- TIL the day after Obama won the Senate, President Bush called him, announcing, “You’re one articulate fella!” The two ended up chatting for 10 minutes, according to one of Obama’s aides. Weeks later, he accepted an invite to the White House and had breakfast with Bush, Cheney and Karl Rove. http://www.college.columbia.edu/cct_archive/jan05/cover.php 90 comments politics