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Title: Bush & Clinton accept medal, hailing our unity, differences
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URL Source: http://www.philly.com/mld/dailynews/15692306.htm
Published: Oct 6, 2006
Author: DAVE DAVIES
Post Date: 2006-10-06 19:20:54 by Ferret Mike
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Ask George H. W. Bush, an 82-year-old Republican ex-president receiving a joint award with Democrat Bill Clinton, what he thinks of the heated political season, and you might expect an appeal for less partisan rancor. Wrong. In accepting the Liberty Medal with Clinton last night for their role in tsunami and Katrina relief efforts, Bush instead offered a spirited "defense of the proper role of partisanship in our politics." "No doubt, this has been a rough political year," Bush said, "but you'll have a hard time convincing me that politics is tougher and uglier in 2006 than it was in the 1960s or than the 1860s, for that matter. "The thing is, every generation thinks their politics are rougher than at any other time in our history," Bush added, "just as every chief executive feels that their media coverage was the most offensive." In 1861, Bush said, "president-elect Lincoln had to travel incognito to Washington for his first inauguration for fear of his safety, so polarized was our nation." Bush and Clinton spoke to an audience of about 2,500 at a ceremony under the sky outside the National Constitution Center, which has taken charge of the Liberty Medal. The award includes a $100,000 prize, which the two ex-presidents have pledged to donate to their ongoing relief efforts. Clinton, who spoke after Bush, recalled that two earlier Liberty Medal recipients, doctors James Watson and Francis Crick, had discovered the structure of DNA, leading to the discovery that "human beings all across the world, Democrat and Republican, African and European, are all 99.9 percent the same, genetically." Clinton posed the question of why people were able to come together after the tsunami and Katrina. "Because when people are broken, and they've lost everything, then all the things we spend most of our time in life on, our differences, that one-tenth of one percent," Clinton said, "all of a sudden they just evaporate." Both Clinton and Bush hailed the framework of the Constitution as key to allowing Americans to differ sharply without losing the importance of what they have in common. Bush got some laughs when he recalled the hard shots he and Clinton traded in their battle for the presidency. "There may have been one or two lapses of personal etiquette on the 1992 campaign trail," Bush said. "For example, I really did not think our dog Millie knew more about foreign policy than the governor of Arkansas, but, hey, we were in the heat of the battle then. The elbows get sharp, you know." But Bush said he and Clinton have become close, and that Clinton is now referred to in the Bush family as "42," an affectionate reference to his presidency that conforms to the "41" and "43" the two Bushes sometimes use for each other. Clinton spoke of his affection for the elder Bush, saying he was someone "I always liked and I always admired. I can now tell you, and may all the Democrats forgive me this close to the election, I love George Bush, I do." The ceremony ended when Jon Bon Jovi performed the song "Who Says You Can't Go Home" and the two presidents embraced on stage.
Poster Comment: The dope from Hope, Ak sucking up to a Kennedy assasination conspirator. We need to 86 43, and deep 6 41 and 42.
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#1. To: Ferret Mike (#0)
A rather sad comment on our society now that we give medals to everyone and their dog when at one time in our nation's history medals meant something. eg. before: Drs. Watson and Crick rec'd the Liberty Medal now: GWB and Slick ( corruption personified X 2)get the Liberty Medal
The German Eagle and the Congressional Medal of honor, two awards given to Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr. Former Army Air Corps Col. Lindberg was probably the only Metal of Honor winner who was refused to be allowed to come back into active duty. Though he did later fly 50 combat missions in the South Pacific as a civilian airplane manufacturer's consultant, and His engine-leaning techniques gave P-38 Lightning pilots longer range at cruising altitude allowing them to fly longer- range missions like the one that killed Admiral Yamamoto. When I see these two controversial yard birds, I think of this American icon who is loved and loathed at the same time much as these two will be in future decades. If the world doesn't get blown up because of the foolishness of 41's son that is. This award to these undeserving recipients is the exact same reason medals in Vietnam were called "Gongs," as they often were passed out as a vain effort to raise flagging moral. And seeing how our national moral and spirit is flagging and compromised, I actually do think these men deserve these medals. But they should be shoved up their asses with a broom handle, not hung around their neck. That place should be reserved for a rope.
Big Barf Alert.
L'affair de necklace?
C'est une bonne idée donner ces hommes un introduction à madame la guillotine, n'est-ce pas?
A worthy goal! Do follow in his footsteps all the way!
"If there’s another 9/11 or a major war in the Middle-East involving a U.S. attack on Iran, I have no doubt that there will be, the day after or within days an equivalent of a Reichstag fire decree that will involve massive detentions in this country." - Daniel Ellsberg Author, Pentagon Papers mais oui!
Clinton, who spoke after Bush, recalled that two earlier Liberty Medal recipients, doctors James Watson and Francis Crick, had discovered the structure of DNA...
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#3. To: Ferret Mike (#0)
#4. To: Ferret Mike (#2)
That place should be reserved for a rope.
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#6. To: Ferret Mike (#0)
In 1861, Bush said, "president-elect Lincoln had to travel incognito to Washington for his first inauguration for fear of his safety, so polarized was our nation."
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