Looks like former president George W. Bush is done with politics, at least for the time being.
“I don’t want to go out and campaign for candidates. I don’t want to be viewed as a perpetual money-raiser. I don’t want to be on talk shows giving my opinion or second-guessing the current president,” Bush told C-SPAN’s Brian Lamb on Sunday. “I think it’s bad for the country, frankly, to have a former president criticize his successor. Look, it’s tough enough to be president as it is, without a former president undermining [you]. Plus, I don’t want to do that!”
Bush seemed happy to become a private citizen after 16 years as an elected official. “I don’t want to be on TV,” he said. “One of the sacrifices of being president is you lose your anonymity. I like trying to regain anonymity. Being out of the press is something that makes me very comfortable. It’s liberating, frankly.”
As Christopher Weber notes at Politics Daily, Bush has been keeping a low profile since leaving office in 2008. His memoir “Decision Points” became a bestseller when it was published last year.
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