It's *really* easy not to trust this kind of association, but this press op is interesting...KENNEBUNKPORT, Maine - Former Presidents Bush and Clinton teed off Tuesday for a round of golf on the second day of a get-together by the former political foes at Bush's summer home along the Maine coast.
Chatting briefly with reporters near the first tee at Cape Arundel Golf Club, Bush and Clinton said their friendly relationship should demonstrate to people at home and abroad that political rivalries need not stand in the way of personal friendship.
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Clinton, who just returned from a tour of Latin America, recalled a skeptic there asking him, "Is this deal between you and Bush real?"
When the questioner found it hard to believe that the two really liked each other, Clinton said, the man's personal dislike of his political opponents was "completely dysfunctional."
"If people are mad at each other they never hear other, and therefore they can't figure out who's right and who's wrong and where the compromise comes because they have so much personally at stake. I hope this is good for America and the rest of the world," Clinton said.
But then, moments before they headed out to the first tee, Clinton joked, "If he beats me too bad, I'm back to partisanship the next day."
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