Bill Clinton and Jeb Bush recall
‘kinder, gentler’ time in U.S. politics
Associated Press,
by
Staff
Original Article
Posted By: NorthernDog,
9/29/2019 11:55:21 AM
BIDDEFORD, Maine — Former Democratic President Bill Clinton and former Republican Florida Gov. Jeb Bush are pining for the days when the two parties worked together. The two appeared together to talk about strengthening America’s commitment to education on Friday at the University of New England. Partnering with the George & Barbara Bush Foundation, the university used the 30th anniversary of the late President George H.W. Bush’s 1989 Education Summit as the jumping-off point for the discussion.
Clinton and Bush also spoke of the elder Bush’s “kinder, gentler” brand of politics during an era of bipartisan achievements. Clinton, who survived
Reply 1 - Posted by:
valinva 9/29/2019 12:04:34 PM (No. 192828)
Bill Clinton was a moderate Democrat. He was not an ideologue. When Gingrich painted him into a corner, he caved on the leftist line and went along with Welfare Reform and other Republican ideas. Does anyone think that any of the Communists running for the Democrat nomination would agree to that? Different time, the Democrats aren't even trying to hide the fact that they are Socialist/Communist.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
stablemoney 9/29/2019 12:07:57 PM (No. 192834)
Leave these reprobates forgotten.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
LesUNo 9/29/2019 12:09:23 PM (No. 192836)
Charles Krauthammer called a Bill Clinton’s two terms “An eight year vacation from history”.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
earlybird 9/29/2019 12:12:15 PM (No. 192839)
Jebster and Bubba, together at last… sweet…./s
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
zephyrgirl 9/29/2019 12:12:31 PM (No. 192842)
What they both mean is when the Republicans didn't fight back. The Democrats were always the vicious SOBs they are now. If you don't doubt me, read Ken Starr's book. The Clinton Crime Duo demonized and eviscerated him and anyone who got in their way.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
montwoodcliff 9/29/2019 12:26:44 PM (No. 192847)
What planet are these two on? Carville and Begala were two of the nastiest operatives ever! No.5 gets it.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Bur Oak 9/29/2019 12:36:21 PM (No. 192863)
The elite wish for the days when they had it all.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Quigley 9/29/2019 12:42:30 PM (No. 192870)
Bilbo was so kind and gentile with Monica. Tried find her a job in a fatherly manner. Tried to spare her from any embarrassment.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Periwinkel 9/29/2019 1:06:20 PM (No. 192887)
I ask you to recall how Bill Clinton treated Monica Lewinski. He was horrible and led a humiliating conspiracy against her to keep her quiet. He was not a nice man EVER. He definitely derserved Impeachment; I only wished he could have been convicted.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
chance_232 9/29/2019 1:14:51 PM (No. 192894)
Once upon a time, and I'm old enough to remember, democrats largely believed in the constitution, the founding principles, G_d, country and American exceptionalism. They believed in hard work and civility. The difference between republicans was less over policy issues and more over amounts.
Politics was always a contact sport, but has since Nixon, devolved into a no holds barred, the ends justify the means bloodsport. The dems are not only NOT on the same page, they are reading from entirely different books. We can debate the causes until we are blue in the face, but I don't see a return to normalcy anytime soon. We are heading to the dissolution of the US as we knew it. Will it be a peaceful divorce or will it be a civil war?
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
lakerman1 9/29/2019 1:17:16 PM (No. 192897)
During the 1992 campaign, Hillary went on the morning shows and accused George H.W. Bush of having affairs with CIA female employees during his tenure there.
Other Clinton campaign operatives accused President Bush 41 of 'jumping out of a perfectly good airplane' during WWII. (thus leaving two crew members to die.)kinder and gentler? That's a bunch of bull Schiff.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Smart11344 9/29/2019 1:20:56 PM (No. 192903)
Bubba, the corrupt, make him look like a snowflake, in comparison to "the Squad". The squad will ultimately destroy the democrat party. The no longer display any decorum.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
spacer 9/29/2019 1:24:15 PM (No. 192906)
Billy Dale and friends might have a different opinion. By the way Jeb, anyone know how the beast got a hold of 900 FBI files?
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
franq 9/29/2019 1:31:54 PM (No. 192921)
Just the edification I need on a Sunday. The ruminations of Heb! and the Sink Emperor.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
JrSample 9/29/2019 1:32:28 PM (No. 192923)
Oh great, Low Energy Jeb and Billy-Jeff Clintoon, bemoaning the good old days when the political dynasties of Bush and Clintoon fooled all the "little people" out there and used their elected positions to fill their own and their families' pockets with filthy lucre and power.
We've had enough of them, and they still don't get it.
Obama Joe Biden using his VP position and taxpayer dollar$ to greaze the skids for his lowlife cokehead son to close lucrative business deals is a perfect example of the way the DC swamp does business.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
ladychatalie 9/29/2019 1:52:18 PM (No. 192944)
Bubba, tell us what was in the note you and the other ex-presidents got at Jebby's dad's funeral extravaganza. A clawback of Obama's increase in ex-president pay and benefits? A reduction in secret service protection for all your cousins and cronies? A suggestion you pay for your own presidential libraries?
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
cor-vet 9/29/2019 2:00:26 PM (No. 192958)
Billy needn't look any further than Chappaquidic (sp) to find the answer as to why kinder, gentler times went away! It's the tented pantsuit and baby Web leading the charge.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
DCGIRL 9/29/2019 2:02:34 PM (No. 192960)
What morons. Here's Bill that has sex in the oval office every chance he gets from staffers and Jeb Bush who's wife smuggles jewelry in this country because she does not want to pay the tax.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
Maggie2u 9/29/2019 2:06:21 PM (No. 192961)
'A kinder, gentler nation', Gentlemen, just when did that occur? Between 1862 and 1865?
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
ToryWhite 9/29/2019 2:54:29 PM (No. 192993)
The Clinton and Bush mad dog dynasties, presented on a gilded family foundation plate. Despicably dishonest, both families, greedy and consumed with ambition. They won't ever let us forget.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
TJM 9/29/2019 2:59:06 PM (No. 192995)
This "news" article is a complete work of fiction. The media must believe we all suffer from amnesia
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
Ida Lou Pino 9/29/2019 3:00:55 PM (No. 192997)
I often harken back to those kind, gentle days - -
- - when Master B. Clinton was pushing his penis into the face of Monica Lewinsky - - molesting Kathleen Willey and Paula Jones - - and raping Juanita Broaddrick.
Yes - - those were the halcyon days of yore. Thank you ¡Jeb! for recalling them for us.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
Lawsy0 9/29/2019 3:14:59 PM (No. 193011)
Aw how sweet; big brudder and baby brudder singing in unison. Cue the music: ''Memories, pressed between the pages of my mind; Memories, sweetened through the ages just like wine'' Oops. Forgot to add a barf-alert.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
Chuzzles 9/29/2019 3:16:50 PM (No. 193015)
Bubba convinced everyone at the time he was running that telling any truth about his sleazy, rotten and thoroughly corrupted record was politics of personal destruction and we should be above that. Jeb Bush totally ignored the constitutional subject of eminent domain, which would have required the State to reimburse homeowners for all the healthy trees he had destroyed, but he refused.
There were also stories about how the cops absolutely turned thug when assisting the FD's to access the property of angry homeowners. Florida residents are still paying the tab for Bush and his heavy handed dealing with residents to this day. So glad Hillary is not president, and the dirty secret here is, so is Bubba. She would have reduced his historical footprint to a footnote, and he would not have relished that.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
RedWhite&Blue2 9/29/2019 3:29:06 PM (No. 193034)
F the ass press!
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
judy 9/29/2019 3:49:27 PM (No. 193048)
Did they forget Monicagate? My.. My Bush & Jeb... sweep your own back porch before you complain about others.
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What they recall is a time when the voters were ignorant lemmings who believed what the three networks were peddling. Now we have access to more truth, and even access to what the president is thinking day to day.
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
MDConservative 9/29/2019 3:51:51 PM (No. 193052)
Let's go back to the days of caning and duels...not to mention torchlight parades that resulted in major property fires.
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
Italiano 9/29/2019 4:07:59 PM (No. 193064)
Even when the Republicans were "in power," they were kinder, gentler losers.
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
snapper451 9/29/2019 4:58:39 PM (No. 193113)
Is there a “barf” emoji?
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
bigfatslob 9/29/2019 5:12:05 PM (No. 193125)
Billy Blowjobus Clinton with globalist Jeb Open Borders Bush reminiscing when Republicans use to sit silent, roll over and agree with criminal democrats in the name of bipartisanship, esteem colleagues across the aisle, John McCain double crossing days of old.
The good old days of go along with democrats to get along the two globalist bros should get a room.
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Reply 32 - Posted by:
caddyjak 9/29/2019 5:24:48 PM (No. 193133)
You just have to give the Fake News people credit for an excellent job. Not one out of 100,000 U.S. citizens
know that Clinton is a convicted felon. Or that is brother is a convicted felon. Or that Chelsey's father in law did 10 years in the Fed. pen or that Clinton's mother was involved in two homicides. Need I go on??
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Reply 33 - Posted by:
doctorfixit 9/29/2019 5:48:37 PM (No. 193148)
After cozying up with Bill, Jeb might want to refill his presrition for Super Prep H - now with fentanyl.
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I repeating what others have said but it was much easier when Democrats kicked Republicans in the teeth and Republicans just said ‘Thank you ‘
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It was much less contentious when Republicans simply thanked Democrats for each kick in the teeth .
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Reply 36 - Posted by:
rochow 9/29/2019 6:38:33 PM (No. 193189)
Shows that Klinton has dementia and the Bush nobody is still a slow nothing!
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Reply 37 - Posted by:
Italiano 9/29/2019 6:43:32 PM (No. 193193)
The Bush Family is just miffed because Trump declined their Inaugural gift: the "Kick Me" sign that W wore taped to his ass for eight years.
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Reply 38 - Posted by:
Butch 9/29/2019 7:13:52 PM (No. 193208)
Politics in America sure as hell weren´t "kinder and gentler" leading up to the election of 1800, between Thomas Jefferson and John Adams. Broadsheets made scurrilous accusations against both men and their families. The election of 1864 was dreadful, with accusations that Mary Todd Lincold slept around Army barracks, etc.
The truth is that politics (and holding high office for that matter) are almost always very difficult, and especially in free countries. Israel has almost always been governed by coalitions in the Knesset, and Belgium hasn´t even had a government for over three years! What is Billie Goat Jeff whingeing about now? Politics have been good for him, to say the least. As for Jeb, he was a good governor of Florida, but he isn´t presidential timber. He´s a nice guy, Jeb!
And yet, how odd it is that we never hear President Trump complain about the lack of kindness and gentleness in politics; he knows the game, and he plays it exceedingly well. He never whines about how vicious and mean everyone is to poor politicians (most of whom are lazy do-nothings who are simply marking time).
P.S. Despite their many differences, Adams and Jefferson were good friends who admired and respected each other. They both died on July 4, 1826, withing hours of each other, on the fiftieth anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. Wow, just Wow.
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Reply 39 - Posted by:
udanja99 9/29/2019 7:53:21 PM (No. 193241)
Kinder and gentler? IIRC it was Bubba and his “bride” who invented “the politics of personal destruction”. Just ask Ron Brown or Vince Foster.
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I don't want to hear about the Jebster being a good governor. Depends on who you are.
By kinder and gentler they mean the internet was not available to everyone and the truth did not smack them in the face everyday.
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Reply 41 - Posted by:
winnie1 9/30/2019 9:47:51 AM (No. 193599)
What a joke! Out of the mouths of a pervert and no energy Jeb LOL
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