Bush contemplates writing memoir...

When Westmonster first stumbled upon the confusing headline of "Bush contemplates writing memoir", we imagined an anthropomorphic and post-modern account of an unusually pensive species of flora:

"I started life as a seed. Though my parents did their best to raise me, they seemed distant and emotionless, too rooted to their own problems to really pay me any attention. My father claimed to be asexual but often boasted of all the birds that would flock around him. It confused me. The first time I shed my leaves, I was standing in the garden. I never felt so alone."

Imagine our surprise, then, when we realised that the news was actually referring to President George W. Bush, who went against everybody's expectations yesterday by revealing to the Observer that he actually knows how to read and write!?!?

"I'm going to think about that, yes -- writing a book," said the President when asked if he'd be jotting down his memoirs after leaving office in January 2009. His revelation comes after his former spokesperson Scott McClellan wrote a book that accused the Bush administration of waging a propaganda campaign during the time of the Iraq war.

If Bush does write an account of his own version of events he stands to make quite a hefty profit: presidential predecessor Bill Clinton made $23 million from the sales of his memoirs 'My Life'. As Bush is effectively to adults what monkeys are to children anything that he does write will probably sell quite well...

Bush is currently in the UK. So far his presence has managed to provoke a number of anti-war protests in London and involved a meeting with Gordon Brown and Rubert Murdoch.

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Written by Oli Anderson on 16 Jun 2008 10:46 AM. Permalink