BUSH: "It Is Good Not To Have VP Running For President"

[kpete]

"No," Bush said. "It's interesting -- it's just an interesting place to be."

Bush added, "What you're really saying is is that, just so the viewer understands, is that most presidents have a vice president who will try to succeed him. In my case, I don't. Vice President Cheney has decided not to run for political office again, and therefore, the field is wide open. And it's an interesting place to be."

"From my perspective, it is good not to have a vice president running for president," Bush continued. "Can you imagine somebody -- a vice president out there running and all of a sudden saying, 'Well, I wouldn't have done it exactly that way' or 'When things got difficult like they are in Iraq, I told the president that he should have done it this way.'"

Bush continued, "'He chose' -- in other words, there would be the tendency for a candidate who is associated with the president to feel like they needed to distance themselves during the tough moments -- like for right now, and that would create instability inside the administration. So I don't have to deal with that."

Also in the interview, Bush named his father, the 41st president, as one of the most "underrated" of all time, along with Eisenhower and Truman.

http://www.rawstory.com/news/2007/Bush_Its_good_not_to_have_0212.html

[knight_of_the_star]

1. What an ass

"Also in the interview, Bush named his father, the 41st president, as one of the most "underrated" of all time, along with Eisenhower and Truman."

Last time I checked Truman isn't underrated by most historians, Ike is rated just about right. He ended the Korean War, but he also kick-started the arms race so there you have a mixed bag. I don't see how his daddy can even be put in the same category as those two men.

[unpossibles]

3. well, his daddy orchestrated an arms for drugs deal and a screwy hostage deal

and started a couple of smaller wars - is that close?

granted, the deals I mentioned were during Reagan's administration, technically speaking, but they had the stink of being all Bush.

[Virginia Dare]

2. His father was the only other President he could think of...

another incoherent mess as usual.

[no_hypocrisy]

4. Contradiction:

1) "From my perspective, it is good not to have a vice president running for president."
2) Bush named his father, the 41st president, as one of the most "underrated" of all time.

41 was 40's VP, ran for president, and became "one of the most 'underrated' (presidents) of all time".

* wouldn't have been selected as 43 if 41 hadn't run and won.