Bush Plans To Start Think Tank Devoted to French Political Thought

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http://www.thinkprogress.org/

Bush Plans To Start Think Tank Devoted to French Political Thought

CBS will air a portion of its interview with President Bush on Sunday’s Face the Nation. You can look forward to this exchange:

CBS: “Have you had time to think about what you’re going to do after you’re president?”

BUSH: “I’m beginning to think it through a little bit. I’d like to leave behind a legacy — or a think tank, a place for people to talk about freedom and liberty and the DeTocqueville model of what DeTocqueville saw in America.”

It’s curious that Alexis DeTocqueville is Bush’s inspiration for a think tank. DeTocqueville was a French political thinker who traveled extensively around America in the early 1800s and wrote famously of his perceptions of the U.S. in a two-volume set entitled Democracy In America. A review of DeTocqueville’s writings suggests that, though he wrote in the 19th Century, he may as well have been studying the politics of the Bush administration: more (quotes by De Tocqueville)

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1. "a place for people to talk about freedom and liberty" Jr did not include

himself in the think tank. te he.

[Erika]

2. hahaha ha, etc.

Bush demonized the French for the lack of supporting his insane war.

[awoke_in_2003]

10. That is because

he doesn't do it real well.

[Hekate]

3. WTF? He wouldn't know "French thought" if it bit him in the tush

Think tank -- for Bush to be involved it'll have to be a heckuva shallow tank.

Hekate

[Demeter]

16. Shallow By Necessity--Otherwise, He'd Drown

This is from the Onion, right?

Bush? Think?

[Demeter]

18. And That Brings To Mind Norquist's Desire To Drown the Gov't In A Bathtub

I know where he could start.....


(so evil, so bad, so asking for the Secret Service to knock on the door)

What the hell, live dangerously! We have less than 3 years left of the First Amendment, anyway.

[Hekate]

19. >snrk< :)

I made up the part about the think tank needing to be shallow, but so true.... Yes, * could take a pretzel-dive in one, couldn't he? And since Bush has all but said "l'etat c'est moi" perhaps Grover should watch his own pronouncements these days, eh?

Hekate

[jeff30997]

4. "I’d like to leave behind a legacy "

And you will,dumb-ass: An economy in ruins and a lot of dead peoples because of you.

[rodeodance]

6. right on.

[Demeter]

20. Contribute Your Personal Wealth to the National Debt, Then

Render unto Caesar. and all that.

[leftstreet]

5. BUSH + THINK TANK = OXYMORON

[rodeodance]

7. Bush on Sunday’s Face the Nation. so check it out.

.....CBS will air a portion of its interview with President Bush on Sunday’s Face the Nation. You can look forward to this exchange:

[punpirate]

8. If Bush were to do this...

... wouldn't he have to first read DeTocqueville? Then, second, wouldn't he have to understand what DeTocqueville had written? Just askin'. :shrug:

[rodeodance]

9. not really--he will the model he used as President-delegate

[ClintonTyree]

11. He read, "DeTocqueville for Dummies".............

and now he thinks he's an expert. :eyes:

[punpirate]

12. Yup, he is kind of a...

... Cliff's Notes president, isn't he? :P

[salin]

13. naw - he just liked the sound of the title when heard it.

No need to read about it - just keep referring to its apple pie sounding title when asked interview questions.

[ixion]

14. "There's no word in French for entrepreneur"

... a blast from the past. :dunce:

[TheBaldyMan]

15. shouldn't that be FREEDOM® Political Thought

turrr ... 9/11 ... FREEDOM® ...

[Vidar]

17. A legacy of death and devestation