Obama had Clinton over for a chat, then brought him to the briefing room. Then it got weird. Obama just...left and let Clinton have the mic for like, I don't know, 20 30 minutes or so.
That was the most surreal thing. Obama said he was keeping the First Lady waiting and had to go. That left Clinton to vouch for the tax deal and relive his glory days.
Obama has just announced what we've all known...he's simply not up to the job.
Following a visit to his cardiologist, the former president "underwent a procedure to place two stents in one of his coronary arteries," said Douglas Band, a counselor to the president, in a statement.
...Earier, ABC News reported Hillary Clinton was seen leaving the Oval Office after a scheduled mid-afternoon meeting with President Obama and did not seem "too concerned" or "in a rush."
The two former presidents, who led the United States for the past 16 years, met Friday at the Toronto Convention Center for an event dubbed a "conversation." Both looked rested and tan, and both had the crowd in stitches in their opening statements.
"Welcome to the Bill and George Show," Mr. Bush said, drawing more laughs in his opening than his predecessor.
"Clinton and I used to believe in free speech," Mr. Bush said to roars of laughter from a crowd of 6,000, all of whom paid hundreds of dollars to attend the event. "So thanks for coming!"
But he did say his life has changed -- dramatically. After leaving the White House, "I'm sitting in Crawford, Texas, I have my feet up on the couch, and I said, 'Free at last.' "
His wife, Laura, he said, responded: " 'Free to do the dishes, free to mow the lawn.' I said, 'Baby, you're talking to the former president of the United States,' and she said, 'Yeah, just consider it your new domestic policy agenda.' " Read it all...
Ok, I admit I don't know enough about embryonic stem cell research. But hell...I know more than this fool. And I can't believe that this other clown is the physician that Obama once chose for Surgeon General. These jokers were made for each other.
Gupta: Let’s talk about something you talked a lot about in the early part of your presidency, stem cells. There was an order today providing federal money for embryonic stem cell research. First of all, let me just ask you, as someone who studied this, is this going to always be as divisive an issue as it is now? Is this going to be the abortion of the next generation? Or are people going to come around?
Clinton: I think - the answer is I think that we’ll work it through. If - particularly if it’s done right. If it’s obvious that we’re not taking embryos that can - that under any conceivable scenario would be used for a process that would allow them to be fertilized and become little babies, and I think if it’s obvious that we’re not talking about some science fiction cloning of human beings, then I think the American people will support this….
Gupta: Any reservations?
Clinton: I don’t know that I have any reservations, but I was - he has apparently decided to leave to the relevant professional committees the definition of which frozen embryos are basically going to be discarded, because they’re not going to be fertilized. I believe the American people believe it’s a pro-life decision to use an embryo that’s frozen and never going to be fertilized for embryonic stem cell research….
But those committees need to be really careful to make sure if they don’t want a big storm to be stirred up here, that any of the embryos that are used clearly have been placed beyond the pale of being fertilized before their use. There are a large number of embryos that we know are never going to be fertilized, where the people who are in control of them have made that clear. The research ought to be confined to those….
But there are values involved that we all ought to feel free to discuss in all scientific research. And that is the one thing that I think these committees need to make it clear that they’re not going to fool with any embryos where there’s any possibility, even if it’s somewhat remote, that they could be fertilized and become human beings.
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