Monday, January 31, 2011

Bush says he's done with politics, fundraising (GREAT if he'd have done this before 2000)

I don't want to go out and campaign for candidates
I don't want to be viewed as a perpetual money-raiser.
I don't want to be on these talk shows giving my opinion, second-guessing the current president.
I think it's bad for the country, frankly, to have a former president criticize his successor.
It's tough enough to be president as it is without a former president undermining the current president.
Plus, I don't want to do that.

He adds that he finds this stage of his post-presidency
"very comfortable" and "somewhat liberating."

Bush also acknowledged the irony of using the C-SPAN TV interview to underscore that he does not want to be on TV.

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