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 Posted: Wed May 14, 2008 10:35 pm Post subject: hide your email addy, people... |
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bush is returning to the internets!
| Quote: | May 14, 2008, 2:01 pm
For Bush, 2009 Means Getting to Hit ‘Send’ Again
By Mike Nizza
INSERT DESCRIPTIONE-mail is better than the phone for keeping in touch, President Bush says. (Photo: Chris Greenberg/White House, via AP)
In a recent interview flagged by Washington Whispers, President Bush expressed an opinion free of controversy on the subject of friendship and technology:
“I can remember, as governor, I stayed in touch with all kinds of people around the country, firing off e-mails at all times of the day to stay in touch with my pals. One of the things that I will have ended my public service time with is a group of friends, a lot of friends. And I want to stay in touch with them, and there’s no better way to communicate with them than through e-mail.”
Mr. Bush stopped e-mailing when he entered the White House, citing security worries, and the Oval Office does not have a computer in it. But the e-mail practices of some officials of his administration have been a source of several controversies.
Amused, a left-leaning blogger named Emptywheel looked forward “to a collection of Bush’s personal e-mails,” an idea that has something of a precedent in the Bush family. In 1999, Scribner published “All The Best, George Bush: My Life and Other Writings,” by the current president’s father, George H.W. Bush, and the book held a spot on the New York Times bestseller list for many weeks.
Not that it was really a great idea, according to David Brooks, who reviewed the book for The Times. “I confess, when I first heard somebody had collected those famous Bush thank-you notes into a book, I burst out laughing,” he wrote. “There isn’t a single glittering sentence or brilliant observation in the lot of them.”
Still, the book served to rebut the notion that “all politicians are slimeballs,” he continued. “From these early letters, and right up to very recent ones, the Bush voice is the same: decent, friendly, earnest, guileless.”
Whether the son’s e-mails could strike the reading public the way the father’s letters did remains to be seen.
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from what i've heard about dubya's language in private, i suspect "decent, friendly, earnest, guileless” will _not_ be a valid description.
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