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Liberal_in_LA Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-18-09 02:04 AM
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Will Anyone Give Bush a Job?
Edited on Sun Jan-18-09 02:04 AM by Liberal_in_LA
Being ex-president is usually easy and lucrative. It won't be for George W. Bush.

http://www.slate.com/id/2208936/

By Daniel Gross
Posted Saturday, Jan. 17, 2009, at 7:03 AM ET

For many of President Bush's critics, the fact that he is now seeking work in the worst job market in a generation is poetic justice.

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Moreover, the industry just isn't that interested in what the Bush inner circle is peddling. Agents are dining out—mostly at Subway—on tales of turning down meetings with Condi Rice. Laura Bush is believed to have received an advance of about $2 million for her memoirs, about one-quarter Hillary Clinton's haul.

Several publishers I spoke to believe a Bush memoir wouldn't command much in the way of foreign-rights payments. And given Bush's professed lack of interest in reflection, what could he offer to American audiences? "Right now, his presidency is seen as such a cascade of mistakes that it's hard to know what he could say that would be compelling," says Geoff Shandler, executive editor at Little, Brown.
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Mind_your_head Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-18-09 02:07 AM
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1. Sure.....Citi!group, BOA, etc.
Edited on Sun Jan-18-09 02:12 AM by Mind_your_head
He could 'school' them about how to put stock on their shareholders!

:rofl:
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Aqaba Donating Member (781 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-18-09 02:14 AM
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2. The only compelling thing he ever fucking said was....
"This sucker is going down!"
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marlakay Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-18-09 02:15 AM
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3. he still has his 29%
one of them would. I think he knows the world doesn't want to see his face at all. He is so damn lazy I bet he just retires and does nothing. think of all the vacation he took.
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ZombieHorde Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-18-09 02:22 AM
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4. Many DUers would like to seem him enter the license plate business.
Congratulations, you have found the hidden message!
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SoCalDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-18-09 02:31 AM
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5. Many things he's qualified to do..
Edited on Sun Jan-18-09 02:47 AM by SoCalDem
Dog Trainer


Waiter


Hand Model


Extra in Rocky Pt 14


Grocery Bagger


Chairman-Wisconsin Log Cabin Republicans


Caddy


Touring cast-member of Mary Poppins



Stand-in for SpongeBob


Nixon Impersonator


Daycare Provider


Star of Pinky & The Brain remake


Gravedigger


Night Manager at LensCrafters



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http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x2311853
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XOKCowboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-18-09 05:50 AM
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8. That Nixon Impersonator comparison is great...


Saving that one. Priceless.
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Liberal_in_LA Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-18-09 11:12 AM
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22. great pictures.
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snot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-18-09 02:58 AM
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6. Why would they start now? Only jobs he's had were bought or stolen.
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JCMach1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-18-09 03:02 AM
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7. Maybe he could be the new host for that Discovery show, 'Dirty Jobs'
Edited on Sun Jan-18-09 03:02 AM by JCMach1
I would watch that! He might actually enjoy it too...
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machI Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-18-09 06:10 AM
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9. There are 100 companies that would give Bush a job
1 Lockheed Martin
2 Boeing
3 BAE Systems
4 Northrop Grumman
5 Raytheon
6 General Dynamics
7 EADS
8 L-3 Communications
9 Finmeccanica
10 United Technologies
11 Thales
12 KBR
13 SAIC
14 General Electric
15 Honeywell
16 Rolls-Royce
17 ITT
18 DCNS
19 Computer Sciences Corp.
20 ATK
21 DRS Technologies
22 SAFRAN
23 Saab
24 Booz Allen Hamilton
25 Mitsubishi Heavy Industries
26 Textron
27 Rockwell Collins
28 Almaz-Antei
29 EDS
30 Rheinmetall
31 Armor
32 URS
33 Israel Aerospace Industries
34 Hindustan Aeronautics
35 Dassault Aviation
36 QinetiQ
37 Goodrich
38 Harris
39 Elbit Systems
40 GKN Group
41 Krauss-Maffei Wegmann
42 Oshkosh Truck
43 CACI
44 Bechtel
45 VT Group
46 Cobham
47 Kawasaki
48 ManTech International
49 Rafael Armament Development Authority
50 Mitsubishi Electric
51 Nexter
52 Diehl Stiftung
53 Washington Group International
54 ST Engineering
55 Babcock International Group
56 Battelle
57 Indra Sistemas
58 Bharat Electronics
59 NEC
60 EDO
61 Tactical Missiles
62 Fincantieri
63 The Aerospace Corp.
64 Jacobs Engineering Group
65 Aviation Holding Company
66 Patria
67 Irkut
68 MiG
69 Tenix Defence
70 Teledyne Technologies
71 Cubic
72 AAI
74 Ultra Electronic Holdings
74 Russia’s Helicopters
75 Curtiss-Wright
76 Ufa Enginebuilding
77 Ruag Suisse
78 ARINC
79 Korea Aerospace Industries
80 Severnaya Verf
81 Aerospace Equipment
82 Meggitt
83 CAE
84 Israel Military Industries
85 Kongsberg Gruppen
86 Alion Science and Technology
87 BearingPoint
88 Ball
89 IHI Marine United
90 Fujitsu
91 KB Priborostroyeniya (Instrument Design Bureau)
92 Toshiba
93 Rotem Co.
94 MMPP Salyut
95 Orbital Sciences
96 IHI
97 Aselsan
98 Komatsu
99 Admiralteiskiye Verfi
100 Chemring

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no_hypocrisy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-18-09 09:01 AM
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10. Beg to differ. * is dry rot and wouldn't be welcome on any Board of Directors.
He's an idiot, has no real influence, and is a useless expense to any corporation.
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mmonk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-18-09 09:03 AM
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11. I was thinking he could start his own lab and plan to take over the world
like in Pinky and the Brain.
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Dont_Bogart_the_Pretzel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-18-09 09:30 AM
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15. I thought that's what he had planned in 2000
aka: P.N.A.C.

Project for the New American Century

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_for_the_New_American_Century

The Project for the New American Century (PNAC) was an American neoconservative think tank based in Washington, D.C., co-founded in early 1997 as a non-profit educational organization by William Kristol and Robert Kagan. The PNAC's stated goal is "to promote American global leadership."<1> Fundamental to the PNAC are the views that "American leadership is both good for America and good for the world" and support for "a Reaganite policy of military strength and moral clarity."<2> Critics claim that it has exerted strong influence on high-level U.S. government officials in the administration of U.S. President George W. Bush and strongly affected the George Bush administration's development of military and foreign policies, especially involving national security and the Iraq War.<3><4>
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mmonk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-18-09 09:36 AM
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16. But he fell just short so like in Pinky and the Brain, he must keep trying.
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librechik Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-18-09 12:03 PM
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24. LOL
thx!
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mmonk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-18-09 07:39 PM
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27. .
:hi: You're welcome
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Solly Mack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-18-09 09:10 AM
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12. I don't think Bush is seeking work, much less a job
Cheney isn't either

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AsahinaKimi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-18-09 09:43 AM
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17. They probably have money stashed some where
I really think he had a cut in all the war profits, but
of course I am only taking a shot in the dark... He probably will
never have to work the rest of his life.
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Solly Mack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-18-09 09:51 AM
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20. They both , most definitely, have cash stashed, so to speak
Edited on Sun Jan-18-09 09:53 AM by Solly Mack
Cheney's worth many, many millions and Bush comes from a very wealthy and well-webbed family of investors and money men that goes back 4 generations.
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SammyWinstonJack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-18-09 12:16 PM
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26. They stole enough $$$ off the American taxpayers/the Iraqi people to live comfortably the rest
of their miserable lives, I'll bet.
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KharmaTrain Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-18-09 09:22 AM
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13. 2000-2008...A Black Hole
The books that will soon appear are the real "tell alls"...as the cloud of ugly and hate of the past 8 years are fully lifted and the fear of retribution is no longer there.

A vast majority see nothing worth looking back on...and are just relieved these war criminals and partisan hacks are gone. As the old saying..."don't go away mad, just go away". Many are outright angry or embarassed about what's happened, who'd want to pay to reward these goons? Well, I'm sure there will be plenty of chicken dinners at the AEI for boooshie and his criminals to get more blood money from.
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Octafish Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-18-09 09:25 AM
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14. Sure. After he's too old to make little rocks out of big ones...


...for the waning years of his thousands of concurrent life sentences.
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lutefisk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-18-09 11:02 PM
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31. I have to admit, it'd be cool to have a license plate signed by Junior
I mean one he made himself.
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JerseygirlCT Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-18-09 09:45 AM
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18. Daddy and his friends will keep Junior in the fashion to which he's
become accustomed, don't worry.
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Shiver Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-18-09 09:50 AM
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19. Pretzel-taster.
I'd start a business just to hire him for that.
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specialed Donating Member (276 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-18-09 09:53 AM
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21. When LBJ left office no one would have anything to do with him...
I see a similar fate for shrub.
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dysfunctional press Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-18-09 11:25 AM
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23. why would he need one? he's never really had a real one before.
Edited on Sun Jan-18-09 11:26 AM by QuestionAll
instead, he'll be spending more and more time with some of his closest friends...

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11 Bravo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-18-09 12:07 PM
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25. Someone is going to have to clean all those Porta-Potties on the mall after the inauguration.
That should fall within his skill set.
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treestar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-18-09 08:51 PM
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28. He won't need one
The family wealth is vast enough. He's already had the ultimate "job."
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moondust Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-18-09 09:04 PM
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29. Any shoe stores in his neighborhood?
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undeterred Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-18-09 09:06 PM
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30. Laura's probably his only hope.
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santamargarita Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-18-09 11:14 PM
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32. This asshole couldn't find oil in Texas - remember Harken Oil
Cleaning toilets in prison would be a perfect job for Bush!
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Mira Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-18-09 11:21 PM
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33. Picking up shoes in front of the white house fences? N/T
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Ilsa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-18-09 11:26 PM
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34. Can any corp afford to carry dead weight in the Bush economy?
Can any Board of Directors afford to put his name and picture in their annual report?

Bush thought the presidency was a part time job. He's a lazy SOB.
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