so the iraq war, when it went badly, was owned by george w. bush. barack obama, passed obamacare. everything. yes, you can blame the republicans just like donald trump can blame the democrats. but anybody that knows washington knows there s always to be made. there s always a democrat you can pick off, always a republican you can pick off. here we have the third presidency where sort of the balkanization of american politics has taken place. aren t the american people at a point where they re like, i don t care. i want to see both sides together? i want a bipartisan bill. they don t respect a big bill unless both sides have a piece of it. this is uniquely different, though this presidency. you can say all you want about george wncht bush and iraq or
things, you look at turnout among liberals in virginia, turnout was 8% four years ago, to vote for a gubernatorial candidate who twice cast his ballot for george wncht bush before he got into politics. that doesn t mean that democrats have solved all their problems. you ll be talking to donna brazile shortly. she s illuminating the divisions in the party. democrats delivered for their candidate yesterday and that has all kinds of ripple effects when you look at next year. it helps democratic fund-raising, recruitment and might encourage some republican incumbents to hang it up and retire. 2.5 million people turned out to vote. it was a rainy night, cold night. it was way up from four years
there s that tradition, modern tradition. it s interesting how they structured it. instead of a q & a with the audience, they made this a discussion with a few people on the stage. if you open it up to the audience, the first question is going to be what do you think of trump. yeah. george bush sr. left bill clinton alone for the entire time. there was one exception when he threw sort of a brush back. yes. at the end of clinton s presidency when george wncht bush was running and bill clinton was making very negative comments and george h.w. bush after seven years of saying nothing said i m going to give him a warning. if he says nothing i m going to knock it off but if he doesn t i m going to tell the country what i think of him as a man and a person. and he backed off. that said so much right there. so obama spoke at the university of chicago, giving his assessment of the issues facing
it s true, the senate can do that. tacks and things like that have to start in the house. that s the problem of getting people together over the tax bill. former president barack obama made his return to public life as you saw. but steered clear of any discussion about obamacare, deregulation and the new president s unfounded wiretapping claims. what did he talk about, the cubs? i know. if you re not going to talk about those things i would actually like to ask we ll get to this. i would like to know why he didn t. he made news by not making news. he did. he said this many times, how grateful he was to president bush for not getting on his case when things started to go wrong. and i think from his own selfish standpoint and probably the country s, taking the high road he didn t accuse president bush of anything. this is kind of a different level. don t you think? you can make that argument. i think the next president within the first 100 days, taking the high ro
yeah. but it s kind of hard to talk about what s going on without talking about what s going on. is it not? well, yeah, it s hard. but i think it s a difficult position for him. for sure. what s he going to say, right? he s going to slam president trump. yeah. it just wouldn t come off right, i don t think. just can t do it. you would recall that george w. bush was absolutely scrupulous in keeping his mouth shut basically, about what president obama was doing. i know president obama appreciated that. and george w. bush felt very strongly about that. and i believe they had conversations about, you know, the proper role and voice of an ex-president. so i would not have expected him to come out guns blazing. when you saw former presidents do it, bush, obama,