TooMuchBlue

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2005-04-11

Brain trust: Presidents 41, 42, 43

President Bush invited his father and President Clinton to ride in Air Force One to the Pope's funeral. While he had them all in the plane, he used the time to discuss foreign policy and a few other things. Story at the Washington Times. There's really not much downside for a sitting President to meet with his predecessors from time to time, as long as it's not too often. Of course, the liberal media didn't pass up the chance to accuse GWB of leaning on his father too much, an ongoing theme. There's also a tidbit here of note related to the Social Security debate. A number of vocal democrats are spouting rhetoric (my blog--my spin) about "dismantling" social security, when GWB has made it clear he wants to protect it. One of the straw men they like to use is the meme that Bush is insisting on Personal Savings Accounts (he's not insisting on anything but dialog at this point), and that PSAs are a bad idea. Lo and behold, this idea first belonged to Saint Clinton.
The president also praised one of Mr. Clinton's domestic policies -- trying to reform Social Security. Both men have proposed personal savings accounts as part of the solution, an idea that is vociferously opposed by congressional Democrats. 'I was telling President Clinton I remember watching one of his town hall meetings in Albuquerque, New Mexico, on this very subject,' Mr. Bush said just hours after bidding farewell to his predecessor at the Rome airport. 'And I thought it was a very impressive presentation,' he added. 'By the way, a lot of the language happens to be pretty close to some of the town hall meetings we've had.'

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