Dubya on the Lecture Circuit?

After he leaves office, President Bush is quoted as telling [journalist and author Robert] Draper that he wants to build what he calls a "Fantastic Freedom Institute" in Dallas. He describes it as being a place where young leaders can come, write and lecture.

But first, Bush tells Draper, he wants to make some money to "replenish the ol' coffers,” noting he can make "ridiculous” money on the lecture circuit.

“I don't know what my dad gets. But it's more than 50, 75 [thousand] … Clinton's making a lot of money," the president is quoted as saying.

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He'll need a ghostwriter. That'll cut down on some of his profit.

Young leaders?

"Fantastic Freedom Institute." And he'll be the main comic book hero there. So totally bizarre, this man's mind. Ridiculous money for a ridiculous man.

President Bush also admits that he cries. “I've got God's shoulder to cry on. And I cry a lot. I do a lot of crying in this job. I'll bet I've shed more tears than you can count, as president."

Not nearly as many as the rest of us during that same time.

Of course, I don't believe a word of it. Unless he laughed so hard at his own jokes that he cried. Now watch this drive.

....but hey, do what you want....you will anyway.

Update: It would seem that Justice David Souter, who sat on the Supreme Court in 2000 when the vote recount was halted in Florida, has been crying since the beginning of Bush's presidency.

In “The Nine,” which goes on sale Sept. 18, Toobin writes that while the other justices tried to put the case behind them, “David Souter alone was shattered,” at times weeping when he thought of the case. “For many months, it was not at all clear whether he would remain as a justice,” Toobin continues. “That the Court met in a city he loathed made the decision even harder. At the urging of a handful of close friends, he decided to stay on, but his attitude toward the Court was never the same.”

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