by Mark Silva
President Bush, playing host to ABC's Good Morning America with a spring celebration of the White House grounds and some proud talk about his daughter's wedding this coming weekend, also was reminded of a prediction that he had made last fall.
"It was in November you talked to my colleague, Charlie Gibson, and you felt that Hillary Clinton would be the Democratic nominee,'' ABC's Robin Roberts reminded the president.
"Yes,'' he said.
"Do you still feel that way?'' Roberts asked.
"Then I reminded everybody I predicted the Detroit Tigers to win the American League pennant last year, too,'' Bush replied. "So I'm not a very good political forecaster. We'll let the Democrats decide.
"I predict John McCain will be living up there,'' he did say of the White House and the Republican Party's presumptive nominee.
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Comments
Ah, those Republicans sure love Senator Clinton!! I wonder why??
SUPPORT OUR TROOPS, BRING THEM HOME, ALIVE. NOW.
Posted by: Don Fitzgerald, Chicago | May 5, 2008 10:05 AM
Bush also predicted a victory in Iraq. Is anyone credible still listing to him?
The sheer fact that he likes Liary and McSame is enough reason to vote against them.
Posted by: Keith Lifetime Chicagoan and Southsider | May 5, 2008 10:15 AM
One sound reason Bush likes Clinton is because she can be bipartisan and get things done working with both sides of the aisle. if you think for one moment that Obama has any chance at getting any republican to vote his way you are in a cloud. This coountry is a two party system we must not forget that. Obama is a lying liberal who will get nothing passed through congress! Clinton is a lying cenralist which works to her advantage!!
Come on people, be smart, vote for experience not phony elequence!
Posted by: Scot S. Blakeley | May 5, 2008 10:52 AM
"One sound reason Bush likes Clinton is because she can be bipartisan and get things done working with both sides of the aisle."
Name one specific example of a major piece of bipartisan legislation which Hillary has gotten passed.
Posted by: Lois | May 5, 2008 12:21 PM
For God's sake, why isn't this criminal in jail or impeached?
Posted by: john | May 5, 2008 12:36 PM
Hey :Lois, obviously you are clueless to what your elected officals are doing. Here are just a few samples of the bipartisan legislature Clinton has crossed the isle for:
1) Expansion of the GI Bill - Clinton voted yes
2) Childrens HealthInsurtance Bill - Clinton voted yes
3) Expansion of the Family and Medical Leave Act
Those are just a few of the many bipartisan lesgislatures Clinton has supported. Have you ever heard of Google Lois? Perhaps you would fare better to do some research before you open your mouth.
Posted by: Scot S. Blakeley | May 5, 2008 1:16 PM
"So I'm not a very good political forecaster."
Just one more thing this president is not good at, including but not limited to:
protecting America
supporting our military
conducting a war
managing our economy
building alliances
rebuilding cities destroyed on his watch
Posted by: Paul | May 5, 2008 1:24 PM
First off Scot, I asked for piece of Legislation that she got passed, not voted for. None of the bills you name has become law, which does not say much for her bipartisan effectiveness.
As for each example:
1) Expansion of the GI Bill - Clinton voted yes
So did Obama. He cosponspored the Bill as did Hillary
2) Childrens HealthInsurtance Bill - Clinton voted yes
Obama was a cosponsor of the senate version of the Bill (s1224) Hillary was not. Neither voted on the bill when it came up.
3) Expansion of the Family and Medical Leave Act
Never got far enough to even come up for a vote. It had no Republican Co-sponsors, so it's hardly Bi-partisan.
You forgot Hillary's shining momment of Bi-partisan support: The Authorization to Use Military Force in Iraq. Tha's why Bush likes her, she was very much a useful tool is pushing this disaster of a war.
Do your research Scot.
Posted by: Lois | May 5, 2008 2:32 PM
Oh yeah, as if the Republicans would ever work with a Clinton.
Posted by: Cheryl | May 5, 2008 3:40 PM
Not to mention that the idea that Obama is more liberal than Hillary is a joke. Has anyone looked at either or their proposals? Just look at their healthcare ideas or their ideas about welfare. Obama is one of the most moderate Democrats in his political ideology. Clinton is everything that's wrong with liberalism in this country.
P.S. Go even further and read The Audacity of Hope. Some of the most honest and brutal criticisms of the "traditional liberal" way of approaching domestic policy.
Posted by: Jake | May 12, 2008 2:24 PM