George W. Bush, Success Guru?

[Jane Austin]

Former President George W. Bush has signed up to be the "special guest speaker" for one of those traveling arena-size motivational speaker extravaganzas:

Our world-renowned speakers appear LIVE ON-STAGE to provide you a full day of hundreds of proven ideas, formulas and success keys. GET MOTIVATED! is guaranteed to help you and your organization reach new heights of success. You'll be inspired, enlightened, motivated, trained and entertained by America's foremost success experts!

http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/2009/10/classy_gig_for_ex-president.php?ref=fpblg"

[bbinacan]

1. Wow,

have any other Presidents done this?

[Jane Austin]

2. Carter? Reagan? GHW Bush? Clinton?

I don't think so.

[Botany]

3. This has to be a joke

[Stevenmarc]

4. Every circus needs a sideshow

[opihimoimoi]

5. Its gatta be a hoax...the dude is witless, hapless, and Clueless....

[mike_c]

6. the man with the Midas shit touch...

...who fucked up EVERYTHING he ever tried, destroyed every business he ever managed unless someone else saved his butt, who barely managed to avoid one of the several southern versions of life on skid row because his family money insulated him from all responsibility-- the MONKEY KING is going to lecture people on how to achieve SUCCESS?! And people are going to pay him for his advice?

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA! That's the best news I've heard all day. Corporate America and the republicants who follow ANY advice dumbya gives them-- except maybe "ask Dad what he thinks"-- are DOOMED!

:rofl:

[MineralMan]

8. More like the Madras touch...

The stuff starts fading the first time you wear it, and the colors all run together. Perfect analogy to Bushit.

Of course, you have to have been in high school in the early 1960s to understand...

[ddeclue]

7. no way... this has to be a joke...

If I were Harvard I'd be demanding my MBA back from GWB.

[Ecumenist]

9. Wait...WHAT?? WTF??!!! LOL!! What crackheads are pushing this?

Whatever they're smoking must be REAL STRONG! Who the hell thinks that Bushbaby McIdiot represents success in anything other than flaming SPECTACULAR failure? LOL!!

[msaroff]

10. Is it Just Me, or does it sound like

Wile E. Coyote, Super Genius.

[lolly]

11. Look at it this way

He's the perfect bad example.

"Listen folks, if you just do the opposite of what I did, you should be fine."

Anyway, hope I'm not stepping on anyone's toes here, but who the hell goes to these things? Has anyone ever learned anything useful from listening to a bunch of ex-jocks, preachers, and businessmen blabber a day's worth of cliche's?

[katandmoon]

12. W's Rule #1 for Success: Be Born into a Wealthy, Politically Influential, WASP Family

Then you can fuck up as much as you want, and still get away with it.

[Solly Mack]

13. Pays to be a war criminal

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