Bush: There’s No Better Way to Stay in Touch than through E-Mail
This is funny on so many levels (h/t TP).
President Bush reveals that when he finally leaves the White House, the first thing he’ll do is resume E-mailing his buddies. "I can remember as governor, I could stay in touch with all kinds of people around the country firing off E-mails at all times of the day to stay in touch with my pals," he says in a Yahoo-Politico interview. "One of the things that I will have ended my public service time with is a group of friends, a lot of friends, and I want to stay in touch with them, and there’s no better way to stay in touch with them than through E-mail."
First, is the President suggesting he’s been forgoing the best way to stay in touch for the last seven years?
Second, who do you suppose will go through and delete massive amounts of Bush’s emails in the future? Pickles?
Finally, this means we can look forward to a collection of Bush’s personal emails to be published in about 2050. I’m placing my bets that that will be the humor book of the year the year it does get published.
Maybe Bush will start blogging after he’s done, too.
Oh, I’m so looking forward to Bushblog! There’d finally be someone as incoherent as Glenn Reynolds on the toobz. Think he could blog in crayon?
It’s simply not believable for him to say he’s not e-mailing. He’s probably “electonically messaging” because his lawyers told him to say so.
Really.
This White House Official photo shows him at Camp David on the phone with a computer on and at the ready. Why even bother turning it on? What does the man plan to use it for? Another look at “the ranch” using “the Google.”
Time and time again, just because he says it doesn’t mean that he’s not doing it.
Perhaps he uses the computer to watch snuff porn. Do you think he might send links to Deadeye & Condi?
Daydreaming, golf, Freedom Insitute, and making some buckerooos..
“I don’t have that much time to think beyond my presidency” or “I’m going to sprint to the finish.”
But in an interview with a book author in the Oval Office one day last December, he daydreamed about the next phase of his life, when his time will be his own.
First, Mr. Bush said, “I’ll give some speeches, just to replenish the ol’ coffers.” With assets that have been estimated as high as nearly $21 million, Mr. Bush added, “I don’t know what my dad gets — it’s more than 50-75” thousand dollars a speech, and “Clinton’s making a lot of money.”
Then he said, “We’ll have a nice place in Dallas,” where he will be running what he called “a fantastic Freedom Institute” promoting democracy around the world. But he added, “I can just envision getting in the car, getting bored, going down to the ranch.”
By 2050 Bushisms, his convoluted sentence structure, his lazy thought process usually leading to incorrect, illogical conclusions, & the overall GWB hubristic, juvenile tone will be considered humorous? You’re probably right, ew, & I’m glad I’ll be taking a dirt nap by then. Won’t have to watch any talking heads quoting the funniest passages.
I know how he feels. I’ve made sacrifices too. The 5-hour weekly lawn croquet matches were extremely hard to give up, but I didn’t want any military moms to see me.
If his lawyers did tell him to not to email…
Perhaps he has a “block” on outgoing email to curb his inability to refrain from sending them?
Fortunately, John Yoo can be held liable for malpractice.
He should be disbarred. He’s nothing more than a brainless Bu$hCo asswipe – any kid knows torture is off limits since Geneva, and there are no exceptions to the exclusivity of FISA.
What a jerk – activist LAWYER at all? F**k him too, and where he breathes so he doesn’t waste our air.
Yeah, it’s such a pain to run a criminal enterprise, y’know. I mean, ya gotta watch out for listening devices all the time and ya gotta watch what you say in public (Can’t give anything away now), and no emails ’cause someone might trace incriminating statements to you (If a flunky repeats what you say, you can always claim he’s a “rouge operative” or that she misheard).
*Sigh!* It’s so much easier to just be an emperor!
After reading all the dirt in Harriet Miers’ blog, I look forward to seeing the Bush’s perspective.
Before I head over to the office, yet another GWB nugget from TP this a.m.-
Allen: Bush’s ’spring in his step’ implies “he must not read the papers or watch tv much.”
And the money quote:
“ALLEN: The president’s physically aged in the last seven years, but he still seems to have a spring in his step. He says he still enjoys the job. Makes me realize that he must not read the papers or watch TV much. He says he only watches sports.”
Think I’ll pass the time in traffic mentally constructing a few future emails from Fearless Leader. TTFN.
Do you suppose he’s going to donate time and effort by building, say, houses for people? No? Strange — other ex-Prezzies have been known to do that. Work for the good of the human and natural world? No? Meditate on his deeds? No? God help us.
Hasn’t he said he’s gonna go on the speaking circuit to replenish the coffers? I’m sure he pored over Bill & Hill’s tax returns and wept with envy. Wonder how soon he will come out with the memoir, and could it possibly contain anything interesting.
He didn’t pour over their 2007 tax returns because they’re more secret and raise more criminal questions than Cheney’s man sized safe.
He didn’t pour over their secret Library contributions either.
behindthefall @ 11:
Given Bush’s broad incompetence, doing nothing is surely the best way for him to help the world.
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comedy books by war criminals have a dismal sales record
george ain’t gonna enjoy retirement
people tend to remember who committed what CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY
history ain’t as dumb as george thinks
and once the repuglitards figure out that george bush is the one person most responsible for the demise of the repuglitard party, those repuglitard “think tanks” aint gonna support george
so who is gonna buy this book ???
Maybe we can feed it to pet goats…..
bmaz, even goats get indigestion…
I think this is code for “don’t come a-lookin’ for my WH emails”. Why else would he even bring it up. It’s on his mind so he has to deny that he sent any. He lies like a seven year old.
“I didn’t take any cookies”
Mom checks cookie jar. Empty.
I don’t think the infrastructure in Paraguay is beyond dial-up in the rural areas. He’s going to be spending a lot of time putting up telephone poles before he can even use that technology.
“I don’t think the infrastructure in Paraguay is beyond dial-up in the rural areas.”
Have you checked what’s been happening in Paraguay lately?
Bob in HI
I’ll think it will be a feature in Madame Tussaud’s display on ancient horrors.
Kind of OT, via TPM:
Conyers wants Karl to show up in [warm, fat] person to testify. Remote testimony isn’t going to cut it.
On January 21, 2009, Conyers stops asking and starts telling
that “Unitary Executive” thingy is about to become REAL UNPOPULAR in the repuglitard circles
Hey, it just hit me …
how many coloring books list the author’s name on the cover ???
George ain’t gonna “WRITE” a book
it’s not gonna have any words …
but if you color the giraffes right, you get a free picture of presnit george
Oh, one of those ‘hidden picture’ coloring books? Isn’t that kind of advanced for George, especially when it requires skinny crayons? [/s]
Hey, I’m sure you all have seen this Froomkin story by now, but thought I’d quote part of it here because the thread references Bush’s e-mail habits. According to W, he hasn’t used e-mail for years:
This is Bush flipping the bird at the country.
Bush is the Supreme Court and Sandra Day O’Conner flipping the bird to the country. It’s Alito and Roberts flipping the bird on opinion after opinion. The thousands of dead Americans, hundreds of thousands of dead Iraqis, the 12 billion a month in Iraq and the 12 billion and growing in Pakistan, the destruction of the Constitution are pretty good examples of bird flipping.