Bush Book
In the offing, won’t be a bio, that would be “far too boring” says the ex-prez. Instead, he’ll zero in on key decisions he faced in his life and his presidency. Like … you know. And, well … you know. Sounds like he’s getting to the nub of the matter, though it also sounds a little like his recent tendency toward mea culpas. Not necessary, George. via AP which, of course, wants to know if he intends to admit beating his wife. Again. “Absolutely, yes,” says Bush. For all his supposed arrogance, that guy’s far too humble.
Former President George W. Bush, who once famously called himself “The Decider,” is writing a book about decisions.
“I want people to understand the environment in which I was making decisions. I want people to get a sense of how decisions were made and I want people to understand the options that were placed before me,” Bush said during a brief telephone interview Wednesday with The Associated Press from his office in Dallas.
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Once known for his reluctance to acknowledge mistakes, Bush said the book would include self-criticism, “Absolutely, yes,” but cautioned that “hindsight is very easy” and that he would make sure readers could view events as he saw them.
Yeah. He was once known for being in the middle of a war, too, in command when our nation was under dire attack. That reminds me, we’re what, 60-odd days into the American presidency’s latest series of mistakes, and I don’t think I’ve heard any media bigs calling for the new guy to publicly humiliate himself yet.
“I want to recreate what it was like, for example, right after 9/11,” he said, “and have people understand the emotions I felt and what others around me felt at the time.”
Asked if he might write about the ouster of his first defense secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, or about his decision not to pardon Cheney’s former chief of staff, I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby, choices both openly disputed by Cheney, Bush said he didn’t know.
“I made a lot of decisions,” he said.
You did. Thank you. It was a dirty job but somebody had to do it.
Politico with a little more says Bush is tapping away in Crawford, taking a disciplined approach:
“He wanted to do something different — less conventional and chronological, not an exhaustive history,” an aide said. “He thinks it’ll be more interesting for people to read now, and a more important contribution to history, if he can focus on the big stuff. And he wants to write a book that people will read, not just buy.”
Sounds like, if he pulls it off, it could be a presidential memoir classic. Except that, you know, he’ll be the one wrote it.
OK, moving on …
Ace: “The buck stops here … OK, I lied.”
Riehl: What did the president know and when did the president know it?
Gateway: Hey Obama, focus on the economy, not the brackets
Hot Air: Hey, if AIG’s retention program is a problem, how about Freddie Mac’s? Also, in ongoing mistakism: Obama ditches warmonger pay-to-play healthcare plan.
Powerline: The stealth tax-hike plan. Aim for the bonuses, hit the wealth-redistribution bullseye.
Michelle Malkin: Fed’s David Copperfield $1 trillion illusion act. Sounds like, when all else fails, try inflation. Malkin’s also giving the AIG bonus recovery tax the hairy eyeball. But Lawhawk finds something to like. The irony.
Surber with historical comparisons. No, it isn’t Abe again.
The smartest man ever appointed some of the worst Cabinet members that I can remember. I cannot decide if he is Warren G. Obama or Ulysses S. Obama.
Meanwhile, Don looks at Obama’s support for terrorism.
Question: Did President Obama go loopy and compare AIG with a suicide bomber last night?
As usual, Surber’s got all the answers.
Posted by Jules Crittenden at 9:08 am on Thursday, March 19, 2009
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