Alright, Who Abducted Our President?

GW gets "deep"

CBS will air this partial interview with the President tomorrow on Face The Nation;

CBS: "Have you had time to think about what you’re going to do after you’re president?"

BUSH: "I’m beginning to think it through a little bit. I’d like to leave behind a legacy — or a think tank, a place for people to talk about freedom and liberty and the DeTocqueville model of what DeTocqueville saw in America."


I'm betting these are some of his favorite DeTocqueville quotes;

"I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion as in America."

"The American Republic will endure, until politicians realize they can bribe the people with their own money."

"All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and shortest means to accomplish it."

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Highly selective but damnably appropriate!
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Was de Tocqueville's study of the US based on a study of prison systems? Or was that a different obsession of his?
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Was de Tocqueville's study of the US based on a study of prison systems? Or was that a different obsession of his?


I haven't seen the full interview yet, so I can't say for sure.