I quote the CNN article directly:
No easy street for Bush once he's out of office
The process of relinquishing the most powerful job in the world isn't an easy one. Besides overseeing the construction of a presidential library and writing his memoirs.....
Nuff said!
12/7/2008: Well, I guess not enough said. I meant to cut the above quote right where I cut it, because it looked like good material for a comedian, just as it was. You know, "Bush is putting together a library? I didn't know he could read." But some people have taken this seriously enough to read the whole article, so I guess I better, too.
I like the David Brinkley statement, "...and you suddenly realize your mistakes because your pace slows down." Boy, is that going to be traumatic.
"Publishers, concerned the president's slumping approval ratings could translate to less-than-stellar book sales, have reportedly been lukewarm about a Bush book deal." Having worked in a book warehouse, I find it hard to believe that he won't find a company to publish him.
The article talks about Jimmy Carter having a low approval rating, and repairing that image by becoming a globe trotting humanitarian, and claims that Bush is thinking of trying the same thing. He is going to need some phenomenal spin doctors to pull that one off.
"Bush and his handlers are mapping out this phase of the president's post-White House years. Plans are well under way for a "Freedom Institute" that will aim to promote democracies abroad." I have known for years that when politicians use the word, freedom, it's just a buzz word. Even Hitler and Stalin tried to claim that they were giving the people freedom.
He wants his Freedom Institute to be non-academic. "It's under the auspices of this think tank that the president might try to improve his legacy, in hopes that Freedom Institute might reveal virtues in the foreign policy vision that led to the most defining decision of his presidency, the invasion of Iraq." A non-academic think tank (oxymoron?) that will reveal the virtues of not thinking when going into Iraq?
One thing that probably won't be in Mr. Bush's library is the document with the 34 articles of impeachment that were read into the congressional records, this summer. Too bad the rest of the Democrats kind of shoved that under the rug. (That's why, other than Obama*, I voted Libertarian) I have heard rumors that criminal charges may be brought agains Bush and Cheney when they go out of office. This is one lame duck President that may not be allowed to hobble off into the sunset.
*My apologies to Bob Barr if Obama blows it.
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together and start the wholesale process of over throwing foreign governments, and planting puppet regimes, then call them democracies, Bush Style. Then, he'll proceed to take over the world.
Hmmm. Sounds like a plan!
Elmo A., I don't remember Carter dropping any bombs, either.
Dorothy H, too bad Bush has more money than we do. We could hire Blackwater to fix the mess Bush made. :)
I’ll post three hundred articles, then I’ll post three hundred more...
In my opinion this sums up BUSH very nicely and re-inforces what I have said all along---this appears to be a Presidency that will live on in history for more reasons then just that he was President....I don't think we have ever had a President who actually bought his way into the white house because it's clear smarts didn't get him in there.
No folks, just a plain, garden-variety moron.
I can't see Bush realizing his mistakes, because he is far too arrogant to make any mistakes.
What a joke. He should be thankful he isn't up on war crimes!
Renee K., That's an interesting question, but I don't think there is anything saying that he has to do a good job to get his pension. Just be glad that he can't give himself a big bonus like the CEOs can.
The older I get and the more I see what has happened before to get us to here, and what promised to be as we move forward I just think that unless there is some "singularity" as some call it, a discontinuity, something drastically different from anything we have done in human history before, I am very pessimistic on our chances for survival, and on the quality of that survival for those who do muddle through.
It was "My Pet Goat" that he was reading to the class during 911.
I will say one thing, and that is that I don't want to live in any house that George W. Bush helped build, even if they wanted to give it to me free! ;-)
I just wanted to say I am finally going through what is now under 7,300 pieces of gather new mail that is in my inbox on here. So with that in mind I have finally come to a piece of mail that was addressed to me in regards this article submission you have created to share with the gather community. Thank you for taking the time and sharing your piece with us here at gather. :o)
And as well Merry Christmas... and Happy Holidays... :o)