As Plog reported yesterday, George W. Bush is coming to Kansas City to promote his new book, which, judging from the coverage, is an unauthorized biography of Kanye West.
The event is sold out, and from what I hear, Rainy Day owner Vivien Jennings likes to run the show at these things, so neither you nor Plog will get to throw questions at America's Favorite Worst President. But if you did get the mic, what would you ask?
Here are some curves (with him, there are no fastballs) we might throw at old Dub:
Would you really have endorsed Obama?
Some probably drunk Brits recently recalled that Bush, during a campaign-season dinner with a group of important Englishmen, said "he won't even vote for" John McCain and would have endorsed Obama if given the chance. Bush is denying it aggressively, but I'd ask him anyway, just to seem him do that little WMD squirm.
Seriously, can't you just punch Cheney?
Bush continues to camp out on the high road, saying just yesterday that Obama deserves to govern "without criticism from me." But former Vice President Dick Cheney can't even make it up to the low road, preferring instead to spit fireballs from his little cubicle in hell. Yesterday, at the same groundbreaking event where Bush declined to criticize Obama, Cheney got his heart started for long enough to say, "This may be the only shovel-ready project in America," a direct jab at Obama. Dick: It's not just a name.
Really? You're still fudging the Iraq facts?
Bush has been lauded for the frankness of his book and subsequent interviews, specifically on the issue of WMDs in Iraq. But as the Washington Post pointed out on Tuesday, the book continues to use selective data to support the decision to attack Iraq, using parts of a report that paint Saddam Hussein as uncooperative but ignoring other parts, which show that the Iraqi government was, in fact, cooperating in the search for WMDs. They just couldn't find any.
If you had to start your book differently, how would you start it?
Because the other day, a hashtag called #firstlineofbushbook went crazy on Twitter, with Tweeters laying down their own opening lines for a Bush memoir. Lines like: "The past is a foreign country; we need to blow it up" and "I was born a poor black child ..."
But that's just us. What would you, dear Plog readers, ask W. about his presidency, his book, or some other topic you're pretty sure he knows nothing about but would be enjoyable to watch him pronounce, like, say, nuclear fission?
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I would ask him if it was worth it. Selling his soul to Satan, I mean. He doesn't seem too happy to me, just an egotistical faker. I'd guess he doesn't think it was worth it, either, but would never admit it.
How about this one (courtesy Rachel Maddow show): In your book you claim before the midterms Mitch McConnell came to you to pleaed that the best way to save some Republican seats before the midterms would be to bring the troops home. Mr. McConnell then went out and blasted Democrats for wanting to "cut and run". Is this not the pinnacle of hypocrisy for Mr. McConnell or do you have another anecdote which shows that Mr. McConnell is two-faced (and maybe his other face is not so "turtle like)?
Does anyone have extra tickets to sell for this event? If so, please email me at kc_surfer@yahoo.com. Thanks!
I would ask "In interviews you make the claim that you should NEVER do anything for political expediency. Any candidate needs to have core principals to adhere to. Yet your core principal is you MBA and you believe in free markets. Does it not make you a hypocrite and fraud that you went against your core principals and bailed out the banks?"
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