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[WilliamPitt]

Classy Gig For Ex-President
David Kurtz | October 20, 2009, 6:25PM

Former President George W. Bush has signed up to be the "special guest speaker" for one of those traveling arena-size motivational speaker extravaganzas:



Bush's first "Get Motivated!" gig is next Monday in Fort Worth. He does a second one in December in San Antonio.

This is the same "business seminar" series that signed up Colin Powell, Rudy Giuliani and Steve Forbes. Laura Bush is also a speaker. The promoters promise:

Our world-renowned speakers appear LIVE ON-STAGE to provide you a full day of hundreds of proven ideas, formulas and success keys. GET MOTIVATED! is guaranteed to help you and your organization reach new heights of success. You'll be inspired, enlightened, motivated, trained and entertained by America's foremost success experts!

George W. Bush, one of "America's foremost success experts."

Late Update: I see that National Review's Mark Hemingway attended one of the Get Motivated! events in DC in 2007. Apparently, W. isn't alone among his predecessors:

Past speakers have included Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush, and Gerald Ford. (Bill Clinton does gigs for Tony Robbins's competing organization at $300,000 a pop--but only in Canada.)

http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/2009/10/classy_gig_for_ex-president.php#more?ref=fpblg

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[trumad]

1. And this is what you get for your money.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEbZqvMu2cQ

[mule_train]

2. 'and if you're not from a rich family like me, dont live like I did, or you'll end up in a van, DOWN

BY THE RIVER!!!!!

[Orsino]

3. He motivated DU quite handily for many years.

Fires motivate firemen, too. Cancer motivates doctor and patient alike.

That this spoiled man-child is paraded around with the title "Mister President" is emblematic of everything wrong with America.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

4. The fat guy they fire the cannonball at quit?

[lunatica]

5. I heard Laura Bush has more gigs with the same group than he does

And I also heard he probably makes $100,000 for each 45 minute 'motivatin the folks' gig. He already knows what it takes. He calls it 'catapultin the propagands'. He's been doing it for years, so he can probably do it in his sleep and even without teleprompters.

[Swamp Rat]

6. He gives hope to all the 'morans' out there.

[lpbk2713]

7. Think he'll show up sober?

[SpiralHawk]

8. This motivates me to Blow Chunks

[spanone]

9. george w. bu$h*, one of "America's foremost success experts."

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[Whisp]

11. no no, it's america's foremost 'sucks ass' expert. ;)

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idiot turd, doesn't he know when to just fucking hide.

[BolivarianHero]

10. "Success experts!"

To go go with the racket of leadership studies ... The perfect job for people too dense to grasp science, or mathematics, or social studies, or language arts.

[sinkingfeeling]

12. Could someone explain to me Bush's expertise on 'success'? He's failed at every business/country

he attempted to run!

[Soylent Brice]

13. i was already privy to the hoard:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=6681079&mesg_id=6681079

[Demeter]

14. That Kind of Motivation We Can Do Without

Unless you want a hot class war (or an epidemic of bulimia)