Laura Misses Obama's First Speech, W Turns Down Hardware Store Job, Bill Gets Vetoed on Test Drive, and Condi Cashes in on Book Deal......

First up today is a recent interview with former First Lady Laura Bush by ABC News. In her first interview since leaving the White House last month, she talked about such topics as life in the private sector, Americans shouldn't give up on Afghanistan, and she forgot to watch Obama's speech to the nation and congress last Tuesday night. If you have 3 minutes to spare, check it out when you get a chance...



In labor news, it was reported in the Wall Street Journal this week that more than 3,000 former Bush-Cheney staff members are contributing to the nation's unemployment numbers - still looking for work. Bush, however, was reported to be offered a part-time job as greeter at a Elliott's Hardware Store in Dallas, Texas. Unfortunately, he turned it down. So he, too, remains jobless. Check out the CNN video...



Bill Clinton was in the news this week. While his wife, Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, travels about the globe, Bill was in Los Angeles eager to test drive the ultra sports car, Tesla Roadster. According to Edmunds.com, the Secret Service, however, acted as the dreaded "cutoff man" in Bill's desire to take the Tesla Roadster for a spin.

General Manager of the Tesla Store in LA, Jeremy Snyder, reports that he was at an event with Bill, who "announced he was eager to take the Roadster for a ride around the block."

"After the event, while others crowded around to take photos, I handed the keys to America's 42nd president and urged him to join in test-driving the coolest car on the planet," wrote Snyder in his Tesla Motors blog. "Unfortunately, at that very moment, the Secret Service told him he had to depart." (Photo courtesy of Tesla Motors.)

Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is going to be writing a lot in the next few years. According to the Christian Science Monitor, Condi is cashing in, reported to have signed a $2.5-million, three-book deal with Crown Publishers. Her first book, scheduled for release in 2011, will be a memoir about her years working in the Bush administration.

Condi's other two books will be more personal, as she is planning a memoir about her family. Both those books are scheduled for release in 2012. Rice’s personal story will tell of her childhood in Birmingham, Ala., where she was born in 1954, and attended a segregated school. The memoir will follow on through her adult years as she went on to become provost of Stanford University and then the first black woman to be secretary of state.

That's all for now.
--atg