Bush: Clinton Understands White House Pressure

[Beacool]

By RICK KLEIN and ED O'KEEFE
Nov. 20, 2007

In an exclusive interview with Charlie Gibson airing Tuesday on World News, President Bush and first lady Laura Bush said that Sen. Hillary Clinton's experience as first lady has prepared her to handle the "pressure" of a presidential race and the White House.

"No question, there is no question that Sen. Clinton understands pressure better than any of the candidates, you know, in the race," the president told ABC News' Charlie Gibson Tuesday afternoon at the presidential retreat at Camp David.

The president emphasized, "I do believe our candidate will beat her, if she happens to be the nominee," although he refused to speculate on the Republican presidential field, calling it a "wide-open" race.

Bush, whose father was defeated for re-election by Bill Clinton in 1992, called the former first lady a "very formidable candidate," saying repeatedly that she and the former president "understand the klieg lights."

Laura Bush said experience as first lady would be "very helpful" in the White House.

"You certainly know what it's like," she emphasized. "You know the pressure there is, you know the difficulties."

The first lady later said, "I think it was very helpful for us to have been ... around the White House as much as we were when his parents served there."

See more of the president and first lady on "World News With Charles Gibson" and "Nightline" this evening, and on Wednesday on "Good Morning America."

http://abcnews.go.com/WN/Vote2008/story?id=3892297&page=1


Now I've heard it all......... :rofl:

[geek tragedy]

1. Well, dynasties do have to stick together. n/t

[AlGore-08.com]

2. They're laying the groundwork for Laura Bush in 2012 or 2016

Book it.

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[Beacool]

4. It's not unflattering to Hillary

I'm laughing at Bush almost endorsing Hillary and how it's going to drive the Repugs crazy. I checked some of the RW blogs and they're already calling Bush anything from dumb to crazy. I just think that the whole thing is too funny! :D

[gateley]

5. But Bush could be crazy as a fox, as the saying goes. There's a school of

Republican thought that Hillary couldn't win the GE (for whatever reasons they want to believe) and this could be his sneaky way of trying to see she gets the nom. Not saying it's a brilliant - or even good - strategy -- just that you have to question why Bush would say anything the least supportive about any of the Dem candidates.