Posted on 02/26/2010 11:48:32 AM PST by meandog
The first official reunion of the Bush-Cheney Alumni Association kicked off in Washington, DC today. The closed-door event was supposed to be Bush and Cheneys first joint appearance together since leaving office, but the former vice president had to skip the festivities because of recent health problems.
At the breakfast today (view a picture of the gathering here), Bush talked about his upcoming memoir, joking, This is going to come as quite a shock to people up here that I can write a book, much less read one. He also said that Cheney was feeling well and has a fierce constitution, and according to attendee Gary Karr, Bush gave an eloquent defense of the freedom agenda. Bush also explained why he unlike Cheney has been relatively quiet about the job President Obama is doing:
I have no desire to see myself on television. I dont want to be a panel of formers instructing the currents on what to do. Im trying to regain a sense of anonymity. I didnt like it when a certain former president and it wasnt 41 or 42 made my life miserable.
As USA Today notes, Bush is mostly likely talking about Jimmy Carter, since Ronald Reagan was ill during Bushs first term and passed away in 2004, and Gerald Ford stayed low-key until his death in 2006. ...
(Excerpt) Read more at cfelectro.com ...
‘Jimmy Carter is pretty much a disgraced ex president’
And Obama is a disgrace.
Couldn't be talking about Jimmah now, could he?
You think! Scheech! If it made him so "miserable" why doesn't he pull out the whoopin' stick, quit whining and MAN UP instead of letting Dick Cheney do ALL of his heavy lifting? Oh, wait, Bush has got "class" (sarcasm intended) and, therefore by logistical progression, Cheney doesn't (at least that is the opinion of some here on FR).
LMAO..it’s a misery replay...
He’s our number one fan....
He wants to keep us hostage, hobble us, and make us work for him against our will...
LMAO..it’s a misery replay...
He’s our number one fan....
He wants to keep us hostage, hobble us, and make us work for him against our will...
ack getting the double click bug...grr.
I don't miss Bush's soft Socialism but I do miss his humility and sense of humor about himself. Something sorely lacking in the "We Are The Ones We've Been Waiting For" Administration.
I’m with you.
Jimmy Carter was a disgrace AS president.
I chuckle when I think about that.
I miss him too . . . worth repeating over and over!
It’s just amazing the MSM pays any attention to Jimmuh, a failed president, overbearing prig and Jew-hating dictator-lover.
He probably even makes himself miserable.
I don't see it that way - I think President Bush always had, and still does have, a very strong sense of being presidential. Let former VP Cheney do the attacking while W remains above it. Compare and contrast that with the thin-skinned narcissist who yips at every critic, from private citizens like Rush Limbaugh to news entities like Fox.
Jimmy Carter has been an attention whore.
His “carter center” was always supposed to be a shadow state department for the “carter-ising” of US diplomacy.
IOW jimmy carter advocates surrender for the USA.
I miss him!
I miss him!
Yes, it seems he always turned the other cheek. He’s a good man. He & Laura, real class.
“I remember reading a book by Barbara Bush and IIRC she too, complained about Carter.”
A member of the Reagan administration, don’t remember who, also said Pres. Carter “got snippy” about not receiving national security briefings.
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