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George W. Bush Memoir Release Delayed Until After Midterms, Say Friends

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George W. Bush‘s memoirs, Decision Points, will not be released until after the midterm elections, according to the Financial Times. The book, which is about 10 key decisions the former president took while in office, will be released a week afterward, on November 9.

According to FT, “friends of Mr. Bush” say Bush resisted the publisher’s insistence on a September release — a month which traditionally has better sales. But the publisher, Crown Publishing, contradicts that:

“The decision to publish in November was made by the president’s publisher . . . From a media perspective the period leading up to the midterm elections is a very noisy and crowded space and we believe the president’s book will be better served by being launched following that time.”

Since leaving office, Bush has stayed out of the public eye and, as FT notes, declined to criticize President Barack Obama, “in sharp contrast to Dick Cheney, his former vice-president.”

Bush will give his first television interview since his presidency on November 8 with NBC’s Matt Lauer. It is scheduled for the 8pmET prime time slot. He will also be on NBC live with Lauer on November 10, to discuss his book. He’ll definitely be back in the spotlight — but only after the midterms.

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  • http://apostrophejones.com Apostrophe jones

    We’ll wait for you ,sir . You are the last good president .

  • paulmdoro

    Apostrophe jones said:
    We’ll wait for you ,sir . You are the last good president .

    LOL! Officially the funniest comment ever!

  • http://apostrophejones.com Apostrophe jones

    The failed policies of the King Obama regime make you look even better each day … Imagine what King Obama would do if he had a second term …. Just think what the next president will inherit . … Makes you say “What up …with that ? ” .

  • murf

    Miss me yet ? —Yes !

    George W. Bush , a true patriot , who loved this country above all else .

    Ps. His wife Laura was ALWAYS proud of her country .

  • http://apostrophejones.com Apostrophe jones

    Also the last cojoned president .

  • puck30

    Apostrophe jones said:
    We’ll wait for you ,sir . You are the last good president .

    Jones, even I have to call you on this one. No one did more to destroy the Republican Party than this guy and his crew. Are you forgeting 06′ and 08′?

    The only reason Bush won’t be going down as just about the worst is, the knucklehead in office now is making Bush like a (dare I say it ?) Conservative.

    We know about Obama, but we haven’t forgotten about Bush, where Conservative was only a word.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1eJA2jGODeg

  • http://apostrophejones.com Apostrophe jones

    The last good president of the 21st century .

  • puck30

    Apostrophe jones said:
    The last good president of the 21st century .

    Gee! Then why don’t they bring his book out before the midterms? A blind man could see why.

  • adel

    Apostrophe jones said:
    The last good president of the 21st century .

    Let’s just hope we have the national fortitude to rememberize all that he did and didn’t do, while doing some of other things, things we remember well for their doing, because our memories are with him. Amen

  • ImJustThatDamnGood

    Bush you are a brave man. You bravely order thousands of troops to their death. Yes Saddam was a bad man who was no threat to the United States. Maybe the United States should go on a world tour eliminating all the bad leaders of the world. Well the war was not worth the lives of your daughters. I look at a wall of the fallen each and every day I go to the gym. Sarah Palin was right Obama’s balls are missing in action. I think Dick Cheney took them as a souvenir. Obama is a bitch for not bringing you to justice. I do not believe in life after death but I hope I am wrong. I would go to hell in a minute to see you burn with me.

  • shootfromthehip

    Th subhead of the book should read:

    “Decision Points”
    My memoir of when I decided to lie to the American people to better serve my friends in the oil and defense industries

  • Hugo Daun

    I hear this book was written in crayon and comes with stickers!

  • ImNotBlue

    Ugh… is there anything more predictable than the left’s comment’s about Bush?

    Maybe the sun rising tomorrow… but it’s a close call.

  • http://sharethisurlaboutglennbeck.com/ GlennBeckReview

    from The World Traveler

    GEORGE BUSH AND HOW HE SCREWED YOU !

    * Attacked and took over two countries.

    * Spent the surplus and bankrupted the treasury.

    * Shattered record for biggest annual deficit in history.

    * Set economic record for most private bankruptcies filed in any 12 month period.

    * Set all-time record for biggest drop in the history of the stock market.

    * First president in decades to execute a federal prisoner.

    * First president in US history to enter office with a criminal record.

    * First year in office set the all-time record for most days on vacation by any president in US history.

    * After taking the entire month of August off for vacation, presided over the worst security failure in US history.

    * Set the record for most campaign fund-raising trips than any other president in US history.

    * In my first two years in office over 2 million Americans lost their job.

    *Cut unemployment benefits for more out of work Americans than any president in US history.

    * Set the all-time record for most foreclosures in a 12 month period.

    * Appointed more convicted criminals to administration positions than any president in US history.

    * Set the record for the least amount of press conferences than any president since the advent of television.

    * Signed more laws and executive orders amending the Constitution than any president in US history.

    * Presided over the biggest energy crises in US history and refused to intervene when corruption was revealed.

    * Presided over the highest gasoline prices in US history and refused to use the national reserves as past presidents have.

    * Cut healthcare benefits for war veterans.

    * Set the all-time record for most people worldwide to simultaneously take to the streets to protest me (15 million people), shattering the record for protest against any person in the history of mankind.

    * Dissolved more international treaties than any president in US history.

    * My presidency is the most secretive and un-accountable of any in US history.

    * Members of my cabinet are the richest of any administration in US history. (the ‘poorest’ multi-millionaire, Condoleeza Rice has an Exxon oil tanker named after her).

    * First president in US history to have all 50 states of the Union simultaneously go bankrupt.

    * Presided over the biggest corporate stock market fraud of any market in any country in the history of the world.

    * First president in US history to order a US attack and military occupation of a sovereign nation.

    * Created the largest government department bureaucracy in the history of the United States.

    * Set the all-time record for biggest annual budget spending increases, more than any president in US history.

    * First president in US history to have the United Nations remove the US from the human rights commission.

    * First president in US history to have the United Nations remove the US from the elections monitoring board.

    * Removed more checks and balances, and have the least amount of congressional oversight than any presidential administration in US history.

    * Rendered the entire United Nations irrelevant.

    * Withdrew from the World Court of Law.

    * Refused to allow inspectors access to US prisoners of war and by default no longer abide by the Geneva Conventions.

    * First president in US history to refuse United Nations election inspectors (during the 2002 US elections).

    * All-time US (and world) record holder for most corporate campaign donations.

    * My biggest life-time campaign contributor presided over one of the largest corporate bankruptcy frauds in world history (Kenneth Lay, former CEO of Enron Corporation).

    * Spent more money on polls and focus groups than any president in US history.

    * First president in US history to unilaterally attack a sovereign nation against the will of the United Nations and the world community.

    * First president to run and hide when the US came under attack (and then lied saying the enemy had the code to Air Force 1)

    * First US president to establish a secret shadow government.

    * Took the biggest world sympathy for the US after 911, and in less than a year made the US the most resented country in the world (possibly the biggest diplomatic failure in US and world history).

    * With a policy of ‘dis-engagement’ created the most hostile Israeli-Palestine relations in at least 30 years.

    * First US president in history to have a majority of the people of Europe (71%) view my presidency as the biggest threat to world peace and stability.

    * First US president in history to have the people of South Korea more threatened by the US than their immediate neighbor, North Korea.

    * Changed US policy to allow convicted criminals to be awarded government contracts.

    * Set all-time record for number of administration appointees who violated US law by not selling huge investments in corporations bidding for government contracts.

    * Failed to fulfill my pledge to get Osama Bin Laden ‘dead or alive’.

    * Failed to capture the anthrax killer who tried to murder the leaders of our country at the United States Capital building. After 18 months I have no leads and zero suspects.

    * In the 18 months following the 911 attacks I have successfully prevented any public investigation into the biggest security failure in the history of the United States.

    * Removed more freedoms and civil liberties for Americans than any other president in US history.

    * In a little over two years created the most divided country in decades, possibly the most divided the US has ever been since the civil war.

    * Entered office with the strongest economy in US history and in less than two years turned every single economic category heading straight down.

  • ImNotBlue

    GlennBeckReview says:
    August 5, 2010 at 3:18 pm

    You realize most of those are either misleading or flat out dishonest… right?

    Of course you do… but at least this time, you’re not trying to get people to increase your website traffic. I guess we should consider that progress!

  • Nachi

    Can hardly wait for this intellectual gem. BushDrunk & Gang. Leaving behind them a bloodied world. Poisonous & toxic & failed. An administration that oversaw & encouraged events that led to the meltdown of the Nation, 2 failed, impossible, immoral, cowardly wars, a health-care system collapse, & the gluttonous
    ripping & raping of the U.S. Treasury itself.

    Fine “Christians, Patriots, Heroes.” The worst & most demeaing years in American history. Twill be fascinating reading for the rancid masses. Even as the author is still working feverishly on “My Pet Goat.” Yup.

  • http://sharethisurlaboutglennbeck.com/ GlennBeckReview

    ImNotBlue says: “You realize most of those are either misleading or flat out dishonest… right?”

    Where do I begin. First, the list is from The World Traveler. Let me pick just one to defend:
    “* Removed more freedoms and civil liberties for Americans than any other president in US history.”

    See: http://www.snagfilms.com/films/title/the_end_of_america/
    and get back to me. I have another post to write about the rodeo clown.

  • Nachi

    Ah, tis another day here for our “Little People” Repugs. Defending “The Accidental President.” Who served at the highest levels of dishonor. Inept, delusional, alcoholic. Leaving a legacy of disaster and ruin. Soaked to the bone in blood. Seems that his followers should have to pass at least some VERY basic form of IQ exam before being permitted to vomit forth their posts here. Hiding in their personal little Fuhrer Bunkers. Lashing out with their innermost self-loathing & rage. Yup.

  • The Real Royal King

    I don’t know why there is all this fuss about a book written by a third person about a failed presidency. w ought to have had the good sense to just fade into a well-deserved oblivion, and we ought to have the good sense to purge our minds of the manifold national disasters which were W’s Reign of Terror.

    THOREAU: “RATHER … THAN MONEY, THAN FAME, GIVE ME TRUTH.”
    FOX NEWS: BUY GOLD. USE GOLD TO BUY WHATEVER TRUTH YOU WANT. AND, SEEDS.

  • ImNotBlue

    GlennBeckReview says:
    August 5, 2010 at 4:32 pm

    “* Removed more freedoms and civil liberties for Americans than any other president in US history.”

    Just explain to me what freedoms and civil liberties were removed. Oh, and explain to me why Obama continuing those policies doesn’t seem to bother the left.

    Dumb.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Bill-Adkins/1585417987 Bill Adkins

    George W. Bush in yet another display of cowardice. Heckuv job.

  • puck30

    ImNotBlue says:
    August 5, 2010 at 4:59 pm

    Yeah I remember the left going all nuts about the Patriot Act and how it was going to take away freedoms and all that. I had some questions about it too.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYhYQDTtM2c

    But it’s funny, Obama signs an extension and nobody here has a problem with it.

    And what about Gitmo? dailkos couldn’t write enough about that place.

    But Obama is President, Gitmo is still open. In fact buisness is soo thriving down there, one might think Obama is in a partnership with Limbaugh.

    Now another favorite of the left is Bush’s low numbers which I think hit 36%, fair enough. But one little fact they leave out is George hit that mark in his 6th year. Obama is at 39% and he hasn’t even made it two years!

    I like this one………George Bush’s Reign of Terror! Wasn’t July the deadliest month ever in Afghanistan? Under……..OBAMA’s watch? And what about those drones that had to stopped because they were knocking off more citizens then terrorists? Not a peep from all those people who use to go on msNBC and say…….”George Bush killed a million afghans!”

    MSNBC! WHERE THE TINGLE GOES UP THE LEG AND THE JIZZ ROLLS DOWN WHEN WE TALK ABOUT OBAMA.

  • The Real Royal King

    Bill Adkins said:
    THOREAU: “RATHER … THAN MONEY, THAN FAME, GIVE ME TRUTH.”
    FOX NEWS: BUY GOLD. USE GOLD TO BUY WHATEVER TRUTH YOU WANT. AND, SEEDS.

    I think you ar correct. I honeslty believe the man to be scared at his shadow, Cowardice or crippling paranoia, I’m not sure which.

    THOREAU: “RATHER … THAN MONEY, THAN FAME, GIVE ME TRUTH.”
    FOX NEWS: BUY GOLD. USE GOLD TO BUY WHATEVER TRUTH YOU WANT. AND, SEEDS.

  • puck30

    The Real Royal King says:
    August 5, 2010 at 4:44 pm

    “we ought to have the good sense to purge our minds………”

    And if that doesn’t work RRK rolls up in a fetal position and yells one word three times.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1eDqkCDHC8

    MSNBC! WHERE THE TINGLE GOES UP THE LEG AND THE JIZZ ROLLS DOWN WHEN WE TALK ABOUT OBAMA

  • StandUp

    Bush Derangenment Syndrome is alive and well at Mediaite.
    I’ll bet anyone a beer that his book will outsale Obamas book, Ed blockhead Schultzs new book, anything by Olbermann (that man is an idiot), Ray Maddows new book, or any other liberal leaning book.
    Anyone wanna call the bet??

    @Glennbeckreview- weak, very weak, copying and pasting such a long post about somebody else’s opinions. just link next time and let us decide if we want to read that much drivel

  • Patrick Henry

    The Real Royal King said:
    Bill Adkins said:
    THOREAU: “RATHER … THAN MONEY, THAN FAME, GIVE ME TRUTH.”
    FOX NEWS: BUY GOLD. USE GOLD TO BUY WHATEVER TRUTH YOU WANT. AND, SEEDS.

    I think you ar correct. I honeslty believe the man to be scared at his shadow, Cowardice or crippling paranoia, I’m not sure which.

    THOREAU: “RATHER … THAN MONEY, THAN FAME, GIVE ME TRUTH.”
    FOX NEWS: BUY GOLD. USE GOLD TO BUY WHATEVER TRUTH YOU WANT. AND, SEEDS.

    Ar you a little confused king?

  • http://sharethisurlaboutglennbeck.com/ GlennBeckReview

    StandUp says: “@Glennbeckreview- weak, very weak, copying and pasting such a long post about somebody else’s opinions. just link next time and let us decide if we want to read that much drivel”

    Stand up, sit down; don’t think you can dictate how I post comments. Who died and made you Master of the Internet? George Bush is ranked in the bottom five presidents of all time for a reason, and I just happened to have stumbled into a long list of them today. Here’s another for you to absorb: Col. Lawrence Wilkinson (ret), former Chief of Staff (Republican) under Secretary of State Colin Powell said, “The Bush Administration was one of the most incompetent Administrations in history, if not the most incompetent in history.”

    No wonder Bush isn’t releasing his story until after the elections.

  • jimw1016

    Apostrophe jones says:
    August 5, 2010 at 11:43 am
    8 8
    We’ll wait for you ,sir . You are the last good president .

    Can anyone please explain the adjective good used in this sentence referring to Bush’s presidency?? An oxymoron perhaps? Heavy emphasis on MORON!!

  • ImNotBlue

    GlennBeckReview says:
    August 5, 2010 at 11:57 pm

    Uh-oh… looks like someone can’t answer the question.

    Poor fella’.

  • jimw1016

    ImNotBlue says:
    August 5, 2010 at 3:08 pm (Quote)
    5 4
    Ugh… is there anything more predictable than the left’s comment’s about Bush?

    Maybe the sun rising tomorrow… but it’s a close call.

    By all mean, please “refudiate” the claims.

  • jimw1016

    ImNotBlue says:
    August 5, 2010 at 3:29 pm (Quote)
    3 5
    GlennBeckReview says:
    August 5, 2010 at 3:18 pm

    You realize most of those are either misleading or flat out dishonest… right?

    Of course you do… but at least this time, you’re not trying to get people to increase your website traffic. I guess we should consider that progress!

    Challenge? Prove them wrong. The HISTORIANS of the US have named Bush to be “more than likely” the worst president in US history. He has that title now, but the years will bear out if it sticks and it’s a can’t miss.

  • StandUp

    GlennBeckReview said:
    StandUp says: “@Glennbeckreview- weak, very weak, copying and pasting such a long post about somebody else’s opinions. just link next time and let us decide if we want to read that much drivel” Stand up, sit down; don’t think you can dictate how I post comments. Who died and made you Master of the Internet? George Bush is ranked in the bottom five presidents of all time for a reason, and I just happened to have stumbled into a long list of them today. Here’s another for you to absorb: Col. Lawrence Wilkinson (ret), former Chief of Staff (Republican) under Secretary of State Colin Powell said, “The Bush Administration was one of the most incompetent Administrations in history, if not the most incompetent in history.” No wonder Bush isn’t releasing his story until after the elections.

    Just trying to help you poor fella-
    Wilkinson and Powell- pfffttt, no longer credible
    How many people do you think actually read all that crap, even if they agree. You think that your providing a sevice but all you posted were opinions and not facts. That was the longest post I’ve ever seen. Apparently you don’t get the concept of brevity. We’ll grant you a learning curve though. Go ahead-take the last word but please keep it under 3 pages.

    I’d rather die on my feet than live on my knees.

  • StandUp

    @glennbeckreview
    Also-
    it seems odd that you even use Beck’s name in your username. Very creepy and stalker obsessive. It’s no wonder Beck, Oreilly and Co. need 24 hour security and bodyguards with obsessive stalkers like you out there. I bet Maddow, Olby and Schultz roam the streets free as a bird. We don’t like their politics but we’re not obsessed with them. I wonder how it feels waking with Beck on the mind and going to bed the same.

  • writer

    GBR seems unaware that Beck is not a Republican and was a frequent critic of Bush. So if GBR thinks Bush was bad, and Beck criticized Bush, will GBR have a change of heart on his position that Beck is always lying? Uh, huh.

  • StandUp

    @writer
    He’s a hopeless case. Spends his time hacking on Bush, Beck, etc. instead of putting forth his own opinions or touting the “accomplishments” of Frank, Dodd, Pelosi etc. Must be a sad way to live. The left accuses the right of hate, but I see nothing but hate and race-baiting from the left.

  • ImNotBlue

    jimw1016 says:
    August 6, 2010 at 12:27 am

    By all mean, please “refudiate” the claims.

    Well, I showed the fallacy of one of the claims above. You want me to go through the whole list and point out the fallacies of all the others? No… I have better ways to waste my time.

    Oh… and one more thing. Why is a spelling error such a big deal to you? You’re aware that Obama and Biden have made their fair share of mistakes (58 states, 10 year presidency, the “hokey-doke,” etc.) For consistency sake, I assume you’ll make fun of those guys for their gaffes, over and over and over again… right?

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