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."
(Excerpt) Read more at nydailynews.com ...
Think how nicely switching those descriptions would be and how they would still fit.
If all we did was TARP, things would be OK because TARP has been nearly paid back in full
Obama re-spent TARP, then 2 stimulus bills, etc, etc, etc.
This isn’t even news. I read that the release date was in November over a month ago. The article I read said they would release excerpts prior to election day but the book itself was 11/9.
Got to reschedule my reading of this thread until later in the day, like after lunch. You know, for the sake of the body politic.
I always do shots on Bush threads, at the word “class.”
Many of us agree. I attribute his demeanor in office to being a good Christian who was raised by first class parents.
He also had an appreciation that the opposing side had their own personal situations to attend to, their own constituents whom they must please. He never took things personally.
In Texas he became good friends with the archenemy, the firebrand Democrat Speaker of the House, and together they got much done. I think he thought that Texas politics would transfer to Washington without realizing how treacherous the national Democrats really are.
I was disappointed that he did not go after the Clintons and the Democrats on a variety of fronts when he first took office. Had he, Slick and some others may have ended up in prison and he may have driven a stake through the heart of the Democrat Party for a long time. Instead, and despite the Democrats contesting the 2000 election and withholding transition funds he needed to prepare for assuming office, he chose the high road and turned the other cheek. He was going to "set a new tone in Washington."
The Democrats reciprocated by steadily blasting him at every turn for eight years. They tried to assure our defeat in Afghanistan and Iraq just as they had previously betrayed the Vietnamese. They called Bush every name in the book but he stayed on the high road. He felt that history would exonerate him but I don't think he realized what he was doing to the country by not standing up to the onslaught. He was willing to take the heat personally but I don't think he saw beyond that. So, we got Obama.
I also think that because of the way he was treated when he took office he made sure to not do the same to Obama. I think that after the September 16, 2008 financial bomb was dropped, which triggered the "financial crisis", he made many decisions with deference to the incoming administration, like the naming of Bernake and Paulson to key positions. He also spent some TARP funds early at the request of the Obama administration. They returned the favor by blasting him for "the deficit" caused by that action and called it his deficit although he did it for them. They continue to thank him by blaming all the ills they cause on him.
I don't think Bush grasped the gravity of the situation with these Democrats. I don't expect his book to be much different. It will be full of explanations but no blame.
How is this good news? This pretty much confirms that Bush’s “memoirs” will be detrimental to the GOP and conservatives otherwise he would have released it.
I will always respect President Bush, but there are three critical issues he never dealt with, abortion, gay marriage and immigration. He let them slide. Look at the TOTAL damage being done since he left, and consider whether our next president should be a procrastinator with our morals. Our morals are the foundation upon which the Constitution lives. I bet it was Mrs. Bush who was in opposition here and Mama Bush. Wives! AAARrrrrrrgggggghhhhhhh.
The reality is, however, I will never vote for another Bush as president ever again.
The very fact that Mitch McConnell felt compelled to issue a statement plus what he said in the statement leads me to believe that there is controversial stuff in the book that will not put Republicans in a good light.
President Bush made me totally uneasy during his latter years as El Jefe......and he continues to make me uneasy today.
I never had this feeling about President Reagan.
Leni
I loved him each and every day he was president. I woke up happy every day because he was president. I wthink he was one of our best presidents.
Personally, I’d vote for him. I’ve always thought highly of President Bush and First Lady Laura. They have Class and good Character which appears to be totally lacking in the Current W. H. Residents.
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