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Bush Tells Leno About Drinking, Dancing, And How He “Was Asleep” During Jokes About Him

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George W. Bush‘s book tour took a swing through Burbank Thursday night, with the former president gamely laughing along as Jay Leno played some of Dubya’s most joked-about presidential moments, including attempting to leave an event in China through a locked door. “Now that was a man without an exit strategy,” joked Bush.

Leno started the interview by noting it had been a decade since their last meeting. “The last time you were here it was 2000, it was ten years ago,” said Leno, doing some quick math on the fly. “And in the last ten years, thank you for all the material.”

Was the president bothered being the butt of so many jokes in late night? “You know, I hate to tell you, I don’t want to hurt your feelings, but I was asleep.”

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  • omega919

    I’ll give Bush credit: He’s doing a good job in these interviews. He’s explaining his views, he seems to have a sense of humor about himself, and he’s not getting in the gutter and dissing people (ie, the current President).

  • http://gordonbloyershow.com gordonbloyershow

    Bush is a class act. Unlike the libs that defend the undefendable Obama, conservatives trashed Bush for his immigration stand and his spending.
    Libs on this site always attack anyone that will say anything good about Bush. They claim they are mindless robots. LOL. They are the mindless robots for Obama. They always pretend they never heard the conservatives trash Bush.

  • The Lantern of Truth

    I’m KING ! The evil George Bush was the Sarah O’Palin of his day ! How dare he go on a ” comedy ” show . It seems very unpresidential to me .

  • sarainitaly

    that was a great interview. i was never a big GWB fan (back when I used to watch msnbc…), and that’s too bad because he seems like a pretty good guy.

  • omega919

    Well, you can be a great guy and still not be a great president. I think Bush seems like a really good guy, but I thought he was a horrible Commander in Chief. I think Mike Huckabee seems like the nicest man in the world, but I’d never vote for him.

  • paulmdoro

    Bush deserves credit for taking the high road. In these ultra-partisan times, with a seemingly endless barrage of back-and-forth sniping, it’s refreshing to hear someone say they want to part of it.

  • BlackWidow

    sarainitaly said:
    that was a great interview. i was never a big GWB fan (back when I used to watch msnbc…), and that’s too bad because he seems like a pretty good guy.

    sara sara sara please come back to our side. I am sorry Hillary didn’t win and we lost you to the Repugs. You are slowly getting the angry disease that so many righties have. Be careful be very careful it will completely overtake you and you will be lost in that desert of hate forever.

  • paulmdoro

    want “no” part of it. Sorry.

  • paulmdoro

    omega919 said:
    Well, you can be a great guy and still not be a great president. I think Bush seems like a really good guy, but I thought he was a horrible Commander in Chief. I think Mike Huckabee seems like the nicest man in the world, but I’d never vote for him.

    That is an important distinction.

  • BlackWidow

    I like Georgie. He seems like a good guy at heart. But his brain didn’t belong in the body of a President of the USA.

  • BlackWidow

    gordonbloyershow said:
    Bush is a class act. Unlike the libs that defend the undefendable Obama, conservatives trashed Bush for his immigration stand and his spending.Libs on this site always attack anyone that will say anything good about Bush. They claim they are mindless robots. LOL. They are the mindless robots for Obama. They always pretend they never heard the conservatives trash Bush.

    Blower, if George is your defination of CLASS you need to go back to the dictionary. Nice guy but he has NO class.

  • Hugo Daun

    BlackWidow said:
    Blower, if George is your defination of CLASS you need to go back to the dictionary. Nice guy but he has NO class.

    You must understand, Gordo’s definition of class includes stalking people and accosting them in public:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzPoBX6baZk

  • RobDavis

    Hugo Daun said:
    You must understand, Gordo’s definition of class includes stalking people and accosting them in public: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzPoBX6baZk

    That old fart got to much time on his hands. My sisters retired but she volunteers at a womens shelter. Trying to help people. He on the other hand………..harasses people.

  • right-is-wrong

    Hugo Daun said:
    You must understand, Gordo’s definition of class includes stalking people and accosting them in public:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzPoBX6baZk

    thanks

    Seem he makes friends there also with his kind words.
    Did I count 4 different names there?
    Gordon hiding behind Phony names?

  • http://gordonbloyershow.com gordonbloyershow

    BlackWidow said:
    Blower, if George is your defination of CLASS you need to go back to the dictionary. Nice guy but he has NO class.

    You are one of the leaders of the CLASSLESS posting here. All libs are CLASSLESS. You and RRK are two of the most.

  • http://gordonbloyershow.com gordonbloyershow

    Hugo Daun said:
    You must understand, Gordo’s definition of class includes stalking people and accosting them in public:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzPoBX6baZk

    Thank you for posting my video. LOL You have a problem with me confronting people parking in handicapped parking spaces? Wow you are really dumb.

  • http://gordonbloyershow.com gordonbloyershow

    RobDavis said:
    harasses people.

    Confronting lawbreakes is harassing people? LOL I love you ignorant libs. Do you love being so out of touch?

  • http://gordonbloyershow.com gordonbloyershow

    right-is-wrong said:
    Seem he makes friends there also with his kind words.
    Did I count 4 different names there?
    Gordon hiding behind Phony names?

    Are you an idiot? Just what different names?

  • Hugo Daun

    RobDavis said:
    That old fart got to much time on his hands. My sisters retired but she volunteers at a womens shelter. Trying to help people. He on the other hand………..harasses people.

    Yes, he’s a classy guy, isn’t he?

    right-is-wrong said:
    Did I count 4 different names there?
    Gordon hiding behind Phony names?

    Yep, Gordo has multiple YouTube accounts, some of which are under “phony names”…

    More of this douche-bag’s creepiness:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-Jz7PfowM8&feature=related

  • RobDavis

    gordonbloyershow said:
    You are one of the leaders of the CLASSLESS posting here. All libs are CLASSLESS. You and RRK are two of the most.

    Gordo, one example of having class is taking the high road and not lowering yourself to someone elses level. I do think in Bush’s latest interviews, he is doing that in two instances. 1- staying out of and not condoning the divisivness in politics these days. Calling counter productive 2-not giving the name calling of himself a second thought and stating (at least in one interview I saw) that Obama should not either. That it was part of the job, when people are not happy with you.

    You continue to show no class here on this board and on some of your youtube comment sections. Take some advice from Bush and stfu.

  • http://gordonbloyershow.com gordonbloyershow

    Hugo Daun said:
    Yep, Gordo has multiple YouTube accounts, some of which are under “phony names”…

    Sorry pal, they are under different titles, NOT phony names. My name can be found on all my channels.

    One thing everyone should know from the comments of you, RobDavis, Black Widow and right-is-wrong, you all park in handicapped parking places and you don’t want people to bother you about it. You guys are typical libs claiming that you protect the needy, except the handicapped I guess.
    LOL, you fools are not helping yourselves with these comments. LOL.

  • RobDavis

    gordonbloyershow said:
    Confronting lawbreakes is harassing people? LOL I love you ignorant libs. Do you love being so out of touch?

    Geez, Gordo, no I don’t. At the same time what you did was over the top IMO.

    First of all, some peoples handicap is not always a visual one. Second, most people with class would approach the woman outside (without a camera) and remind her why she should not take up a handicap parking space. And just how do you know whether she just forgot to put her handicap sign on her mirror? or perhaps since it looked like a convenience store knew she would be in and out in minutes not hours and didn’t bother to hang it.

  • http://gordonbloyershow.com gordonbloyershow

    RobDavis said:
    You continue to show no class here on this board and on some of your youtube comment sections. Take some advice from Bush and stfu.

    Don’t quit your day job. Advice giving is not your strong point. I don’t care what you think and neither does anyone else.
    I get paid for political advice. I don’t play nice with the left and I am sorry George Bush does. That is one of the complaints about his term that the conservatives have. If he had defended himself and went on the attack against the LIES by the libs Obama would never have been elected. My job is not to have people like YOU think I have class, I am out to DESTROY liberal liars and I do it by using their tactics against them.

  • http://gordonbloyershow.com gordonbloyershow

    RobDavis said:
    Geez, Gordo, no I don’t. At the same time what you did was over the top IMO. First of all, some peoples handicap is not always a visual one. Second, most people with class would approach the woman outside (without a camera) and remind her why she should not take up a handicap parking space. And just how do you know whether she just forgot to put her handicap sign on her mirror? or perhaps since it looked like a convenience store knew she would be in and out in minutes not hours and didn’t bother to hang it.

    You are dense aren’t you?

  • Hugo Daun

    littleboybloyer said:
    One thing everyone should know from the comments of you, RobDavis, Black Widow and right-is-wrong, you all park in handicapped parking places and you don’t want people to bother you about it. You guys are typical libs claiming that you protect the needy, except the handicapped I guess.

    Gordo, the videos I posted (and your lame replies) prove only that you are a classless, creepy, misogynistic stalker and a liar.

    I can see how difficult your life must be, always trying to rise above the shadow of your heroic brother, struggling for an iota of the respect that others have for him, yet ultimately failing time and time again.

    Your bitterness is palpable and no amount of amateur crime-fighting or internet bravado can change that.

  • sarainitaly

    BlackWidow said:
    sara sara sara please come back to our side. I am sorry Hillary didn’t win and we lost you to the Repugs. You are slowly getting the angry disease that so many righties have. Be careful be very careful it will completely overtake you and you will be lost in that desert of hate forever.

    HA! No way, no how. I see how the left treats people that disagree with them. I don’t have angry disease – I have sick and tired of idiotic hypocritical liberal attacks disease. The desert of hate is on the left side, not the right. I am finally free of that narrow minded “liberal” bubble i was living in. And I have obama supporters to thank for that.

  • BlackWidow

    gordonbloyershow said:
    Don’t quit your day job. Advice giving is not your strong point. I don’t care what you think and neither does anyone else.I get paid for political advice. I don’t play nice with the left and I am sorry George Bush does. That is one of the complaints about his term that the conservatives have. If he had defended himself and went on the attack against the LIES by the libs Obama would never have been elected. My job is not to have people like YOU think I have class, I am out to DESTROY liberal liars and I do it by using their tactics against them.

    OH Blower you just made me blow diest coke through my nose. That is ok since I needed a good laugh to start off the afternoon. I LOVE YOU GORDY!

  • sarainitaly

    Hugo Daun said:
    Yes, he’s a classy guy, isn’t he?

    Yep, Gordo has multiple YouTube accounts, some of which are under “phony names”…

    More of this douche-bag’s creepiness:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-Jz7PfowM8&feature=related

    aren’t you doing to him what you are accusing him of doing?

  • BlackWidow

    sarainitaly said:
    HA! No way, no how. I see how the left treats people that disagree with them. I don’t have angry disease – I have sick and tired of idiotic hypocritical liberal attacks disease. The desert of hate is on the left side, not the right. I am finally free of that narrow minded “liberal” bubble i was living in. And I have obama supporters to thank for that.

    Sorry to hear that sara but we are a big tent party and so you must have really caught a bad strain of the republican disease to have not found a few people in the party that you felt comfortable with. You must be the narrow minded – my way or the highway one. Actually I am a recovering Republican and proud of it. They are way to narrow minded for my taste.

  • BlackWidow

    Hugo Daun said:
    Gordo, the videos I posted (and your lame replies) prove only that you are a classless, creepy, misogynistic stalker and a liar. I can see how difficult your life must be, always trying to rise above the shadow of your heroic brother, struggling for an iota of the respect that others have for him, yet ultimately failing time and time again. Your bitterness is palpable and no amount of amateur crime-fighting or internet bravado can change that.

    HUGO I THINK I LOVE YOU!

  • RobDavis

    sarainitaly said:
    The desert of hate is on the left side, not the right.

    And Gordon for one of many on the right here on this board display hate everyday. Your an intelligent woman and you telling me you don’t recognize that?

  • RobDavis

    gordonbloyershow said:
    Don’t quit your day job. Advice giving is not your strong point. I don’t care what you think and neither does anyone else.

    I won’t and that’s fine, cause I could care less what you think. You’ve proven you don’t think. I even ask myself why did I bother? You and numerous others are to blind with partisanship to even be the least bit reasonable.

  • Hugo Daun

    sarainitaly said:
    aren’t you doing to him what you are accusing him of doing?

    Until I actually shove a camera in his face or chase him down the highway, no…not really.

  • Nachi

    Simple-minded, drunken SOB has been asleep all his life.

  • MiddleRoader

    sarainitaly said:
    that was a great interview. i was never a big GWB fan (back when I used to watch msnbc…), and .

    I’m curious. Do you just follow the hate?

  • Wapiti00

    BlackWidow said:
    sara sara sara please come back to our side. I am sorry Hillary didn’t win and we lost you to the Repugs. You are slowly getting the angry disease that so many righties have. Be careful be very careful it will completely overtake you and you will be lost in that desert of hate forever.

    Um…yeah, I’m pretty sure that its the liberal left that are so miserable and angry. (see: Kweef Olbermann, Richard Maddow)

  • RobDavis

    sarainitaly said:
    HA! No way, no how. I see how the left treats people that disagree with them. I don’t have angry disease – I have sick and tired of idiotic hypocritical liberal attacks disease. The desert of hate is on the left side, not the right. I am finally free of that narrow minded “liberal” bubble i was living in. And I have obama supporters to thank for that.

    Can I ask you, did you back Hillary for POTUS? Because I hope you know that if she had got nominated and won, the right would be writing the exact things they are now about Obama and he not being qualified because he was only a community organizer. Only they would switch it to she not being qualified because women are to emotional, PMS, belong back in the kitchen, barefoot and pregnant. And you would be posting links to them instead of for them.

  • paulmdoro

    sarainitaly said:
    HA! No way, no how. I see how the left treats people that disagree with them. I don’t have angry disease – I have sick and tired of idiotic hypocritical liberal attacks disease. The desert of hate is on the left side, not the right. I am finally free of that narrow minded “liberal” bubble i was living in. And I have obama supporters to thank for that.

    This applies equally to both sides sara. Hypocrisy and vicious attacks do not discriminate. Pretending otherwise completely ignores reality. They both do it.

  • Wapiti00

    sarainitaly said:
    HA! No way, no how. I see how the left treats people that disagree with them. I don’t have angry disease – I have sick and tired of idiotic hypocritical liberal attacks disease. The desert of hate is on the left side, not the right. I am finally free of that narrow minded “liberal” bubble i was living in. And I have obama supporters to thank for that.

    Heck yeah, sara! Welcome to the ‘dark side’! Nevermind the trolls. The libnuts can’t stand anyone with courage of their convictions; they simply can’t comprehend it.

  • Patrick Henry

    Nachi said:
    Simple-minded, drunken SOB has been asleep all his life.

    Are you really a talking monkey?

  • Wapiti00

    RobDavis said:
    Can I ask you, did you back Hillary for POTUS? Because I hope you know that if she had got nominated and won, the right would be writing the exact things they are now about Obama and he not being qualified because he was only a community organizer. Only they would switch it to she not being qualified because women are to emotional, PMS, belong back in the kitchen, barefoot and pregnant. And you would be posting links to them instead of for them.

    Can I ask you: How ignorant are you, really? Where do you get your information on attitudes of conservatives toward women? The Beverly Hillbillies? How many new conservative state and fed lawmakers and governors were elected a couple of weeks ago, chief? Now many new liberal women were elected? Thought so.

  • Wapiti00

    < How many new conservative state and fed lawmakers and governors were elected a couple of weeks ago, chief? Now many new liberal women were elected? Thought so.

    Oops. Above post should have read “…how many conservative WOMEN were elected state and fed lawmakers and governors….”

  • sarainitaly

    my life experiences, my opinions, my decisions. you can try to convince me otherwise, but i used to be a left leaning, dem voting independent. now i am a right leaning, never voting dem again independent.

    i know who i have encountered, i know the hate i have personally experienced, and i know they lies i have witnessed. and i know the hypocrisy and BS the dem party has engaged in. i am not blind, and i know when repubs screw up too, but i have never, ever experienced such hypocrisy, hate, lies, bs and flat out nastiness as I have being an Hillary supporter, being attacked from the left. and once i began to dig, examine and research the right on my own, i discovered so much of what i previously believed was flat out wrong. i was informed in the past, but not thoroughly engaged as i am now. and there is a WORLD of difference between what the liberal MSM feeds you every day and the truth. i prefer the truth. and i know what nastiness i have experienced coming from the left by people here – nothing i want to be a part of.

    i have mostly liberal friends – and many of those people who once thought i was *so smart *- now many of them can barely tolerate me because i didn’t support/don’t like obama. The same friends that used to forward me anti-Bush emails, Bush as monkey emails, Bush is Nazi emails, now think it’s racist to criticize Obama, even get mad at me for not liking Obama. in my experience have found that liberals love to believe they are big tent, embracing open minded liberals, but they are anything but if you do not fall in line and believe as they do. you can deny it all you want, but that is MY experience.

    my decision/transition didn’t happen over night. it was over a 2 – 3 year period. It was after being called racist millions of times just for preferring Hillary over Obama. After the Democratic party took delegates from Clinton and gave them to Obama. After Donna Brazile promised if the Super Delegates decided the election she would quit, because Hillary was winning the SD’s, and then when Obama did, she was happy. After I watched them toss Hillary under the bus for an inexperienced junior senator simply because of his skin color. After NOW and feminist groups supported Obama over Hillary. After I saw how the liberal media and supposed feminists treated a woman running for president, and then VP. How they attack Christians, but defend Muslims, despite their stance on gays and women. I no longer rank the social issues of the same importance. And I am fully disgusted at the way *liberals* treat the Palins. Disgusted! I get called a *teabagger* even though I am not a tea partier. I get called a racist, even though I am not. Yea…no thanks.

    Oh, there is so much more, but that’s a start.

    Rob Davis – I saw FAR more ugliness towards Clinton and Palin from Liberals than Conservatives.

    “This applies equally to both sides sara. Hypocrisy and vicious attacks do not discriminate. Pretending otherwise completely ignores reality. They both do it.” – Sorry, but it my experience, it is not equal. Not by a long shot. It happens on both sides, and I would LOVE it if those on the right would stop – and prove they are better than that, but I know what was said and done to me, and I have made my choice.

  • sarainitaly

    no doubt Clinton has her haters. And honestly, when she backed Obama I had to rethink my support of her. Unless she decided to challenge him as an Indy in 2012, I no longer support her. And it would still depend on what her platform is.

    She gets her amount of hate from the right, and the left – although the left miraculously liked her once Obama appointed her as SOS. They sure didn’t like her when she was challenging Obama. And I absolutely do not like the personal attacks when I see it from the right. Attack her politics all you want, but not the personal ugliness. Hopefully after witnessing the attacks on the Palins the conservatives who do attack Hillary personally will realize the error of their ways. I will say though that she has been around a long time and has made her fair share of enemies – blaming her husbands infidelity charges on a *fast right wing conspiracy* being one of the reasons. You would also think that liberals who dislike the ugliness they see from the right towards Clinton would take it down a notch towards Palin and her daughters, but that is certainly not the case, is it?

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Richard-McGinnis/100000472625231 Richard McGinnis

    “Now that was a man without an exit strategy,” joked Bush.”

    I watched him on Jay Leno last night and the real difference for me is that I can sleep at night now that he makes no more decisions… Smile :-)

  • http://gordonbloyershow.com gordonbloyershow

    Hugo Daun said:
    Your bitterness is palpable and no amount of amateur crime-fighting or internet bravado can change that.

    Why are you hiding behind that phony name? What kind of coward are you? Did the bullies pick on you at school? Do you think you are fooling anyone here?

  • http://gordonbloyershow.com gordonbloyershow

    sarainitaly said:
    Not by a long shot. It happens on both sides, and I would LOVE it if those on the right would stop – and prove they are better than that, but I know what was said and done to me, and I have made my choice.

    You got that right. They cry foul when I give them back what they give. They hate it when people don’t run and hide when they attack and lie. I have been dealing with these scum for many years. They always run because they are cowards. It really gets to them that I don’t hide behind a phony name. I love when they waste their time calling me names. It is very funny. They hide behind the phony names to insulate themselves from anyone knowing what they look like or who they are. Most of these folks have never done anything or helped anyone. They are just big mouths. Don’t bother trying to reason with them. It can’t be done.

  • RobDavis

    Actually Gordon, Sara explained herself very well. Probably posted more than she needed to have. I may disagree with her but she states her points, beliefs, thoughts in a mature, non insulting way. That’s called reasonable discourse and something to be respected. You could take a page out of her book.

  • RobDavis

    Wapiti00 said:
    Can I ask you: How ignorant are you, really? Where do you get your information on attitudes of conservatives toward women? The Beverly Hillbillies? How many new conservative state and fed lawmakers and governors were elected a couple of weeks ago, chief? Now many new liberal women were elected? Thought so.

    Let me tell you why I said that. When Obama was in the running. On the message boards, I was complety shocked at just how much racism was still alive and well in my state. All the closet racists came out from under their rocks. Literally. And I am not talking about statements that were eh questionable. I mean straight out n****er this and n*****er that. And definetly no n*****er in the white house. I live in a medium size, rather diverse city that I thought had progressed rather well in the race relations dept. Call me stupid, but I was in shock of the things being said. Past the message boards, than it was it began to reach out its ugly head from people I have known for years and they never gave an indfication that they would be so objectionable of a possible black president. Now what I posted to Sara about a woman president was a projection that I can not validate and a bit over the top with the barefoot and pregnant line. But I honestly wonder just how much flack that Hillary would have gotten if she actually had become POTUS. Now I have no problem with peoples objection to Obamas policies etc. in the normal course of discourse. But there have been more than a few posters on here, referring to his blackness without coming right out and saying it. By posting in black talk (ebonics?)

    So you getting your panties in a bunch without asking me in a reasonable way why I would actually post something like that shows your ignorance level.

  • RobDavis

    *** sorry for all the typos. I do know how to spell.

  • RobDavis

    Oh and Sarah Palin? She ain’t no Hillary. Not even close.

  • http://gordonbloyershow.com gordonbloyershow

    RobDavis said:
    That’s called reasonable discourse and something to be respected. You could take a page out of her book.

    Was anyone talking to you?

  • http://gordonbloyershow.com gordonbloyershow

    RobDavis said:
    Oh and Sarah Palin? She ain’t no Hillary. Not even close.

    No Sarah did not make up a story about snipers shooting at her or a vast right-wing conspiracy out to get her husband.

  • RobDavis

    gordonbloyershow said:
    Was anyone talking to you?

    Does anyone listen to you? No

    gordonbloyershow said:
    No Sarah did not make up a story about snipers shooting at her or a vast right-wing conspiracy out to get her husband.

    Tell that to Sara who loved her.

  • Jayson

    Hugo Daun said:
    You must understand, Gordo’s definition of class includes stalking people and accosting them in public:

    Thanks for the heads up on what Gordonbloyer spends/wastes, his time doing. Now I have a better understanding of the many strange & whacky comments he’s always making. By the by.. Isn’t the stuff he’s posting on youtube considered stalking? An invasion of privacy? i.e. against the law.

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