Daily Archives: September 7, 2007

Blood Money

Robert Draper has a new book out called Dead Certain based on six hour-long interviews with Chimpy George W. Bush, as well as interviews with 200 hundred other sources.

From The New York Times:

This is a president who says he cries easily and often about dead and wounded soldiers…
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So what does the current President Bush plan to do after leaving office?
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Mr. Bush, who has a net worth estimated at $8 million to $21 million, also said he would like to make some money — “replenish the ol’ coffers,” as he put it.

He said he could make “ridiculous” money out on the lecture circuit: “I don’t know what my dad gets. But it’s more than fifty, seventy-five” thousand dollars a speech.


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