Why is Bush speaking out so little?

[NNN0LHI]

Poll question: Why is Bush speaking out so little?

[Jim Sagle]

1. Two reasons you didn't include: 1) he's lazy; and 2) he doesn't give a fuck.

[pleah]

7. That'd be my guess.

Or maybe he really is on an extended drunk.:evilgrin:

[DS1]

15. doesn't give a fuck.

[Xipe Totec]

2. He's speaking as much as he ever did; very little

Letting his team carry the ball (and him) again.

[eleny]

3. Lawyers are giving him good advice for a change

[underpants]

4. He was a figurehead

Cheney and Rove ran the show

[Junkdrawer]

13. Do marionettes talk when the puppeteer leaves....n/t

[ColbertWatcher]

14. Ha! Good one! n/t

[Junkdrawer]

17. If I could draw....

Imagine a Bush puppet in a crumpled heap with all the strings loose.

Caption: The Silence

[Ilsa]

5. Maybe because someone (JEB and Poppy?) told him to keep his mouth shut and

his ass off the tv and front pages. I think he prefers it that way anyway, so that he can get shit-faced whenever he wants to.

[muntrv]

6. He can't put 2 sentences together.

[Bolo Boffin]

8. Oddly enough

I think he's biding his time. I think he knows just what he and his Administration deserves.

Just after Cheney gave his first weekend Sunday show blasting Obama, Bush had his first post-presidency speech and he said that his administration owed Obama silence. I think he was telling Cheney to shut the fuck up. Cheney's not listening of course -- when did Cheney ever listen?

But I'd give it a 20% chance right now that if it comes right down to it, Bush turns himself in.

Well, maybe 5% chance. He's thinking about it, I guarantee you that.

[ThomWV]

9. Best legal advice I ever got: "very few men are in jail for something they didn't say"

[spanone]

10. all of the above

[rug]

11. Fifth Amendment.

[Ohio Joe]

12. Other - When did he ever speak?

He mumbled insane shit but I've never heard him speak.

[Fuzz]

16. WTF is he gonna say that makes a difference in anything, anywhere?

He can't put 3 words together, he knows it and is glad he no longer has to.

[omega minimo]

18. Used up all the words he knows

[baldguy]

19. #1 & #3

His only friends are named Jack Daniels, Jim Beam & Johnnie Walker.

[NV Whino]

20. Cat's got his tongue.

[Hangingon]

21. It is traditional for the former Pres. to keep a low profile

[Mike 03]

22. I think it's something else. I finally watched Oliver Stone's "W.", and I just

think Bush knows he's a failure. I think people who know they are embarrassments, or failures, are reticent to speak.

One thing I DON'T BELIEVE FOR A SECOND is that a lawyer could ever keep him for spouting off.

It's more likely that Karl Rove could tell him to shut up, but I don't believe that. I think it is dawning on him how horrible a President he was, and how much disdain and contempt the entire world has for him.

[SharonAnn]

23. Is that why Clarence Thomas doesn't speak? He knows he's a failure?

[Flying Dream Blues]

28. I think that's why he was (apparently) falling down drunk at the Olympics. nt

[AspenRose]

24. When he was president he only did what Cheney told him to do

Now he doesn't have anyone to tell him what to do anymore.

[izquierdista]

25. Mortimer Snerd

is back in his suitcase.

[LonelyLRLiberal]

26. Doesn't give a sh-t ..... yes, he was a figurehead. eom

[LonelyLRLiberal]

27. Too busy raising money for his Lie-berry? nt