Bush Memoir? Publishers Say No Thanks

[CatWoman]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

NEW YORK — In less than three months, President-elect Barack Obama will take office and the Bush administration will belong to history. With the president reportedly interested in writing about his White House years, publishers have a suggestion:

Take your time.

"If I were advising President Bush, given how the public feels about him right now, I think patience would probably be something that I would encourage," says Paul Bogaards, executive director of publicity for Alfred A. Knopf, which in 2004 released Bill Clinton's million-selling "My Life."

"Certainly the longer he waits, the better," says Marji Ross, president and publisher of the conservative Regnery Publishing, which is more likely to take on anti-Obama books in the next few years than any praises of Bush.

"There's a pent-up frustration among conservatives that will focus their attention on a Barack Obama presidency and lead them to buy a lot of books about Barack Obama. But that's not the kind of emotion that anyone is going to use to turn to reading a memoir by a conservative president."

In a poor economy, it's not a great time for anyone to shop a book, and certainly not for a deeply unpopular president. Bush's approval ratings are in the 20s and Republicans are at a low moment after Tuesday night, when Obama defeated Sen. John McCain by a convincing margin and Democrats expanded majorities in Congress.

Bush has likened his fate to Harry Truman, highly disliked upon leaving office in 1953 but now virtually iconic in American politics. But it took years for him to gain such affection and Truman's two-volume memoir, published in the 1950s, is less remembered than a book about him published in the 1990s, David McCullough's million-selling "Truman."

"Only in hindsight will history show whether Bush is deemed to be a good president who sacrificed his presidency for what he believed in or whether history judges him to be a failed president," Ross says.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/11/06/bushs-memoir-publishers-s_n_141809.html

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

1. "Take your time."

"No submissions in crayons will be accepted."

[CatWoman]

3. and "My Pet Goat" has already had it's 9th printing

:rofl:

[DemoTex]

2. Don't call us; we'll call you.

Have you tried Regnery Publishing yet? They love ultra-right revisionist histories.

[gratuitous]

4. Sure, it's the economy

Yeah, that's why nobody will want to buy the self-serving heavily-edited recollections of a lifelong failure. The economy.

And the idea that Bush will somehow undergo a rehabilitation of his tattered reputation is laughable in 2008, and will be doubly laughable in 2028, and outright snorted out of existence by 2038. That's based on what little we know now; by 2038, Bush will be a byword like Quisling.

[CatWoman]

5. Chimpy needs to go underground

along with Cheney.

In lieu of that, they need to be pelted with rotten eggs whenever they venture out.

:hi:

:loveya:

[Crankie Avalon]

6. Is Bush really interested? I thought his family was against memoirs...

...his father never put one out. Too distrustful of those wordy ghost writer types.

I can't see jr. really having enough to say to fill a book, anyway. Maybe more of a really funny magazine article.

[CatWoman]

7. Ha!!!

your post reminds me of the Simpsons Episode in which Bart wrecked habit on their new neighbors, The Bush's, and Bart destroyed Poppy's memoirs :rofl:

[ailsagirl]

8. "How I Ruined America" by Dubya

God, what an incompetent, illiterate, pin-headed psychotic. Doesn't he KNOW he's the most hated president?

:crazy:

[dhpgetsit]

9. THAT is RICH!

ROTFLMAO!

It's just business, George. Nothing persomal. The story may be more marketable AFTER you've been in prison a few years.