Bush is back, and eager to help history judge him (Bush World - Drudge Headline)

Associated Press ^ | NOVEMBER 8, 2010 | CALVIN WOODWARD

[RobinMasters]

WASHINGTON – George W. Bush knows that history will shape his legacy more than anything he can say. But that's not gonna stop a guy from trying.

After two years of near silence, Bush is back.

With his new memoir, "Decision Points," and a promotion tour, the president who in cockier times could not think of a single mistake he had made, lists many. He counts the years without a post-9/11 attack as his transcendent achievement. He says the economic calamity he handed off to Barack Obama was "one ugly way to end a presidency."

While he's been absent from the national scene, Bush's team has been busy. Some of the most polarizing figures from his 2001-2009 presidency have found second lives in the political world.

Karl Rove, the operative who might as well have put "mastermind" on his business card, became a master money-raiser for the midterm elections in plenty of time to make Democrats apoplectic all over again. Dick Cheney, the Bush vice president whose influence rivaled if not surpassed Rove's, has tormented the Obama administration at many turns.

[RobinMasters]

[Spok]

When Obama faces a friendly crowd, they chant “OBAMA”!

When Bush faces a friendly crowd, they chant “USA”!

That says it all.

[RobinMasters]

Very good !

[Eagle Eye]

Yeah but W is one facepalm after another.

[Lazlo in PA]

Well said.

[DrDeb]

Perfectly stated!

[E. Pluribus Unum]

I was at the grocery store tonight and The Globe had a nasty headline about what Bush was supposedly hiding in his new book. They made a lot of anonymous claims about him having to buy Laura a $2-million house in Dallas to keep her from divorcing him, and that he was near-suicidal in fear of being prosecuted by Obama for war crimes.

I would never buy the rag, but I wanted to see what trash they were spewing.

[Carley]

You have made the most profound observation on these two men that I have ever seen.

[Carley]

So why spew it here?

[Balding_Eagle]

NOW he talks about the benefits of waterboarding?

NOW?

Why not back then, when our military was under attack by Hard Line Leftists in Congress and the press? Back when it could have benefited the individuals under attack along with the entire country.

Instead, he hid under the desk in the Oval Office.

[woofie]

If any of that is true then GW and Laura are the the best actors on the planet ....They both look absolutely at peace

I dont know if the house is $2 mill or not but Ive heard its nothing fancy.

Also I spent some time in Midland Texas and its very instructive to see where W grew up

[forgotten man]

“I would never buy the rag, but I wanted to see what trash they were spewing. “

I too never buy the Globe or the Enquirer, but I read them.

[Sacajaweau]

In war....You play the game. It’s not about the lefties, it’s about the enemy. You’re not looking for approval...you’re looking for info....

[basil]

For all of the mistakes President Bush may or may not have made, the one thing he did right was to marry Barbara, and to raise two lovely daughters out of the spotlight.

I probably won't read his book--but I sure enjoyed reading Barbara's.

[drubyfive]

If you read them, you ought to buy them. The next customer is going to get a used copy.

[When do we get liberated?]

He married his mother? That should have been in the Equirer...

[When do we get liberated?]

He married his mother? That should have been in the Equirer...

[When do we get liberated?]

He married his mother? That should have been in the Equirer...

[basil]

OOPS! Of course I meant to say Laura-—His mother and his daughter are Barbaras—not his wife.

[Rusty0604]

I lived in Midland TX for 20 years, great people there.