Will it surprise anyone in 2010 when Bush is living as a hermit...

...due to the fact that he's severely mentally ill and this was concealed from the American public for most of the presidency? Just like Reagan?

And I mean this in the most serious way possible, not in a "ha, ha, we all knew he was funny/stupid" way. But in a "I'm pretty sure he'd be diagnosed as psychotic" way.

Why does the President's annual physical not include independent mental exams? Anyone?

That would be ok.

It was a sad day for my family the day that subsidy ended. :(

spit on him like he does to the underprivileged now.

to himself on some street corner. Oh yeah, with secret service guys around him.

I wouldn't wish that on anyone. I can't stand him or his policies or what he has done to our country, but I wouldn't wish that one him.

With major depression, guile attacks can be severe. Maybe that would be a just punishment for * and all his cohorts.

people like presidents and senators (Bush, Bunning, etc.) or people we've never heard of.

The problem when it's a president is that his personal limitations can shrink an entire nation's opportunities and diminish our chances for peace and justice.

Whether because of a mental illness or because of mean-spirited petulance, this president has reduced us to a level I've never seen before in my country.

And I don't like it much.

As for his physicals, hasn't he been able to avoid getting a thorough checkup?

:D

me in the crowd, though.

That's my bowling night.

It wouldn't surprise me if we never saw his face again, and my theory is because he's so sick.

Someone will write his memoirs and the publisher will put Bush's name on it, and he'll make some cash like that.

I expect he'll be invited on the Boards of Directors of Halliburton and several other like-minded outfits.

And he'll probably pop up on FOX from time to time with Brit Hume for interviews.

I'm not seeing him changing much. He seems stuck in that 10-year old bully thing, that fake cowboy thing, that brush-clearin' plain-talkin' smoke-em'-out thing he does all the time.

But meanwhile historians will have sharpened their quills upon the flesh of his record and the blood will be pricked therefrom.

They are too far away with their retirement homes in Maryland.

Poor deluded fools...

Bwhahahahahahahahahahahahahah!

I'm sorry, I just couldn't help it.

Bwahahahahahahahahhah...

...we bring up a Bushism as a prime example of how NOT to speak.

....the presidency, even following an attempted post-mortem rehabilitation of Nixon's image was staged by neo-conservatives in the late 1990's. We will always have Richard Nixon to kick around and the only chance that Nixon may slip by us will be if George Dubya Shit-for-Brains Bush becomes a better kick-ball for future pundits.

<snip>
Richard Nixon Is Still Dead
Rumors of his comeback have been greatly exaggerated.
By David Greenberg

Posted Tuesday, Aug. 10, 1999, at 3:30 AM ET

This week, 25 years after Richard Nixon resigned the presidency, the conventional wisdom seems to hold that his once-abysmal reputation has been largely rehabilitated. It's a familiar story: On Aug. 9, 1974, Nixon leaves Washington with a 24 percent public approval rating, facing a possible prison sentence; by Aug. 9, 1999, he has been transformed into a foreign-policy visionary, a domestic-policy liberal, and no worse a scoundrel than lots of other presidents. "What had seemed impossible in the summer of 1974 had happened," his biographer Stephen Ambrose wrote (10 years ago already). "Nixon was respectable, even honored, certainly admired."

The historical irony is delicious--and spurious. Pundits and historians talk as if Nixon has already been rehabilitated, and that's flat wrong. To be sure, there are favorable and critical views of him, simple and complex ones. But the most vivid and enduring remains the image of Nixon as our national political villain. Tricky Dick lives on. <more>

http://www.slate.com/id/32927/

I will make a prediction right now. There will be only ONE original bio-graphical book written about George W. Bush after he leaves the White House. It will be a short read and all other books will end up quoting from the first, as nothing much will be of additional interest to readers about the village idiot of who stumbled into the nation's capital in January 2001, wandered aimlessly about through two terms as the nations pResident, mostly asleep or in a daze, then just disappearing....unless he annihilates the world. Should that happen, then not even one book will be written about him, or if one is, there will be no one to read it.

He'll turn into LBJ. Just wait and see.