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Just in time for the upcoming elections, former President George W. Bush breaks his silence on his upcoming book Decision Points. The official pub date is November 9 through Crown Publishers, with a first printing of 1.5 million copies. Here’s the video that has just gone up on the Random House website:
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Wow, this is the funniest Funny or Die video yet! Will Ferrell looks amazingly like W. Can’t wait to see it on their HBO show!
So I guess if funny or die were the only two choices you would have to die.
Oh great. Another bitter person who has to put others down just because nobody is interested in buying his spec sitcoms or screenplays.
Are you talking to me or the original corn ball poster?
HAHAHA
touche
why did you cover this?
When I look back at the attacks this man had to endure over his tenure as President, it reminds me of Ronald Reagan and the attacks he deflected during his time in the White House.
The left-wing media machine is relentless and as evidenced once-again by this election cycle, uses lies, half-truths, out-of-context comments and innuendo in order to commit character assassination. Once the charge is made, it is difficult if not impossible to remedy the damage. The Democrats have been in control of congress for four years and Barrack Obama has been President for nearly two-years. Where are the trials, lawsuits, subpoenas and government action that were promised because of Mr. Bush’s crimes and his administration’s misdeeds or circumvension of the law? They never happened. Why? Because they were all bullsh*t.
During WWII, the U.S. Office of Strategic Services described Hitler’s psychological profile. They described his rules of attacking the enemy and it bears a striking resemblance to the tactics employed by the Democrats: never allow the public to cool off; never admit a fault or wrong; never concede that there may be some good in your enemy; never leave room for alternatives; never accept blame; concentrate on one enemy at a time and blame him for everything that goes wrong; people will believe a big lie sooner than a little one; and if you repeat it frequently enough people will sooner or later believe it.
History will be kinder to George W. Bush than the cadre of left-wing, ahem, “journalists” who sought his destruction. He may not have been as “articulate” than the tele-prompter-wielding Barrack Obama but Bush’s character and leadership will trump him in the history books. God bless you Mr. and Mrs. Bush
Don’t believe the lies of AaronSch. History will show that Bush was worse than Nixon, one of our worse and most evil Presidents ever. Time will tell…
Blabber History will also show that Nixon wasn’t a bad President. If you do some simple reading you will find out Bush was in fact of the the greatest President’s of all time instead of the worst like you are saying. Remember under bush we had the lowest unemployment rating in modern US history.
Yeah, bombing Cambodia and murdering Kent State protesters wasn’t as bad as those liberals make it out to be.
Oh Karl — drinking before noon again, are we?
Bush had a tele-prompter too. He just couldn’t read it.
Bush is equal to, maybe worse, than British Petro. Both are corporations. Both destroyed lives and land. Both will continue to make money. Bush is the worst President in history and he knows it and doesn’t care.
are you kidding? that’s a spot-on description of the republican party under rove/cheney/bush. your post is an illustration of just how flawed the human mind, specifically your’s, is.
Holy shit! It’s mind-boggling that some people actually still like this guy! Far-and-away the worst president in US history! Do you seriously not remember how this guy broke our country? He makes Bond villains look soft.
“Broke our Country”?…he lowered taxes, which led to lower unemployment and GDP growth.
What broke out country was Congress passing mandates which FORCED banks to lend to borrowers with little to NO credit, promising that federal branches through Fannie Mae would GUARANTEE those loans. The investmetn banks than created a market for those loans b.c they COULD and because investment banks ALAWAYS create a market for ANY security.
When these non-credit worthy borrowers COULDNT MEET MONTHLY MORTGAGE PAYMENTS, all hell broke loose.
People need to learn how to read the facts and form their own opinion. Jees….Im not even republican. Voted democrate BOTH times durring bushes years and even I can be OBJECTIVE when critizing his presidency. YES he was inarticulate, YES he did little to nothing to improve the lives of the lower class (albeit, other than cut taxes accross the board), YES he failed at immigrations reform, YES he failed at responding adequately to Katrina. BUT NO he did not bankrupt this country.
I can’t stand it when people try and make someont out to be ALL bad or ALL good. The other political side ALWAYS has some good, some success, REGARDLESS of the side you stand on. THATS what makes a DEMOCRACY. STOP criminilizing political differences.
I agree with the spirit of your argument, but Bush’s war financing did cause our country to go broke. With military spending being the largest (by far) expenditure in our economy, you cannot go to war on 2 fronts while increasing the size of government by creation of a whole new department (TSA) while simultaneously lowering taxes and making no cuts to spending. This immediately drained our surplus, created a rapidly growing deficit necessitating funding from foreign sources. No other war has been handled this way and nor should they be. The subsequent problems with the housing market failure could have been more easily and less traumatically absorbed if we not already been in a fiscal crisis.
Reading this post reiterates to me how BOTH sides like to stick to their skewed view of things and are unwilling to view issues objectively.
That is America’s problem. Everyone is stuck in an “Us vs Them” mentality that doesn’t allow for reasonable dialogue. The majority of Republicans are typecast as inbred hicks who are clinging to America and their Bibles. While the Democrats are typecast as crazy hippie Liberals who aren’t tough enough to protect America.
It’s all utter bull. If people were open to reason and were less influenced by hive minded talking points on both sides, we would have a lot less problems in our country.
PS: It’s also OK to change your mind about an issue. It doesn’t make you a “Flip-Flopper”…
Riiiiggghhttt…and you must be Mr. Special Hipster Not Mainstream Cool Man.
Sorry. Maybe that is you. I am not some tortured hipster who lives a lonely life thinking it’s cool to be a contrarian. The fact that you attacked me by calling me something rather lame, proves what I said in my original post.
My grandmother came to this country in the 40′s legally. Made a living here. And ensured our success by teaching us that hard work and determination will allow you to go far in life. My family does well, and despite the fact that I grew up with religion around me. I know that when running a government, core beliefs should be set aside in order to ensure things are fair for all.
I have the ability to listen to points of view and try to understand where people are coming from. Most people who are so radical ON BOTH SIDES are seemingly incapable of listening to each other and even agreeing. It’s always such a sickening stand off that it’s truly a shame.
Again trying to see where you would take offense to anything I said previously. But again, continue to prove my point. Also, I am typing this on my Macbook while texting on my iPhone and watching Cable TV after a long day at work and I think Avatar was a great movie… Soooo anti-mainstream obviously…
Bush was an amatuer, a wannabe, a man who as president was over his head and all over the road. And this country will suffer the consequences of his failed presidency for at least a generation.
That makes a lot of sense! And you have courage. Thank you for that.
Yeah, a trillion dollars on a two front war that has actually damaged US standing in the Middle East and played into the hands of radical muslim terrorists will be something for us all to look back upon with great fondness.
And, lying about WMDs to get us to go there. Beautiful.
“…damaged U.S. standing in the Middle East and played into the hands of radical muslim terrorists…” Who gives a shit what the middle east thinks of us, first of all. This is a place where they bury women up to their necks in sand and stone them to death for talking to a man that’s not their husband. And secondly, you need to realize that no matter what we as a country do, there are some cultures/countries that are going to hate us. And lastly, this is the greatest country in the history of mankind. We have more to be proud of than not. As an addendum, you’re an idiot.
Former President Bill Clinton is the most popular fugure out thereon the campaign trail.
Former President George W. Bush is invisible.
That speaks volumes about how they are viewed by the voting American public. And by their own parties!
Hey moron Reagan was also invisible after he was President and he is one of the most popular Presidents ever. There goes that moronic theory.
This post made me laugh more than anything I’ve read lately. AaronSh – Left Wing Media Machine, really? Who owns, coordinates, drives it? Please enlighten us all. I love, love, love when conservatives cry ‘liberal media, liberal media’ when asked to provide facts, figures, information or explanations. As far as the investigations, if I recall, there seemed to have been a huge loss of data files via Dick Cheney & company (odd the White House loses all its email files covering years), so I wonder why those investigations are stalled.
I hope you are writing a letter to Fox News to admonish them for their “WWII” esque progranda campaign against Liberals because I know you are unbiased and it must offend you.
He sounds shitfaced
Did you hear how he said “rather”? Like Tony Blair he spoke. What is he? A Brit now?
Bowing to oil companies and Wall street criminals Obama’s first term might as well be Bush’s third.
If you question the suppression of free speech being employed by the left-wing, check out what NPR has done to one of it’s more level-headed liberal contributors, Juan Williams. Fired for frankness during a discussion he had with Bill O’Reilly on Fox News, for which he is also a contribuor.
Stop the Left from Policing Your Mind. Pick up Tammy Bruce’s “The New Thought Police.”
Our freedom to speak our minds is under attack. Like the Thought Police of George Orwell’s 1984, powerful special interest groups on the Left are mounting a withering assault on our rights in the name of “social equality.” Liberty has been turned on its ear as the rights of the few restrict the freedom of everyone. In The New Thought Police, author Tammy Bruce, a self-described lesbian feminist activist, cuts through the deluge of politically correct speech and thought codes to expose the dangerous rise of Left-wing McCarthyism. Provocative and persuasive, this book is a clarion call to anyone interested in preserving liberty.
Tell me, if a commentator had said “I’m nervous when Jews get on a plane” would they have kept their job. Bigotry is always wrong.
Freedom, liberty, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. [Insert tired, old, disproven Republican talking points here.]
Liberals think for themselves. Conservatives are lead like sheep by Limbaugh, Hannity, Coulter, Savage, etc — the conservative little shop of horrors filled with uninformed, shallow-thinking hypocrites.
I don’t believe NPR prevented Juan Williams from expressing himself, he was then and still is now able to express his opinion. NPR just has something called ‘journalistic standards’ which are alien to the watchers of Fox News/Talk Radio. These standards include providing facts rather than opiniions and commentaries based on information and not on personal feelings. This is Juan Williams’ 2nd time expressing these types of views, so he got what was coming to him. Fortunately, Fox News is happy to have someone join the ‘express your opinion no matter what the facts say’ news team. Thats why they have 3 potential republican presidental candidates on staff, NPR, CNN, MSNBC have zero presidential candidates of any party on staff.
Certainly one of the worst tragedies in our history. It’ll will take decades to undo the destruction this man and his war-mongering, economy destroying, radical religious croanies created. The site of him disgusts me. Thanks for ruining my morning Nikki.
When all is said and done, W was probably an average President – some successes, some failures.
But Obama is making him look like a genius. I’d take W (or Clinton) back every single day of the week right now.
Take him. Please. Maybe you, Bush, and all the other GOP dinosaurs will fade away into time and let the people trying to save our future take control.
What *exactly* would you describe as “successes” in the Bush administration?
Pete, all you’ll hear is crickets on that one.
Indeed. Successes? LOL…
Bush will go down as a great President. I’m not a fan.
He made decisions. He was a leader. He stood strong when many were against him. Something nobody in entertainment can do. So silly when a President looks to entertainment people. The lemmings of the world congregate in show business. Clinton was absolutely terrible. He will go down as a wall flower in history. Obama will go down as a terrible President. Not a leader. As much as he tries and should be, people are not following him. What is a leader without followers?
Thank you.
Ronald Reagan being from Hollywood, was the first presidential lemming.
Only Sarah Palin or Glenn Beck can make W look like a genius and that is still a stretch. Bush made the easy decisions based on instinct rather than information. Obama has made decisions based on information provided by experts in individual fields of study. Since the situation that resulted from ‘instinct’ is such a disaster, the solution that comes from information is unappreciated because it doesn’t happen overnight. The vast majority of economists (even conservative economists) agree Obama took the right steps and possible should have gone further.
The Hollywood Bubbleheads will checking in on this with all their ill conceived, one-sided, shallow, liberal-lemming comments.
Wow. You people are on the Titanic and you’re arguing about which side of the ship is going to sink faster. I thank my lucky stars I don’t live in the US and have to put up with this petty arguing.
Maybe you could elect another hollywood bubbleheads as your Republican President or California Gov or Congressmen.
Liberal Dems the party of compassion and understanding unless you disagree with them.
“Thank you Mr. + Mrs. Bush?”
For what, exactly. What are you thanking them for? Please be specific.
2 misguided and botched wars, presided over the worst intelligence failure in US history and left the country in economic meltdown.
If you support W, you have to be in the arms business, one of the 1% that he made wealthier (and has no conscience about the other 99%) or a partisan extremist who pretends opinions are facts.
The book’s release date was pushed until after the 11/2 elections because the GOP was worried that Bush and his book would hurt their chances of getting marjority rule back in DC. That’s how crappy a President Bush was. He’s that toxic even to his own party. Say what you want about the Dems and the liberals, but for the first time, I’m going to listen to the GOP. They know what’s right.
God Bless President Bush.
I can’t believe how ridiculous some of the statements on here are. You right-wing zealots can try and revise history all you want, Mr. Bush was a terrible president, responsible for the economic calamity we now find ourselves in, waging two wars we now can’t get out of, gutting our environmental laws, trampling our freedoms and our rights with his wiretapping… And as far as President Obama being not very good, we’ll just have to see when his term is up, but seeing as you’ve been bashing him since the *day* he took office, your credibility is seriously lacking.
How about the lowest unemployment rating in modern US history was under Bush. Good economies end. Just look at the great economy under Clinton. That also came to an end but of course you overlook that. That same wiretapping you blame him for Obama is also using and in fact Obama is using wiretapping far more than Bush ever did.
Actually, the statistics indicate that Bush had the lowest job creation rate of any President in the post-WWII era. He actually created fewer jobs than Carter.
I wouldn’t tout the job of a president who saw a country shedding literally a million jobs a month in his final four months in office.
Thanks for ignoring the fact that Bush had the lowest unemployment rating in modern US history. And speaking of touting jobs. Look at what the Democrats do with Clinton. They spout their crap about how he created 23 million jobs(most were created by the internet boom) and they NEVER mention that we lost well over 20 million jobs because Clinton and the DEMOCRATS passed NAFTA.
Also under Bush people making minimum wage was under 1 percent. When the Democrats took over the House and Senate in January 2007 they then passed a minimum wage increase and now the percentage of people making minimum wage is almost 4 percent. And I shouldn’t I have to remind you again that Bush lost both Houses of Congress with 2 years left on his term. The Democrats were running things when we started losing all the jobs.
I like how you blame Clinton (when the congress was controlled by Republicans) and then blame the Democratic Congress (when Bush was President). Did Republicans vote against NAFTA?-Nope and the misinformation and correlations you provide are laughable at their elementary understanding of economics and policy. Keep watching Fox (the made for conservatives news station to tell them what they want to hear, not what is really happening)
the headline should read: “bush breaks wind on his upcoming book…”
I give Bush a lot of credit in how he has handled himself post-Presidency. He has specifically not criticized or second-guessed the Obama administration and has not campaigned for those in his party. He has simply moved to the background as should all ex-leaders, offering their advice to their successors in private when asked.
I think Bush’s image will be rehabilitied over the years and he will end up in the middle of the pack and be remembered for some tough decisions. Obama has done him a favor by being mediocre if not worse in comparison. It is inteersting that Obama has continued many of the Bush programs and has even gone futher. If Bush had proposed some of the policies that Obama has proposed (e.g., surveillance and monitoring) Bush would have been crucified by civil libertarians.
The Bush book will give all the Bush haters a few more 1099′s when they go on MSNBC and other outlets to criticize him. The parties in Brentwood, Beverly Hills and Bel-Air will be alive with venom as the Hollywood types who continue to push the envelope of decency further create an echo-chamber of smug superiority.
Wait, he can write?
(I can’t be the first person posting this.)
You REALLY want to know where the roots of this economic mess lie? Do some homework on the Community Reinvestment Act, mortgage/lending policies and who stood in the way of much-needed regulation.
What is the proximate cause of the collapse of confidence in the world’s banks? Millions of sub-prime American sub-prime loans. Which organisations were on their own responsible for guaranteeing half of this $12 trillion market? Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae. Now, who do you think were among the leading figures blocking all the earlier attempts by President Bush — and other Republicans — to bring these lending behemoths under greater regulatory control? Barney Frank (D) and Chris Dodd (D).
In September 2003 the Bush administration launched a measure to bring Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac under stricter regulatory control, after a report by outside investigators established that they were not adequately hedging against risks and that Fannie Mae in particular had scandalously mis-stated its accounts. In 2006, it was revealed that Fannie Mae had overstated its earnings — to which its senior executives’ bonuses were linked — by a stunning $9.3billion. Between 1998 and 2003, Fannie Mae’s executive chairman, Franklin Raines, picked up over $90m in bonuses and stock options.
Yet Barney Frank and his chums blocked all Bush’s attempts to put a rein on Raines. During the House Financial Services Committee hearing following Bush’s initiative, Frank declared: “The more people exaggerate a threat of safety and soundness [at Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae], the more people conjure up the possibility of serious financial losses to the Treasury which I do not see. I think we see entities that are fundamentally sound financially.” His colleague on the committee, the California Democrat Maxine Walters, said: “There were nearly a dozen hearings where we were trying to fix something that wasn’t broke. Mr Chairman, we do not have a crisis at Freddie Mac and particularly at Fannie Mae under the outstanding leadership of Mr Franklin Raines.”
When Mr Raines himself was challenged by the Republican Christopher Shays, to the effect that his ratio of capital to assets (that is, mortgages) of 3 per cent was dangerously low, the Fannie Mae boss retorted that “our assets are so riskless, we could have a capital ratio of under 2 per cent”.Barney Frank (D) and his shielding of Fannie Mae an Freddie Mac. Then take aq good look at America’s UNIONs and the entitlements. Yu see what is happening in France? In Greece? In the UK? In Spain? and on and on…. It’s gonna happen here. Get your head out of your derrieres and don’t take my word for it. DO SOME RESEARCH—to blame Bush is delusional. -The Independent UK
The TRUTH is a bitch.
So much incorrect here. Now if you want to complain about the repeal of Glass-Steagall under Clinton with Republican help, then you’d have a more legitimate argument. Revoking that law removed the barriers between banks and investment houses that led to the shady derivative and credit swaps that in fact DID cause the economy to collapse.
The CRA, which Republicans like to use in order to deflect economic blame onto primarily black homeowners was signed in 1977 as a way of stamping out the odious bank practice of redlining in lending. Do you know what percentage of defaulted loans were a result of CRA? Less than 20%. Thanks to Glass-Steagall’s repeal, the vast majority of home loans issued last decade weren’t subject to CRA.
Additionally, the housing bubble and all the abuses that occurred were a direct result of trickle down economics. Thanks to top heavy tax cuts and outsourcing, the American economy was incapable of producing enough wealth to maintain our GDP. The only growth area was housing, and we saw how a deregulated housing market worked out. BTW, if Bush truly had been serious about reigning in the house of cards known as the mortgage industry, he barely broke a sweat pounding the bully pulpit about it. No speeches. No real legislative initiatives. It was a low priority issue compared to punishing Valerie Plame, the Dixie Chicks, and potentially innocent people at Gitmo.
Two words:
“Mission Accomplished.”
Sorry, there’s a third word:
“Not.”
hate to break it to you Aaron Sch, but your post isnt going to sway anybody reading deadline. It is a well thought out post, but you put too much effort into it.
Come on now,, you and i both know your post will be followed by more of the same group think: Bush is Worst President, blah blah blah.
Funny how many people in this country refuse to pick up an economics book to try and understand where the fault lies. THere is def one area where I agree with Obama, and that is in EDUCATION. Maybe if we can educate the american people in economics, they would REALIZE that they are being manipulated by the libaral propaganda.
Please explain to me who is coordinating the ‘liberal propaganda?” I’m so sick of every right-wing argument referring to this fantasy of some coordinated ‘liberal effort’. Liberal courts, liberal media, liberal universities, liberal public schools, liberal everything. Sorry if all of these institutions (and now even some of the formerly ‘conservative’ ones are ‘too liberal’) come to a common consensus on social ideals that result from research and fact finding. Clearly you guys are in the wrong country.
Book should be titled, “Thank Me,”
Dubya was the best thing to happen to the democratic party (and AIPAC) — he put Obama in office, provided fodder for late night, and invaded Iraq. He gave them credibility and a target to point at while they fulfilled their agenda.
I won’t buy his book, would rather spend the money on a comic book, which, if you think about, this is a comic book.
I agree, worse president ever. Just saying….
Andrew Johnson and Warren Harding were worse presidents.
I wish people would educate themselves on issues beyond a headline
It is amazing to me how little original thought is on this board. Most of you have zero understanding of the economy and the policies that brought us to where we are today. Clinton’s policy changes in mid 90′s created the sub-prime scenario so that everyone could own a home, including those that couldn’t afford one. Everyone abused it, Wall Street, Borrowers Everyone.
Secondly, do you all forget the % of congress that approved the wars? Afghanistan, House 420 for 1 against, Senate 98 for zero against WWI &II were the only other unanimous votes. Iraq approved 75%.
So if you think he screwed us up so much go throw out all the other “ware monger’ in congress and the ones who wrote the laws that have failed you.
Jack – the board is filled with secretaries. Lemmings. Kids who smoke because others smoke. Look at most of the highest comments. They take place when there is a story on Twilight. But you put a story about the business and you get two or three comments. I have cut down my reading of this substantially. I read the blog but not the comments.
Thank you.
Bush was President for 8 years.
The Repubnlicans controlled the White House, the Senate and the House.
They went to war without raising the money to pay for it.
They passed a Medicare prescription bill without raising the funds to pay for it.
Bush had to bail out Wall Street so we did not suffer a second Great Depression.
But worst of all, he let the mastermid behind 9/11 get away. (“I don’t spend much time thinking about him.”) This sent a message that you can bomb America and we will not hunt you down.
Throw in the loss of liberty and privacy under the Patriot Act, the politicization of the Justice Department and the kowtowing to Big Oil and Halliburton and, yes, you have the worst President ever.
Just ask the thousands of wounded vets missing limbs and worse who were never given a clear mission statement.
LOL…another Republican who blames all of the problems of the 21st century on President Clinton…for Chrissakes.
George W. Bush was, in all likelihood the worst or second worst (Buchanan?) President in American history. He was an incompetent failure who led this country to a path of misery and defeat. You ask yourself how could America be so blind as to follow this man, but before you can answer you see Sarah Palin in your rearview mirror.
It is indisputable that Bush led us to international victory in Iraq and a hard-won freedom for the great people of that country. It is also true that Democrats took over Congress in the middle of Bush’s second term and quickly ushered in our current economic collapse. Presidents have strong control over foreign policy, but they do not have much control over the government’s fiscal policy. That job goes to Congress and we can all see where 4 years of Democratic-run fiscal policy has gotten us. Don’t you miss those days of a rip-roaring economy and historically low unemployment during the mid-2000s when Bush and Republicans shared control of the federal government?
Worst. Presidency. Ever.
Oh, and is there a stupider title than Decision Points? Fascinating that this man’s native tongue is English.
Shouldn’t it be “Decider Points”?