Ex-Presidents, Bush to Go to Pope Funeral

WASHINGTON - Former Presidents Bush and Clinton will accompanying President Bush to the funeral of Pope John Paul II, the White House announced Tuesday. Also attending will be Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.




President Bush and his wife, Laura, will lead the five-member group representing the United States at the funeral on Friday, White House press secretary Scott McClellan said.

Bush is leaving Washington for Rome on Wednesday, and was to have meetings with foreign leaders Thursday. The president planned to leave Italy immediately after the funeral to spend the weekend at his ranch in Texas.
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http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&e=4&u=/ap/20050405/ap_on_go_pr_wh/bush_pope&sid=84439559

like a tag-team trio now? Why don't they throw CArter in the mix and make it a foursome? ;-)

dig up our "Founding Fathers" and bring them along for the ride. I'm sure they'd LOVE what we did with the place since they left.
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and zombie Reagan.

would probably forget himself, no offense. But Zombie Reagan would defenitely "liven" up the party </sarcasm> ;-)

Carter should go unless he is ill ...........notice the bushs had to have Clinton.to show them how to act in a public place.how to walk and stand with style and grace....

No reason was given.

Ford is in quite frail condition and probably couldn't make the trip.

Too bad they're not *all* ex-Presidents.

If there's any justice in the world, something Biblical will take place.

a'la Three Stooges or something. :-)
...or "Stooge, Wimp, and Blowjob" or something. Too bad I idolize Clinton in many respects... why did he have to be put in the same bunk as the Bush duo???? :-(

may lessen Bush's attempt to benefit from this politically. I think that's the real reason he's planning to go. No sitting president has ever attended a papal funeral.

because Clinton always shows him up!

My opinion of Bill Clinton is shredding daily over his continued fraternization with America's enemies.

I don't care if the man is "President" and I don't care if his father was. Actions speak louder than words.

Bill is driving Hillary's future right in the ground, what portion of it she hasn't already destroyed by impolitic remarks and votes.

I agree, every time I see Clinton sucking up to the BFEE's it makes me sick. They're all cut from the same piece of cloth and the democratic party can go to hell. It's time for a whole new political party in this country. The dems are finished and good riddance.

I cannot say I really trust him. He will often do what is politically expedient or what is most beneficial to him.

so he can "classy up" our delegation

those were the days.... :(

So they consider Clinton's presence Boo Insurance. No one would ever boo the Boob with Cinton near.

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Carter is the most Christian of any president we've had.

Carter was not asked to join because he has openly criticized this Administration's policies and the war in Iraq.
I agree. If anyone, it should be Carter,the holiest of all the Presidents,should go.Carter probably is holier than some of the Popes!!!

I heard this on DC's all news WTOP this afternoon.

camped out in a sleeping bag at the stadium with the hoi polloi. Carter's certainly been the most active among the living presidents when it comes to humanitarian causes and I wouldn't be surprised if he were also the most genuinely spiritual, although God's really the only person who can truly sort that one out. ;-)

on edit: Secret Service men in sleeping bags at the stadium. I get the giggles just imagining the conniptions they'd have.

Until the Reagan administration, it was regarded as an inappropriate recognition of a single religion. :shrug:

Cokie Roberts' mother. Don't know her name but she served for 12 years.

widow of former Rep. Hale Boggs, D-LA.

ON EDIT: and Congresswoman in her own right after succeeding her late husband.

snip:
It wasn't immediately clear why former President Carter was not going along as well. McClellan said the White House reached out to him but would not elaborate. A spokesman with his Carter Center in Atlanta, Jon Moore, also would not explain.

link to entire article:

http://neworleans.cox.net/cci/newsnational/national?_mode=view&_state=maximized&view=article&id=D899BN4G1

The idea of Bush and oily bastards like Frist camera-hogging at the Pope's funeral probably turns his stomach - like it does mine.

These hypocritical assholes hope to have a little "Pope love" rub off on them. Bush probably thinks he'll get to make a freakin' speech at St. Peters!!!

Carter has enough sense, tact and diplomacy to see this road show for what it is and distance himself from it. Class act, Jimmy.

No, seriously, ladies and germs, we all know by now that Our Glorious Leader just OOZES class. He oozes class out of every pore of his body! He even leaves little puddles of class everywhere he walks, like the trail a snail leaves over a sidewalk in the morning. (Careful you don't slip on it!)

If boosh** ever intended to make a speech at St. Peters, it'd only be to try to browbeat the cardinals into electing Jerry Falwell or Pat Robertson.

in a crowd of Catholics.

but Bush is going to the funeral to gloat. The Pope was one of the biggest voices against the war in Iraq and now he is dead. Deep in his neocon frat-boy heart, Bush is still both anti-Catholic and anti-Semitic.

It doesn't bother him in the least that his security demands are completely over the top. Or that this trip to a country that hates him rabidly may cost Premier Silvio Berlusconi politically. In fact, these inconveniences make things that much more fun for Bush.

He needs to bring the other Presidents with him so that they can keep him from being too obvious with his glee.

he's such a chicken I can't believe he will really attend this huge event.

is the anti-christ? :shrug:

Italians will be involved in protecting the biggest jerk that ever hit Washington D.C.?

Are you surprised Rome even offered an invite? Buddy buddy kiss kiss

Shrub and his 3-ring security circus!:blush: What an embarrassment!!!

Peace!

to Berlusconi and the Italian Secret Service at this point. This is the land of Machiavelli and the Borgias.

"leave Italy immediately after the funeral to spend the weekend at his ranch in Texas"

Funerals are just too much for him, he must go cut some brush

I bet he loves it that he is seen as leading Bill Clinton.

I guess better that than actually hard at work and turning everything he touches to shit--he's like some kinda Bizarro King Midas that way.

since his readers obviously vote republican

this little sob needs to park his ass in dc and stay put. He costs too much of OUR money for him to travel and he's had plenty of vacation time already.

is set to attend the funeral, as well as Jean Chretien who was is a former PM. Paul Martin isn't even Catholic and he's going. I agree that Bush going is positive for him, but there would probably be an outcry if he didn't go. I'm sure most world leaders will attend out of respect, whether their catholic or not.

Didn't one of our cardinals (not the leftist one in Montreal -- one of the other ones) threaten to excommunicate him re: same sex marriage?

Paul Martin is a Catholic.

eom

like Al Gore?

said it would be a bad idea for him to travel at this time. and the bush crime family could go face their boos alone.

is probably remembering that Jesus said "let the dead bury the dead" and is putting his time to more valuable use for humanity.

Bush heading to Vatican for Pope's Funeral, accompanied by former Presidents Bush and Clinton

By TOM RAUM Associated Press Writer
The Associated Press

WASHINGTON Apr 6, 2005 — President Bush and his wife Laura left the White House early today to head to Vatican City for the funeral of Pope John Paul II. Bush and two of his predecessors are joining other world leaders in paying a final tribute to the pope, whose papacy spanned the terms of five American presidents.

Bush led a small U.S. delegation that included former President Clinton and Bush's father, the first President Bush, the president's wife Laura, and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.

"What a great man," Bush, the first sitting president to attend papal burial rites, said of John Paul II ahead of his visit.

"It will be my honor to represent our country in a ceremony marking a remarkable life, a person who stood for freedom and human dignity," he told reporters after a Cabinet meeting Tuesday.

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory?id=645302

Shrub, putting the 'fun' back in 'funeral'?????

day...either that or rigor mortis begining to set in after too much body contact with Shrub....

It's creepy!

Bush heading to pope's funeral, then home to Texas

WASHINGTON President Bush today headed for the Vatican in anticipation of Friday's funeral for Pope John Paul the Second.

Bush is leading the U-S delegation of First Lady Laura Bush, his father former President George Bush of Houston, former President Bill Clinton and U-S Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.

President Bush plans to leave Italy immediately after the funeral to spend the weekend at his ranch near Crawford.
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http://www.kltv.com/Global/story.asp?S=3175271

That brush is not going to clear itself.

I mean, if it were up to me, I'd be staying in Rome for a couple of days.

Rome is way better than Crawford, but then again the majority of we Italians can't stand Dumbya...