Bush Sr. and Clinton get humanitarian award

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Former Presidents Bush and Clinton Receive Liberty Medal for Raising Disaster Relief Funds

By KATHY MATHESON
The Associated Press

PHILADELPHIA - Former presidents George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton, who put politics aside to help raise more than $1 billion for disaster relief efforts, received the 2006 Liberty Medal on Thursday night.

"We honor them for answering the call of service again ... for rising above party and personal history to show the world what's best in the American spirit," said Joseph Torsella, president and CEO of the National Constitution Center.

The award annually honors an individual or organization that has "demonstrated leadership and vision in the pursuit of liberty of conscience or freedom from oppression, ignorance or deprivation."

Bush, a Republican, and Clinton, a Democrat, joined forces last year to aid Gulf Coast victims of Hurricane Katrina through the Bush-Clinton Katrina Fund. Earlier, they formed the Bush-Clinton Tsunami Partnership to help survivors of the December 2004 tsunami that killed more than 200,000 people in southeast Asia.

"A lot of people were surprised, to put it mildly, when President Clinton and I teamed up last year," Bush said, noting that his wife called them "the political odd couple."

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[ComerPerro]

1. Disgusting, since Bush's "consulting" groups profit off death of thousands

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2. Didn't they do a movie about 2 ex-presidents from different parties once?

It was a comedy.

:eyes:

[ProSense]

3. It's like magic!

Humanitarian by association, but the illusion doesn't erase the history:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=2320419&mesg_id=2320419

[_dynamicdems]

4. That's a great article.

The public memory is short-term except when it comes to certain Democrats, if you know what I mean.

[ProSense]

5. Yup, the first line sums it up perfectly! n/t

[_dynamicdems]

6. It does, but I kinda like this one.

"Behind George W, there are four generations of Bushes and Walkers devoted first to using political networks to pile up and protect personal fortunes and, latterly, to using absolutely any means to gain office, not because they want to do good, but because they are what passes in American for hereditary aristocrats."