Bush declines hardware store job

[kentuck]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7904222.stm

<snip>
George W Bush has paid a jokey visit to a hardware store in Dallas, Texas, which offered him a job as a greeter.

The former US president entered the Elliott's outlet with his security detail saying "I'm looking for a job", store manager Andrea Bond said.

The owner of the Texas chain made the offer earlier this month in a letter published in a Dallas newspaper.

But despite not yet having a publisher for his memoirs, Mr Bush decided on reflection to turn the job down.

Equipped with a name tag reading "W", Mr Bush spent an hour there with his secret service security detail, chatting to customers and doing a little shopping.

...more

[louis-t]

1. I'm sure he fucked that job up, too.

:eyes:

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

5. People walk into store and he says "Goodbye!"

:rofl:

[havocmom]

2. w feeling sorta lonely & negelected? In need of attention?

Send the SOB to the Hague and give him the attention of a War Crimes Tribunal.

[Whoa_Nelly]

3. In defense of GeorgieBoy

The guy's gotta do something to pass the time before starting his daily cocktail hour.

After spending an hour at the hardware store,
am sure he had reason to say, "Workin' a hardware store is hard work!",
and, "It must be 5 o'clock somewhere!"

[rainbow4321]

12. He'd have plenty of places to pick from for cocktail hour in that neighborhood

"Hey, where'd the greeter go?"

"He ran across the street to Rosita's Restaurant for lunch and.....never came back"

[lazer47]

4. He knows he can't pass the urine test,,,,,,,

[MindPilot]

6. Bush in a hardware store? Now that's comedy!!

Al Bundy, Tim Allen, and the Three Stooges all rolled into one dangerous and incompetent buffoon.

That would be a sitcom I'd watch!

[Wickerman]

7. How unsurprisingly pathetic

So, Carter went off and built houses. Clinton set up offices in NYC and foundations. Bush makes the news for virtually the first time since leaving the WH and its as a "greeter" at a hardware store?

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

Thanks, George, for reminding the entire country, er, planet just what an embarrassing fuckup you are.

[TWiley]

8. I knew calling him dubya in 2000 was a mistake

now he wears the nametag

[elizfeelinggreat]

9. What a moron. Equipped with a name tag reading "W"

In case he forgets who he is.

[MindPilot]

11. For that to work he will have to wear it upside down.

the rest of us shall know him as "M"

[rainbow4321]

10. So he went to the 'hood

Jesus Fucking Christ....

I bet he did have his security in tow. I imagine they also set up a secured perimeter around the parking lot outside.

My bus to work goes past there every day and the hardware store sits amongst stores/businesses with bars on their windows and seedy looking bars/restuarants.
Pretty sure the customers he chatted with were none to happy he was there..or they were carefully hand selected by his security team before they got within 400 feet of him.

[MindPilot]

13. Yeah that could be some dangerous territory

Someone who lost a kid in Iraq and a 401k in the crash meets ole George in the hammers and crowbars aisle...