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Octafish

(55,745 posts)
Sun Sep 20, 2015, 09:37 PM Sep 2015

Former Presidents Bush, Clinton share laughs in Dallas



Former Presidents Bush, Clinton share laughs in Dallas

UNIVERSITY PARK – Presidents George W. Bush and Bill Clinton spoke for more than a half-hour Thursday, trading jabs and sharing laughs at The George W. Bush Presidential Center on the campus of Southern Methodist University.

"Clinton and I are getting a little long in the tooth these days," Bush said to laughter from the audience.

"This is the one month of the year when he's older than me," Clinton responded.

The two former presidents, sitting next to each other in chairs on a stage, shared wit and wisdom to the inaugural graduation of Presidential Leadership Scholars.

Sixty men and women from across the country spent the last six months in an executive-style education program learning from the former presidents, their administration officials, and scholars and dignitaries. They attended sessions at presidential libraries in Dallas, Austin, College Station, and Little Rock, Arkansas.

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http://www.wfaa.com/story/news/local/dallas-county/2015/07/09/former-presidents-bush-clinton-speaking-in-dallas/29934689/

I must've missed this story, their work to educate 60 people from across the country.
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Former Presidents Bush, Clinton share laughs in Dallas (Original Post) Octafish Sep 2015 OP
I'm sorry I wasn't there to hear some of the "wit and wisdom" these two shared tularetom Sep 2015 #1
The ones doing well these days are the wealthy... Octafish Sep 2015 #6
Bush & Clinton sitting in a tree, k i s s i n g... Not much diff between them, eh? peacebird Sep 2015 #2
Phil Gramm hired them both at UBS. Octafish Sep 2015 #7
Fucking nauseating. John Poet Sep 2015 #3
I keep gaining appreciation for the Carter administration. Octafish Sep 2015 #8
is he going bald ? JI7 Sep 2015 #4
they flaunt it in our faces. bbgrunt Sep 2015 #5

tularetom

(23,664 posts)
1. I'm sorry I wasn't there to hear some of the "wit and wisdom" these two shared
Sun Sep 20, 2015, 09:52 PM
Sep 2015

Probably a lot of jokes at the expense of the black guy and yukking it up that a relative of one of them will be in the white house for the next four years.

I think this story is a few months old but I d at those pictures then and I'm still ing when I see them today.

Octafish

(55,745 posts)
6. The ones doing well these days are the wealthy...
Sun Sep 20, 2015, 10:37 PM
Sep 2015

In "Rollerball," they were the Executives. In our world, they're the Have-Mores. For the 99%, so much opportunity wasted. For their benefactors, much criminality forgotten and riches beyond the dreams of Croesus.

peacebird

(14,195 posts)
2. Bush & Clinton sitting in a tree, k i s s i n g... Not much diff between them, eh?
Sun Sep 20, 2015, 09:54 PM
Sep 2015

Clinton sold us out with most favored nation status to china, glass steagal, amd nafta....
Bush, well don't get me started.


Hillary supports what Bill did, and supports MORE H1B visas, fracking, and is against reinstall of Glass Steagal and the $15 min wage.

If you want to see America lose the middle class entirely, vote for Hillary. She will maintain the DLC/3 rd way centrist status quo and protect the corporations & her buddies in the 1%

Octafish

(55,745 posts)
8. I keep gaining appreciation for the Carter administration.
Sun Sep 20, 2015, 10:56 PM
Sep 2015

There was inflation and gas prices were super high, creating stagflation, but the banks were honest, there were lots of union jobs, and government still served the People.

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