Bush: Elites “Didn’t Think I Could Read a Book, Much Less Write One”

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[SunkenCiv]

Thanks fabrizio.

"I have written a book. This will come as a shock to some of the elites. They didn't think I could read a book, much less write one," Bush quipped. Speaking at the University of Mobile in Alabama Thursday night, Bush talked about his memoir "Decision Points," ...gives some understanding to the decisions he made on tough issues like the handling of 9/11 and the Iraq war. The president, who has become a target of both Democrats and President Obama since he left office... "I loved being your president. But frankly, I'm having the time of my life not being your president," Bush said.

The spin-doctoring emphasis added.

[SunkenCiv]

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Decision Points by George W. Bush Large Print Limited Edition Kindle Abridged CD Audiobook Deluxe eBook

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[Ditter]

Absolutely we miss the whole Bush family. I run into Barbara Bush occasionally at the pharmacy or grocery store and I never fail to thank her for the Bush years and I tell her how much we appreciate her son and husband.

[dsutah]

Right on! I haven’t see such a concise, sensible argument for GWB as that! It would be safe to say that all three (he, Reagan and GHWB)were mostly conservative. All three knew that they may known that they would have to do a certain amount of ‘wheeling and dealing’ when they went into the presidency. They might not have liked it, but they knew it. They each did the best they could with what they had!

That said, they certainly caused a lot of purists to scratch their heads or stamp their feet with impatience or anger with them at times. That was understandable, but some of the anger was, I think, terribly misplaced and unfair as well!

No president, king, prince, queen, etc.., even very conservative ones, were superhuman; nor were they meant to be. The only one who could have been considered that, was the Lord himself! Knowing some people on the right, (even some on here)they wouldn’t have even made HIM the president!

[Bigg Red]

I am also curious why Reagan is not vilified....

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Reagan was bamboozled. Bush had so much more information available to him, such as the destruction that illegal immigration has wrought upon hospitals and upon the budgets of various states.

I hope you weren’t calling me a “faux conservative”.

[Onelifetogive]

Bush was and remains awesome. I don’t care how many times I get bashed on FR, the man was an extraordinary leader and a worthy role model.

I'll second that!

[Kickass Conservative]

>”No one would accuse George W. Bush of being the brightest guy in the world, but he was certainly a decent fellow”<

Yeah, Bush was one of those dumb guys that earned an MBA, was entrusted to fly a Military jet fighter and somehow managed to get elected Governor of Texas and President of the United States of America.

Since he wasn't a great Public Speaker and was attacked viciously by a Liberal Press for his entire Presidency, the myth of President Bush's supposed lack of intelligence lives on.

I remember how disappointed the Liberal Elite became when it was discovered that President Bush had better College Grades than Gore and Kerry, those two really smart guys...

[FloridaSunrise]

It wasn’t Bush’s speaking abilities that I was criticizing. That was the least of his troubles.

[lonestar67]

I think it is fine for people to want more stricture on illegal immigration. I just think that Reagan is allowed to be a hero with far many more transparent errors while Bush continues to have his flaws amplified and successes minimized.

I won’t do it and I wont feel bad about amplifying his many and ample conservative successes.

[reformedliberal]

Next time, please tell her that includes this little old lady and her husband in Wisconsin. While GWB may not have been the world’s most polished speaker, he always struck us as authentic. He was a good president and, when we needed it, a great president. He wasn’t perfect and he was the first person who would agree with that. We could disagree with him (and we did) with no fear of retaliation.

Doesn’t anyone remember that the donks all INSISTED that W leave half the TARP funds for zerO to allocate? TARP may actually have been necessary and may have done something positive, so, of course, the progs wanted to make sure their zerO got some of the credit. This was their dog-in-the-manger attitude just as when Clinton wished aloud that he had been President on 9-11-01.

It is the stimulus funding and all the corruption that went along with it that is killing this country, rather than TARP.

As for elites, in America, real elites are as real elites do. I will bet that Barbara is gracious when you speak with her. I have seen and heard her being feisty while her husband and son were in office, but it was in the sense of having spirit and heart, not in the sense of being mean spirited or full of herself.

Given the opportunity, I would be much more eager to work for either Mrs. Bush than for the present FLOTUS.

[Ditter]

If and when I see Mrs. Bush again I will certainly tell her that many many of us appreciate her family for the good decent people that they are. I have not seen her for about a year, at that time I was leaving the pharmacy as she was coming in and she held the door for me. Imagine any of our other first ladies doing that. Of course she had a SS guy behind her and there were probably several who had already checked out the store before she came in. You can tell when the Bushs are around because you see young men and women in dark suits wearing sunglasses with a wire in one ear. Just remembered another time more recently, I was in the drive through window at Walgreens and I could see her inside at the counter. She and Mr. Bush are just regular folks, I see him at the pizza place and the movie store. They don't live very far from me in a gated community of large very nice town homes.