What will * do after his term?

[Bill McBlueState]

Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton have been re-writing the rules for ex-Presidents, continuing to be productive citizens for a variety of causes after leaving the White House. Somehow, I have my doubts about the current occupant of the White House. He'll presumably have a couple decades of potential public life remaining. What do you think he'll do with it?

I see him becoming commissioner of the Arena Football League, or some similar second-tier operation.

[babylonsister]

1. He'll be so roundly reviled by then

I think he'll be afraid to come out of a self-imposed cocoon.

[whistle]

2. The batteries will be removed and * will be stored in Dick Cheney's

...closet, hanging by his strings on a peg.

[Taxloss]

3. His term in office or his term in jail? n/t

[Cosmocat]

4. Yeah ...

Nothing ...

Literally ... I mean, what has his father done ???

The amazing thing is ... As great Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton have been as ex-presidents, the talking heads still vilify them ... America in the 21st century, a place where greatness is sneered upon, and lunacy is praised ...

[Ishoutandscream2]

39. Agreed. Absolutely nothing

Maybe playing video games, sleeping in a little, and some overzealous exercising. And, I can tell you what he won't be doing:

Working on humanitarian efforts
Traveling around the globe
Doing any type of an honest day's work

Dubya will continue being good ol' Dubya.

[rubberducky]

5. 30 years at hard labor in Levenworth

[Virginia Dare]

6. He wants to start a "think tank"....

don't you know that thing will be perpetually on "E"?

:rofl:

On a serious note, I think Poppy and his friends have already put up the money for this charade.

[doublethink]

16. No actually I think that was a 'Dunk Tank' ......

You know those ones where people line up to throw a baseball at the target and .... Whoosh .... * goes into the water. :)

[hyphenate]

23. It could also have been a

drunk tank as well. :)

[bryant69]

7. It is interesting to contemplate

I suspect he would walk off into the sunset. Assuming he leaves the presidency I don't think he would see any percentage in standing in the wings.

"You might think that he's a hero, but like Nixon, Mao and Nero all you know is that he came, and then he went." - Dave Stewert and the Spiritual Cowboys.

Bryant
Check it out -- http://politicalcomment.blogspot.com

[DURHAM D]

8. His seat on the Carlyle Board was announced in the 3rd

year of his first term.

[FSogol]

9. Join the board of the Carlyle Group and reap the $$ of war profiteering.

Just like his dad.

[Virginia Dare]

24. I'd like to see this evil cycle end very soon, like now....n/t

[mindfulNJ]

10. the phony ranch will be sold

Laura will divorce him, and the twins will pose for Playboy.

[sinkingfeeling]

11. Hopefully, about 25 to life...eom

[Botany]

12. I hope a 20 years @ hard labor for his crimes.

The man has to be held accountable @ sometime;
Office of Special Plans
White House Iraq Group
Haliburton
PNAC
9/11 (52 warnings)
2 stolen elections
NSA spying
Goading Israel into attacking Lebanon
Torture
Plame
Sending the workers into ground zero knowing that the air was bad
Cutting funds to vets
Cooking the intel to sell the Iraq war
Telling people that Iraq = 9/11 and then saying he did not
letting bin Laden get away
going AWOL
Insider trading
Abramoff
Enron
Environmental Crimes

[jhuth at work]

13. Obviously, he will go back to clearing brush and milking horses.

[longship]

14. Can you say, "Third Term"?

House bill with bipartisan support (from February) reads:

`The twenty-second article of amendment to the Constitution of the United States is repealed.’.

Read about it here:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=2171637&mesg_id=2171637

[Bill McBlueState]

28. I saw that thread

It's actually what prompted me to ask.

It takes too long to amend the Constitution for that to take effect in time for 2008. But I would love it if Bush had to stand for re-election and be held accountable for his disaster of a second term. Instead, he can just claim term limits and go back to doing... whatever it is he likes to do in his spare time.

[LeftCoast]

15. What will * do after his term? Time.

If there's any justice in the world, anyway.

[WePurrsevere]

17. Will do or should do, if there is any justice, are two different things.

If there is any real justice he should live through an earthly (and non-fatal) version of "hell" created with the input of the families and close friends of each his victims.

[malaise]

18. He'll be trying to scale

this wall

[leftofthedial]

19. drink even more

drool

play golf

torture small animals

[RufusEarl]

20. Sell used cars!

[Bill McBlueState]

29. hahaha

I could totally see him as a used car salesman. (No offense to any DUers who sell used cars.)

[NRaleighLiberal]

21. Take some of those readin' lessons.

[hyphenate]

22. I see him in a yard

with tall wire fences and razor coils at the top, with armed guard posted at various points, and Mr. Bush wearing a standard issue prison jumpsuit. :)

[kerry-is-my-prez]

25. He's going to need a LOT of body guards for the rest of his life....

A lot of people REALLY hate him and he single-handedly has not just turned this country into shit - but the whole world.

[Lexingtonian]

26. making Texas license plates

or gluing paper bags. Or, like his mom, shelving books in his library...well, technically in the prison's library. :-)

[dkofos]

27. Fighting extradition to the Hague.

At least I hope so

[kestrel91316]

30. If a Dem wins in 2008, I'm not convinced he WILL leave.

Voluntarily, that is.

[keta11]

31. Since he likes torture so much,

what about make him Kamp Kommandant at Guantanamo Bay.

[azmouse]

32. He'll finish his copy of The Pet Goat to see how it ends.

It'd be nice if he had to finish it in a jail cell.

[QuestionAll...]

33. hopefully making $2/hr in a prison factory. nt

[meldroc]

35. Go old school

Put him to work in a prison quarry, breaking big rocks into little rocks.

[liberal N proud]

34. Make license plates

My daughter asked that question last night, we were talking about Clinton going to be on the Daily Show and she asked us what presidents did after they were done with office.
We talked about how successful Carter has been and Clinton and others. Then she asked what we thought bu$h would do.

[acmejack]

36. Common decency prevents me from articulating my suggestion.

[razors edge]

37. chillin on the beach

with ken lay

[partylessinOhio]

38. Suicide would be appropriate.

[graywarrior]

40. After? If it's up to him, there will be no after.

[sweetheart]

41. nobody will care what happens to that shit

The Official George W. Bush
"Days Left In Office"
Countdown Clock:
853 DAYS
7 Hrs 5 Min 22.8 Sec

[subterranean]

42. He'll get a cushy position on some company's board

of directors, where he won't have to do any hard work.
Also, he will put his pig farm up for sale almost immediately after he leaves office.