..Ghosts of Clinton haunt Bush Africa tour

[Nambe]

ASSOCIATED PRESS

President Bush is thousands of miles away from Washington, yet even here, he cannot escape the long shadow of his predecessor.

A room at the Imperial Botanical Beach Hotel here along the shores of Lake Victoria was renamed the Clinton Imperial Suite after President Clinton stayed in it on a visit to Uganda during his 1998 tour of sub- Saharan Africa.

Reporters who accompanied Bush to the hotel Friday for his private meeting with Uganda's president Yoweri Museveni and tour of an AIDS support center filed their stories and sound bites from the nearby Clinton Pavilion.

And after Bush lands in Nigeria late Friday, the final stop on five-day tour of sub-Saharan Africa, his black limousine and the rest of his motorcade will whiz down Bill Clinton highway en route to the hotel where he is to spend the night. ---

Clinton visited six countries in 11 days. Where Bush took an hour Thursday to drive through a nature reserve in search of elephants, cheetahs and warthogs, Clinton spent two days on safari. ---

Privatize bush It’s a Good Thing

[diamond14]

1. will a photo be published of shrub on the "Bill Clinton" hwy ? nt

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[patdem]

2. Thanks for this....just a chuckling

How very ironic. bush* hates everything Clinton and yet ...and yet. I love this story!! :bounce: :hi:

[papau]

3. Not an approved story for US media - US folks won't "like" - no

legs -

feel free to state other reasons that US Media will not highlite this tonight or in the Sunday paper (it might make page A29 of the Saturday edition - next to obits and before the car ads).

[myomy]

4. Yes, that was another life and another country ago.

We can only dream of the ”good old” days. What the hell have these people who occupy Washington done to us? If we only had a free press, then maybe others would be aware of it too.

[MaineDem]

5. I enjoyed this story!

My husband just asked me why I was laughing. :-)

[Bandit]

6. "Clinton spent two days on safari."

And boy did the GOP bitch about it. They said he was shirking his duty. I guess he should have taken a month for vacation instead. He was building good will but I don't think that concept is something the GOP knows anything about.

[JoFerret]

7. Love it.

Now - let's see - what we could suggest for the Bush legacy? The Bush Imperial ....?

[Gin]

8. Thank you...thank you...thank you....too bad they didnt get put

in the Clinton presidential suite...

"how suite it is!!!"

This story made my evening.

[I AM SPARTACUS]

9. Smirko W. AmBush has alot of his OWN ghosts to deal with...

[AnnabelLee]

10. This shows how much Clinton was (& still is) respected

& liked by other countries. *, OTOH, has to have people forcefully rousted out of their homes in order to make a "safe zone" before he'll make an appearance.

[LiberalLibra]

11. I love it!!! Too bad Bush wasn't required to stay in the Clinton suit....

....that would have been too cool!!!!