George W. Bush on his Future in Politics

From C-SPAN's 1/30/11 "Q&A" interview, George W. Bush says he's through with politics. "I don't want to go out and campaign for candidates. I don't want to be viewed as a perpetual money raiser. I don't want to be on these talk shows giving my opinion, second guessing the current president. I think it's bad for the country, frankly, to have a former president criticize his successor. It's tough enough to president as it is without a former president undermining the current president. Plus, I don't want to do that. In other words, in spite of the fact that I'm now on TV, I don't want to be on TV...I tell people that one of the interesting sacrifices, I don't think you sacrifice to run for president, but to the extent you do is you lose your anonymity. I like the idea of trying to regain anonymity to a certain extent. And being out of the press, at least in this stage of the post presidency is something that makes me very comfortable and its somewhat liberating, frankly." See the complete interview, Sunday, January 30 at 8:00 p.m. & 11:00 p.m. ET on C-SPAN.

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[gundamWWW]

Bush makes more sense out of office then he did office.

[bananaPLEASE]

I'm finding this video really difficult to masturbate to.

[Coffeeforevah]

I never liked the bailouts but as a President goes, he was the best one since Regan. You can also tell he doesn't need a teleprompter to share his thoughts ;)

[aha45]

his voice sounds gruffer

[snooters]

With everything George has done, it's hard to ignore he seems to be a likable guy.

[JRayMalcolm]

@gundamWWW he doesn't have to watch every word he says any more. you can tell he doesn't have to pause before every word where as he had to be slow and often stumbled over words as president to avoid wording something wrong.

[historypoliticsbb]

Fuck the New World Order.

[migkillertwo]

tends to happen with all presidents. smart people watch cspan, but dumb people vote.

[brandoonjen1]

i think its bad for the country for this man to have been president ever.

[duke2640]

mr bush stay home stick to baseball .

[SoCalAries]

@BucksStudent That's no excuse

[BucksStudent]

@SoCalAries I insulted your intellect because your original response was rude and had little to do with my original post. You're no more or less childish for carrying on this farce. I'm through.