Bush backpedals on Hillary victory
AFP, May, 2008
WASHINGTON (AFP) — US President George W. Bush on Monday distanced himself from his confident prediction late last year that Senator Hillary Clinton would win the Democratic White House nomination.
"I predicted the Detroit Tigers to win the American League pennant last year, too," Bush told ABC television. The Boston Red Sox won the pennant and the World Series of baseball.
"So I'm not a very good political forecaster. We'll let the Democrats decide. I predict John McCain will be living up there," at the White House, he added, referring to his fellow Republican, the party's presumptive nominee.
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