George W. Bush

Wednesday, Oct 17, 2007 08:51 PDT

War Room

It was a joke (we think)

Bush says he's planning to stick around.

By Tim Grieve

From this morning's White House press conference:

Reporter: Mr. President, following up on Vladimir Putin for a moment, he said recently that next year, when he has to step down according to the constitution, as the president, he may become prime minister; in effect keeping power and dashing any hopes for a genuine democratic transition there ...

Bush: I've been planning that myself.