Former President Bush Says Public Service Event Featuring Obama “Not About Politics”
Email ABC News' Matthew Jaffe reports: On the invitation of former President George H. W. Bush, President Obama Friday will visit Texas A&M University to speak at a public service event that Bush said this week is not about politics. "This is not about politics," Bush said in a letter to the university's community. "This is about the importance of service to our communities and our country." Both Obama and Bush will both speak to the school on Friday. President Obama will arrive at the university's Rudder Auditorium at 5p ET Friday evening, with his remarks scheduled for an hour later. The current president's visit has been met with protests by the Texas A&M chapter of the Young Conservatives of Texas. The group will hold a protest Friday against Obama's "socialist policy agenda", with an emphasis on health care, they said. In Bush's letter, the former president said, "I am so proud to have our Bush Library and Museum and Bush School of Government and Public Service here, and I cannot wait for President Obama to experience the open, decent, and welcoming Aggie spirit for himself." "This will be an important national moment," Bush said, "and a moment for Texas A&M to shine in the global spotlight as it always does." "Our country still faces many tough challenges," he wrote, "and the message that will come out of our Presidential Forum on Service, I hope, is that every American regardless of age has an important part to play in helping us overcome the obstacles to our common progress." After the event Friday evening, President Obama will return to Washington DC for the weekend. – Matthew Jaffe
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Good luck keeping the raving wingnuts from trying to make it about politics (and they’ll probably get a full hour’s coverage on Fox even if only a dozen people show up).
Posted by: jhw539 | October 15, 2009, 9:04 pm 9:04 pm
(and they’ll probably get a full hour’s coverage on Fox even if only a dozen people show up).
Too funny. For some reason that comment reminded me of Jon Stewart’s bit on Fox’s coverage of all tea party type protests– even the empty street in front of a school where there was a protest they approved of and wanted to promote– but not, of course, the LGBT protest in DC. Crickets on that.
Posted by: Alyson | October 15, 2009, 9:11 pm 9:11 pm
My father was an Aggie. He loved the Aggie jokes. You all know “Green Side Up”?
Posted by: Bill in NC | October 15, 2009, 10:29 pm 10:29 pm
George is a fool. How we went to having someone worse in the top slot is past incredible.
At this point we should just start throwing darts at a phone book to pick our leaders.
The Republican party has outlived it’s usefullnes as an opposition party and has done nothing but aid and enable the Dems to destroy this once great country.
Very sad and has me spinning.
Posted by: A. Lincoln | October 15, 2009, 11:03 pm 11:03 pm
Given the tea party had hundreds of thousands in attendance the msm did an excellent job of avoiding coverage of it. The same way they avoided Van Jones & the Acorn story until it was unavoidable.
You posts are so clearly left wing propaganda & consistent you should change your name at least every 200 posts or so. Less obvious.
Posted by: A. Lincoln | October 15, 2009, 11:58 pm 11:58 pm
Didn’t Bush 1 also have to deal with a republican financial disaster, Savings and Loans scandals..
what is it with republicans constantly trying to destroy the american economy and the middle class?
Posted by: PO'd | October 16, 2009, 1:01 am 1:01 am
The mistake was not giving this George Bush eight years. 17 years ago the voters were stupid.
Posted by: JV | October 16, 2009, 1:46 am 1:46 am
Maybe the 2 are going to admit that the destroyed economy was an inside job? Or perhaps they’re getting together to plan their next phase of “Operation One World Order”?
Posted by: EPU | October 16, 2009, 4:38 am 4:38 am
The most telling line in that story about our fearless leader is:
“After the event Friday evening, President Obama will return to Washington DC for the weekend.”
Let that sink in … “for the weekend”.
This is not a presidency, folks … it is the longest campaign ever run in the history of the United States.
Posted by: Howard Beale | October 16, 2009, 7:39 am 7:39 am
Obama is still on campaign mode …. why don’t they invite Jimmy carter as well …. then give each other a Nobel Peace Prize while they are at it … these clowns are really worthless and pathetic …
Posted by: wizcat123 | October 16, 2009, 8:29 am 8:29 am
jhw539 – What else is it about? Politicians and politics, lump all of them together and what do you get? Nothing, nada …. jack squat!
Posted by: wizcat123 | October 16, 2009, 8:31 am 8:31 am
“Given the tea party had hundreds of thousands in attendance the msm did an excellent job of avoiding coverage of it.”
A. Lincoln | Oct 15, 2009 11:58:06 PM
It had almost 24 hour coverage on Fox, which loves to tell us just how huge they are. And if you’re going to lie about the number in attendance, why don’t you go big and claim a million again? In REALITY the crowd was tens of thousands – about the same size as the gay rights protest last weekend that Fox gave literally 3 minutes of coverage all day to.
Posted by: jhw539 | October 16, 2009, 9:42 am 9:42 am
I bet Fox News is already rallying up the Far right nuts in Texas! Glen beck and Limbaugh is losing it! hahahah
Posted by: Angie in PA | October 16, 2009, 10:10 am 10:10 am
I see Obama doesn’t mind being associated with Bush now… all politicians ARE the same. Learn it now or suffer later.
Posted by: Shane | October 16, 2009, 1:05 pm 1:05 pm
“Given the tea party had hundreds of thousands in attendance the msm did an excellent job of avoiding coverage of it.”
Less than 100,000 were there even with now stop promotion by FoxNews and right wing media.
Every network (cable and broadcast) gave it coverage.
BTW last week there was a gay rights march of nearly the same size.
FoxNews barely acknowledged that it happened.
Posted by: Ryan C | October 16, 2009, 1:13 pm 1:13 pm
A. Lincoln wrote: “Given the tea party had hundreds of thousands in attendance the msm did an excellent job of avoiding coverage of it.”
Hundreds of thousands? A. Lincoln scores a Hannity on the FNC spectrum of TEA party crowd estimates.
Greta Van Susteren: “Thousands”
FoxNewsDotCom: “Tens of thousands”
Bill O’Reilly: “About 75,000”
Griff Jenkins: “More than a hundred thousand”
Sean Hannity: “Hundreds of thousands”
Glenn Beck: “1.7 million”
Posted by: WWW | October 16, 2009, 1:28 pm 1:28 pm
I wonder if Opompous will tell the crowd how he inheritad this mess from his host. You have to admit GWB has class for even inviting Opoumpos.I hope GWB takes him aside and asks him about all the communists and Marxists that have surrounded Obama his entire life.
Posted by: fishergirlusmc | October 16, 2009, 2:02 pm 2:02 pm
I wonder if Opompous will tell the crowd how he inheritad this mess from his host. You have to admit GWB has class for even inviting Opoumpos.I hope GWB takes him aside and asks him about all the communists and Marxists that have surrounded Obama his entire life.
Posted by: fishergirlusmc | Oct 16, 2009 2:02:39 PM
This is GHWB not GWB. You know Daddy Bush who would’t eat broccoli.
Posted by: 'Un-American' | October 16, 2009, 2:22 pm 2:22 pm
“Hundreds of thousands? A. Lincoln scores a Hannity on the FNC spectrum of TEA party crowd estimates.”
Hilarious…
Posted by: Ryan C | October 16, 2009, 2:29 pm 2:29 pm