How George W Bush Got Bounced from the Carlyle Board

[bobbieinok]

http://prorev.com/bushcarlyle.htm

HOW BUSH GOT BOUNCED
FROM CARLYLE BOARD


SUZAN MAZUR

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But when we were putting the board together, somebody came to me and said, look there is a guy who would like to be on the board. He's kind of down on his luck a bit. Needs a job. Needs a board position. Needs some board positions. Could you put him on the board? Pay him a salary and he'll be a good board member and be a loyal vote for the management and so forth.

I said well we're not usually in that business. But okay, let me meet the guy. I met the guy. I said I don't think he adds that much value. We'll put him on the board because - you know - we'll do a favor for this guy; he's done a favor for us.

We put him on the board and spent three years. Came to all the meetings. Told a lot of jokes. Not that many clean ones. And after a while I kind of said to him, after about three years - you know, I'm not sure this is really for you. Maybe you should do something else. Because I don't think you're adding that much value to the board. You don't know that much about the company.

He said, well I think I'm getting out of this business anyway. And I don't really like it that much. So I'm probably going to resign from the board.

And I said, thanks - didn't think I'd ever see him again. His name is George W. Bush. He became President of the United States. So you know if you said to me, name 25 million people who would maybe be President of the United States, he wouldn't have been in that category. So you never know. Anyway, I haven't been invited to the White House for any things.

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[midnight]

1. It doesn't sound like he understood how to handle money.

I hear that when he left Gov. of Texas, he left it in economical shambles.

[MadMaddie]

2. He has always just taken up space wherever he was....

His failed companies down in Texas.....his governship....the Carlyle group....the WH....he doesn't understand his role and responsibilities today...but of course we know that Cheney and Rummy are directing everything....

[spindrifter]

3. Has anyone ever looked into

his performance in his MBA program? There has been plenty re his undergrad days, but I don't recall seeing anything substantive about how he did in grad. school. Like, was it a "virtual" degree--as in you get credit because your family has business connections?