Posted on 01/30/2011 7:37:50 PM PST by EveningStar
Stick a fork in him. George W. Bush is done with politics.
The ex-President told C-SPAN he has no plans to raise cash, stump for Republican candidates and even appear on television.
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I know the feeling.
He’s just saying that because no one wants him right now. Wait until people actually ask him to, and I bet he’ll be there to pay it back.
Good for him. And us, frankly.
You’d actually have to know Bush to understand that when he says that he has “no plans” that he means what he says...that someone would have to *ask* him for help to get it...he’s not volunteering.
People who don’t know Bush will think, mistakenly, that Bush has abandoned the GOP.
Not the case. He’s simply not interjecting himself. I(f ya want him, ya gotta ask him.
Which is exactly what former Presidents have been doing until Carter and Clinton decided they were above 200 plus years of precedence.
Well, that’s a great precedent for his successor to follow... </s>
That actually worries me. Former President Obama might actually be able to do more harm than Former President Carter, and he’s probably going to have more time to do it.
...and that also doesn’t mean he won’t do like the Rolling Stones who will play at a birthday party for $1 million.
I certainly appreciate it.
He doesn't want to make himself the issue. If he started fund-raising, he quickly would become the issue.
Good for him. Most former Presidents have done that for the most part.. EXCEPT Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter! When your term is done, write your memoirs and go away.
Things are looking up.
After reading ‘Decision Points’, I’m pretty damn sure he’s had enough of the public lime light. He will probably do lots of charity work of some kind.
He doesn’t owe anybody anything anyway.
Good
The dude bankrupted the country by refusing to use the veto pen for the first five and a half years in office and spending untold fortunes to invade foreign lands...
which set about a hyperinflationary debt spiral that was amplified his final parting act of TARP.
Yeah, in most other countries the whole Bush clan would have been flying out under cover of darkness to Riyadh to live in lifelong exile. In the US, they just slow down their TV appearance schedules.
There is one thing he could do that would be helpful, which is to write a book detailing the operations of the federal government, from the president’s point of view.
There was a suggestion that in his first term, he adopted a presidential philosophy not seen since the 19th Century, that congress should really manage the country, with the president just executing their wishes.
But in this the Republican congress failed utterly, with no party or self discipline, they went on a self-destructive spree.
His opinion would also be very important to the debate over the clearly unconstitutional “presidential signing statement”, and many other enlargements of the office, leading to the notion that it has become an “imperial presidency.”
IOW, He’s going to be spending more time on his 100,000 acre Paraguayan retreat.
What was GWB’s last significant political act?
TARP - yes indeed, he should run and hide in shame! JMHO
Of course, the real motivation is to create ‘BUSH SPACE’ for Jeb to continue down the same path in service to Globalist interests, in contra to Main Street interests.
Bush won’t do the one job far too many Americans are willing to do.
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