‘Hi George’ said P.E. ‘I must say you haven’t changed too much since our time together at Yale’

‘Thanks P.E.’ said George ‘by the way what ever happened to that girl… you know…’

‘Oh her’ said P.E. ‘Last time I heard of her she was chairing the ‘We have not had sex with Bill Clinton’ movement. But of course she was finding that so few women qualified for membership. Tell me George, how do you react to Obama blaming you for the current financial mess he’s in?’

‘It’s all very predictable really’ said George ‘because he knows less about the economy than I knew about WMD’s’

‘But’ said P.E. ‘do you think that the strategy of blaming you will work for him?’

‘Of course not’ said George ‘The truth is that Republicans are much better at cleaning up the messes left by Democrats than they are at cleaning up after us’

‘Do you think that Obama can rightly blame bad luck?’ asked P.E.

‘Well yes’ said George ‘I have to admit it was rotten luck having to clean up after me’

‘There are rumours around’ said P.E. ‘that you don’t get on well with Rick Perry the latest Republican presidential candidate’

‘Absolute hogwash’ said George ‘It’s true he can be an obnoxious arsehole at times but a lot of my friends seem to be like that’

‘Would you like a drink?’ asked P.E.

‘No thanks’ said George ‘I decided that I had a choice. I could either give up drinking or become a great president. So I gave up drinking and then discovered too late it was my only chance of becoming a great president’

‘Looking back over your presidency’ asked P.E. ‘is there anything you would change if you had you time over again?’

‘Oh sure’ said George ‘I should have left Obama an even bigger financial mess so he would have had no chance of introducing that obnoxious Obamacare’

‘How do you react to Obama slagging you off so often during his speeches?’ asked P.E.

‘Well it’s very flattering of course’ said George ‘and I can’t help feeling it’s playing a key role in helping him achieve unpopularity levels after two and a half years which I only achieved after eight’

‘What sort of a mess did Bill Clinton leave you?’ asked P.E.

‘Well nothing much’ said George ‘except that girl we talked about earlier. Are you sure she and he didn’t…?’

‘Yes’ said P.E. ‘but you can’t really blame her for not admitting to something like that.
Do you think that Obama will be a one-term president?’

‘Well I should hope so’ said George ‘It would be a shame if that long term plan I hatched with Lehmann Brothers to wreck his economic policy didn’t work out’