The New York Times reports that Bill Clinton has discovered that his successor, George W. Bush, ain’t such a bad fellow after all. The two former presidents are on a speaking tour – businessmen, local leaders, bloggers, etc. have to pay hundreds of dollars to attend the talks, which are a major success.

Unlike what the left-wing of the Democratic Party would want Clinton to do, he treats Bush with respect, and vice versa. The two men get along just fine, in fact.

Some 6,000 people — or their corporate employers — paid from $200 to $2,500 to attend the event, a rare chance to see two former presidents, who served in succession, square off from opposite sides of the political spectrum.

What they got instead, while no less historic, was a glimpse of the strange-bedfellows-for-the-moment friendship between the two men, once bitter rivals…

And as they settled into overstuffed chairs, Mr. Bush and Mr. Clinton became something of an ex-presidents’ support group, avoiding direct critiques of each other, or, for that matter, their future club member, President Obama (“I want you to understand that anything I say is not to be critical of my successor,” Mr. Bush said, “there are plenty of critics in American society.”)

Say what you will about Bush, but if there is one thing he has it is class.

Not only do Bush and Clinton treat each other with respect nowadays, the NYT also offers the following little tidbit:

You did not know about that? Well, that is because the MSM did not find it important enough to point this out when Bush was still president. After all, it proved that he was not as right-wing as they loved to pretend, and it proved that he actually took advise from the most popular former president since Ronald Reagan; a Democrat.

Of course, Clinton met with Bush when his wife, Hillary, was running for president. She was deemed the top favorite for her party’s nomination and consequently the presidency. Pointing out that Bill Clinton and Bush had become friends, could hurt Hillary’s chances tremendously.

In any case, it is good to see these two men treat each other with the respect both deserve.