While ex-presidents in eras past have all faced the daunting challenge of trying to raise large amounts of cash to fund their presidential libraries, the current and soon-to-be-ex Commander-in-Chief has been finding it particularly difficult to do so.

Part of this has been his approval ratings, part of it the economy, both of which have been in the toilet the past few months. Short of an executive library bailout, what’s a W to do to raise cash in these troubled times?

“It’s like the smell of a brush-clearing cowboy, in the rain,” President Bush quipped at the $1000-a-plate dinner thrown to launch his signature scent, W. “Kind of a steely determinatory thing, with a smoky undercurrent.

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