🚀 go-pugleaf

Dude, let it go.  Your anger is consuming you.

On Sat, 29 Nov 2008 04:13:21 -0600, Pops Mear <PopsMear@here.usa>
wrote:

>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