Publisher: Bush will receive ‘minimal interest’ on the lecture circuit.»

[babylonsister]

:cry:

http://thinkprogress.org/2009/01/09/bush-speaking-circuit/

Publisher: Bush will receive ‘minimal interest’ on the lecture circuit.»


In 2007, President Bush told biographer Robert Draper that he would “replenish the ol’ coffers” by going around and giving speeches after office, where he could make “ridiculous money.” But it’s unlikely that Bush will be rolling in the dough. Interviewed by the Daily Beast, a publisher said Bush will likely only receive “minimal interest” because of his unpopularity:

“My feeling is that for the first year there probably will be minimal interest in him,” said one agent who works in the public speaking business. “There have been other former presidents who’ve been unpopular leaving office, but nobody’s ever been this unpopular. After a year, though, people forget and then he’ll have a very lucrative career.”

[EmeraldCityGrl]

1. My greatest fear...people will forget.

[lib2DaBone]

24. This Bush Depression is going to be too long and too hard...

As people eat their SPAM and light their Kerosene Lanterns in their homes....I don't think they will forget the insane little man and the people who empowered him.

[gratuitous]

2. Bush will be in great demand

Look for him at your local county fair next year. It'll cost you fifty cents, but some people will say it's worth it.

[JuniperLea]

5. Come inside the show's about to start...

Guaranteed to blow your head apart!


He may need seven virgins and a mule to keep it cool.

[Beausoleil]

12. I was thinking

a stripper and some ping-pong balls.

[JuniperLea]

16. Given this will be low budget...

Yeah.

[Cabcere]

7. Only if

the fifty cents covers the cost of manure, and includes a couple of free throws. ;)

(Nah, I'm just kidding - I wouldn't waste manure on GW.)

[Jackpine Radical]

9. Do they still allow that act where the guy

bites the heads off of live chickens?

[csziggy]

Yeah, I'd pay a couple of quarters to throw things at him

In one of these:



Especially if the tank was full of something other than water!

[Solly Mack]

3. "After a year, though, people forget .."

Doesn't even take that long...sadly

[JuniperLea]

4. He's a freak show

And not in a good way.

[KamaAina]

6. He could always go on "Are You Smarter Than A Fifth Grader?"

Naaaaaahhh... :dunce:

[WI_DEM]

8. Why would somebody want to listen to Bush make a speech when he can't

put two words together coherently?

[babylonsister]

11. And pay for the 'pleasure'! Not me. nt

[lunatica]

21. And that's when someone else writes the speech

Imagine when he has to write his own speeches.....

:silly: :rofl:

[ReadTomPaine]

10. Unless he's prosecuted in some fashion, he will do just fine.

To think otherwise is extremely naive. He will sleep like a baby ontop of a pile of money that will be as high as he desires it to be. He will get pretty much whatever he wants, whenever he wants for the rest of his life and he will get it with a smile.

Unless, of course, the opposition party decides to live up to its obligations and deny him that future.

I'm not holding my breath for the latter.

[BR_Parkway]

13. Charge admission so we can throw shoes at him, that might bring in

some serious revenue

[wilt the stilt]

14. here's hoping the minimal interest

leads to hardcore drinking and a downward spiral into full blown dementia

[sinkingfeeling]

15. Come on, all those people signing the 'Thank you, Pres. Bush' and 'we're praying for you' cards

will pay hundreds of thousands to hear God's chosen speak.

[originalpckelly]

17. Only if they get to throw shoes at him.

[lpbk2713]

18. I hereby lay claim to the cream pie concession!!

He will be just as welcome as Coultergeist. Probably even less.

Hmmm, maybe I'll sell shoes on the side too. :think:

[rvablue]

19. If some RWers want to $ to listen to him, I could care less, as long as I don't have to BUT

it was written, I think in a Rolling Stone article, that Bush's #1 dream in life, more than getting into politics, was to become Baseball Commissioner.

I hope that if there is even a whiff of this, the good people of the United States will reject it outright.

[babylonsister]

20. Can you imagine what he'd do to baseball? I think he'd ruin it! nt

[Beausoleil]

22. Never did the Rangers any good! n/t

[lunatica]

23. Thereby batting 1000 for being a Catastrophic Failure!

pun intended!!

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: