George Bush believes he will set the record straight with his memoir, due out later this year

[sabra]

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/localnews/bushlibrary/stories/012310dnmetbush.42538e6.html

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"I'm sure he appreciates it when others speak up to defend him," said Karen Hughes, who was a top Bush adviser in Austin and Washington.

Hughes, an executive with a global communications firm, still guides some of the Bush Foundation's media operations. Ever the loyalist, she hopes that history will "set the record straight" on Bush's eight-year tenure.

Longtime observers say Bush believes he will set the record straight with his memoir, which will be released later this year. He started writing it the day after he left office and is nearly finished.

"I don't think Bush is obsessed with being loved by Americans in the near term," said Robert Draper, author of Dead Certain, a portrait of the final years of the Bush administration. "George W. Bush has been around long enough to know that poll numbers are snapshots."

Still, Bush will probably win over fellow Texans quicker than he will anyone else, Draper said.

"There was a level of disdain for Bush that seemed out of proportion to what he'd done. It was almost primal," he said. "There isn't a lot in the way of nostalgia for Bush."

[spanone]

1. the disdain was out of proportion? well, it's not like he started an unnecessary war or anything

good luck george, folks still don't like you or your policies

[DemoTex]

6. Or won the election in 2000 ..

Know what I mean?

[Golden Raisin]

22. Or did his best to rape and spit on

the Constitution for 8 long years.

[Xipe Totec]

2. Another book I can hardly wait to not buy n/t

[beac]

9. I might not buy TWO copies, one to not read and one to not give as a gift.

The fact that he thinks he can "set the record straight" is yet more proof of Bush's tiny-brain problem. Telling MORE lies to cover your original lies does a lot of things, but straightening the record ain't one of 'em.

[notadmblnd]

3. I can see it now, a huge coloring book dipicting all the major events of his tenure

it's gonna take an entire box of blue crayons just to color the waters of the levees breaking during hurricane Katrina.

[cutlassmama]

7. with phonetic spelling!

[Fleshdancer]

4. Rich, spoiled, drugs, GAWD, politics, GAWD, war, GAWD, tax breaks for weathy, GAWD. The end.

There. I saved everyone the trouble. You're welcome.

[blondeatlast]

11. You forgot natural disaster.

Not to mention that whole Katrina debacle too.

[Fleshdancer]

17. would he write about Katrina in his memoir?

Hell, would he actually call it a memoir? Does he know what that word even means? Maybe we should refer to it as "all about me storytellin'"

:shrug:

[blondeatlast]

28. "all about me storytellin'" --Perfect. That's what I'm calling it from now on. LOL! nt

[Wapsie B]

5. I wonder if they'll let him anywhere near the gop convention in 2012?

Being a two-term prez and all he should be the keynote speaker.

[chelsea0011]

8. He's gonna set the record straight? LOL

[flakey_foont]

10. "There isn't a lot in the way of nostalgia for Bush."

I believe that statement to be fairly accurate.

[marmar]

12. Straight......no chaser

[blondeatlast]

13. Geez, Karen, YA THINK? That last sentence from your excerpt is the funniest thing

I've read all year.

[quinnox]

14. History will set the record straight alright, W as worst president

And how many times will 9/11 be referenced in the book I wonder. He said it nearly every other sentence in his presidency, so should be used hundreds of times throughout the book no doubt.

[Winterblues]

15. "There was a level of disdain for Bush that seemed out of proportion to what he'd done

Replace Bush* with Clinton and there would be more truth to the statement..

[bamacrat]

16. Guess he had to wait until Palin wrote hers so his wouldn't seem so dumb.

I'm still guessing on a coloring section and a pop-up explanation of the Iraq wars.

[butterfly77]

18. Joe Scarborough says..

sooner or later we will have to stop blaming Bush..Never!

[Vinca]

19. Look for a book signing at the dollar store near you.

[sabra]

21. +1

:thumbsup:

[KingFlorez]

20. The record speaks for itself

There is nothing for him to set straight, he was a terrible President and he won't be changing any opinions about that.

[ixion]

23. that worthless, spoiled, ignorant little twit caused more damage to this country

than Islamic terrorists have ever caused.

He can rot in a cell in the Hague, if there's any justice in the world :grr:

I guess that's the 'primal' response the article mentions, however I don't feel it is over-the-top at all.

[Marr]

24. Cool. I love pop-up books.

[old mark]

25. Will it have pitchers? nt

[RaleighNCDUer]

26. Let's see -

Two unnecessary wars, two nation-shaking disasters, two recessions - if the level of disdain for him is out of proportion, it is because it is too muted.

[Blue Owl]

27. History will prove

that he's a lying POS who hastened the fall of American democracy.

[Art_from_Ark]

29. What? Does that mean that David Frum's

sycophantic ramblings, er, insightful praise of bu$h and his administration in "The Right Man" wasn't enough to "set the record straight"?

[surrealAmerican]

30. A criminal investigation would do a lot more ...

... to "set the record straight" than a memoir in this case.

[Ohio Joe]

31. out of proportion? You have to be shitting me

The douchebag should have already had his trial and been convicted.

[Canuckistanian]

32. Good, I've been waiting for his memoirs

It should be just thin enough to level my dining room table.

[pipi_k]

33. Shit, I can't even remember what I did last week....this former

cocaine-snorting alcoholic is going to "remember" what happened from 2001 to 2009?


:eyes:

[UTUSN]

34. "Who cares what you think?!1" - "Who cares what History will say, I'll be dead."

So much for his religion (which preaches "afterlife").