Speechifying for Cash

Some people are having a problem with Dubyanuts going around giving "speeches" for some mad $crillah:

“It’s one thing to stay out of the public realm, which George Bush has said he wants to do,” said Julian Zelizer, a presidential historian at Princeton University. “But then he goes on the speaking circuit and makes enormous amounts of money giving lectures mostly to corporate groups and other select audiences. Some Americans can find this distasteful.”

I don't really consider such speeches as being "in the public realm."  We all know who these audiences are - as Bush himself joked, they're the "haves" and the "have mores."  Nobody's saving a little from their paychecks each week to purchase a ticket to one of these speeches, and nobody's going their with an open mind, or to question Bush.  He tells them what they wanna hear vis-a-vis "freedom" and Jesus, and they applaud and cheer.  To Bush's credit, he's not going on Meet the Press every Sunday scaring people about Obama being the devil like his buddies have been, so I don't see why we should care about his speeches.  If you're dumb enough to shovel out the dough to hear what he has to say, that's fine with me.