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AndIAmTellingYou
03/19/09

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I heard the manuscript is based on the 12 most important decisions of his presidency... He could just write a Radar listicle and be done with it.
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gawkimo
03/19/09

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It would be way cooler if it was published as one of those little Mexican comic novellas. I'd buy 10 of those!
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CaptainFantastic
03/19/09

In reply to George W. Bush's Sad Book Deal
If I Were President

(Ghostwritten by Cheney, of course)
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TorrentFreak
03/19/09

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The title will be "My first Presidentary"
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Sproing
03/19/09

@TorrentFreak: Clever. And already published.
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blix
03/19/09

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Great job there Crownie!
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MrInBetween
03/19/09

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I predict NONE of these names and phrases will appear in the book's index:

Abramoff, Jack

Abu Ghraib

Bill of Rights

"Brownie"

Bush, Jeb

Bush, Marvin

Constitution

"Dead or Alive"

"Dry Drunk"

Extraordinary Rendition

FEMA

Geneva Conventions

Halliburton

Hurricane Katrina

Lay, "Kenny Boy"

Levees

Libby, "Scooter"

McLellan, Scott

Miller, Judith

"Mission Accomplished"

"My Pet Goat"

New Orleans

Obama, Barack

Pretzel

Quail

"Smokin' 'Em Out"

Torture

United Nations

Weapons of Mass Destruction

Any others that I'm forgetting?
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CountryClubRepublican
03/19/09

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You are all secretly jealous that W got paid $7 million while you are wondering if you have enough money to go out for sushi tonight.
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BookishLookish
03/19/09

@CountryClubRepublican: Is "sushi" some kind of country club Republican code word? Or are you seriously trapped in the 1990s?
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clevelandlawyer
03/19/09

I predict that the Bush bashing will be overshadowed by the Obama bashing in a couple of years. We will never recover from the out of control spending and socialized medicine he will inflict on us all.
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tammyfey
03/19/09

@clevelandlawyer: OMG SOCIALISM!!!! SPENDING!
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BookishLookish
03/19/09

@tammyfey: Spending money...ON CHILDREN! THE HORROR!
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Mediahohoho
03/19/09

@CountryClubRepublican: I could be starving in the gutter and not have a moment's jealousy of the shell that houses what, in other people, would pass for a soul. There's nothing to envy in having that little self-awareness, unless you have none yourself. So, you know, fucking enjoy.
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RStewie
03/19/09

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It's pointless stories like this, that show the pettyness of Gawker and that network, that kind of embarrasses me to be at the site.

Usually the stories (even the Right-Wing-Republican-Hating-Even-If-They're-Kids-Or-Babies stories) have some sort of overall point to them.

What's the point? He's got more money than we do, and now he has $7M more. So...what's the point?
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BxgrlJeri
03/19/09

@RStewie: The point is that he is an idiot and he sucked, has always sucked, always will suck and that suckiness is apparent in his laughable advance.

So that's the point.
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BookishLookish
03/19/09

@RStewie: You may leave at any time. Buh-bye!
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LatestBy
03/19/09

@RStewie: You don't think that he got less than Hillary Clinton is interesting? You realize it isn't Gawker setting that price, right?
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DaeSu
03/19/09

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Is it a sequel to "My Pet Goat"?
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Rumpelstilskin
03/19/09

@DaeSu: "Goat for Dinner!"
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Private Hangnail
03/19/09

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I would buy it, if only to write WTF?!?! or This is a joke, right? or Karl Rove is a human man? Seriously? in the margins.
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bluebears
03/19/09

@Private Hangnail: I would buy your marked up copy.
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Robert Synnott
03/19/09

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Cheap at twice the price. Imagine how many new WORDS they're going to get out of it! It'll be like Shakespeare.
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TableNine
03/19/09

@Robert Synnott: Shakespeare? With only one monkey banging away at the typewriter?
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Werrick
03/19/09

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Can the man even spell the word "memoirs"? Isn't that a French word? Isn't speaking French, like, against his religion or something? Shouldn't he be calling it "Freedomemories" or something?
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ClockOnTheStove
03/19/09

@Werrick: I think you're on to something. If he called it "Strategery," it would fly off the shelves.
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cohenj88
03/19/09

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Given how introspective he is, do you think Crown got a guarantee that he'll hand in a manuscript that was more than 10 pages?
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Not The Red Baron
03/19/09

@cohenj88: Or if he can't stretch further than that, can it at least be a pop-up book? For instance:

- relive that famous Sept 11th school footage, with cardboard tabs to move the aide and Bush's eyes

- turn a cardboard wheel to make the US fighter swoop down and open fire on the British convoy (this could actually be used several times)

- have a shoe suspended on a little cardboard spring halfway between the reporter and Bush's head

I'm sure there are plenty more episodes from his presidency that can be brought to like using cleverly folded cardboard.
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Rumpelstilskin
03/19/09

@Not The Red Baron: Oh, and a wheel where you can see staff go from a little window in the White House to jail! Or, to high-paying jobs with government contractors!
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