Unfortunately, the criminal gang that Bush is a part of take care of each other- financially at least. The more than 500 billion dollars spent on Iraq should guarantee that Bush at least takes a little bit of the cream off the top.
Ten million or so should suffice to put the booze-addled hound out to pasture. Two times that in the Bush Presidential Library and its adjacent "Freedom Institute" and they will still be making out like bandits until they can get the same crazed legacy born-again corporate schill in the White House for another 8 years of raking it in from the public till.
Bush will most certainly be well taken care of, but not to the extent that he'll be passed off as some kind of Elder Statesman/public speaker. Even Nixon was better suited to that role. But Bush? Never mind the fact that he's genuinely unpopular - if not out-and-out hated - by the majority of the country; watching him give a speech would be like watching Mr. Magoo take the podium...but without Magoo's quiet dignity and sense of gravitas.
I'd pay a few bucks to watch him give a speech once he's out of office.
Just like I sometimes go to hockey games or boxing.
W at the podium would be like NASCAR with guaranteed wrecks, but no risk of actual injury. Fun for the whole family! "How will he get out of this sentence? Did he pull the emergency hatch open in time?"
Breathless crowds, every time.
However, if I were on his security detail, I'd be contemplating shooting myself in the foot. 'Yeah, I swore to take a bullet for the president, didn't promise i wouldn't fire it myself.'
I just wonder how they'll be able to stop people from desecrating his grave after he dies.
There will be one obligatory blockbuster book, for which he'll get an advance of several million dollars and do one (briefer than anybody imagines) promo tour.
There are still about 50 million true believers, at least a few of whom will feel obligated for the sake of history to buy it -- though exactly three of them will ever actually read it. Still, between them, it'll be enough put this first book on the bestseller lists. Also: Daddy's friends will do the Regnery thing and buy them by the carload just to make sure it hits the NYT list.
Bush will make a little money (not so much as he thinks) off of this effort -- but nobody makes money off books anyway; writing one is just a gate you've got to pass through before you can be a $50K-per-appearance speaker. (Even now, some former Rove staffer is explaining this reality to him.)
Buoyed by this dubious success, his agent will wangle a second book deal, which will sell 15 copies (five of them to Laura). Nobody besides Fox (and not even their affiliates) will book the promo tour -- which is when he'll have to confront the tough reality that most Americans won't even come hear his blitherings for free.
This will take 2-3 years to play out, during which time his "Hoover-Lite" Institute will also be falling on harder times than Bush imagines now. Which means that, sometime in 2011 or so, some loyal cattle hand is going to find him on the back 40 at Prairie Chapel Ranch, face down in the dust, bottle in hand, piss and drool running down his front as he murmers plaintively for Harriet or Condi.
Clinton and his dad will still be out there, packing 'em in. But after that day, we will hear from Bush nevermore.
I hope there are many things in store for our nations worst president, but giving speeches to crowds larger than 20 is not in the cards.
I'll second that hope. Let me note that most courtrooms, at least in this country, hold more than 20 people at a time. He could be "speaking" in several of those.
I don't think he'll be traveling much. The sort of disruption which he causes now (Sydney Australia for example) is intolerable, but is at least justifiable for a sitting President, but it is not justifiable for a "regular" citizen. I expect he'll have to retire some place like Dubai, a nice luxurious police-state.
Remember his daddy's worth billions and he'll get his cut sometime soon. So this talk of him giving speeches is, just like everything else about the man, bullshit. And since he's doing everything he can to seal all his WH papers, his library isn't going to have much, other than a copy of that Pet Goat book.
Oh, Bush will raise some money. But it will only be because of the usual reasons - to curry favor, and nothing more.
And, irony of ironies, it will most likely be to see if he can provide access to Jeb and Dad. (Maybe Barbara too - who knows?)
And when he figures that out, it will kill him an inch at a time.
I just wonder how they'll be able to stop people from desecrating his grave after he dies.
Hell, how about desecrating him while he's still breathing?
>desecrating his grave after he dies.
some of us have a Rumsfeld group. We are waiting until that fucker is in the ground....
So, if I am not reading that wrong, stanford just called rummy
1. a liar
2. a racist
3. stupid
4. a war criminal and a traitor
5. a thief and
a murderer.
looks like they got it just about right.
tlg
I bet Bush rubbed on Juan's head for good luck before doing that interview.
My mind is boggling at the growing numbers of African-Americans willing to channel Stepin Fetchit and become grade-A House Negroes.
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