Posted on 08/05/2010 11:21:54 PM PDT by Maelstorm
We misunderestimated the date of his book release.
Friends of former president George W. Bush said he pushed back the launch of his memoir "Decision Points" out of fear that the book could negatively affect the outcome of the midterm elections, the Financial Times reported.
Initially Bush was going to launch the book in September, which is a better time from a sales perspective. Instead, the book will hit the shelves on Nov. 9, a week after Election Day, when the GOP is expected to make large gains.
Unlike other officials from the Bush Administration, the former president himself has kept a lid on commenting about President Obama's performance.
Bush won't even give a full interview about the book until the day before the book's release.
Senate GOP Leader Mitch McConnell said he didn't think the book would hurt Republicans in the upcoming election.
"The Bush administration ended two years ago. We're going in a different direction," McConnell told reporters invited to the Christian Science Monitor Breakfast. "People understand that voting Republican is going in a different direction."
The memoir will detail the 10 most important decisions the ex-president made in office.
Crown Publishing, a division of Random House Inc., said they acted solo when deciding to delay the launch.
"The decision to publish in November was made by the president's publisher...From a media perspective the period leading up to the midterm elections is a very noisy and crowded space and we believe the president's book will be better served by being launched following that time."
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I’m not sure GWB wouldn’t beat Obama in an election right now.
Remember, a lot of suburban Bush voters actually switched and voted for O...or they just stayed home.
I know lots of people disagreed with what Bush did, but IMHO the man is class.
So different from the dishonest couple before him, and the narcissist pleasure seekers after him.
Class and dignity.
He was better than Obama but he is not something we should desire to return to. The best 2 things that GW Bush did was keep America safe after 9-11 and he gave us 2 Supreme Court Justices that have lived up to their conservative credentials. We have a more conservative court today because of GW Bush. If only he’d stuck with free market principles and if he hadn’t did things like the expensive medicare drug benefit. The good thing is that Obama has awakened a giant and I’d rather not confuse things before the giant swings his club.
Bush made mistakes blah blah blah but what he did well will help this country in the longterm—SCOTUS picks, WOT, tax cuts. Once the things we’re feeling now—overspending in particular—are past, and once the reality of the Islamic jihad becomes too big for even Mayor Bloomberg to ignore, his stock will rise.
Bet he wouldn’t apologize for Hiroshima or Nagasaki either.
I just wish W had been more verbal in his last year. It is as if he allowed the press and his critics to run the show and call the shots. He never fought back with the truth....he didn't use the bully pulpit that he had on hand.
This is why I stuck with him as long as I did. Made last three years of his term torture to me, but he was straight forward and honest on all issues. He probably sees that his mismanagement of the war, before the surge, handed the Dims a present. Giving us flat out socialism. This is the least he could do. One thing we can all agree on, Bushes make great ex-presidents. Quiet, pleasant and out of the way.
I think Bush will be seen as a mixed bag. He is a lot better than the left gives him credit for. Just wait till those tax cuts expire. It isn’t just overspending it is a whole mindset in govt that steps in where it has demonstrated nothing but failure or success at a cost not proportional to doing nothing at all and with utter disrespect for those who pay the bills and the sovereignty of the citizen. That said I’m sure as hell glad GW Bush was President and not Al Gore or John Kerry.
I am now convinced that the Bush Family is totally wired into NWO and the prerequisite destruction of USA sovereignty!
Sorry, but that is all I conclude from reviewing the record and reading people who risked their lives to publish.
Thank God for Justices Roberts and Alito. Compare those two outstanding appointments to the wise latina and however-you-want-to-describe-her political hack Kagan.
Sure, but I think as time passes his reactions to 9/11 will be seen as ever-more important.
I don't believe a Democrat would have just sat there, but I do think he would have invaded Afghanistan with an even more PC approach, the result of which would be the world seeing us as too timid to do anything but "surgical" attacks even when our civilians and cities are attacked.
Ultimately, I've always thought people miss the true significance of invading Iraq--Bush basically walked up to those massed against us and socked the biggest one in the nose. While everyone else was shocked and babbling "But--but you can't prove in a court of law that he did anything," Bush then said "OK, who's next?"
The symbolic value was so very important, and I believe it made our enemies shrink back. Merely invading Afghanistan would have been enough to rally the jihadists; also attacking Iraq made them think "These bleeps are CRAZY!" and hold back.
Just a theory, but I believe it.
Excellent! Thank you for this posting!
I had not heard this news.
Bush will have his time to defend himself. God knows I defended him and the most frustrating thing about him was he failed to defend himself. It is interesting how transitions are made and times move on. Bush was right for his time. He set the stage which is playing out right now. Just like the battle between the “old warrior” and the “young king” set the path to what we see now. Obama is playing his role which is one of showing us what we really need by giving us what we do not want. Thus we get the Tea Parties and the stage is set for a real resurgence of a proud conservatism based in the Jeffersonian mold.
This is good news.
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Yes it is.
RE: “Class and dignity.”
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I will buy his book — and if, as I think I heard on the radio today, he appears at the Reagan Library, I’ll be one of the first in line to greet him!
I MISS BUSH
I MISS CHENEY
I MISS AMERICA
You are proving that ignorance is bliss.
Don’t forget he almost gave us Harrie Miers though.
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