In Fox's latest effort to rehab the George W. Bush administration’s disastrous foreign policy, the Fox & Friends hosts today wished that President Obama would call on Bush for advice on foreign policy. “How much would it help?” co-host Anna Kooiman asked.
It was a discussion about former Presidents Clinton and Bush 43 working and sharing laughs together at the launch of their new scholars program. In a clip from that launch, they revealed that during the Bush presidency, W. had frequently sought Clinton’s advice.
Perhaps unable to think of a way to smear Hillary with this tidbit, the Fox & Friends crew worked in a few smacks at Obama instead.
Heather, at Crooks and Liars got the transcript (so we didn’t have to):
KOOIMAN: I mean, even just talking to President Bush though. I mean, how much would that help being that he fought two wars, one of them in Iraq on the very same soil, and pretty much everything that President Bush has said about not leaving a strong enough residual force and the warnings about what could happen have come true?
KILMEADE: Well, listen to this. Nixon was used by every president after he was, left office. Think about how often, I remember JFK said he went out of his way, he didn’t tell me this, but if you read the biographies, he went out of his way to call Eisenhower on almost every major international decision out of respect and out of interest to see what a forty something year old would ask a general who was president for eight years.
It’s a tradition which seems to have stopped here.
In the first place, for all these pundits know, Obama has been in regular contact with Bush. In the clip, Clinton notes that his discussions with Bush had been kept under wraps until now. Obama’s may be also.
Secondly, this is the same crew that just announced that the “message” from Ray Rice knocking out his fiancée (now wife) in an elevator is to “take the stairs” or to remember that elevators have cameras (or whatever). And then spending 13 seconds assuring us that they take domestic abuse very seriously.
If you ask me, if there’s one group of people that Obama shouldn’t take advice from it’s these three.
Watch the video below, via Crooks and Liars.
“…..but with Dick there doesn’t seem to be concern for the safety of those who risk their lives while his main thought is his political agenda and the risk to his historic standings.”
And don’t forget about “Five Deferment Dick” making S**TLOADS OF $$$$ FROM WARS doors17 — especially the one in Iraq.
’Nuff said.
I had several of my friends older brothers serve in Vietnam, and all them said they would break our legs if we ever considered going into the military. In late 1967 I was at friend’s house when an Army Sergeant and Chaplain came to inform the family that his brother was killed in action. Those screams of grief will always stay with me.
What I do hold blame to Cheney is the obvious hypocrisy of how he can be so gun-ho about sending others into battle while he used his right to avoid it. I know the argument can be made that anyone who would reject the orders from their commanders in today’s all volunteer military failed to read the large print when they enlisted, but with Dick there doesn’t seem to be concern for the safety of those who risk their lives while his main thought is his political agenda and the risk to his historic standings.
Yes indeed — and don’t forget, “Five Deferment Dick” is a notorious PFC (Privileged Fascist Chickenhawk) — and remember, one of his five deferments came from banging his wife Lynne, a woman whose EXTREME ARROGANCE makes the late “Queen of Mean” Leona Helmsley look like Mahatma Gandhi.
Yes, it is well know that JFK consulted with President Eisenhower who he respectfully called General. He also went to President Truman for advice and the same can be said for all Presidents who seek the advice from former Presidents and others who have an expertise on any issue.
As far as saying it’s a tradition to get advice it is also a tradition not to have the former administration officials criticize the present administration on matter of foreign policy on Sunday talk shows…hello Dick Cheney.
;^)
“If this were a dictatorship, it would be a heck of a lot easier, just so long as I’m the dictator”
— G.W. Bush spoke these words on CNN in December 2000, shortly after he was awarded the White House by his daddy’s pals on the Supreme Court
http://politicalhumor.about.com/od/bushquotes/a/dumbbushquotes.htm
“You know, one of the hardest parts of my job is to connect Iraq to the war on terror.” — interview with CBS News’ Katie Couric, Sept. 6, 2006 “I’m the commander — see, I don’t need to explain — I do not need to explain why I say things. That’s the interesting thing about being president.” — as quoted in Bob Woodward’s “Bush at War”
“Oh, no, we’re not going to have any casualties.” — discussing the Iraq war with Christian Coalition founder Pat Robertson in 2003, as quoted by Robertson
“I think I was unprepared for war.” –- on the biggest regret of his presidency, ABC News interview, Dec. 1, 2008
“This foreign policy stuff is a little frustrating.” — as quoted by the New York Daily News, April 23, 2002
“See, in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda.” — Greece, N.Y., May 24, 2005
“So what?” –- President Bush, responding to a an ABC News correspondent who pointed out that Al Qaeda wasn’t a threat in Iraq until after the U.S. invaded, Dec. 14, 2008 “Can we win? I don’t think you can win it.” — after being asked whether the war on terror was winnable, “Today” show interview, Aug. 30, 2004
“My answer is bring them on.” — on Iraqi insurgents attacking U.S. forces, Washington, D.C., July 3, 2003
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Now, I ask you — who WOULDN’T want to take foreign policy advice from the person who said all the above . . .
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