Why do Bushes embrace Bill and Hillary Clinton?

[mylye2222]

Thzy are grateful to them for protecting their crook guys when Bill was in office.
They are also glad for them having stabbing Kerry in the back in 2004 by sending him guys like Carville and therefore helping him stay in WH.
Bush Clinton. The eternal mutual interests.

[AndreaCG]

1. It's more than that

I'm not sure what Clinton could have done about Iran contra at that point. And more to the point, the ex presidents club is pretty rarefied. There's a kind of built in camaraderie especially when you're an amiable type like Clinton. Jimmy Carter is the rare ex president who keeps pretty much to himself. It'll be interesting to see how much Obama has to do with them post 2016. W and Bush the Elder have for the most part kept criticism of him to themselves, except for that "miss me now?" Comment by W. As opposed to that shit Cheney.

[blackcrowflies]

2. Jimmy is also the only one worthwhile.

I don't think he keeps to himself in terms of the other ex-Presidents voluntarily. I've seen a couple of quotes from him about how he tried to reach out and met with disinterest.

Plus, I don't see any of the others off on the other side of the world doing good stuff. They're more likely to be raking in half a mil per speech. So not a lot of geographical path crossing either.

[AndreaCG]

4. I looked the snubs up on ask

Could only find Pope John Paul II's funeral as a reference where Carter may have been snubbed and it's ambiguous. But there's video of Carter walking past Clinton at Obama's inauguration so bad blood may exist.

It's not totally true that the other ex presidents don't do charitable work. The Clinton global initiative for example. Not as hands on as building homes but not nothing either.

[Thinkingabout]

3. In your opinion when did Bill and George Sr become friends?

[Electric Monk]

9. When Bill was still just Governor of Arkansas, if not earlier

Wallace and his third wife, the former Lisa Taylor, meet with Vice President George Bush and Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton at a lobster bake at Bush's residence at Kennebunkport, Maine, July 30, 1983

http://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/george-wallace/13/

[Douglas Carpenter]

11. cool picture

[okaawhatever]

5. I read that they became friends when they both worked on some fund raising event, one for a huge

disaster. Haiti maybe? I don't remember which one, but it was the commercial that showed both of them.

[LawDeeDah]

8. Might be the indonesian Tsunami in 2004.

http://www.nbcnews.com/id/6780798/ns/world_news-tsunami_a_year_later/t/ex-presidents-lead-tsunami-charity-drive/#.VIN4DoevO9w

but I think they were buds way before that and there is more than some talk about the Indonesian tsunami, like the Haiti earthquake, that the charity was more for big business development than for the suffering many.

[Thinkingabout]

10. They had some interaction at different times but really became friends after working raising funds

For the tsunami and also Katrina. I was wondering why and how the poster is trying to relate the two for not apparently convicting someone of something to do with Iran Contra.

[geek tragedy]

6. They worked together on tsunami relief.

Also, they're 2 out of 5 people alive who know what it's like to be President of the USA.

Remember that Clinton beat Poppy.

[Exultant Democracy]

7. They have more in common with each other than they do with anyone else.

My father was a golfing buddy of Bush Sr. And he is a strong democratic black man, they just happened to get along. I'm friends with Jack Abramoff, before I met him I assumed he was the spawn of satan. I'll tell you this much I would trust Jack with my wallet over a lot of democratic politicians that I know. (Half because they are crooked as shit and the other half because they can't find their own asshole without someone's help.)

If I was going to hold something against the Clintons it isn't their cocktail party friends, it's the people they actively work with and support for example Rahm. Now there is a toad that lived up to being as terrible in person as I thought he would be.

[hrmjustin]

12. They are former presidents so they became friendly.

[Electric Monk]

13. They were friendly even before either of them were president. See post #9. nt

[hrmjustin]

15. That picture proves nothing.

It was likely a get together of Governors at the Vice President's private home at the time.

Clinton spoke at an education forum at the WH in the early years of Bush's presidency yet he ran against him a few years later.

The picture proves nothing.

[RandiFan1290]

14. Rarefied air above the silver linings