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Defend America on Saturday, February 27, 2010 11:32:55 AM
Bush Jokes About Intelligence, Knocks Jimmy Carter
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Brian Montopoli
Former President George W. Bush joked about his intelligence, said Di*k Cheney is doing well following his
fifth heart attack and took a shot at Jimmy Carter at a breakfast for the Bush-Cheney Alumni Association Friday morning.
"This is going to come as quite a shock to people up here that I
can write a book, much less read one," the former president said,
according to Politico. Mr. Bush is currently working on a memoir.
He also reportedly told an audience of administration alumni that
Cheney, who had planned to come to the meeting, was not able to attend
following his recent heart attack. He said the former vice president is
"feeling well" and "has a fierce constitution."
Added Mr. Bush: "I have no desire to see myself on television. I don't
want to be a panel of formers instructing the currents on what to
do...I'm trying to regain a sense of anonymity. I didn't like it when a
certain former president -- and it wasn't 41 or 42 -- made my life
miserable."
That appears to be a shot at former President Jimmy Carter (#39), who
said back in 2006
that the Iraq war had been "a flat disaster" and that the Bush
administration "and particularly the vice president and the secretary
of defense have, I think, quite often deliberately misled the American
people about the danger in Iraq to begin with, the causes for going to
war in Iraq, and they have also misled the American people about what
is happening in Iraq since we invaded."
Carter was also exceedingly critical of Cheney and called the Bush
administration the "worst in history" from the perspective of its
"adverse impact on the nation around the world," though he later
walked back that comment as "maybe careless or misinterpreted."