Ever notice when past presidents get together they’re called the “living ex-presidents”, as if somebody’s going around exhuming the others? They usually assemble at funerals, so it was good to see them break with tradition this week and have lunch at the White House with the outgoing and incoming presidents.
There was only a brief photo op and we don’t know what they talked about, but chances are those five men in that very exclusive club had the kind of chat that makes me wish to have been a fly on the wall. Wouldn’t you love to know what advice they gave the president-elect?
And please tell me I’m not the only one who remembers Carter’s killer rabbit.
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Dubya and his photo ops. Was Dick Cheney sneering in the corner?
Poor Jimmy!
I didn’t remember the rabbit incident, so off I went to google …
if it wasn’t for bad luck, he had no luck at all!
Sage my friend! How the heck are you?
Good to see you.
I’ve uploaded a picture you might enjoy. Long before cheezburger there were sometimes-obscure political lolz and this one is make or break for any guy interested in me. If he doesn’t totally get it with no prompting or help, he won’t have a snowball’s chance with me. Hee!! (Mr. Knife Skills got it immediately…)
Maybe Cheney was back in his undisclosed location. Go home, already, Dick.
heeeeee! “Mr. Knife Skills got it immediately…” A keeper!
Thanks for a true LOL! I’m doing good and hope the new year is treating you fine.
Yes, that was quite some photoshoot. Was it just me, or did their body language seem to leave Carter standing on his own on the edge of the picture?
Either way, that gathering was just about the only highlight of these dog days of the Bush Presidency, apart from the certainty that that they will end.
How ironic it really seems that this Wartime President’s last few moments of authoridee (sic) are being so abused as cover for yet another massacre in the Middle East. 1,000 dead in Gaza. An economic blockade turned into a death camp one day, and killing fields the next.
Let’s hope Obama will act here on Day 1. Because if there’s one thing we’ve learned through history, it’s that the killing has to stop before peace can ever be achieved.
Roads’s last blog post..198. This bank and shoal of time – beside the river in Stratford-upon-Avon
Because if there’s one thing we’ve learned through history, it’s that the killing has to stop before peace can ever be achieved.
So true, so obvious, but so easily overlooked or forgotten. Thank you for saying it. Gaza breaks my heart; I read today 1/3 of those slaughtered were children.
I probably shouldn’t onpass speculation, but it strikes me as possible, so here it is: speculation in some quarters here is that Israel struck when it did, being unsure of Barack’s response but knowing Bush would back any Israeli action, as usual. The paradox, though, is that he is the first president to call for a Palestinian state.
Oh, yes, Carter’s body language was so telling! If he’d been any farther off to the right the photographer would have needed a wide-angle lens or would have had to ’shop him into the picture.
Good to see you.