Posted on 11/20/2013 8:17:43 AM PST by Hojczyk
"There's a Rembrandt trapped in this body," the former president said on the Tonight Show.
Former President George W. Bush is no longer a politician. He is no longer the decider. No, as he told The Tonight Show's Jay Leno on Tuesday night, the former president is a painter.
"You may not think I'm a painter," Bush told Leno, "I think I'm a painter."
Bush made a rare nationally televised appearance on Leno's show, billed by Bush as a send-off for the host. And he came loaded with the paintings he's been working on with a Dallas tutor once a week. "There's a Rembrandt trapped in this body," Bush said he told the instructor. "Your job is to find it."
The former president showed off a painting of his dog Barney (RIP), and a portrait of his new cat, Bob. Bush also proved that there's no late-night show anecdote better than a Putin anecdote:
"I introduced Barney to Putin, and he kind of dissed him," Bush said. "So a year later, Putin introduced me to his dog. Huge hound, bounding across the lawn, and he says, 'bigger, faster, and stronger than Barney.'"
Bush also came armed with a portrait of his host, just to push the whole thing over the edge into the semi-surreal.
The former president does genuinely seem like a different person. He received solid applause throughout the interview, but no more than after repeating his post-presidency rule for talking about Obama. "I don't think it's good for the country to have a former president criticize his successor," he said.
Asked if he was glad to be out of the White House, Bush didn't hesitate. "Yes, I am," he said. "Eight years is plenty."
(Excerpt) Read more at nationaljournal.com ...
“I don’t think it’s good for the country to have a former president criticize his successor,” he said.”
Unless your a Democrat ex-president.
“Yes, I am,” he said. “Eight years is plenty.”
...Agreed. 8 years of relentless attacks from the left is more then most could bare.
I just watched the video of that Leno program, and thoroughly enjoyed it. George Bush may not have been the brightest president we ever had, but he certainly was not out to destroy this country.
He was not our best president, and I didn’t agree with a lot of what he did, but he was/is a class act. Considering what we have now, I long to have him back!
I waiting for the lefties to compare him to a Hitler in reverse.
Well, he’s a better painter than he was a President.
Actually, eight years was WAYYYYYY too much time for "Jorge Rembrandt".
“I think I’m a painter.”
So was Hitler! “He could do a whole room in one afternoon. TWO COATS!”
(I stole that from THE PRODUCERS)
Actually Bush is quite good with his painting! Keep it up!
Any bets Bush’s painting career will be remembered longer than Obamacare?
I just posted a thread with a link to the entire interview....definitely must see:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3093511/posts
Here’s what a “conservative” is supposed to be?
* Doing his very best to destroy American sovereignty by melding America into Mexico into Canada???
* George W. Bush (43): “I looked the man in the eye. I was able to get a sense of his soul.
I knew that President Putin was a man with whom I could work.”
* Did nothing when his wife called a homosexual partner’s mom the “mother-in-law” ???
* Allowed the new Iraqi constitution to have a clause where no law would contradict Islam.
* Wanted to sell US port operations to Dubai - a nation that supports terror.
* Advocates a completely open border - to the detriment of national security.
* Calls the Minutemen “vigilantes”.
* Continually calls Islam a “religion of peace”.
* Pursues “free trade”, not fair trade. “Free trade” has not been very fair, so far.
* Supported Specter over Toomey.
* Told Hush to host Specter with softballs, and then Hush carries the water.
* Continually supported Linc Chaffee, and what did it win in the long run?
* Let Ted Kennedy write the education bill.
* Did nothing to rein in pork barrel government spending.
* In an exclusive interview with ABC News’ Charles Gibson, Bush said he believes that both Christians and Muslims worship the same God. “I think we do. We have different routes of getting to the Almighty,” Bush said.
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=193746&page=1
Who would ever think that George W. Bush would ever omit saying one nation - under God - as Obama has habitually and repeatedly done? No one.
What a contrast. It almost brings about a sense of regretful sadness.
The Bush Family has all but been exposed as Progressives.
Bush set the train running down the track of recklessness and made it easy for 44/2
The fawning makes me ill.
[ I just watched the video of that Leno program, and thoroughly enjoyed it. George Bush may not have been the brightest president we ever had, but he certainly was not out to destroy this country.
He was not our best president, and I didn’t agree with a lot of what he did, but he was/is a class act. Considering what we have now, I long to have him back! ]
Even if you subscribe tot he theory that Bush was a Schill for the New World order etc... He still seemed to genuinely care for this country as a whole....
Bush also came armed with a portrait of his host, just to push the whole thing over the edge into the semi-surreal.-—I guess if clunton showed up with a cigar covered in Monica juice that would be fine.
And he got fracking going... in the nick of time.
Add to that list
the Harriet Miers fiasco
John Roberts and his pretzelled interpretation of Obamacare
3 major pushes for amnesty for illegals
the dipsy-doodle fast-foot shuffle of putting 6,000 National Guard on the border — a few hundred at a time in unarmed short-term deployments of washing vehicles and filing paperwork
“George Bush may not have been the brightest president we ever had”
I think he’s smart enough. His problem was as POTUS he didn’t know how to appear bright.
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