Bush: ‘It’s a liberating feeling’ that I am no longer president.

[stevedeshazer]

http://thinkprogress.org/2009/05/22/bush-liberating-president/



New Mexico’s Roswell Daily Record reports that during a speech to graduating local high school students, President Bush “expressed few regrets” about the policies he enacted as president. At the same time, however, Bush said that he’s glad he doesn’t he’s not in the position to make policy anymore. “I no longer feel that great sense of responsibility that I had when I was in the Oval Office,” he said. “And frankly, it’s a liberating feeling.” Bush also remarked on how his life is “back to normal”:

Bush told the soon-to-be-graduates that it was a strange experience walking his dog Barney in his new neighborhood after he moved back to Texas.

“I realized this was the first time I’d been walking in a neighborhood for 14 years,” he said. “It’s not all that hard, by the way. You take one step, and then you take another.”

It was the first time Barney had ever been in an ordinary neighborhood, and Bush had to stop when the dog took liberties with a neighbor’s yard.

“And there I was, former President of the United States of America, with a plastic bag on my hand,” he recalled. “Life is returning back to normal.”

[spanone]

1. you too, eh junior? i sure feel liberated.

[YOY]

2. You could have resigned at any time dippy.

n.t.

[lunatica]

3. Da feeling is quite mutual...

You stinking piece of turd.

[Vickers]

4. “Life is returning back to normal.”

Yeah, lots of Americans live in $2,000,000 houses in exclusive gated communities.

:eyes:

[Teaser]

5. Even Bush would have been happier if he had not run

so why did he do it?

[ima_sinnic]

12. yes, he knew all along he was totally unqualified & incompetent,

but he was told he wouldn't have to think very much, all his lines would be fed to him, and he could swagger around with the title "President of the United States." I think he was told he WOULD do it, and really had no choice, but the perks and the power to wage war wherever/whenever he wanted and destroy or uplift those he chose outweighed his certain knowledge that he was not comfortable with the charade.

[NOW tense]

6. The liberating feeling is

not having Dick Cheney telling him what to do all the time.

[tridim]

7. Did he move into the land of make believe?

A place where the crimes of his administration are erased?

Lets liberate this asshole to a fucking prison cell.

[Echo In Light]

8. I've no doubt that's one of the more honest statements he's ever made

[SammyWinstonJack]

9. Too bad you 'liberated' Al Gore of his Presidency. Too bad for us all.

"Life is returning back to normal." "returning back" Ever the idiot, eh george?

[Raksha]

15. Yeah...for HIM maybe life is returning to normal.

For the rest of us poor schleppers it's going to be a long, hard upward crawl--assuming it ever happens.

[stevedeshazer]

10. I've had the impression all along that he did not want to be President.

Commander Cuckoopants was just Swinging Dick's tool.

[Echo In Light]

17. I suspect all of the "electable" candidates fulfill such a role dutifully

[Raksha]

11. That's one of the few things he's ever said that I think is actually sincere.

He didn't actually enjoy being "The Decider Guy" during his second term, and probably not during his first term either. Of course Cheney was the REAL Decider Guy...Chimpy was just a figurehead.

[peace13]

13. "Back to Normal' for you.

Those graduates are gong to thank you when they go looking for a job. But hey, if they can't find a job they can join the military that you brought to it's knees. Screw you *.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

14. For once, I can say to George W. Bush--The feeling is mutual.

I feel very liberated you are no longer president, either.

[KharmaTrain]

16. Like A Child Walking Away From A Mess...

A spoiled, petulant child in specific. He knows he doesn't have to clean it up or even look at it. He had his fun, turned the country inside out and now it's up to others to put things back where they belong. Of course he's relieved, no one is making fun of him these days. He gets to watch others struggle to figure out how to clean up...and probably is snickering. He sure showed us.

[KansDem]

18. Who cares what you think?

But having said that, I must admit I agree with him.

[zipplewrath]

19. I imagine Obama feels the same way

“And there I was, former President of the United States of America, with a plastic bag on my hand,”

Kinda how Obama feels right now, cleaning up after the previous occupants policies.

[Ganja Ninja]

20. “And frankly, it’s a liberating feeling.”

You said a mouthful Georgie.

[Wickerman]

21. Finally, a job he might be at least functional at...

"... with a plastic bag on my hand."

[SammyWinstonJack]

23. He's probably lying about that too.

[notadmblnd]

22. I'll bet. With the strings of the puppet master finally cut away from him

I'd just bet he's feeling some freedom.

[LeFleur1]

25. We Are ALL Carrying Plastic Bags These Days

...to clean up the sh** Bush left behind.

[Sal Minella]

27. I would love to know the styles and content of the various pressures put on W

by Wheezing Dick to give Libby a full pardon -- I think Cheney convinced Libby to go ahead and take the fall in the Plame case because getting Libby pardoned was a sure thing, no matter how apparently damning his conviction.

I think it never crossed Cheney's mind that Tiny W might disobey an order.

Libby did Cheney's bidding, and is now a convicted felon for life. I think Cheney has just enough "sense of honor" to feel bad about that.

[HughBeaumont]

24. "And with that epiphany, he picked up his brain and conscience and strolled down Cherry Lane"

Good riddance to bad rubbish.

[Octafish]

26. The little turd from Crawford STILL hasn't worked a day in his miserable life.

Spoke at a HIGH school graduation in UFOberg, USA. What? No college willing to invite the wastrel warmonger?

[liberal N proud]

28. Party on Dubya

What decisions, Chaney made all the important ones beyond taking a shit. And he may have told bu$h when he could do that too.

[LeftHander]

29. He can eat what is in that bag.....nt

[Javaman]

30. now it's* free to drink it's* liver into total submission. nt

[kestrel91316]

31. He thinks HE feels liberated..........

We're the ones with the weight of the world off our shoulders........

[Raine1967]

32. While Obama & Cheney were talking about terror, life & death--

B*sh was talking about dog poop.

It all makes sense now.

[Fuzz]

33. All that decider stuff hurt his widdle brain.

[Sequoia]

34. "You take one step, and then you take another"

You put one foot in front of the other
And soon you'll be walking out the do-o-o-or.

[nc4bo]

35. Even more liberating is knowing that you will not be punished for war

crimes or the thievery of our country's wealth. Whew.

yea, real liberating you POS.

[symbolman]

36. Now do us all a favor

Pull that plastic bag over your head and tie it in a knot around your neck.. Pick up the dog shit first.. Figures, Bush takes his dog over to someone Else's yard to take a dump..

Many people wish you were as "Liberated" as you liberated Iraq, you pompous, conceited, ignorant asshole.. Oh, I meant them throwing flowers and such are our troops as they Liberated Iraq..

What did you think I meant? :)

[symbolman]

37. Dupe

Dupe