Bush: It’s Liberating To Be Out Of Office

May 22nd, 2009 By: Michael van der Galien | Tags: , , , , , , , , , ,
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george w. bush“And there I was, former president of the United States of America, with a plastic bag on my hand,” former President George W. Bush told a group of graduating high school students in New Mexico on Thursday about one of his first experiences after he left the White House and moved (back) to Dallas, where his dog Barney immediately stopped in a neighbor’s yard for relief. “Life is returning back to normal.”

“I no longer feel that great sense of responsibility that I had when I was in the Oval Office. And frankly, it’s a liberating feeling,” he told seniors from Artesia High School.

Reports say the former president, despised by so many, received a warm welcome. He even received several standing ovations.

Bush tried to convince students of the need to continue their educations by invoking a Iraq veteran’s story. Army Staff Sgt. Christian Bagge, a soldier from Oregon was hit by enemy fire, he lost both his legs. When Bush visited him, he told Bagge he would be able to run again one day.

Then, one day, an aide rushed into the Oval Office and told his boss that Bagge was waiting on the South Lawn so he and Bush could run for a little while.

If Bagge could do that, Bush told the students: “You can go to college.”

Truer words have never been spoken.

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  1. c3
    May 22nd, 2009 at 22:30
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    I like the “bag on the hand” comment. I know the football coach at Artesia High.

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