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doggy doo with dubya...
Dubya: The surreal afterlife of an ex-President
George W Bush is clearly enjoying himself. Alone on the stage, mic in hand, he tells a story about a moment earlier this year when he was walking his dog, Barney, around the Dallas suburb he now calls home. "I wanted to say hello to my neighbours," says Bush, "because I was worried we'd inconvenienced them when word was out that George Bush was moving where they lived. I hadn't walked in a neighbourhood in eight years. Ain't that interesting? Barney had never walked in a neighbourhood either ... he only knew the lawn of the White House; he only knew Crawford, Texas, he only knew Camp David."
He decided to go up to a neighbour and say hello, Bush tells us. But just as he goes to shake the neighbour's hand, Bush realises that he still has a plastic poop bag covering his hand like a glove.
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Bush should be impeached for telling lies. Bush and his poodles, Bair and Howard, should be dragged in front of a war crime tribunal. Blair, in his dismal attempt to find silly excuses for the fudging, is digging deeper into the mudcrap...
- By Gus Leonisky at 15 Dec 2009 - 8:19pm
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lower basement expectations...
Weisberg wonders whether he is saving it for his memoirs. "Bush's genius has been setting expectations low. I think Sarah Palin may have helped him out here – the bar has just dropped to the basement."
According to Bruce Bartlett, former domestic policy adviser to Ronald Reagan and a US Treasury official under George Bush senior, Bush Jr has left the attacks on Obama to his former Vice President, Dick Cheney.
"I can't help but notice that Cheney has more than filled the gap in terms of making obnoxious and irresponsible statements about the current administration's foreign policy," Bartlett says. "Bush may simply feel he has nothing to add to what Cheney is saying."
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Or as usual Dubya has no idea about what's happening...
Impeach, impeach, inpeach... see toon at top.
the occasional innocuous speech
While he's been absent from the national scene, Bush's team has been busy. Some of the most polarising 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 rivalled if not surpassed Rove's, has tormented the Obama administration at many turns.
Not Bush.
He has given the occasional innocuous speech, has tended his presidential centre, has helped with Haiti earthquake relief and has offered glimpses of a life that has him walking Barney the dog in his Dallas neighbourhood with a poop bag, "picking up that which I had been dodging for the past eight years".
Decision Points puts Bush back in the public eye. He'll be all over TV this week and beyond, from news and opinion shows to Oprah Winfrey and Jay Leno.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/nov/08/george-bush-memoir-decision-points
see toon and story at top...