Bush must navigate a treacherous post-presidency-CNN 12/6/08

[MilesColtrane]

It's always good to start the day off with a hearty laugh.

This one is courtesy of CNN reporter Alexander Mooney.
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http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/12/05/bush.post.presidency/index.html?eref=rss_topstories

"He is a president where people are expecting some kind of repair work," said Julian Zelizer, a professor of history and public affairs at Princeton. "If he just goes on the speaking circuit and focuses his time making huge money, that would only tarnish a presidency that only has a low approval rating."

Instead, Bush is more likely to choose a similar post-presidential path, at least initially, as that of Jimmy Carter, who also left the White House with poor approval ratings, Zelizer said.

Instead of seeking to profit off his years in office, Carter became a globe-trotting humanitarian and was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002 for his work promoting social and economic justice.

[Newsjock]

1. All he has to do to restore his legacy ...

... is to voluntary turn himself in at The Hague.

[MUAD_DIB]

17. He would vastly improve my opinion of him if he would just eat a bullet.

[Donnachaidh]

2. oh yeah, can you JUST see Bush trying to do humanitarian aid?

I wonder how many countries want to charge HIM with war crimes?

He'll have to be like Kissinger, and avoid those countries that want his head on a pike.

[LiberalFighter]

3. Zelizer must be doing cocaine to think Bush would be a humanitarian type.

[Uben]

4. Carter is smart

Bush is just an ignorant piece of shit. He won't do anything that does not have something in it for him. All his life has been one job after another where people have paid him for being his daddy's son, not for any actual merit. Every thing he has touched has turned to shit. Why would we want him to use his worthless piece of shit brain to keep destroying our country. I say we exile his ass to one of his middle east buddies and get rid of ALL the fucking Bushes forever! Let them fuck up some other country. We have had enough!

[Terran]

5. Seriously doubt Bush will try to be a humanitarian

He's a psychopath, he doesn't have a humanitarian bone in his body.

[frogcycle]

6. To make money on the "speaking circuit"

wouldn't he have to learn how to speak first? Or are we talking comedy clubs?

[immoderate]

11. He does a good impression of Frank Caliendo!

Seriously, comparing Bush to Carter is like comparing a bad person to one that is good. That's right, I said it.


--IMM

[Doremus]

19. LOL

Maybe an interactive show where the audience can buy tickets to hurl insults. Or maybe play a trivia pursuit type game just to hear his moronic answers. Something like dwarf bowling.

:rofl:

[frogcycle]

22. Mental-dwarf bowling! Love it. Second only to turkey bowling.

[GrantDem]

7. Bush won't be able to leave the country

for fear of arrest. His best bet is to go to his new mansion in Dallas (or wherever the hell it is) and STFU.

[JuniperLea]

8. He doesn't know the meaning of the word "humanitarian"

He thinks tax breaks for the rich are humanitarian.

There's no way anyone would pay him hundreds of thousands of dollars to speak, like they do Bill Clinton, and he wouldn't know the working end of a hammer if it hit him on his empty head. There is no good use for him that I can think of... except to be tried and incarcerated for crimes to humanity and held as an example to all who might try his heinous acts in the future.

[MarianJack]

9. To do what Carter did...

...bush would have to give 3/10ths of a rat-fuck about somebody other than himself.

My prediction is that he'll sit on his ass at the pig farm doing Jim Beam and cocaine until he's dead. As for money, he'll likely get a high 6 or low 7 figure no show job from a right wing organization so they'll have the "privilege" of having a former president's name on their letterhead. I don't know how lucrative the speaker's circuit would be for him. At this point, even his own party realizes that he's a moron. They probably knew it before but knew he was a useful front man.

[MilesColtrane]

14. Yup, he'll be looking for those WMDs on golf courses for the rest of his life.

Reminiscent of OJ's search for the real killers.

[MarianJack]

15. Maybe OJ will find the weapons in his cell...

...and ex-president moron will find the real killers on the pig farm!

[Kahuna]

10. I can't see bush building homes for the poor. It will never happen. nt

[Vickers]

12. He's already given himself some "wiggle room" about being a humanitarian

in his recent interview with Charlie Gibson:

"I said, wouldn't it be interesting for baby boomers not to retire in nice places, but to retire -- during their retirement, go help people deal with malaria or AIDS. In other words -- and I'm not suggesting that's what I'm going to do, but it is the kind of thing that intrigues me."

:eyes:

http://abcnews.go.com/WN/Politics/Story?id=6356046&page=7

[Bucky]

13. Bush's legacy is creating job security for those doing humanitarian work

Hoover is someone who repaired his historical reputation by doing service to the country after leaving office, such as the Hoover Commission in reducing government waste in the late 40s and helping to establish a civil government in Japan after the war.

Bush's greatest gift to humanity is in finally leaving office.

[devilgrrl]

16. So Jimmy Carter became compassionate because he had low ratings? He wasn't like that to begin with?

I call bullshit on that one.

W has proven that he couldn't give a rats ass about anything and why would he bother his "beautiful mind" by starting now simply because of his abysmal approval ratings? Who would buy it other than his loyal 21%?

[goforit]

18. CARTER??...What phucking planet is CNN on??...Question is what Forest fires will he start?

[aquart]

20. You're right. I'm laughing.

"Likely"!!!!! LOLOLOLOL!

[enid602]

21. not like Carter

Bush (if he remains in the country and is not in jail) will more likely become like LBJ, who became a recluse, grew his hair long and turned to drugs and booze during his final days on his Texas ranch.