Bush 43: 'History will ultimately judge ... I'm a content man'

[alp227]

Source: CNN

CNN's John King sat down with George and Laura Bush for a special private interview on the eve of the dedication of the George W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum. CNN TV and CNN.com will cover the dedication live from Dallas on Thursday, April 25, beginning at 11 a.m. ET. For full coverage, watch CNN TV and follow online at CNN.com or via CNN's apps for iPhone, iPad and Android.

Dallas (CNN) -- George W. Bush is a proud new grandfather and fascinated by his unlikely new hobby: painting.

But some things haven't changed a bit: the trademark smirk when he is amused, a squinty glare when he doesn't appreciate the question -- and a quick turn to humor when the conversation turns to "legacy," including the scars of Iraq or the cloud of Katrina.

"History will ultimately judge the decisions that were made for Iraq and I'm just not going to be around to see the final verdict," the two-term president told CNN in a wide-ranging interview.

"In other words, I'll be dead."

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"I'm just not going to be around to see the final verdict. In other words, I'll be dead."

Is Bush admitting something here?

[Warpy]

1. I want him to live just long enough to see judgment.

I no longer care if his worthless body is imprisoned. I want him publicly humiliated over his crimes.

[Scootaloo]

2. Part of me doesn't think he was all there for the initial verdict, either

But yeah, history will judge. Has judged, actually. Sorry, Pubes, but you done fucked up. Fillmore's ranked higher than you, and most people in the Us think he was a really dull comic strip duck.

[Cosmocat]

27. Yep

As someone who never really wanted to DO the job from the beginning, he allowed the jackasses who had Iraq in their gun sites to take advantage of his father complex to do Iraq, without the first thought of the mess it possibly could be.

I think his mannerisms toward those people, like Cheney over time indicated that he knew it was an epic fuck up, and he kept them at arms length, and was much more careful about letting them direct him.

What I hear when he says this, is someone who knows in his heart that he was a flaming disaster, but does not want to experience the personal awareness of it while giving the middle finger to everyone.

At this point, he is more than content to die having denied the country the acknowledgement on this part for the disaster it was, how bad of a decision it was, and how horribly he led the country for 8 years.

[SoapBox]

3. What you are Bush 43 is

a DUMB ASS!

Judge that!!

[trusty elf]

19. ......

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[Beacool]

35. My same thoughts.

Bush is a dumb ass. Cheney and Rumsfeld are the evil ones. Bush was just the family idiot who got lucky because far too many voters are uninformed and ignorant.

[Art_from_Ark]

41. Not just a dumbass

He bragged about taking only ten minutes at most to review each of the 152 death sentences he signed in his 6 years as governor of Texas, and openly mocked at least one of those death row inmates on TV

[Beacool]

47. Yeah, he was a loser as a governor too.

It's still amazing that this idiot became his party's nominee in the first place, let alone president and a two term president at that.

Maybe Gore and Kerry would have put the nation to sleep (I find both to be boring speakers), but at least they wouldn't have taken the nation into two unwinnable wars and helped to destroy the economy.

[BootinUp]

4. XXX John King swallows Georgie, film at 11. nt

[Vestigial_Sister]

5. May he be haunted...

forever by the 10's of thousands of souls he was responsible for killing.

[calimary]

15. Welcome to DU, Vestigial_Sister!

Glad you're here. I find myself thinking similar things quite often whenever bush/cheney crosses my mind. Biggest regret in my life is how we were unable to get that fucker IMPEACHED!

[Swagman]

21. not sure socipaths feel haunted...they just continue to justify

[Beacool]

36. He won't be, that would require a conscience

and he doesn't think that he did anything wrong. I'm sure that he sleeps like a baby. He gets up every day, paints his self portraits and doggies, gives a few paid speeches per year and otherwise is living a low key and contented life.

[geomon666]

6. God this man pisses me off like no one else.

This man got away with murder. With murder!!!!

[Phlem]

7. Exactly!

While 2 kids go to jail and have a permanent mar on their record for having a eighth and have to answer to that at every job interview.

-p

[FiveGoodMen]

39. With MASS murder.

Well beyond the worst terrorist bombers in history.

[Rozlee]

8. He knows he fucked up.

It's there in the lack of requests for endorsements for Republican candidates running for office. The no-invites to Rethug conventions. He makes speeches at conservative events at private universities, churches and think tanks, but in any national political venue, he's toxic. No one will touch him no matter how blue his blood and how important his family is and that he was the fricking 43rd president. They'd rather be endorsed by head lice.

[calimary]

14. That's an insult to head lice everywhere.

[Bragi]

59. Also, he can't travel abroad

He's the only former Prez unable to travel abroad due to fear of a) demonstrations against him, and b) fear of being served with war crimes charges.

[snot]

9. Ignorance is bliss.

[Doctor_J]

34. Yep. He should be the most blissful man on earth

Mean, stupid, lying drunk

[MADem]

10. He used to not give a shit about history because he'll be dead...

How amusing, that he phrases his lack of concern more diplomatically now that he's out of office.

He also said the Constitution's "just a piece of paper..."

Charmer, him!

[gordianot]

11. I thought he believed in a higher Judge at least that is the way he appealed to his voters.

Mission Accomplished should be his epitaph, but just what was the mission? Egocentric Megalomaniac with delusions of grandeur!

[rwsanders]

37. That was stage managed to get votes...

If I remember correctly somewhere in Billy Graham's writings he mentions his talk on the beach with shrub and according to him it was all small talk. there was no grand conversion experience.

[joshcryer]

12. Don't get cryonics Bush Jr.

'cause if / when you wake up you'd be in the fucking hauge of 2200.

[calimary]

13. He's just freakin' NUMB. Totally numbed out.

Deterioration on parade.

[Granny M]

16. Well, aren't you a smug little punk?

An unexamined life.

I would worry about the best possible President who wouldn't acknowledge any doubt or conflict, or show any signs of having taken his power and his decisions seriously. But in light of the disaster of this one's reign, to have not an inkling of conflict - geez, what a shallow, empty human being.

[area51]

17. Actually, history will ultimate judge ...

that he's a monster.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

18. Before the invasion Paul Wolfowitz predicted,...

....that a year after we went to war that the Iraqis would erect a grand square in honor of Bush The Liberator.

I don't see them planning to build "Bush Square" any time soon with his statue in the center,...crotch straps and all.

[Brimley]

20. The Judgment is Already In, George

[Paladin]

32. +1000 (nt)

[Carolina]

22. He was, and is,

a loathesome POS.

May the judgment be harsh and may he live to see it!

[Bernardo de La Paz]

23. Like Truman

[Turbineguy]

24. It's nice to hear

he doesn't desire to kill any more people.

[The Wizard]

25. History will remember him as

the guy who ended the great experiment that began in 1776, a war criminal, treasury looter, lying scumbag and war profiteer, and those are his positives.

[SummerSnow]

26. Of course he is admitting something..This isnt the first time.

"I'll be long gone before some smart person ever figures out what happened inside this Oval Office"

-President George W Bush
Washington DC May 12 2008

-------------------------------------------------------

That alone should have called for an investigation

[Baitball Blogger]

46. You're kidding me?

I'm generally not in favor of vandalism, but I wouldn't feel bad if some artistic vandal broke into that library and found a granite wall that he could etch that quote into.

[SummerSnow]

48. He said it .Direct quote.

Totally disgusting.

[SammyWinstonJack]

49. What happened inside 'his' Oval Office IS known.

However, the giggling murderer knows full well he won't be prosecuted which causes his head too swell to the size of Dallas.

[SummerSnow]

56. Wouldnt it be so cool..

If he took a flight and his plane was re-routed to Switzerland. ROFL.

[MrsBrady]

28. people like that

either don't have any commpassion and tell you what you want to hear or
he's either utter denial about the Bush family substance abuse issuses.

I just don't think he's that stupid. He may be that drunk or it's affected his brain by now.
Alcohol talkes its toll.

Just my opinion.

[Sunlei]

29. softball interview. Why don't they ask him for a list of gifts given to Gadaffi.

[olegramps]

30. A man without a conscience, just like his father and mother. Just a vast void.

[rurallib]

31. he could care less

millions died or were displaced, thousands starve, thousands unable to get medical help.
Does he care? Not a whit.

[Baitball Blogger]

44. President Clinton showed more remorse over his infidelity than George Bush did over his

heinous over-reach with Iraq and all the other Machiavelli Libertarian decisions that marked his administration.

[olddad56]

33. I can see where not having a conscience could bring him some contentment.

[truth2power]

38. "I'm a content man". Spoken like a true sociopath. n/t

[louis-t]

40. That's why he paints pictures of himself trying to wash the stench of

death off.

[Hugin]

42. Knowing him, he probably really said... He was an "incontinent" man.

Damn media revisionists.

[Baitball Blogger]

43. History will eventually judge that he was our first socio-path president.

[Egnever]

54. Hmm not sure of him being the first but.. Most destructive perhaps.

[Myrina]

45. Content, probably. Competent? Hardly.

n/t

[gejohnston]

50. a content man

with no content. Go figure.

[Auntie Bush]

51. Well he certainly isn't admitting that he is guilty as hell.

He used that planned line to end the conversion and get out of answering the question. Who said he was dumb? Oh wait...I have many times and I stand by every one.

[jsr]

52. Okay. Burn in hell, goddamn asshole.

[Egnever]

53. Good lord!

Has there ever been a bigger boob in the national spotlight. Maybe honey boo boo I dont know. This guy just cant get through an interview without revealing what an idiot he is.

[Mr.Bill]

55. He's obviously drinking again.

I would too if I was him.

[tabasco]

57. I'm a historian - here's my opinion:

FUCK YOU AWOL BUSH YOU PIECE OF HUMAN GARBAGE.

[Auntie Bush]

58. He's a content man because he has no conscience or empathy.

He should be ashamed to say that. The man is evil I tell you!

[wordpix]

60. Laura says he does - he got off his bike to help a one-legged vet who was having trouble

This said during her speech at the library brouha

[daleo]

61. Maybe just wanted to mock him

Or pick his pocket.

Unkind? Sure.

[rrneck]

62. Crooked fucker

is just saying that judgement will come after he has died and gotten away with that shit. Just like a rich dauphin that doesn't give a fuck about anybody but himself. Fuck him now and forever.

[sofa king]

63. He's the worst President ever.

Allow me to cross-post this observation from another thread. The short version is that there shouldn't be any real debate about W's position in the latrine of American Presidents, because that poltroon managed to duplicate most of the worst offenses of other "worst" Presidents, exceeded them in magnitude and the damage caused, and got away with it all.

Ulysses S. Grant. Sold out to corrupt corporate interests; widespread corruption across his administration; his Vice President was guilty of awarding his own corporate interests with lucrative government contracts...

Just like George W. Bush.

Warren G. Harding. Scandalously leased government-owned lands, particularly oil-rich lands, to his corporate cronies. Held secret policy-formulation meetings with corporate interests, then fought disclosure...

...Just like George W. Bush.

James K. Polk. Lied to the public in order to spark a war under false pretenses, for reasons far more greedy than publicly stated...

...Just like George W. Bush.

Franklin Pierce. Disinterested, alcoholic, accused drunk driver...

...Just like his many-great grand-nephew, George W. Bush

Ronald Reagan. Not intellectually capable of doing the job, nor of policing his subordinates. Presided over the systematic violations of Congressional direction and the Constitution...

...Just like George W. Bush.

Richard Nixon. Attempted (and successful) election theft. Manipulated an intelligence agency as part of a larger series of cover-ups. Fought undeclared wars in secret. Underlings included Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld...

...Just like George W. Bush.

George W. Bush is the worst President ever, without question, and it should be without debate. Why? Because George W. Bush did all of the worst things that all of the worst Presidents have done, and screwed it up bigger, killed more people, ruined more lives, and stole more land and homes than any of them--and probably more than the rest of those chumps put together. You bring me any other "worst ever" candidate, name his five worst sins, and I can show you W. committing and getting away with the same sins, only worse. He was that bad.

George W. Bush was a shambling composite of every prior evil that ever shat upon the Presidency. Worst. President. Ever.

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