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Fri Mar 30, 2012, 10:06 AM Mar 2012

Bush Girls Fell For Obama [View all]

from Buzzfeed: http://www.buzzfeed.com/buzzfeedpolitics/bush-girls-fell-for-obama


French diplomat reveals how George W. Bush first knew Obama would win: His daughters were crazy about the Democrat

George W. Bush told French President Nicolas Sarkozy that he had early intelligence that Democrat Barack Obama would be his successor in the White House: His daughters were enthusiastic supporters of the Democrat, according to an account from a top French official.

The 43rd president backed John McCain, his fellow Republican, former rival, and uneasy ally. But Bush told his French counterpart that his twin daughters, Barbara and Jenna, made no secret of their allegiance to Obama, who wielded a strong generational appeal, according to Jean-David Levitte, the former French Ambassador to the United States who was then in Paris as Sarkozy's top foreign policy advisor.

"Bush believed that Obama would win because his twins swore by him," Levitte told Le Monde's Arnaud Leparmentier in an article in the French newspaper today. The article, excerpted from a pre-election book on Sarkozy, is not online.


read: http://www.buzzfeed.com/buzzfeedpolitics/bush-girls-fell-for-obama


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