Guess Who! Bush Dominates Media to Promote Book

An excuse to post this .jpeg:

I love how his face seemingly peeks out from the black-and-white news columns of the day to defiantly whisper: “PSSST. HEY. Still heeeeere.” His existence may have been obscured by the hubris surrounding the current administration, an increase in terrorist attacks, a movement born partly because of several Bush policies, and an election; the sudden appearance of Bush across all the networks and on the front and cover pages reminds us that even though he isn’t the sort of GOPer grassroots adore, he was infinitely better than the man currently in the White House, a man who bows to anything with a pulse.

The excerpts from his book give insight into the process leading up to the decisions what the rest of the world would see and whether you agreed with him or not (I’ve long been on record abhorring NCLB; also the prescription drug act was neither “compassionate” or “conservative,” and neither was TARP) the man would make a decision and stick with it. Mainly though, I love how fist-in-the-air defiant he is in the book. In layman’s terms:

Waterboarding?

“Damn right.”

That he prevented another 9/11?

“My most meaningful accomplishment.”

On Cheney?

“The more I thought about it, the more strongly I felt Dick should stay. I hadn’t picked him to be a political asset; I had chosen him to help me do the job. That was exactly what he had done.” Mr. Bush wrote that he trusted Mr. Cheney, valued his steadiness and considered him a good friend. So, “at one of our lunches a few weeks later, I asked Dick to stay and he agreed.”

Defiance on steroids. Balls! Refreshing change from a President who wants to meet sans preconditions with tiny fist-shaking dudes plagued with short-man syndrome. Bush decorously refrains from taking any literary jabs at the current Commander-in-Chief, and even praises Obama’s increase in Afghanistan – U.S. presence (except with Afghanistan there is zero in terms updates on objectives. What’s the goal? “Victory.” Oh, AWESOME. Glad it’s not failure. Iran buys off Afghanistan? Totally cool).

Bush is a welcome respite from the non-stop Obama-Pahkeestan, foreign-leader-bowing approach. To represent the difference graphically, the book tour offers a bit of this:

after a two-year barrage of this: