THE MONEY CULTURE | Daniel Gross

Won’t Anyone Give Bush a Job?

Book publishers and speaking agents express little interest in what Bush has to say—and not just for political reasons.

By Daniel Gross | NEWSWEEK
Published Jan 17, 2009
From the magazine issue dated Jan 26, 2009

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  • Posted By: dirtdigger @ 01/28/2009 11:57:36 AM

    George W. Bush doesn't need a job. He belongs in jail. He's stolen billions, if not trillions, from right under our noses. And he'll live quite comfortably with all the money he's got stashed in his freezer.

    On the other hand, he could quite easily become the CEO or Chairman of a giant monopoly of the pharmaceutical industry.

    I'm sure he's got quite a 'campaign chest' that never got reported because it was 'all under the table' in his secret fund-raisers.

  • Posted By: balliso2 @ 01/24/2009 11:54:10 AM

    This has to be one of the worst articles i have seen in a long time. It just proves how the media is so far left it makes me sick. Thank God that its getting to the point where they are going out of business, Americans are finally wising up to far left media bias. good bye newsweek we wont miss you!

  • Posted By: idjustliketosay @ 01/24/2009 11:47:10 AM

    p.s. hocking politics post-presidency is more a liberal thing. The Bush family has more money than anyone needs - he can run the family business and will be just fine. However, I am thinking at least 48% of Americans would go see Bush (only 52% voted for the current president) or read a tell all book written by him - that is a lot of money!

  • Posted By: idjustliketosay @ 01/24/2009 11:43:06 AM

    As I said earlier Newsweek and its continuing slant to the left will come to the same end as the Times - many of the new president's supporters don't even know what Newsweek is, much less read it, and your left slant is wasted on the people who buy (currently but may not in the future) your magazine.

  • Posted By: Juan Lopez @ 01/23/2009 7:25:12 AM

    Danniel Gross of Newsweek: Are you not a shame of yourself? You are in the tank for Obama and the Democrats. I only hope they take 80% of your salary and invested on ways to make likfe easy for terrorist so that they can turn around and attack you and your family.

  • Posted By: Qidisrupt @ 01/22/2009 6:02:35 PM

    Things were going downhill long before the house and senate finally had the Democrats in the majority. Barack Hussein Obama is now our 44th President and I am proud to have been a part in voting him into office. Good riddance to Bush, Cheney, and the rest of the henchmen who were responsible for this economic hole we are in. I enjoyed the caption of Bush-Cheney sporting prison garb...hopefully justice will be served on these two criminals for their illegal implementation of waterboard torture...they violated the laws of the land and should be justly punished for their crimes. Other interrogation methods are proven to be much more effective for squeezing information out of people. The Bush administration did a fine job of completely ignoring justice for the USA workforce while they kissed butt with greedy corporate monsters...giving the greedy huge tax breaks while the USA working person was reduced to a life of impossible struggle and poverty wages. They had no problem continuing the onslaught of our economy by deregulation and outsourcing of livable wage jobs for USA workers.

    • Posted By: star3 @ 01/23/2009 1:00:59 AM

      Qid, funny how we never noticed that the country was going downhill before the dems took over as majority, but soon after they got their asses (as in Jackass, as in the dems symbol) in, people began to become aware that things in our country were sliding downhill fast---for everyone, except the ones in congress. But its all Bush's fault according to some. Bull Roar! If its all his fault, then we'd better see some really positive results from this administration, and soon, because if we don't, people just may decide to leave for another country, and if enough leave, who will be left to even try to fix things? It isn't the government or politicians who make this country great, its the American people, so hope they will keep that in mine.

  • Posted By: bobvoorhees @ 01/21/2009 9:52:38 AM

    Next time you use the term, "Axis of Acela", please be aware that the majority of your readers are located outsdie of the northeast, and they are probably unfamiliar with the fact that Acela is the name used by Amtrak for the high-speed tilting train service operating between Washington, D.C. and Boston via Baltimore, Philadelphia, and New York along the Northeast Corridor.

    Thank God for Google, or else I would still be scratching my hayseed head out here in the American heartland.

  • Posted By: dfitz0223 @ 01/19/2009 3:58:49 PM

    He'll still try to write a book, as soon as his crayons are unpacked.

    • Posted By: star3 @ 01/21/2009 12:16:57 AM

      Not even worth the effort of a response, but to be fair, I'll just say this: Although, some posters here are not Bush fans and have made derogitory comments, they have, for the most part, remained mature in their posts, but your's does not fall into that catagory. Please, dear, if you wnat to play in the adult arena, do so quitely. Sorry if that sounds too condesending, but you sound way to inmature.

    • Posted By: thinkTwice @ 01/20/2009 3:57:08 PM

      haaa,haaa .... so very true

  • Posted By: vet2005 @ 01/19/2009 8:02:22 PM

    If he wrote a book I would be first in line to buy it. The one man who stood up to the terrorists after 9/11. I could only imagine Gore's resonse back then!

    • Posted By: steelplayer @ 01/20/2009 10:59:31 AM

      I CAN'T believe you people still up hold this LAME DUCK! Yes if GORE would have not got cheated out of his election,gas would not have gotten over $1:25 A GALLON that would have really been bad??????

      • Posted By: star3 @ 01/21/2009 12:09:43 AM

        Oh, come on, Steel, get a reality check! Who was in control of congress when things began to fall apart in this country, including the gas prices? You want us to face facts, o.k., consider them faced, no, we are not 100% pleased with some decisions Bush made, but the man did what he had to do after 9/11 to keep those terrorist from doing more damage to our country and to protect us. Now, how about you facing some truths, such as things were doing fine for the first six years of President Bush's administration, so then what happened---allow me to refresh your memory---there was an election, and guess who took over as a majority in the senate and the house---right---the democrats, and when did things begin to change and start to go quickly downhill---correct, again---immediately after the democrats took control. Are you still with me here? Not very pretty facts to face are they, but true ones none the less. Anything else you want to add concerning the Bush administration and its "failures"? Thats what i thought.

    • Posted By: star3 @ 01/20/2009 11:51:08 PM

      Vet2005, AMEN! I shudder to think what Gore's response to 9/11 would have been. Some people probably think the proper way to deal with terrorist is to sit down together and "reason" with them. Ever tried to reason with a rattlesnake that was coiled and attempting to strike at you? Me neither, nor do i ever intend to, I will deal with them in the only way they understand.

    • Posted By: thinkTwice @ 01/20/2009 3:56:36 PM

      I thought it was Guiliani the transvestite who did something meaningful immediately after 9/11. Dubya meanwhile uttered meaningless words and later regretted it.

  • Posted By: archune @ 01/20/2009 2:01:36 AM

    Oh please. Daddy will come to W's rescue again, and is his habit lately, cry like a giant wuss while he does so. You can be sure all the corporations Bush shilled for, have a bag of money with his name on it. It's the last act of this PR charade; protect the President you bought and paid for, so you can live to ruin the country another day, with the next puppet. Worst... family... ever!

    • Posted By: star3 @ 01/20/2009 11:42:40 PM

      Archune, thats what nice daddys do. Did your's ever help you? But, in all truthfulness, I'm sure we both know that G.W. doesn't need anyone's help, he will probably be the one giving the help.

  • Posted By: Apolitical @ 01/20/2009 7:42:16 PM

    Bill - The people who have lower IQ than Bush are also Republicans. Her name is Sarah Palin. The other is Dan Quayle.

    • Posted By: star3 @ 01/20/2009 11:33:42 PM

      Yeah? And tell about the last time YOU were elected govorner of anything except possibly the men's wash room in some obsceure sports bar. And when were YOU ever asked to run as anyone's V.P. You can only dream of reaching that status or having the I.Q. of a fish, for that matter, since people who , actually have a high I.Q. , also, have far too much class to ever stoop to such low tactics as posting mean things about other people. And before you respond with the obvious, please---allow me---yep, that disqualifies me, because i don't have a bit of problem saying exactly what I feel when it comes to mean people.

  • Posted By: hooperworld @ 01/19/2009 11:58:53 PM

    On a more positive note, I understand there are several positions available for operating room cleaning staff at the U.S. military's main combat hospital in Iraq...

    • Posted By: steelplayer @ 01/20/2009 10:53:24 AM

      I AGREE,bush WOULD BE A great JANITOR,BUT WOULD BE BETTER SUITABLE TO WORK IN THE DOG POUND!!

      • Posted By: star3 @ 01/20/2009 11:11:45 PM

        Don't under estimate the importance of janitors, if it wasn't for them, you might have to clean up your own garbage. There will always be a job in this world for janitors as long as there are slobs like you. Mr. G.W. Bush kept your sorry butt and others like you from being blown to bits by idiots who think they can force their brand of stupidity on the rest of the world, and many thousands of young men and women risked their lives so that you can enjoy the freedom to post your infantile remarks which have no validity except to other brainless , pathetic little creeps, so when you go to bed at night, to sleep in a country that has been kept free of intruders who want to harm us for no reason except they envy something the can't understand, so not understanding it, the choose to hate it while they still envy it. So, when you sleep the sleep of one who knows they live in a country free from oppression, who will you thank for giving you that security? If you are honest, you will thank our presidents and our military, but, then, i don't suppose people like you are much above those who hate what they don't have the capacity to understand. If its true ignorance is bliss, then you must be one blissful person.

  • Posted By: star3 @ 01/20/2009 10:49:27 PM

    Why are you so concerned about Mr. G.W. Bush's future? His future is secured even if he never writes a book, but if he should decide to, He could afford his own publishing company, no doubt, and you might be surprised to learn how many people would be very interested in his book. President Bush kept us safe from attacks by terrorist after 9/11 for eight years, and many of us are very grateful for that.. We'll see if this one can match that record. Lets hope he can.

  • Posted By: Bill Obama @ 01/20/2009 5:23:59 PM

    The really sad thing about all of this is that every single one of you posting in here probably has a lower IQ, less money, and a microscopic resume compared to Bush.

    If you all think so poorly of him, I'm surprised you haven't already killed yourselves.

  • Posted By: sjbrock80 @ 01/20/2009 4:42:47 PM

    Bush doesn't need a job, Gross. He's rich. So, now that he's not the President, move on and find a new Republican to dump the world's problems on.

    thinkTwice,

    All I can say to your idiotic comments is *** you.

  • Posted By: er123 @ 01/20/2009 11:48:18 AM

    In 10 years, more or less, these book publishers and speaking agents will be lining up for appointments with Bush, when the seed of democracy that he planted in Iraq would have grown into a tree, bearing good fruits.

    After the Philippine-American War (1899-1902), US introduced democracy to the Philippines, and they still have it; except the 20 years of Marcos dictatorship; which was toppled by the people and replaced with democracy.

    Democracy is a good seed; and a good seed will grow and bear good fruit. Look at Obama!

    But if Obama will withdraw all our troops there and will not take good care of the seed that Bush planted, it may not grow. Perhaps, the next president will.

    • Posted By: thinkTwice @ 01/20/2009 3:52:20 PM

      yeah .. and pigs would be flying too

  • Posted By: thinkTwice @ 01/20/2009 3:51:51 PM

    I cant imagine anyone wanting Dubya to give a speech except someone from the 22% inbreds who still love Dubya.
    Perhaps if anyone needs entertainment and a good laugh, they would call Dubya in and watch him mangle the english language.

  • Posted By: C. MacLean @ 01/17/2009 8:15:22 PM

    Why would anyone want to read a book or listen to a speech from someone who is semi-illiterate? He can't complete a simple sentence, he makes up words that don't exist, and he wouldn't recognize the truth if it bit him in the ass.

    Somewhere in Texas, a village is missing it's idiot.

    • Posted By: steelplayer @ 01/20/2009 11:02:21 AM

      You got it brother,to bad some people don't get it! Where in the hell have they been????

  • Posted By: justcowboyway @ 01/20/2009 7:34:44 AM

    Nurses Aid at Walter Reed.

  • Posted By: justcowboyway @ 01/20/2009 7:33:39 AM

    Should be Nurses Aid at Walter Reed.

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