I am most hopeful that this will be a smooth transition. I hope that one day those McCain supporters will see why we voted for Obama.

dude, you are a dud!!! Get a life!!

Clinton and his staff removed the "w's" from all the keyboards and made fake office signs that read "office of strategery" because Bush was such an idiot he actually said those very words. It was a telling sign of the blunders to come, one oldies but goodie, "I know you work hard to put food on your family", that one is my personal favorite.

As far as pardon's go, Bush could pardon his whole criminal staff but my guess is that Scooter Libby will be getting a pardon soon. He committed treason, remember? He outed a CIA agent, a covert agent. He endangered the lives of everyone surrounding her and placed all covert agents at risk. Shame on all of them. Pardon or not they all have to answer to a higher power when they meet their maker, as will all of you bigots who spew hate for Obama. If your God is the same God we all have then you would realize the color of a man's skin is no reason to hate.

I am looking forward to Obama having a long and prosperous 8 years in office.

44 to 43 , " Thanks , but no Thanks "……
You can`t possibly expect Barack Obama to stoop down to the level of Geo. W., do you ? I presume a person could learn to be somewhat of a literate thinker , but it would take someone with exceptional acting skills to " Dumb themselves down " to the level of an embicile the likes of Geo . W . , or as he`s commonly known as , " Dubya` "…….

THE IDIOT……

Tanyia, you are and idiot

Obama needs to listen attentively to everything Bush has to offer.

bob: 53% to 46% is a landslide! not to mention electoral. barack has a mandate ,and you'll have to live with it. the good thing is it will be better for you.

Most Americans, like myself, are glad that the election campaigns are finally over, though I guess some are not as happy as I am, because I voted for Obama. Now if only those "political pundits" would take a long vacation. Bush is still President and will be until Jan. 20, 2009. Why don't they use their long winded idea's ("Obama needs to do this and Obama needs to do that") on what needs to be done to help that lame duck administration correct the failings of the last 8 years before President elect Obama has to waste valuable time unraveling the mess Bush created and hopes to ease out of responsibility for in the next two months? Surely, those pundits and the media, including CNN, knew what was happening throughout these long 8 years, even if the public did not. I never saw any hard -nosed reporting until Obama chose to run for President and now you hope to dump it all in his lap. Didn't you know there was no WMD, when Bush proposed it? Many did and were silenced.

Best wishes to the Bush & Obama meeting.

One thing about W he's a very nice person just a bad president.

oh my! why all the vile talk? if you dems don't get it together and quit bashing everyone you will most certainly cause the Obama presidency to fail. when he can't deliver on his promises you will go after him.I'm not bashing Obama , but nobody could turn this economy around as fast as you like.

If the Republican party ever expects to rebuild, it may want to try something different. Jettison the right wing nut jobs and move closer to the center. Clearly, there are not enough of your 'base' to keep you in office indefinitely.

And the next time try being honest instead of lying and smearing. I believe that even some Republicans got tired of all the nonsense. The conservative ideal is not really bad, but you people need to be a bit less rigid and more caring. Your absolute arrogance and stupidity was the gift that kept on giving.

In the meantime, thanks for handing this wonderful young man the presidency and giving our country a fighting chance to survive.

Cool. Well I am happy that Obama is getting a feel for the White House. He earned this victory and all those who voted for Obama, we just took back the power that Bush has had for so long. For those that didn't hopefully you will come off your high soar horse and relize that all the wants to do is make your life better. Lets all work together. Stop all the hatred and evil and make this country better.

Go Obama/Biden, you helped me believe in change!

The Bush family has no need to take White House furnishings. They have already looted the U.S. Treasury. At least give them credit for being big-time criminals.

At the risk of sounding redundant, I doubt anyone is blind to the point that we are the winners. Tradition says that this is policy, and so it should be. Obama will have much to do in a short amount of time, therefore, he should have to opportunity to be prep'ed before he steps into the whitehouse! It just makes sense. Strange though after all the mud that was slung during the campaign.

My advise to Obama is to be careful with Bush because the last thing we want is the contamination of his ideas with that of bush. Just look at him , dont get to close OK . Am glad that my $10 donation has helped to put Obama in the white house. God is good.

KJL, the bad times of Bush's presidency was due to his policies and the decision he made. It was also due to the Republican Congress rubber stamping everything he did. Remember, Bush only started to use the veto when he lost control of Congress. The Republicans in Congress were determined not to work with the Democrats in order to make the American people think the Democrats weren't doing anything. Fortunately most Americans saw through that as evidence by the election. Now it's time to give Obama a chance. It will probably take most of this term to straighten out the mess Bush left.

President Elect Obama will have the luxury of being able to focus on domestic issues more deeply only because President Bush has spent the last eight years fighting Islamic extremists around the world and rolling back the work of people that want to destroy the greatest nation on earth. I only hope that President Elect Obama continues to keep America on the offensive against Islamic extremists and fight for those who do not enjoy the freedoms Americans possess.

hay obama HAMAS wants to talk to his brother
when are you going to talk to them?

lets unite!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Dude,

Obama's grandmother requested a private ceremony at a later time. It was her decision. get the facts before you pose opnions.

Bush approval ratings are the lowest ever. However, he did increase the child tax credit and my family got help when we most needed it. For that I will be forever grateful. Julio, a registered democrat.

First of all let me make a comment to DUDE: it is to bad she wasnt around to see him elected president. i am sure she had a big smile on her face along with his mom when he was elected president.
I am sure President and Mrs. Bush will be very helpful to the Obama's and answer any questions they may have abou living in the white house.

You are all so sweet talking about coming together and how it's time to get on with it. Try to remember that we have 4000 plus dead soldiers for a war that was a lie, a debt that your grand children will still be paying for, our health care is destroying people, people are loosing their homes, life as we know it in the united States is over for at least now. Bush isn't keeping anybody safe ,we are keeping our own selves safe. This is all on Bush's famous watch, you all join together and sing his praises while I scream, Throw the bum out!! Reality should be setting in on you about now!!!

Actually the price of gas has dropped quite a bit due to lack of demand for oil of course. The only positive in this crisis.

I would like to know why Cnn has the loser vp palin name on the ticker name to our Prez of USA, Obama. Take it off now.

She lost and went home. She is a nobody , it is a disgrace to have her name next to our president.

What are you trying to convey. I dont like what it implies.

Michelle, I like blue. When you start measuring the drapes and redecorating, put some blue in it. i would to see what you've done with the place after you finish adding your personal touches.

Interesting liberals are such nice caring people,republicans are nasty just reading the anti Bush comments I see even after you win we see who are the real bitter americans & its not the repubs its the "CARING" liberals

Please dont come back to Texas,many of us are ashamed of you.

funny how the dems and repubs hate each other for being so partisan.

LOL.

America will die because republicans hate democrats and democrats hate republicans. Hate to you people is more important than the success of our country. Thank goodness you only exist here on the blogs and don't have real lives.

I am not a supporter of President Bush however it takes a special person to want to take on the responsibility of governing to greatest country on earth. And I do believe most of his decisions were based on what he thought was right. Now it's over and it is time to move on. We must show the respect that I'm quite sure he has earned.Now having said all that . I am expecting great things from Mr Obama it's time we get out of the box we have been in over the past 8 years

WHY? They should be thrown out and tried and convicted, instead he will walk away laughing all the way to the bank. Never having to pay for the crimes committed. They tried to impeach Clinton for a lie, that never cost anybody their lives, it's simply not justice as we expected, or needed.

Yeah. Enough of those big trees. Freaking giant redwoods in particular.

After reading comments from GOP members on other web sites they all seem to be in lock step that their platform and policies are what the American people want and support.

These people just don't get it. Most if not all the moderate and sensible high profile Republicans denounced their own party for the way the kooks and religious nuts have hijacked their values.

It will be interesting to see if common sense will overhaul the GOP or if they will stay on the road to self destruction. I know Rush and Hannity along with the lunatic O'Rielly will continue on the same path but then they are making millions for spreading their warped opinions and views.

we need to unite as a country and stop all this bigtree

Job losses is at an all time high, gas prices is at an all time high, two wars in the middle east, record deficit… Bush, can you leave the White House a bit early…I mean why wait?

DUDE,

Grow a soul. That is none of your business. In case you don't realize he literally has the weight of the world BUSH left him on his shoulder.

An no his probably doesn't have use for the shell his Grandmother left behind that's why he broke from his campaign to visit her why she was still LIVING!!!.

His sister has taken care of the logistics. And he may have flown there for the PRIVATE ceremony and we know nothing about it.

GET A LIFE BOZO!!!

I don't know how Obama and Bush can look each other in the eye after all they have each said about each other.

I believe history will judge President G.W. Bush, not me. I do thank him for keeping us safer.

I still remember when George Bush became president-elect and Bill Clinton was in office. Bill robbed the white house and also pardoned all criminals. What a disgrace. On the contrary, George Bush and Laura Bush have been so decent. We wish you both well and we will definitely miss you.

We trust First Lady Mrs. Laura Bush will leave the White House in its top and complete shape for the Obama family.

The horror…I feel nausea with having to look at Bush together with Obama.

To "JGBNY" thank you so much for your comment and THANK YOU & SO MANY OTHERS FOR HANDING OBAMA THE PRESIDENCY ON A SILVER PLATTER WITH YOUR RACISTS COMMENTS THAT HAS PLAGUE THE REPUBLICAN PARTY!!!!

President Bush was extremely unlucky. I don't approve of his views on science and religion, but I have definite sympathy in that he was trying to lead the country at a bad time. I wish he and his family the best.

Now we have to hope Obama can turn things around.

I find it funny when people say Bush is a good president for keeping us safe after 9/11. He made the world a lot dangerous and he made US a lot less safer in the process. Any idiot can keep any country safe by taking away freedoms. I bet you even a morons like Hannity or Limbaugh can pull it off.

President Bush didn't do an extraordinary job, he just did the job, in the worst way possible.

It's nasuating. The worst president meets the junior senator. Oh Boy!

To JGBNY…you are a pathetic individual.

To "Dude"… mind your own business!! You need to worry more about how your republican party will rebuild itself because you guys are the American Fools!!

Hope Obama staff can gets a good cleaning crew to clear out and find all George Bush's hidden alcohol bottles.
Good ridden to the old drunk (Bush) and his evil partner ( Cheney).

Enough! Democrats, stop insulting President Bush! Republicans, stop insulting President-Elect Obama!

You can make fun of bush. WHO cares??? I respect him for keeping us safe since 9/11 and not just fooling around in the white house. When you are safe in your house, yes you can make fun of everybody. When our rear's are under fire from terrorism, like 9/11 you wont have time to criticize the presidents. See security breeds comedians.

Very meaningful discussionshere
one conservative post for every 100 liberal rants.
what do expect from cnn?
4years from now watch the change !!

Obama will need lot of advise from George W. Bush. Poor guy was a community organizer in the South of Chicago. I hope he learns something.

I'm sure President Bush and his wife will be very gracious tomorrow when they meet with the Obama's.
I don't think President elect Obama would want or expect any advice from President Bush but have a talk in general and I'm sure President
Bush will wish the Obama family all the best in their new life.
No time now for any bitterness from either side, we have to move on and work together…..we are all American's and want what is best for this country.
I hope they have a nice visit tomorrow and lets start to heal this country after the very nasty campaign we had to endure from the McCain camp.

my only comment is for "get real" Don't be hateful….

@ DUDE
NASA can save lots of money launching space vehicles into your head because there is lots of space up there between your ears. You should be more respectful to the family of the President elect. It is none of your business when he is going to pay his respects. You should spend your free time trying to be a better person than you are.

I am so happy this meeting is going to take place.
It's time to put the election aside and working together to fix our country.

To: JGBNY November 9th, 2008 6:01 pm ET

and what asylum are you from my friend?

please go back to your dingy dank cave!

Did anyone ever realize that the wrong Bush was in the White House. The right Bush should have been Laura Bush. The lady got it going on. She is smart and cool. She has probably forgotten more than George ever learned and is still smarter than he is.

To Dude:

In Hawai'i it is very common for services not to be held immediately after a death. Sometimes it may be even a month after the person's death. It is very common in Hawai'i for people to be cremated and the ashes scattered at sea. Usually there is a service, more of a celebration of life, and then the scattering of the ashes. Again, not unusual for services to be a month, or even more, after the actual death.

So don't be so judgemental of Obama. I imagine he will definitely be at his Tutu's service.

Live aloha!

I will pay for the U hall and volunteer to help pack.
Can't wait for bush to leave the white house.
we need a group of pastors and priest to help desatanized the white house before Obama mooves in.
We need the wash everything with the holy water.

To the person wondering about Obama paying respect to his deceased Grandmother–

In Hawai'i it is very common for services not to be held immediately after a death. Sometimes it may be even a month after the person's death. It is very common in Hawai'i for people to be cremated and the ashes scattered at sea. Usually there is a service, more of a celebration of life, and then the scattering of the ashes. Again, not unusual for services to be a month, or even more, after the actual death.

So don't be so judgemental of Obama. I imagine he will definitely be at his Tutu's service.

Live aloha!

This can't end well. If they touch, they'll cancel each other out, and then we'll be out a president and a president-elect.

Dude is the least of our problems when we have racist pigs like JGBNY posting, and I voted for Mccain for crying outloud!

Barack & Michelle–
Get a Cavashon ( or Cavachon) puppy for your kiddos. Cute as a bug and doesn't shed.

The 43rd president, George Bush, is the funniest president of our lifetime.

I am thankful that we live in a wonderful country with all of its freedoms!! God bless both President Bush and President-elect Obama as well as our citizens.

Dude : I pity you

"Monday will mark the first time since 1988 that a Bush has not hosted or been hosted by a Clinton."

That is not accurate. Bush is hosting Obama's visit to the White House. It will not be until 2012 or 2016 that a bush or clinton will not be hosting a pres elect or be hosted as pres elect. Presumably and hopefully.

For JGBNY : your time is running out racist dimwit. You really are in a tiny minority in this country, Maybe you should consider moving out ?

"Dude"……..you are an ignorant fool……and it's none of your business when the private memorial service will take place……..now go read your comic books and turn off the computer like a good boy !!!!!

I guess George can't wait to hand over the keys . . .

Help him pack while you're there, Obama.

"where has all the civility gone" sung to the tune of "where have all the flowers gone"…….people I hope you know that the whole world is watching us….straighten up and act like you have grown up a little. All the sniping is getting a bit tiring. I know that our new President -elect would not appri\eciate it and I'm sure that G. W. Bush – (who has taken on the worse job in the world) – is tired of it too by now.

All constructive and well-wishing comments are always welcome by all those who are responsible for running this country. I'm pretty sure that 99.99% of us commentinig here wouldn't have a chance to step up to the plate and putting your life and reputation on the line for this country – as a (how do I say it?) politician!!

Just look around and see what you do have going for you….interstates, roads, utilities, —— we have something that goes together and works – because we have a government & lucky us ours is a Democracy.

T0 Soccer Nana. They have. They've already invited them to a quail hunt.

YESTERDAY,

I had a patient ask me what I thought of the present gas prices. Interesting I told her.

The Obamas should ask the same question to the Bushes.

JGBNY November 9th, 2008 6:01 pm ET

I wonder if the Obama's and the Hired help will get confused about who has to cook and clean..

CNN – I can't believe you posted this racist, disgusting remark! REMOVE THIS!!

To Jim Hall: you shouldn't include First Lady Laura Bush in your comments about being ignorant. She is almost the only bright light in the last 8 years of the Bush administration. She is a gracious lady, and has worked quietly behind the scenes on women's rights around the world, on literacy, and other things as well.

That guy who wants to know when is Obama going to pay respects to his dead grand mother, has probably forgotten that Obama has a sister who is capable of keeping things in order until he is able to visit. Hawaii. Perhaps that duck ought to now that dead bodies can be kept for long periods of time before interrment Obama must do the things that matter to the country and to his future as President, now. After these things are attended to then he can skip off for a day or two to see about famiy affairs.

Say what you want about the Republican Party and Republicans, but by far the meanest, most vile, intellectually arrogant (with NO reason to be) posters I've ever seen have been some Democrats. It's pretty clear that you simply are not very intelligent, but are ruled instead by your anger, your emotions, and finally your buying in to soundbytes. Hysterical, frothing-at-the-mouth, shrieking…these are all to be found in droves in the Democratic Party. Anyone believing that Democrats are any more advanced, more sophisticated, etc. is simply drinking the kool aid.

By the way, remember that it was NOT a landslide…almost 50% of voters said they didn't want Obama. The media coverage of Obama and his groupies will last another month, and then you (the Democratic Party) are going to be held accountable for all your promises. I'm personally betting it'll take about 3 weeks before the first finger-pointing and excuse making starts to happen, just as we saw with the Democrat-controlled Congress the last two years. Yep, LOTS of Pelosi's "commitments" got accomplished didn't they? (That's sarcasm, by the way).

Get real=GREAT POST!!!!!

My sentiments exactly.

I am one of 20 Million citizens who still supports President Bush. Lets hope that our President elect does not hear those same words that hit President Bush 9 months into his presidency.

Thank you President Bush for our 2600 plus days of safety in our Country.

Note to 'Enjoying Life to the Fullest': You misread the article. Obama said that he's going to meet Bush with a spirit of bipartisanship. You got it backwards.

Happily, though, it does sound as if President Bush intends to be supportive of Obama in the transition.

This is great!

When will Vice President Cheney and Mrs, Cheney host the Bidens?

From tommorrow, change will manifest on tv….

First to IDIOT #1 "Enjoying Life to the Fullest" that wasn't a Bush quote – it was an Obama quote. You should learn how to read before you offer your opinions. Second to IDIOT(S) #2 "Jim Hall" and the rest of you "Village Idiot" Dems who are begging for bipartisanship for Obama but would NEVER give President Bush the same respect – GROW UP!! You are the most vile, hateful, hypocrites out there.

I wonder if the Obama's and the Hired help will get confused about who has to cook and clean..

i would like to see obama place tarriffs on foriegn made goods that do not play fair in the production process. Whether it be environmentally, politically, domestically or in the form of underpayment of their workers.

It is highly annoying to hear my own party say 95% of the world's market is outside the US. When they fail to mention 98% of the world including the US cannot justisfy buying american.

Tarriffs are a great way to raise taxes based on behavior. If you are behaving in a way that hurts the country you will help pay to make the country a better place by indirectly investing in making the home product more competitive. Although the main fighting point is how it would affect the poor at first. That is until wages start going up due to the labor shortage.

If handled right it would go a long way towards affirming America's right to rule the world in this century. Failure to act will continue the downward spiral that we are on.

The Bushes are gracious people. Certainly more than he got from the Clintons. At least the the Obamas won't be going into a trashed and plundered W H.

It takes thousands of people to run the gov. and the WH. Obama has to learn how to do it, get to know all the secrets and whats happening in the world we don't know about. Thats why its called transition.

I see some of the libs here are the same old mean people. Wonder how long it will take for them to turn against Obama when they don't get what they want for "change". It appears everyone has their own definition of change. Obama never defined it. A Pres. is not a King. He has to work with the Congress. They make the legislation and a Pres. can only say yes or no.

Relax. It will take years for the economy to get better. This is a private sector nation. Capitalism. It isn't a socalist country Yet.

Campaign talk is one thing. Reality another.

The gathering in front of the White House on election night by thousands of joyous Obama supporters reminded me of the scene in the movie "Frankenstein". All the mob needed was pitchforks and torches…Burning the evil doctor (Bush) and his monster(s) (Cheney, Rice, Rumsfeld, Gonzalez, Rove….etc.) out would surely have been justified. M2C

-Tomkat-

Hey dude your a complete idiot shut up with you crap

I hope Barney is not around

Keith, please do we have to rehash those terrible days of Joe the Plumber, Bimbo, the moose killer and erractic McCain? Those clips should never be shown again. However, I love wayching the Katue Couric interview and Charlie Gibson, which confirmed that this woman is not smarter than a third grader,(lol)

To Dude.

How very narrow-minded of you. Well, I guess Obama never loved his mother, then, clearly. She must be so gratified to know that you're sticking your neck out for her against her heartless grandson who she knew and loved her whole life, who she voted for before she died, by the way.

Perhaps when it's your grandmother who buys the farm then you can lecture us on exactly how to pay one's respects, but you actually have the sheer offensiveness to say that what Barack owes all of you is to get out in front of cameras to mourn his very personal loss because treating it as a private matter is just too much to ask now that he's in power.

Of course he had to say something when she died, it couldn't have been ignored. How dare you say that he used her death as a campaigning tool, if he hadn't mentioned her in his speech then you would have crucified him anyway for not mentioning her.

You people have a funny idea of what your politicians owe you.

Is anybody else sickened by that remark?

Politics – strange bedfellows indeed.

Yall cut President Bush some slack now. After all he is being more gracious than I thought he would be.
I hope people aren't that dumb as to allow that bimbo from Alaska run for any office.

I just hope Bush goes on trial after Jan 20th. They shouldn't let him get away with what he has done. Same for Cheney.

Show the world that we can govern ourselves and we can punish people for their crimes.

You know Mr. President, it will be ok with me if you should decide to leave the White House and head back to Texas while the Obama's are there for a visit. I do not think anyone would blame you. In fact if you would like it, I will come and help you pack.

Dude – your ignorance is showing. Only Barack knows what his family has planned.

Mind your own personal business and leave Barack and his family alone. Typical McCain/Palin tactics that you have picked up. Snide, slash, trash, burn, lie. STOP IT

"Monday will mark the first time since 1988 that a Bush has not hosted or been hosted by a Clinton."

Now THAT'S change.

I can imagine the conversation between Obama and Bush:

Bush: Can I leave now?

Obama: No Mr. President, you have to finish your term before I become President.

Bush: No one has to know that you are actually running things now. It is a win-win situation for us both.

Obama: No Mr. President I will not break the law.

It is time to measure the drapes!

maybe they can talk about what other programs they can implement to spy on Americans

Hopefully the village idiot that is in the white house now will voluntary get out before January 20th, 2009 and lets have an early inauguration after Obama gets his cabinet members picked. We are so tired of seeing the current village idiot in the white house and his ignorant wife. Lets get on with an early change in this country not have to wait another 10 weeks. A republican family that did not vote for the current village idiot that is in the white house now nor voted for the village idiot and aqua net palin that wanted to take his place Jim Hall Kansas City Missouri.

Quote from Bush…“I’m going to go in there with a spirit of bipartisanship and a sense that both the president and various leaders in Congress all recognize the severity of the situation right now and want to get stuff done,” I mean WOW! WHY is this SUDDENLY his attitude!? WHY was THIS not thought about and brought up last week!? It's funny how when someone is losing their job they will say ANYTHING> Don't get me wrong, I'm ALL for bipartisanship, just, why now and not sooner than this? Makes your head spin. If this was his intention a long time ago, maybe his approval rating would more likely have been higher. >scratching head< NEVER seems to amaze me!…

When is Obama going to pay respect in person to his dead grandmother? Or else since there is no use of a dead granny anymore why bother. American fools fooled by empty rhetoric and crocodile tears.

"Bush has pledged to do everything he can to make sure the transition is smooth."

Someone needs to let Bush know that humans can't time travel to the past and undo the last eight years.

"I think that the President probably will share how he's made decisions and some of the things that he feels are important."

He should probably tell that to the people first, eh?

Notice how Cheney is making his quiet escape to his Haliburton shrine overseas?

Arrest Bush for war crimes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This is so sweet! We all need to get along. The success of our country requires it at this time.

While Obama has sought advice from other presidents, the White House press secretary predicts Bush will exercise restraint.

_____________________

Good – why would an intelligent President want advice from an idiot?

Hurry and leave, bushie.

President Bush … I have though you were intellectually challenged even before your election but ….

You appear to have been very gracious and reasonably accomodating to President-elect Obama. In so doing, you are setting, in the final 3% of your term, a co-operative, non-partisan tone. This is a good example and I hope you'll speak to your fellow republicans about replicating it throughout Obama's term in office.

Why not send the 747 to Chicago, so the Obama's get a sneak peak at what it will be like for the next 8 years?

"Bush has pledged to do everything he can to make sure the transition is smooth."

If there ever was a time in his political career to be truthful and follow through on his promise, now is the time for Bush to keep his word. Our country – the UNITED States of America – needs to come together in supporting our new President and his efforts to get things back on track.

Barack, a good dog for your family is a Havanese because it does not shed, is hypoallergenic, and very easily trained. I have one and he is the perfect dog for my family since we have allergies. Havanese's also love children! Please consider the breed Havanese.