Bush: "Liberating" To Be Out Of Office, Picking Up Dog Poop

ARTESIA, N.M. — It was a humbling moment for the former commander in chief: President George W. Bush was walking former first dog Barney in his new Dallas neighborhood when it stopped in a neighbor's yard for relief.

"And there I was, former president of the United States of America, with a plastic bag on my hand," he told a group of graduating high school students in New Mexico on Thursday. "Life is returning back to normal."

Bush, in one of his few public appearances since leaving office in January, told the students that leaving office lifted a heavy burden.

"I no longer feel that great sense of responsibility that I had when I was in the Oval Office. And frankly, it's a liberating feeling," he told seniors from Artesia High School.

He received a warm welcome in the southeastern New Mexico community, the Roswell Daily Record reported. Bush declined interviews and no video cameras were allowed inside.

The crowd gave him multiple standing ovations and after his speech he was presented with a sculpture of an eagle taking flight from a torch. The sculpture will be dedicated at City Hall on Memorial Day in honor of Bush and America's veterans.

Bush invoked an Iraq veteran's story to motivate the students to continue their educations. He described visiting Army Staff Sgt. Christian Bagge, a soldier from Oregon who lost both legs in combat.

When he visited Bagge at Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio, Bush told him that someday Bagge would get out of his bed and run.

Then, one day, an aide went into Bush's office and said Bagge was waiting on the South Lawn and wanted to go running with the president.

If Bagge could do that, Bush told the students: "You can go to college."

Bush said he hoped President Barack Obama's administration would be successful. He also said he was writing a book about some of the difficult decisions he made while in office.

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Information from: Roswell Daily Record, http://www.roswell-record.com

Comments

[Yermammy]

I'm still waiting on our treaty obligations to liberate Bush. From his freedom.
It's time to investigate, Attorney General Holder. NOW.

[NWBrunette]

All he can think about is dog p**p. Hey George, how about thinking about the people you tortured? Somebody please arrest that lout!

[RachelMc]

yep now obama's in office picking up bush and co's poop. and they left a lot of poop.

[DSOTM]

How ironic, the rest of us America is picking up all the dog p00p he left behind for the last eight years.

[andban]

I don't even think he's qualified to do that. The only thing I seen him do was step in it.

[SonofSolomon]

So what's your message to the High school kids; resposability sucks? Nice job George.

[factotem]

Please everyone; mail Bush your dog poop.

Finally a job he's capable of!

[transe]

lol

[Osusuki]

Shhh! Don't tell "W", but the statue is being erected in Roswell's International UFO Museum, alongside the statues of all the other space aliens.

[avshanbh]

And 300 million Americans feel the same way George. And the Obama Administration has to pick up your administration's dog poop they left behind.

[Samalabear]

First the teenagers and now the dog poop. The stories get better everyday.

[DennyCrane]

At least Bush can wish that Obama succeeds. But Limbaugh wants him to fail. Shows what Republicans really care about.

[DakotaMinnesota]

You must feel as liberated as those Iraqis you rescued.

[1dogs2]

Too bad the poop he left behind on the desk in the Oval Office is not so easily disposed of.

[cactusgal]

At last-- something "successful" he can put in his resume!

[littlepuffycloud]

After all the death, blood and destruction on his hands, I find it difficult to fathom him going out and joking about picking up dog s*it. He should meet personally with the familys of everyone killed on 9/11 or in Iraq and then let's see how 'liberated' he feels.