Former President George W. Bush explained Thursday that he has
avoided publicly criticizing President Obama because he feels it
would undermine the office of the presidency.
“I don’t think it’s good for the country to have a former president
undermine a current president; I think it’s bad for the presidency
for that matter,” Mr. Bush said Thursday evening on Fox News’
“Hannity,” Mediaite reported.
The former president said that, though he follows politics and is
“very aware of what’s going on,” he has no interest in generating
headlines for himself by bashing his successor.
“Secondly, I really have had all the fame I want,” he continued. “I
really don’t long for publicity. And the truth of the matter is in
order for me to generate publicity I’d have to either attack the
Republican Party, which I don’t want to do, or attack the president,
which I don’t want to do. And so I’m perfectly content to be out of
the limelight.”
Mr. Bush is currently making the media rounds to promote his new
book, “41: A Portrait of My Father,” which he calls a “love story”
about his dad, Former President George H.W. Bush.
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