Posted on 09/01/2007 6:37:28 PM PDT by Sen Jack S. Fogbound
September 2, 2007
In Book, Bush Peeks Ahead to His Legacy
By JIM RUTENBERG
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
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Consider the source of the article...hmmm.
I’m afraid his legacy will be written in Spanish.
One eye on his legacy. So contrary to what the BushBots are spouting off, Dubya is human after all.
In response to Mr. Draper’s observance that Mr. Bush had nobody’s “shoulder to cry on,” the president said: “Of course I do, I’ve got God’s shoulder to cry on, and I cry a lot.” In what Mr. Draper interpreted as a reference to war casualties, Mr. Bush added, “I’ll bet I’ve shed more tears than you can count as president.”
I thought that paragraph was very telling.
Good policy is taking every single thing the Slimes prints with a big grain of salt. And considering the context or lack thereof they provide.
Such as the omission of the little fact about the other 16 or 17 UN resolutions that Saddam ignored over the years. No word about that, nosiree.
You can feel the bias...they can't help themselves.
It's who they are..
it's what they do....
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Baby Bush’s legacy is Mexico del Norte.
As far as I know, Texas Monthly is an extremely liberal magaszine and has been for a long time.
Hope he got paid well for the treason.
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