President Bush is thinking legacy, and Friday, the White House released a transcript of an interview where the 43rd president discussed how he'd like to be remembered.
Quick note: The interviewer was Bush's sister, Doro Bush Koch.
"I would like to be a person remembered as a person who, first and foremost, did not sell his soul in order to accommodate the political process," the president said.
Bush is leaving office with an historically low approval rating, the result of the unpopular Iraq war and the reeling economy.
But Bush was unapologetic. "I came to Washington with a set of values, and I'm leaving with the same set of values," he said. "And I darn sure wasn't going to sacrifice those values; that I was a President that had to make tough choices and was willing to make them."
Bush defended his team. " surrounded myself with good people," he said. "I carefully considered the advice of smart, capable people and made tough decisions
From docs.google.com/view?docid=dtxqwqr_19gjjvp8 :
"Pay particular attention to how difficult a place will be to heat; do not assume that heating oil, natural gas, or large quantities of firewood will be available or affordable. Also, pay very close attention to the neighbors. Are they people you know and trust? Will they help you? Do not assume that there will be police protection or emergency services."
This from the Sound Survival Advice one will reliably find at docs.google.com/view?docid=dtxqwqr_19gjjvp8 when it is working. All who tried and did not succeed, kindly do try again.
Thankfully, the commercial block that I care and turnkey for is no longer mortgaged so very much, from what a Funny-Hatted Janitor can gather. No strip-mall bubble-mortgage here!
Also, my neighbors all up and down the block are both top-notch people and well-emplaced besides. So I, for one, am not so very scared these days on that point. :)
Can't chat very long right now - gotta' finish fillin' them water carboys. No, I shall not talk with anyone anywhere about any pasta makin's nor canned goods that might be (or probably were only rarely anything like) stockpiled in anyone's basement; good day!
Hint: Make friends with all your Latino and Asian neighbors. There is a "Code of Conduct" that, once mastered, mitigates the "F-U Factor" 100%. But just start off decent to begion with and not with an Ugly American's Attitude of Superiority, is all, my friends.
Increase the Peace.
Reverse the Curse.
Reject ALL Terror.
(You KNOW you WANT to.)
"John 8:32 is Just All Right by ME!"
Posted by: Walking Turtle | December 01, 2008 at 06:30 PM
darn it, i just tried to pull this up, and it doesn't work. too bad..
Posted by: lompicogal | November 30, 2008 at 09:08 AM
oh yea, one more thing. If you are interested in a peek into american future, ck this out:
docs.google.com/view?docid=dtxqwqr_19gjjvp8. This will definitely raise your eyebrows if not make you very uncomfortable in your seat!
Posted by: lompicogal | November 30, 2008 at 09:03 AM
Texas Augie! You are absolutely right. No one has to look far into the internet (how easy is that) to find info on the "boys club" that GW was apart of.
I cannot believe the stupidity of people who voted that man in!
Don't people get it???
This new president of ours who is supposed to be "CHANGE" just hired all of Clintons people. And clinton is part of the party!!!!
So much for change in this country. Obama has just been named Dummy and Puppet just like GW. He is no master mind. He is/was the puppet dummy used by cheney,rove,his father, etc. etc.
Doesn't anybody get it??
Wake up america. You have again sold your soul to the devil..
My answer? We have to take this country back!!!
We have to start raising a ruckus. Take a look at the Mexican Cartel gang that is taking over the bottom part of Texas. Its all there on the internet.. look up the town of Laredo gang problems... you will see it.
Mexico is out of hand.. the cartel now owns it and they are moving in.
You people who think i am 2 bits to the wind,,, you better open your eyes... and Texas Augie knows,, don't you? How's your state doing regarding mexicans and gangs?
Posted by: lompicogal | November 30, 2008 at 08:50 AM
I would like to be remembered as tall, thin & rich, but self-deception does not make it so.
Posted by: peachfuzz | November 30, 2008 at 08:16 AM
Like selling the Brooklyn Bridge.
Posted by: borisjimski | November 30, 2008 at 12:10 AM
Sell his soul? He couldn't give it away!
Posted by: oldfaithless | November 29, 2008 at 01:47 PM
The legacy that Bush is leaving behind are the death and destruction of two countries, and world economy in crisis.
Posted by: Ali | November 29, 2008 at 11:47 AM
The legacy that Bush is leaving behind are the death and destruction of two countries, and world economy in crisis.
Posted by: Ali | November 29, 2008 at 11:46 AM
We are blessed to have President Elect Obama. In historical terms, moderation always wins. Center Left or Center Right are both areas of complimentary solutions. ...........
http://thefiresidepost.com/2008/11/29/governing-from-center-left-or-center-right/
Posted by: Ohg Rea Tone | November 29, 2008 at 11:01 AM
@morris59: "AND MR WALKINGTURTLE YOU MADE SOME REALLY GOOD POINTS TO BAD YOU COVERED THEM UP WITH SO MUCH BIPOLAR RANTING THAT THEY WERE LOST. DUDE STOP SKIPPING YOUR MEDS!!!!"
Erm...
Morris59, it appears that mebbe your filters are plugged or sumpin'? You just got caught ranking on how I wrote the matter up in my own way, instead of actually recognizing and going with the point at hand! Now, *that* is the mark of a *bully*. I take note of that mark.
Now kindly do the following:
0) Make plain your main point in your own mind.
1) Larn to spel.
2) Commit in your own heart of hearts to rejecting all eror.
3) Learn where your computer keyboard's CAPS-LOCK KEY is located and TOGGLE IT NOW.
4) Very good! Now lay off with that filthy Nurse Ratched shillboy act (for you are NO SHRINK and I am plenty healthy every day, Silly!)
5) Now: Meet your funny-hatted neighbor on SANE and DECENT neighborly terms, first cut, instead of going all knee-jerky and juvie-grade.
So your point in diverting the flow of this thread from Dubya's soul to my own sweet sanity is exactly what? What is your precise point, going off like that in the first place, my "friend"?
Fact, my friend: Miz Sarah "Wooden Beehive" Palin's "Denigrate and Conquer" tactics (a' la' Karl Rove's Ethical Lapses) reliably attempt to trash all manner of irreplaceable elections, countries, audiences, and human lives. But that tactic only works on fools' minds, fellah! (So does bait-and-switch.)
Fact: Only a wooden-headed bully would play any such thing down, the way you just played. We have little room for bullies and even less for wooden-heads hereabouts. So kindly just revise your approach, morris59-D00D. Save your psycho-quibbling for later, after we GET OUR COUNTRY BACK, OK? OK!
Thread: George Bush abandoned his soul. Whether for pelf or just the sheer thrill of it might be anybody's guess. Soulless, though, he certainly appears to be.
Posted by: Walking Turtle | November 29, 2008 at 09:46 AM
He is so going to hell.
Posted by: valdis | November 29, 2008 at 08:52 AM
Of course he didn't sell his soul. . .he had none to begin with - no moral compass. No sense of anything other than payback. But Bush is living proof that with enough money you can put lipstick on a pig and people will call it a President.
Posted by: FastJack | November 29, 2008 at 07:12 AM
typo--contractors gave him million not billions ,sorry
Posted by: MORRIS59 | November 28, 2008 at 10:20 PM
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
Posted by: MORRIS59 | November 28, 2008 at 10:18 PM
The only legacy that Bush is leaving behind is the death and destruction of two countries.
Posted by: omar | November 28, 2008 at 09:50 PM
The only legacy that Bush is leaving behind is the death and destruction of two countries.
Posted by: omar | November 28, 2008 at 09:49 PM
Yup-yup-yup - did not sell his soul while in office. Ah, yup. (Nicely parsed, that.)
Lookit, Innocent Ones: Double-mindeds and Luciferians such as the Bush men, who are family-tradition Bonesmen, actually DO (by means of stealth, fraud and force all samesame to them all) pro-actively seek our annihilation as a human species and genuinely viable culture. Those elite ones NEVER wait until Just Before Election to dispose of that "pesky, inconvenient and useless though quaint" Vital Component of a Genuine and Complete Human Being. That loathesome tho' (for THAT purpose) necessary detail is seen to with great thoroughness during the Skull-and-Bones Lodge First Degree Initiation ritual.
Um, it goes like this, beloved Bunky: First, the man drinks from the Chalice. While he does so, the Chalice drinks from the man. So what manner of subtle-but-critical exchange of Resource do YOU suppose indeed takes place when, in a darkened, vaulted crypt filled with the pre-recorded shrieks of suffering and dying victims of State-sponsored war, pestilence and poisonings, a fresh-"tapped" Bonesman first resolutely sets their just-barely-of-age lips to the sawed-off-topless skull /cum/ chalice of our beloved War Chief Geronimo, therefrom to reliably quaff human blood? Especially when it is prepared for that very occasion by the High Priest of the Order?
You think it is all a Mumbo Jumbo Telly-Vision Paranoid Cartoon, o thou poor, ill-informed, media-driven, mentally labile, morally naive, generally know-nuthin' benighted fool of a Gentle Reader?
Um, kindly DO think again, Beloved! Those boys (and the occasional gal, these days) have been found keeping to "spiritual" ways and practices in this world that would put your squeamish little gorge to rising right quick. We of Indigenous blood know Black Magick full well when we find it. It is not an approved part of our own (OUR OWN, do you yet "get it" now?) ancient culture - and we recognize it right smart, even when white folk just fall down all over themselves to deny the fact and just divert the conversation.
Now all US Americans shall surely suffer - and no, it ain't even started yet. Not even your precious "Missus Grundy"s will escape the pain of consequence for your foolish mistake of allowing such as that one to rule your sorry /tuchus,/ mark my words.
I think Mister Bush is soulless, of an adamantine heart, and utterly devoid of any trace of Moral Compass. Yes, I do. But I have been watching and researching while pretty much everyone else just went to Disney® World® by way of Wal-Mart®.
American Citizens: Educate yourselves! THEN let us have a HONEST NON-ELECTRONIC election tally in these Untied(sic) States of America, JUST ONCE! (Even if it takes all night instead of being bagged and broadcast nationwide in less than an hour.)
Don't crawl up a-whining to me, later, when the lights go out and there is no food. I have stood up for Nader, Executive Impeachment and an IMMEDIATE Article V Constitutional Convention from the start. I would have more scars from the experience, but I have, over the prior decade, already avoided and/or destroyed many "Talking Points"-based knives, bullets and whispering campaigns instead.
I still stand for those worth-keeping things your Bonesmen and their toadeating buddies work day and night to destroy. Your "leadership" is as obviously, deliberately deficient in quality and substance as that melamine-adultrated Chinese "milk" powder they sold you with such a NICE smile.
Fact: BOTH are POISON to ALL.
DIfferent Bawss, Different Day. Darker this time, too. Does not fool me. Should not fool you either, Beloved! Same dam' Bawss, shillin' for the same dam' ham-fisteds - Clintonista operatives, Zionista sayanim and all.
PEEE-PULL! WISE UP NOW, puh-LEAZE!
Posted by: Walking Turtle | November 28, 2008 at 07:40 PM
He didn't sell his soul, what little he ever had, because he had already sold it to be governor of Texas.
He makes some ludicrous claims about the way he conducted himself during his tenure, but fortunately or unfortunately, his actual behavior, which has a negative correlation with what he said during his interview, is a matter of public record. The revisionists at the Bush library at SMU will do their best to rewrite history, but his behavior was just too egregious to be manipulated and spun.
The statement about arriving with a set of values is true enough. His time as Texas governor showed that he valued scratching the backs of his buddies at the expense of the citizenry. We are in this sorry mess because of his values that totally neglected the well-being of ordinary people to benefit his friends and relations. That is what will be remembered.
Posted by: Texas Aggie | November 28, 2008 at 07:02 PM