CalvinBall wrote:well he just keeps harping on semantics. "he didnt literally say he wont accept the results!" and "the hypocrisy! look at al gore!!"

RichmondPhilsFan wrote:Gary Johnson everybody!

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics ... story.html

Longtime state Sen. Stuart Ingle (R) recalled how Johnson, soon after taking office in 1995, mostly shrugged and stared during their first meeting together. As Ingle asked Johnson questions about his agenda, Ingle said, Johnson’s most common refrain was, “I don’t know.”

At the end of the meeting, Ingle said, Johnson revealed the one position on which he would hold firm: The state’s budget should not grow. And if legislation to do so passed, the new governor added, “I will veto it.”

Over the next eight years, New Mexico lawmakers would struggle to work with a governor who paid little attention to details. Those who worked closely with Johnson, then a Republican elected as a political novice vowing to shake up the established order, recall a chief executive who would speed through meetings and often preferred to discuss his fitness routine than focus on the minutiae of policymaking.

Johnson’s seemingly dismissive approach garnered him the nickname “Governor No.” In his first year in office, he vetoed 47 percent of the bills the legislature passed. Lawmakers took Johnson to court at least three times for overstepping his bounds — and won.

“A know-it-all dictator,” is how the late state representative Jerry Lee Alwin, a conservative Republican, described Johnson to the news media at the time. “He just doesn’t listen.”

Johnson shrugged off the criticism. He noted that any lawmaker was able to come speak with him during his “Open Door After Four” sessions, which offered any member of the public — not just politicians — a chance to make an appointment.

Those sessions were held once a month. Meetings lasted no longer than five minutes — a sufficient amount of time, Johnson said, for him to grasp the issues.

“I can figure things out; I have good instincts,” he told The Post. “I think I was born with an overdose of common sense.”

“I can figure things out; I have good instincts,” he told The Post. “I think I was born with an overdose of common sense.”

pacino wrote:George HW Bush's letter to Bill Clinton in 1992:

Dear Bill,

When I walked into this office just now I felt the same sense of wonder and respect that I felt four years ago. I know you will feel that, too.

I wish you great happiness here. I never felt the loneliness some Presidents have described.

There will be very tough times, made even more difficult by criticism you may not think is fair. I’m not a very good one to give advice; but just don’t let the critics discourage you or push you off course.

You will be our President when you read this note. I wish you well. I wish your family well.

Your success is now our country’s success. I am rooting for you.

Good luck,

George

traderdave wrote:

pacino wrote:George HW Bush's letter to Bill Clinton in 1992:

Dear Bill,

When I walked into this office just now I felt the same sense of wonder and respect that I felt four years ago. I know you will feel that, too.

I wish you great happiness here. I never felt the loneliness some Presidents have described.

There will be very tough times, made even more difficult by criticism you may not think is fair. I’m not a very good one to give advice; but just don’t let the critics discourage you or push you off course.

You will be our President when you read this note. I wish you well. I wish your family well.

Your success is now our country’s success. I am rooting for you.

Good luck,

George

Not sure I ever saw this before; incredible stuff. God willing, Donald Trump will never get a chance to either read or write such a letter.

traderdave wrote:

pacino wrote:George HW Bush's letter to Bill Clinton in 1992:

Dear Bill,

When I walked into this office just now I felt the same sense of wonder and respect that I felt four years ago. I know you will feel that, too.

I wish you great happiness here. I never felt the loneliness some Presidents have described.

There will be very tough times, made even more difficult by criticism you may not think is fair. I’m not a very good one to give advice; but just don’t let the critics discourage you or push you off course.

You will be our President when you read this note. I wish you well. I wish your family well.

Your success is now our country’s success. I am rooting for you.

Good luck,

George

Not sure I ever saw this before; incredible stuff. God willing, Donald Trump will never get a chance to either read or write such a letter.

Youseff wrote:it's crazy how differently the bases judge their candidate. if Hillary interrupted Trump with this toddler response, or said "wrong," at least a half a dozen times, or rambled incoherently I don't think most of them would be very gung-ho about her performance.

https://twitter.com/BuzzFeedNews/status ... 0609243136

slugsrbad wrote:I tried to see if there was a letter form Clinton to George W or George W to Obama, but couldn't find it. I did find this from the opening to W's Presidential Center. More feel goods.

http://theweek.com/articles/465064/11-n ... bush-today

3. "A couple of times a year and in the second term, George Bush would call me just to talk politics. And a chill went up and down my spine when Laura said that all the records were digitized. Dear God I hope there's no record of those conversations."

thephan wrote:I don't think its too weird. Second term, lame duck, looking at his legacy, shooting the bull about who is hard to work with some unguarded frank talk, some bitching about presidential realities (not sure what that is, but it seem logical that the Presidency is a bit of a prison sentence with all the restrictions), some justice that is just a flake, etc., who knows. These could be discussion that no one ever considered public material.

thephan wrote:I don't think its too weird. Second term, lame duck, looking at his legacy, shooting the bull about who is hard to work with some unguarded frank talk, some bitching about presidential realities (not sure what that is, but it seem logical that the Presidency is a bit of a prison sentence with all the restrictions), some justice that is just a flake, etc., who knows. These could be discussion that no one ever considered public material.