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Oprah had George Bush on her show yesterday--he was hawking his book. Oprah seemed a bit subdued, and I suspect GW had a clause that prevented Oprah from asking any spontaneous questions, like his press conferences that allowed only invited journalists who had to submit their questions in advance.
First up Oprah asked about what he had written about his drinking. He said he was an alcoholic until age 40, then quit to please Laura. I was hoping Oprah would plunge in there and ask what about all those photos of him imbibing while he was president. I was also hoping she'd ask just how much power and influence Dick Cheney had. But she went strictly by what was in the book.
Actually Bush seems just as clueless and dumb as ever. He just doesn't get it. Never has, never will. The only question that got him animated was when Oprah asked what he thought of people who called him a racist following Katrina. He was adamant he was not racist.
Now I hear Cheney is putting out a book. I wonder how much obfuscating and editing of the facts it will take to make his cover up seem even remotely plausible.
susil
Ryan Grim wrote a telling review about the book in The Huffington Post: The publisher "Crown got a mash-up of worn-out anecdotes from previously published memoirs written by his subordinates, from which Bush lifts quotes word for word, passing them off as his own recollections. He took equal license in lifting from nonfiction books about his presidency or newspaper or magazine articles from the time. Far from shedding light on how the president approached the crucial "decision points" of his presidency, the clip jobs illuminate something shallower and less surprising about Bush's character: He's too lazy to write his own memoir." Say no more....