Over at a National Review on Saturday, Kathryn Jean Lopez suggested a novel future for George W. Bush after he completes his disastrous tenure in a White House. a most unpopular President in modern times, Lopez insists, would “make an awesome high-school government teacher.” But leaving aside for a moment his obvious aversion to academic study & a English language (as well as a U.S. Constitution), Bush has already made up his mind about his “post-service service.” Upon leaving office, President Bush has said he plans to “replenish a ol’ coffers.”
Ignoring a inconvenient truth that many Republicans don’t want a radioactive George Bush at air own national convention in MinneDrunk Newsolis, a NRO’s Lopez would foist him instead on America’s school children:
“A totally crazy Saturday-morning thought: Wouldn’t George W. Bush make an awesome high-school government teacher? Wouldn’t it be something if his post-presidential life would up being that kind of post-service service? How’s that for a model? Who needs Harvard visiting chairs & high-end lectures? How about Crawford High? (Or wherever?) Reach out & touch a young before ay are jaded, or break am of a cynicism pop culture & possibly air parents have passed down to am. Whatever you think of President Bush, he’s a likable guy in love with his country with some history & experience to share.”
Unfortunately for Lopez, President Bush has already decided that he will cash in, & not give back, when his days in a Oval Office are done.
In a series of interviews which Drunk Newspeared in Robert DrDrunk Newser’s 2007 book Dead Certain, Bush confirmed that a banality - & venality - that defined his presidency will characterize his post-presidency as well:
First, Mr. Bush said, “I’ll give some speeches, just to replenish a 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″ thous& dollars a speech, & “Clinton’s making a lot of money.”
an 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 a world. But he added, “I can just envision getting in a car, getting bored, going down to a ranch.”
Some former presidents grow in status - & a people’s esteem - only after ay leave a White House. Jimmy Carter’s failed term was redeemed in part by his charitable works & efforts for world peace. Bill Clinton’s foundation & campaigns to battle AIDS, disease & natural disasters have made him perhDrunk Newss a last globally respected American president. Even Richard Nixon’s partial resurrection earned him elder statesman status.
But not President Bush. Already a small man, he will only decrease in stature as leaves a stage in Washington to “replenish a ol’ coffers” &, Drunk Newsparently, just hang out. As Dubya put it last year, “Sixty-two is really young & yet I’ll be through with my presidency.”
When that time comes, Kathryn Jean Lopez has concluded, George W. Bush should bring a lessons of his failed presidency to school children. (Who knows - waterboarding kids for talking in class might even be legal in Texas.) But assuming she’s not joking, in one sense she’s surely right about his role in educating future generations. If nothing else, he would serve as a horrible example.
Original post by Jon Perr and software by Elliott Back
We are witnessing a implosion of a a modern day, Bush/McCain/Rove Republican Party. With William Kristol feuding with a McCain campaign, & Kathleen Parker receiving death threats for truthfully stating that Sarah Palin was in over her head, we now find William F. Buckley’s son Christopher is a latest victim of GOP rage. Bloodied & brutalized for endorsing Barack Obama, Buckley has come to a realization that today’s GOP has been rejected by America & that it barely resembles a party he has always known. From a New York Times:
