Meanwhile, Back in the Bubble
Posted on | May 23, 2009
Former President Bush (say that again if it helps) isn’t just bragging about all his Big Boy accomplishments in the White House. Having fled to an exclusive Dallas suburb (which repealed its all-white bylaw only in 2000), he now congratulates himself on becoming a regular guy:
“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,” the AP writes jocularly in a piece published Friday.
“And there I was, former president of the United States of America, with a plastic bag on my hand,” Bush informed a group of graduating high school students in New Mexico on Thursday at a forum sponsored by the Chase Foundation. “Life is returning back to normal.”
Bush told the crowd that getting out of the Oval Office has been liberating.
“I no longer feel that great sense of responsibility that I had when I was in the Oval Office,” Bush remarked. “And frankly, it’s a liberating feeling.”
There are metaphors aplenty here, certainly, but let’s tell ourselves that the boy who never grew up is, at least, having to pick up after himself now.
