. The two would talk “somewhere between 30 and 45 minutes, for several years,” Clinton continued. “.?.?. Never talked about it in public. We talked about everything in the wide world. He asked my opinion.”

The prevailing opinion expressed by the two men at their joint appearance at the Newseum was that they really, really like each other. These representatives of America’s rival political dynasties spent years blaming each other’s leadership for the nation’s ills, but now they have come together to profess mutual, and long-standing, admiration.

Josh Bolten, the former Bush White House chief of staff who moderated the event, instructed each to say what he liked about the other’s leadership.

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[Z_California]

1. Why wouldn't they like each other?

With the repeal of Glass Steagall, NAFTA, and welfare "reform", Bubba worked hand in hand with GWB to create the perfect economic catastrophe.

[Marrah_G]

2. Since very few people alive at any one time have held that position, I can understand it.

[yeoman6987]

4. I agree

I really don't have issues with this. If the current Congress acted like this. Perhaps we could get something done for the country.

[aikoaiko]

3. Apparently Bush is smarter than I realized.

[Kelvin Mace]

5. And Hillary claims Kissinger is a friend

so, I am pretty much down with the entire family.

[bigdarryl]

6. Bill and Hillary are DISGUSTING!!!

When it comes to them sucking up to neo-cons.I'm tell you right now she has the possibility of blowing the 2016 Presidential election mark my word

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

8. The possibility? It's a given.

[WI_DEM]

7. So? this really isn't unusual

many former presidents have sought out the advice of their predecessors. Sorry I don't find this something to attack Clinton on.

Here is JFK meeting with Ike after the Bay of Pigs.