More free media for former President Bush today as he promotes his book to a forum at the Facebook headquarters. He is still promoting his memoir “Decision Points” that came out a few weeks ago. The book has been on the top of the New York Best Sellers and has sold quite a few copies. President Bush claims he is trying to stay out of the political spot light and just wants to make money selling his book. This is interesting to me because he appears more interested in getting people to read his book to see why he made the decisions he did, maybe repairing his ethos or credibility, rather than making money which I’m sure he already has a lot of already. At the Facebook forum, President Bush discussed the resent events regarding Wikileak’s release of classified information that Bush said would “hurt foreign relations”. I found it interesting that he would take a minute to comment on recent events in terms of politics even though he has repeatedly said he would not. Although his input into recent events was brief he made it very clear the point of his appearance was to promote and sell his book. Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO of Facebook was there also and discussion on him and President Bush donating money to help education was discussed.
http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/11/29/bush.facebook/index.html
When seeing that George W. Bush was writing a book and that it came out, I was really hoping that he was trying to repair his credibility just for the sake of repairing it. And that he in fact IS staying out of the political spotlight for as long as humanly possible. Bush is not the first person to say that the wikileaks would hurt foreign relations--but I think Bush damned himself a long time ago when he tired to justify his invasion based on totally false information. Maybe he is worried about the public learning HIS dirty secrets.
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