Bush's First U.S. Speech Scheduled For June 17

Former President George W. Bush will give his first post-presidency U.S. speech in Erie, Pa., on June 17 to the Manufacturer & Business Association, Politico reports. They add that domestic speeches will be announced soon, and that some of the event will be open to media coverage. The former president's first speech will be March 17, in Calgary, Canada. That speech will reportedly be closed to the media.

Christian Darbyshire of tinePublic, the group organizing the event, says news outlets won't be able to listen to Bush's lunchtime speech at the Telus Convention Centre. "It's actually been closed to the media," says Darbyshire. The Calgary event, called "A Conversation with George W. Bush," will be the former president's first public speech since leaving the White House in January. A table for 10 at the private event costs $4,000.

The invitation for the Calgary speech says Bush will discuss "his eight momentous years in the Oval Office" and "the challenges facing the world in the 21st century."

Comments

[marecek]

Let's close it down.

[Michelle Mixon]

Dear Media
We are no longer interested in what G. W. Bush or Dick Cheney has to say unless they are responding to indictments. Add to that list Sarah Palin , Joe the Plumber, John McCain and Rush Limbaugh the people have spoken the election is over President Obama won.

[SouthernLiberal101]

Maybe dimWit should stay in the USA for a while, lest he be arrested as a war criminal and prosecuted for his crimes.

on a side note - wouldn't it be karma if extraordinary rendition was used to send dimWit to the World Criminal Court!

[2008CaliforniaFan]

Can I sponsor a Canadian to go protest for me..?

[NWBrunette]

Everybody say a prayer for the English language.

[Manx]

Those who would pay $ 4000 to hear George W. Bush speak are masochists.

[ena]

Speech + GWB = oxymoron

[ena]

Speech + GWB = oxymorn

[billbb]

If he can actually give a coherent speech, I will be even more upset with Old Empty Skull. We paid billions because of the fool, far beyond his quarter mill salary, and it will extremely disturbing if a few grand from the Canadian Harperites produces better results.

Canada? Please just keep him. He could play goalie... Look how fast he ducked those shoes.

[JudeMaverick]

I wish I was invited in and gave him a hug for his "8 momentous years of service".

[JungleRoses]

Do you say Bush has some ideas on how to fix the economy that HE created? So who will be at the speech to interpret Bush’s Chinese? Figure’s the bandits will be the only people listening to this crap! NO CHINESE LEFT BEHIND, only the American people who worked in the manufacturing industry understand!

[sassafra]

i hear these no media allowed, one man shows are killer! by the end of the first act, bush has the audience jumping to it's feet cheering when he tearfully confesses how his 8 years of incompetence ended up tanking the economy.
ha...just kidding. he blames it all on obama, his dad, and clinton (it's a comedy).

[faretheewell]

Hiring GWB to speak, is like hiring Helen Keller to lead you through the forest.

[jerrypl]

Bush--we will see you from the streets of Erie, PA--how ironic--he outsources millions of jobs, destroyed the manufacturing sector, and he is speaking at that conference sponsored by that related association.

See you on June 17. Erie will be packed that day!!!!

http://eye-on-washington.blogspot.com

[jerrypl]

It is time to stand up against Bush and call him out as USA Wanted Criminal--the one who created the nation's number one national security crisis! The economic tsunami.

http://eye-on-washington.blogspot.com