Comments on: Ex-president Bush

By: bob in fl

bob in fl — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 21:39:00 +0000

No cheap shots . . . damn, that’s hard. I can’t think of anything I can say that would not seem like a cheap shot to his few remaining supporters. Oops! I just did it, didn’t I?

By: Sean Aqui

Sean Aqui — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 00:08:53 +0000

Heh. That gives me an idea for a new thread: “Books you’d like to see President Bush write after he leaves office.” “On Leadership” would be a bipartisan choice — Bush supporters would take it seriously, Bush opponents would file it under humor….

By: sleipner

sleipner — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 21:48:08 +0000

Personally I hope he spends the remainder of his days in jail, along with most of his cabinet, for crimes against humanity. Preferrably one of those “extraordinary rendition” jails where they beat you with cables to get you to make confessions about things you know nothing about…like him and leadership.

By: Eclectic Floridian

Eclectic Floridian — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 19:30:46 +0000

Lewis,

You could only say those nice things about Bush with a signed Universal Presidential pardon in your pocket.

If you were in any less-privileged segment of the American populace, you’d prefer to see that crook tarred and feathered.

By: Around the web | alexking.org

Around the web | alexking.org — Sun, 21 Jan 2007 19:10:15 +0000

[...] Ex-president Bush – heh Try to keep it thoughtful; the cheap shots are just too easy, and I think I used most of them already anyway. [...]

By: Lewis

Lewis — Sat, 20 Jan 2007 00:58:16 +0000

I sincerely hope that Bush has a long, peaceful and wonderful retirement. He’s spent 8 years in the world’s most brutal job. He’s been brutalized and criticized without mercy and compared to the most evil or stupid people that ever lived.

During the whole time, he has demonstrated what true class really is by never mud wrestling with all the pigs. He has shown a graciousness that has astounded me. I think this, more than anything, is what has driven the Bush haters to the near complete mental dysfunction that cost them their social skills.

He’s the kind of guy that I would love to hang out with in some small Texas redneck bar, drinking beer, playing pool, having fun.

By: Jimmy the Dhimmi

Jimmy the Dhimmi — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 18:24:29 +0000

Maybe he will push the idea that cutting tax rates increases taxes. A lot of readers of this blog might look at that statement and think its just another garbled Bush malapropism, when in fact, he has proven that it is true.

By: Jason

Jason — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 13:42:39 +0000

Honestly? I truly think he’s so stubborn and self-righteous that he will defend himself to the end, regardless of public opinion. He’ll stick with his own group – extreme right wing fundamentalists and conservatives, and be as loved at Pat Robertson is to the mainstream (ie, not very).

I think if he had any leadership skills truly within him he wouldn’t have run his party straight into the ground at full speed, which he has done. And if he had any leadership skills, he wouldn’t have sat around for weeks telling the press he was going to wait for someone else (the Iraq Study Group) to make decisions.

That isn’t ‘listening to the people’ – it was fully abdicating his responsibilities. And I think those actions are the best indication of what his legacy will be, and where he will position himself post-Presidency.

By: BenG

BenG — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 03:58:01 +0000

I think he should learn to speak Spanish real good so he and his buddy Vladimir Putin could spend the winter south of the Border and visit some other good friends that he’s done so much for during his illustrious career in office.
Sorry I can’t play by your rules, but I’m much more concerned how my children are going to lead successful careers so they can have a good retirement some day. I not feeling overwhelmingly cheerful about their prospects these days.

By: Confused

Confused — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 21:45:46 +0000

I believe if President Bush is wise, he will stay out of any kind of activity that involves money, including running a business or fundraising; his track record in those areas is not very good. I suggest that he should quietly support Laura Bush’s projects as a way of keeping busy.

By: ascap_scab

ascap_scab — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 16:09:33 +0000

Dubya will do the paid lecture circuit explaining to anyone who pays the fee how he was right about everything, won the “War on Terror”, and blames everyone else. A ghost-written “memoir” will appear on the “best seller” list. Six months later, 95% of the printed copies will reach the “markdown bin.”

Dubya will leave his fake (no cows) Crawford ranch for his actual ranch in Paraguay where he will host other fallen “leaders.”

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/10/16/11414/803

By: Joshua

Joshua — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 06:49:14 +0000

Several years after Ronald Reagan left the White House, I recall reading an article about how he had started reaching out to AIDS patients. His active involvement in this was short-lived, as it was shortly before he was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s, but it was a surprise to me, and to many others, to suddenly see Reagan develop an affinity for the AIDS cause. Perhaps GWB will also be one of those ex-presidents who turns up where you least expect him.