President Bush mocked other prominent politicians behind their backs while in office, according to a new book by former speechwriter Matt Latimer.
Bush thought Hillary would be the Democratic nominee. "'Wait till her fat keister is sitting at this desk,' he once said (except he didn't say 'keister')," Latimer wrote.
Well, he did get the whole Sarah Palin thing right:
I'm trying to remember if I've met her before. I'm sure I must have." His eyes twinkled, then he asked, "What is she, the governor of Guam?" [...]
"This woman is being put into a position she is not even remotely prepared for," he said. "She hasn't spent one day on the national level. Neither has her family. Let's wait and see how she looks five days out." It was a rare dose of reality in a White House that liked to believe every decision was great, every Republican was a genius, and McCain was the hope of the world because, well, because he chose to be a member of our party.
UPDATE: More offal over at Think Progress.
woman is being put into a position she is not even remotely prepared for," he said.
Wow. Even after all these years, his total lack of self-awareness can still take your breath away.
a White House that liked to believe every decision was great, every Republican was a genius, and McCain was the hope of the world because, well, because he chose to be a member of our party.
and yet, he assumed Hillary was going to take his desk away, and that would've been before the bottom fell out of the economy, in the spring of '08.
Posted by: Jim | September 15, 2009 at 11:13 AM
I personally like his assessment of McCain's early campaign where he couldn't draw 500 people at a campaign rally in Phoenix ... a five-spiral crash...
I don't think there's much love lost between the two of them, despite all the public hug and kisses....
Posted by: sukabi | September 15, 2009 at 11:48 AM
My theory is he has an undiagnosed syphilitic gumma nestled in his amygdala, resulting in everything from periodic public catalepsy to peristaltically triggered unconsciousness.
Or he's just his mama's nasty ass punk.
Posted by: coozledad | September 15, 2009 at 12:03 PM
it takes one to know one.
he really is an asshole. my paternal unit is a charming asshole. luckily i only see him at funerals.
Posted by: pansypoo | September 15, 2009 at 12:35 PM
OMG. When even George W. Bush thinks you're an idiot, you must really be an idiot.
Posted by: dan mcenroe | September 15, 2009 at 03:09 PM
Well, that's up there with duckin' the shoes, as the best stuff the guy ever did as Prez.
Posted by: wa ching | September 15, 2009 at 05:42 PM
Uh, why am I not surprised?
Posted by: montag | September 15, 2009 at 06:12 PM
And so once again we get to see the world as through the entitled, jaded eyes of a trust-fund frat boy.
Posted by: kate | September 15, 2009 at 08:37 PM
i am still really pissed at sandra day o'connor.
Posted by: pansypoo | September 15, 2009 at 08:57 PM
Wow, how much of a loser do you have to be that even W is able to recognize that you are a loser?
Posted by: Pissed in NYC | September 15, 2009 at 08:59 PM
Ouch - that next funeral or library opening's gonna be a bit, well awkward.
Posted by: HarpoSnarx | September 15, 2009 at 09:48 PM
W=Ignoranus
(Ignorant AND an asshole)
Posted by: sarik | September 16, 2009 at 12:38 AM
I doubt that W thought every Republican was a genius, he probably thought of himself as one.
Posted by: Jesus X. Crutch | September 16, 2009 at 03:42 PM