The Presidents on the Presidents: How They Judge One Another

RDS · Feb 15, 2014

Good reading here. Bear in mind the highlighted.

The two men could hardly have been more different. One the fatherless son of a single mother, the other a scion of the most important American political family since the Adamses; one a cool, intellectual analyst, the other an instinctive gut player who never looked back once a decision was made. Yet there they were, together in the East Room of the White House on a June day in 2012, inexorably linked by history: Barack Hussein Obama and George Walker Bush.
The occasion was the unveiling of George and Laura Bush’s White House portraits. “It’s been said,” Obama told the audience, “that no one can ever truly understand what it’s like being President until they sit behind that desk and feel the weight and responsibility for the first time. And that is true. After three and a half years in office—and much more gray hair—I have a deeper understanding of the challenges faced by the Presidents who came before me, including my immediate predecessor, President Bush. In this job, no decision that reaches your desk is easy. No choice you make is without costs. No matter how hard you try, you’re not going to make everybody happy. I think that’s something President Bush and I both learned pretty quickly.”

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APACHERAT · Feb 15, 2014

RDS said:
Good reading here. Bear in mind the highlighted.

You left out that one was a Red Diaper Baby.

Obama quote:
>"that no one can ever truly understand what it’s like being President until they sit behind that desk and feel the weight and responsibility for the first time...."<

What Obama didn't mentioned publicly but many of us discovered with in months that the job of POTUS was bigger than Obama and he basically gave up or just couldn't handle the job.

If Obama were have been a CEO of any corporation in the private sector, the corporate board of directors would have fired Obama's ass back in April of 2009.

Kobie · Feb 15, 2014

All blatant partisan sniping aside (looking at you, APACHE), the stress of presidentin' is pretty obvious when you look at how visibly the past three, at least, have aged. Obviously, eight years passed between the entrance and exit dates for Clinton and Bush (and about five for Obama), but it sure looks to me like they aged faster than normal.

I'll read that article when I have a bit more time. Looks interesting. Members of one of the world's most exclusive fraternities tend to look kindly on one another, simply because nobody else can really relate to their experiences.

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