Jan 27, 2012 9:43pm

Obama Has Oval Office Meeting With Bush 41 and Jeb Bush

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(The White House)

President Obama met with former president George H. W. Bush and his son, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, at the White House this evening.

Their Oval Office meeting was not on the president’s official schedule for today but was made public when the White House released a photo of the meeting on its Flickr site. The former president and his son are in town for the annual Alfalfa Club dinner Saturday night.

According to a White House official, “The three men enjoyed a personal visit in the Oval Office, as they have done on previous occasions when President Bush is in Washington.”

The meeting came just days before the Republican Florida primary. The popular former governor has yet to endorse a candidate in the tight race in his state.

Earlier in the week, Jeb Bush warned the Republicans vying for the White House to tone down their assaults.

“I think there’s a point past which Republicans and independent voters get turned off by this fierce primary spilling over into personal attacks,” he told CNN. “I would hope that both Gov. Romney and Speaker Gingrich would stay away from that.”

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Posted by: Wylie-Mike | January 27, 2012, 9:56 pm 9:56 pm

“When are you going stop blaming my son?” – GHWB to Mr. Obama.

Posted by: young_voter | January 27, 2012, 10:17 pm 10:17 pm

When I see Bush 41 I think of the photo which is making the rounds again of Reagan, Bush and others laughing hysterically over wine. The caption: And then we told them wealth would trickle down. (money science twitter)

Posted by: Roxanne | January 27, 2012, 10:45 pm 10:45 pm

It is so nice seeing the Bush family at the white house with President Obama. No matter the political differences, Americans are patriotic to the country they hold dear at heart. Just wondering: why didn’t Jeb Bush run for the presidency?

Posted by: NoFlyZone2 | January 27, 2012, 10:48 pm 10:48 pm

“When are you going stop blaming my son?” – GHWB to Mr. Obama.

POSTED BY: YOUNG_VOTER | JANUARY 27, 2012, 10:17 PM 10:17 PM___________You weren’t there at the meeting, and you don’t know what he said. So, stop the insinuation

Posted by: NoFlyZone2 | January 27, 2012, 10:52 pm 10:52 pm

This is good and reflects well on President Obama.

Posted by: Bill | January 27, 2012, 10:53 pm 10:53 pm

I am a fan of George H. W. Bush. He is a true American hero.

Posted by: NoFlyZone2 | January 27, 2012, 10:57 pm 10:57 pm

__”This is good and reflects well on President Obama.”

POSTED BY: BILL | JANUARY 27, 2012, 10:53 PM 10:53 PM____________True! And so on all Americans

Posted by: NoFlyZone2 | January 27, 2012, 11:02 pm 11:02 pm

Young_Voter – you must’ve just turned 18. Obama spent more in his first four months in office than ALL of the former presidents…COMBINED. And millionaires pay all the taxes you toolbag. The 15% tax rate the 1%ers pay amounts to more in taxes than the entire bottom 50% of tax payers. Instead of raising taxes on the wealthy how about LOWERING everyone elses taxes to 15% (which would be so minimal of a change in revenue that the government wouldn’t even notice) and cut useless spending. With that said, republicans are just as good at spending money and starting beaurocratic agencies, so your second point is valid. If you truly believe in small government, finish your economics 101 and 102 classes, then declare yourself a libertarian and vote Ron Paul.

Posted by: YOUNG_VOTER_IS_MISINFORMED | January 27, 2012, 11:30 pm 11:30 pm

Nice to see ol’ George Herbert Walker, the last Republican I voted for. Sorry to see him in a wheelchair, but it looks like he’s in great company with his son. A group of real gentlemen in that photo.

Posted by: Aaron Ververs | January 27, 2012, 11:38 pm 11:38 pm

young_voter — When are YOU going ever admit that the collapse happened BEFORE President Obama took office and the vast MAJORITY of job losses occurred BEFORE President Obama’s policies had any opportunity to take affect? The FACTS are that the current administration was NOT in office when the collapse happened. The FACTS are that when the Obama’s administration’s policies were administered, the economic freefall stopped and the slow climb out of the hole began. The FACTS are that the Republicans have played unprecedented obstruction games since Limbaugh called for Presient Obama’s failure. Despite John Boehner and his boss Eric Cantor in the House and Mitch McConnell in the Senate, our economy IS improving. The GWB supporters have NEVER taken responsibility for ANYTHING they just threw Bush under the bus and started calling themselves “independents”.

Posted by: dan | January 28, 2012, 12:30 am 12:30 am

@Dan. I could easily say the Democrats are obstructionists to decreasing the debt and putting into place policies that will grow the economy and create jobs, so enough with your leftist talking points. And we are witnessing the slowest recovery since the great depression due to Obama’s policies. Enough with this blaming Bush. Could you imagine a coach taking over a team and three years into his tenure blaming his team’s losing record on his predecessor? Do you blame your current relationship problems on your ex? See, its just pathetic and it gets you no where. By the way, there are over a dozen bills passed by House sitting on Harry Reid’s desk. He refuses to bring them to the floor. And conservatives will remain obstructionist if obstruction means preventing the United States from becomming a European style social welfare state!

Posted by: LRB | January 28, 2012, 1:51 am 1:51 am

Posted by: LRB | January 28, 2012, 1:51 am 1:51 am

The trouble is you don’t have a leg to stand on. The Republicans don’t have any policies other than cutting taxes on the wealthy and deregulating industry – same as under Bush. We’ve seen the results before and we don’t buy the lies.

Posted by: Joe | January 28, 2012, 3:10 am 3:10 am

Posted by: LRB | January 28, 2012, 1:51 am 1:51 am

The trouble is you don’t have a leg to stand on. The Republicans don’t offer any policies other than cutting taxes on the wealthy and deregulating industry – same as under Bush.

We’re not buying the same crap again LRB.

As Bush himself so wisely said – if only he could have gotten it right – fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me. We’re not buying again LRB.

Posted by: Joe | January 28, 2012, 3:22 am 3:22 am

Obama is a gracious person. A lot of liars out there say that he isn’t. But he is very collegial to people on the other side of the aisle.

I don’t so much mind that Tea Partyers are not collegial. Fine, they believe that they are fighting the good fight by being vicious and nasty. Fine.

What gets under my skin is when these vicious and nasty people project their flaws on everyone else, while actually thinking they are virtuous people. No wonder they all vote for Newt Gingrich…. if there ever was a king of the Tea Party, it would have to be someone who has convinced himself that he cheated on his sick wife because he loves America too much. Or who tells himself that his lobbying activities, for which he has been paid millions, were simply acts of public citizenship, undertaken out of his deep love for the American people.

And maybe Jan Brewer is their queen…. Poking her finger in people’s faces and asking them if they liked a book she didn’t even write…. and then crying to reporters about how she felt “attacked” because a) busy people don’t read the ghost-written memoirs of political hacks from cover to cover, b) when asked about it, honest people may admit that they take exception to lies made in these screeds, and c) they don’t have patience for yapping twits stabbing at them with their bony fingers.

I am glad the GOP primary is a trainwreck. These fools deserve no power.

Posted by: blip | January 28, 2012, 3:37 am 3:37 am

Posted by: LRB | January 28, 2012, 1:51 am 1:51 am

Oh yes – and what else was it Bush and the Republicans campaigned on? Running the government like a business, eliminating deficits and cutting down the debt – sound familiar? (ie. overspending, doubling the national debit, borrowing heavily from China while overspending and then watching the country plunge into an economic collapse).You really don’t expect us to buy this nonsense twice do you?

Posted by: Joe | January 28, 2012, 3:37 am 3:37 am

Never trust a Republican. Enough said.

Posted by: NoFlyZone2 | January 28, 2012, 4:30 am 4:30 am

LRB — I love you guys always bring out the debt as a “job killer” however, there are NEVER any “FACTS” to point out how. “Investor fear” is NOT a fact it’s an emotion that is relied on by right wingers to make points they cannot prove. The COLLAPSE started in 2008!!! President Obama was inaugurated in 2009!!! I know you guys love to deny responsibility but where were you when Bush was spending money like a drunken sailor and drove took a budget surplus and turned it into the deficit? I distinctly remember driving home and hearing Sean Hannity on the radio talking about how “this collapse happened because of Barack Obama” using this false argument of investor fear in January BEFORE the President even took office. You Limbaugh Lemmings denial of responsibility is completely and totally ridiculous. If you will ADMIT the collapse happened because of unregulated cowboy economics during the Bush years, I’ll admit that the recovery could be moving faster if the President did not waste so much time trying to compromise with a party that had no and has no intention of ever compromising on anything.

Posted by: dan | January 28, 2012, 6:49 am 6:49 am

I’m just hoping that Ron Paul wins Florida…. that way, the Grand Old Whining Party Circus Show, known as the Republican primary, will continue to be undecided and Americans will have more weeks to enjoy the comedy entertainment that it provides.

Posted by: Forrest Gump is DEFINITELY a Republican | January 28, 2012, 6:49 am 6:49 am

General Election: Romney vs. Obama
Poll Date Sample Obama (D) Romney (R) Spread
RCP Average 1/5 – 1/27 – 47.3 44.9 Obama +2.4

Posted by: bob | January 28, 2012, 12:19 pm 12:19 pm

Obama with his Boss & Successor…

The GOP & Democrats only exist amongst the General Public

Posted by: Alexander | January 28, 2012, 12:48 pm 12:48 pm

Romney is Biggest Presidential Candidate Liar – Gingrich

“I think it’s the most blatantly dishonest performance (Romney) by a presidential candidate I’ve ever seen,” Newt Gingrich said in a telephone interview with the Washington Post Friday, January 27, 2012 about the previous night’s debate.

Just what we need. Not!

Posted by: Shawn | January 28, 2012, 1:32 pm 1:32 pm

I know yall love the notion of jeb running in 2016 but out of all the bushes he’d probably would be the best one to be a president cause one thing he does is take care of the poor people. He would be a bi-partisan Republician. He knows in order to beneifit he has to make all sides happy the 99% and the 1% to get his just due out of it unlike his brother and his own father,so me as a democrat will always be loyal to the democrats but if jeb did win in 2016 it wouldn’t be the end of the world for the poor. If anything, you republicians would be questioning his loyalty to the republicians.

Posted by: jerrett | January 28, 2012, 1:52 pm 1:52 pm

I have been told by Republican friends that Jeb is “the smart son”. Probably explains why he is NOT going to Run for President.

Posted by: pksk531 | January 28, 2012, 2:22 pm 2:22 pm

I know yall love the notion of jeb running in 2016 but out of all the bushes he’d probably would be the best one to be a president cause one thing he does is take care of the poor people. He would be a bi-partisan Republican. Posted by: jerrett | January 28, 2012, 1:52 pm.

Sadly, those very things would make it impossible for him to ever be selected by the GOP as a potential presidential candidate. If he is in fact a moderate, they would run him out of town on a rail.

Posted by: A Cynic | January 28, 2012, 4:19 pm 4:19 pm

Folks as you can see, the Bush family likes Obama and they knew that he is doing well. The Snr Bush is a good leader who inspite of party, gives respect to the President for his job. Thats a true American and not this other Coffe party racists. The man you see in that picture JEBB, is gonna be the next President after Obama second term, Period.

Posted by: DAVID | January 28, 2012, 5:36 pm 5:36 pm

Posted by: DAVID | January 28, 2012, 5:36 pm 5:36 pm

I’m pretty sure two Bushes was enough. It’s not good having one oil and banking family have so much influence. Besides, they selected Cheney.

Posted by: Bob | January 28, 2012, 6:22 pm 6:22 pm

Who is that a bronze bust of behind Bush senior?

Posted by: newcountryman | January 28, 2012, 8:06 pm 8:06 pm

Who is that a bronze bust of behind Bush senior? – newcountryman

Martin Luther King.

Posted by: young_voter | January 28, 2012, 8:59 pm 8:59 pm

This is as close as Jebby will get to the WH Bush….NEVER AGAIN!!!

Posted by: billtmore | January 28, 2012, 9:26 pm 9:26 pm

I wonder if the Bushes were wearing a wire trying to get something on Obama, i do not trust any Republicon.

Posted by: John | January 29, 2012, 10:48 am 10:48 am

The fact that the United States was attacked on Sept 11, 2001, and cost us so dearly financially seems to vacate the brains of many.
The fact that the Bushs’ were in the White House says more about the kind of people they are. Texas grows them warm, polite and as friendly as people can be. I have been to Texas and was amazed at the people.
Interesting to know what Obama’s reaction was after they left. It was probably the same attitude he displays towards everyone. Which is arrogant and demeaning to anyone that does not consider him as good as he has designed himself to be.

Posted by: Donna Cox | January 29, 2012, 2:19 pm 2:19 pm

none of you actually believe the WH story I hope? meet the new boss, same as the old boss.

Posted by: mike | March 10, 2012, 7:15 pm 7:15 pm

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