🚀 go-pugleaf

No, Bush sold YOUR soul instead.  And you gave it to him on a silver
platter.  If you seek his monuments, look about you today... be sure
to celebrate his departure with the same cheering fanatical fascism
with which you voted for him.  Bow down before the one you serve.


Bush reflects on his legacy
President wants to be remembered as someone who did not 'sell his
soul'' for political expediency
By KEN HERMAN Cox News Service
Nov. 28, 2008, 9:44PM

WASHINGTON � President George W. Bush, famously disinterested in
public introspection, opened up a bit in a recent interview by a
friendly questioner, his sister, Doro Bush Koch.

"I would like to be a person remembered as a person who, first and
foremost, did not sell his soul in order to accommodate the political
process," Bush told his sister in an interview released Friday by the
White House. "I came to Washington with a set of values, and I'm
leaving with the same set of values."

The interview of Bush and his wife, Laura, was conducted on Nov. 12 as
part of the StoryCorps project of collecting oral histories. A portion
of it was aired Thursday on National Public Radio. Additional excerpts
were released Friday. The full interview will be archived at the
Library of Congress.

The excerpts released Friday began with Koch asking her brother, "How
do you want to be remembered, and what are you most proud of?" The
inquiry produced Bush's answer about not changing his values while in
office.

"And I darn sure wasn't going to sacrifice those values; that I was a
president that had to make tough choices and was willing to make
them," he said. "I surrounded myself with good people. I carefully
considered the advice of smart, capable people and made tough
decisions," he said.

Iraq liberator; AIDS effort
The excerpts were released as the White House prepared to defend
Bush's legacy in the coming weeks.

"I'd like to be a president (known) as somebody who liberated 50
million people and helped achieve peace; that focused on individuals
rather than process; that rallied people to serve their neighbor; that
led an effort to help relieve HIV/AIDS and malaria on places like the
continent of Africa; that helped elderly people get prescription drugs
and Medicare as a part of the basic package; that came to Washington,
D.C., with a set of political statements and worked as hard as I
possibly could to do what I told the American people I would do," Bush
said.

He pinpointed the No Child Left Behind education program as "one of
the significant achievements of my administration because we said loud
and clear to educators, parents, and children that we expect the best
for every child, that we believe every child can learn, and that in
return for Federal money we expect there to be an accountability
system in place to determine whether every child is learning to read,
write, and add and subtract."

Koch also asked Bush to describe the influence of their parents. "I
think that the gift our dad gave to all of us is unconditional love,"
Bush said.

"It is the greatest gift a father can give a child. And it has made
life so much easier in many ways, because if you have the ultimate
gift of love, then the difficulties of life can be easier handled. And
to me that is a great gift."

"And he also taught me, and I think you and Jeb and Neil and Marvin,
that you can go into politics with a set of values and you don't have
to sell your soul once you're in the political system. And you can
come out with the same set of values."

Warning about faith
The excerpts concluded with a cautionary note about faith. Bush said
he found that "faith is comforting, faith is strengthening, faith has
been important."

"I would advise politicians, however, to be careful about faith in the
public arena," Bush said. "In other words, politicians should not be
judgmental people based upon their faith. They should recognize, at
least I have recognized, I am a lowly sinner seeking redemption, and
therefore have been very careful about saying (accept) my faith or
you're bad."

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/politics/6137681.html