Bush tells journo he plans on being a lazy ass when retired. Plans to trap 2008 candidates in Iraq.

[BurtWorm]

Make speeches, rake in the dough, just like dad. No surprises there.


http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/02/washington/02book.html?hp=&adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1188678058-H+sEafBZRwnIIOUxvjqcHg

In Book, Bush Peeks Ahead to His Legacy


By JIM RUTENBERG
Published: September 2, 2007




WASHINGTON, Aug. 31 — When President Bush is asked what he plans to do when he leaves office, he often replies curtly: “I don’t have that much time to think beyond my presidency” or “I’m going to sprint to the finish.”

But in an interview with a book author in the Oval Office one day last December, he daydreamed about the next phase of his life, when his time will be his own.

First, Mr. Bush said, “I’ll give some speeches, just to replenish the ol’ coffers.” With assets that have been estimated as high as nearly $21 million, Mr. Bush added, “I don’t know what my dad gets — it’s more than 50-75” thousand dollars a speech, and “Clinton’s making a lot of money.”

Then he said, “We’ll have a nice place in Dallas,” where he will be running what he called “a fantastic Freedom Institute” promoting democracy around the world. But he added, “I can just envision getting in the car, getting bored, going down to the ranch.”

For now, though, Mr. Bush told the author, Robert Draper, in a later session, “I’m playing for October-November.” That is when he hopes the Iraq troop increase will finally show enough results to help him achieve the central goal of his remaining time in office: “To get us in a position where the presidential candidates will be comfortable about sustaining a presence,” and, he said later, “stay longer.”

But fully aware of his standing in opinion polls, Mr. Bush said his top commander in Iraq, Gen. David H. Petraeus, would perhaps do a better job selling progress to the American people than he could.

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[Cooley Hurd]

1. The Bush Presidential Burial Plot will be knee-high in feces and urine...

Helluva legacy there, Chimpy...:eyes:

[YDogg]

2. what a sorry sack of shit.

[whistle]

3. Nothing changes for *

[book_worm]

4. He's been a lazy ass president too

that's one difference between him and Clinton. Clinton didn't spend half his time on vacation.

[Maggie_May]

5. No humantiy work

Just where you can make your next buck. Well Bush I hope I get to see you outside of one of your speaking engagements to let you know what I thought about your presidency. (because I wont give you a penny to listen to one).

[Cha]

6. Fuckyou, buSHIT and your

prepubescent fart-boy mentality.

[tularetom]

17. Heh heh you said fart boy heh heh

[Cha]

21. I know!` HAHA!

[Olney Blue]

7. “Of course I do, I’ve got God’s shoulder to cry on, and I cry a lot.”

Direct quote from the chimpanzee.

Unbelievable.

:nopity:

[yella_dawg]

8. As touchy as he is about what he plans to do after leaving office,

you have to wonder if he actually plans to leave office any time soon.

[BurtWorm]

9. "jubilantly swatting at flies between making solemn points,..."

<That is so fucking Bush. What a fucking MORON! :puke: >

...

Sitting in an anteroom of the Oval Office, he eschewed the more formal White House menu for comfort food — a low-fat hotdog and ice cream — and bitingly told an aide who peeked in on the session that his time with Mr. Draper was “worthless anyway.”

But as Mr. Draper described it, and as the transcripts show, Mr. Bush warmed up considerably over the intervening interviews, chewing on an unlit cigar, jubilantly swatting at flies between making solemn points, propping his feet up on a table or stopping him at points to say emphatically, “I want you to get this” or “I want this damn book to be right.”

Mr. Bush went on to share private thoughts that appeared to reflect a level of sorrow and presidential isolation that he strongly implied he took pains to hide, a state of being that he seemed to view as coming with the presidency and with which he professed to be at peace.

Telling Mr. Draper he likes to keep things “relatively light-hearted” around the White House, he added in May, “I can’t let my own worries — I try not to wear my worries on my sleeve; I don’t want to burden them with that.”

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In the same interview, Mr. Bush seemed to indicate that he had his down moments at home, saying of his wife, Laura, “Back to the self-pity point — she reminds me that I decided to do this.”

And in apparent reference to the invasion of Iraq, he continued, “This group-think of ‘we all sat around and decided’ — there’s only one person that can decide, and that’s the president.”

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[Cleita]

10. Hopefully he will be a lazy ass in the Graybar Hotel.n/t

[DFW]

11. His "nice place in Dallas" is right down the road from me! AAAAAAUUUGGHHH!!!

Great. Now, we'll have to put up with traffic jams and blocked streets every time
this unindicted crook wants to go out for a steak, and since he is probably incapable
of operating a grill on his own, that threatens to be often.

I think my German residence might see even more of me than it already does.

Maybe Dallas will get lucky, and he'll find his calling in removing brushweed
for humanity on his Crawford ranch. I'd be happy to chip in for him to get a
one-way ticket. He had better count on living off the interest from his $21
million. At 4%, that's $840,000 a year. That should pay for the rent. It had
better. Tell me there are thousands of people left in the USA who would raise
$75,000 to hear George W. Bush, private citizen, utter anything other than
a commercial for Comedy Central, and I'll tell you that you had better be
taking illegal hallucinogens.

[Olney Blue]

15. You're always welcome here in Maryland, DFW.

Except Cheney has a place on the Eastern Shore of Maryland. :evilfrown:

Never mind......

[DFW]

16. Cheney even still has his place in Iran

He never gave up his house on the resort Island of Kish.
So you can't even go to Iran to escape these thugs.

I may ask the Germans for asylum if I ever get
called back home to a desk job!

[Olney Blue]

18. Cheney has real estate in Iran? I didn't know that.

He must be real popular with his neighbors.

[DFW]

20. If you're rich enough to own a house on Kish,

I think his neighbors probably don't care a lot.

Since he has become VP, the ownership of the house was
officially listed as "Halliburton," but he is still on
the roster as the 76th wealthiest resident of the island.

How do I get this? Duh. A friend of mine is the son of
Iranians living in Germany. He was born in Germany, but
keeps his Iranian citizenship, and goes back regularly
to visit his relatives, some of whom are wealthy and also
have a house on Kish. The residents there are listed in order
of declared wealth. I think the fact that Cheney hasn't even
bothered to sever all connections with this is a telling
indication of to what degree he thinks he can do anything
without ever having to answer for it.

I do not, by the way, figure this into the equation when I
say that I don't think we'll end up attacking Iran. Cheney
has more than enough money to build himself another resort
house in Dubai if the Iranians decide to confiscate this one.

Still----why haven't they?

[malaise]

12. Who would pay to hear that dumb

fugg?

[DeposeTheBoyKing]

13. Now I REALLY wanna get out of Dallas

Not that I really think he and Cheney will give up power voluntarily, mind you.

[Disturbed]

14. Rethugs would pay him to make speeches?

Damn! Those Rethugs really are stupid.

[DesertRat]

19. "Clinton's making a lot of money"

So he thinks that means that he'll make a lot of money giving speeches too?

[Olney Blue]

22. He pays alot of attention to Clinton, doesn't he?

I would imagine * harbors an incredible jealousy of Bill's popularity.

[DesertRat]

23. Probably jealousy of Daddy's friendship with him too. n/t