Bush: I'm Done With Politics

W. says he won't campaign, fundraise, or criticize Obama
By Kevin Spak,  Newser Staff
Posted Jan 29, 2011 4:04 PM CST

George W. Bush says he's through with politics in this excerpt from an interview airing on CSPAN on Sunday.
(CSPAN)

You won't see George W. Bush hitting the campaign trail in 2012; he's sworn off politics for good, he tells C-SPAN in an interview airing tomorrow night. “I don’t want to go out and campaign for candidates, I don’t want to be used as a perpetual money-raiser, I don’t want to be on these talk shows giving my opinion,” Bush said, in an excerpt spotted by Politics Daily. “Despite the fact that I’m now on TV, I don’t want to be on TV.”

Bush also reiterated that he doesn’t want to second-guess or criticize President Obama. “I think it’s bad for the country, frankly,” he said. “It’s tough enough to be president as it is without a former president undermining the current president.” He said he wanted to “regain anonymity, to a certain extent. And being out of the press … is something that makes me very comfortable, and its somewhat liberating, frankly.” (More George W. Bush stories.)

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