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Bad President

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Full of real (not doctored) photos, mostly of Bush in a wide variety of settings, but also including his minders/mentors as well. Each photo is labeled with an unflattering (but funny, and appropriate) caption, and several also are accompanied with facing pages containing relevant factoids titled "The Sad Truth."

This would be a great gift for anyone who is a fan of President Bush. It is more than just funny captions to pictures, because everytime you think it's all in fun, you are hit with a "sad" fact about the President. It's two books in one, pictures of Bush & his staff with very funny captions, many that hit home & true "sad" facts about things that this administration has done. Not very funny. I read it & everytime I laughed, I read a fact & wanted to cry.

Most of this book features actual photos from the news services, retroactively captioned. For example, one shows Pres. Bush II pointing towards his own head. The new caption reads "Because this part of my prefrontal cortex did not develop normally, I have trouble anticipating the consequences of my actions." Amusing, but rarely up to the standard of a good editorial cartoonist. Scattered throughout, there are "The Sad Truth" features: one-page factual essays, on things like Bush proposing anti-scientific teaching of science, gutting of poverty programs that benefit hundreds of thousands of elders and pregnant women, and lots more.

The format lets you pick up any page at random, and read them in any order. That makes it good bathroom reading, or fair amusement for anyone else whose attention is elsewhere. That's about it - funny pictures that miss the truly humorous moments, and factoids too disjoint to sustain well-deserved outrage.

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I received this book as a gift from a friend; it proved to be as funny as it was downright depressing at times. What makes the book interesting is that it combines slap-in-the-face humor with jaw-dropping quotes/actions taken by the Bush Administration. Just two examples of many:

As Governor of Texas, Bush presided over 152 executions, by far the most of any contemporary governor...

Dick Cheney: "A lot of what needs to be done here will have to be done quietly, without any discussion."

Though the purposefully humorous pages of the book do provide a fleeting sense of entertainment, I found the most shockingly hilarious sections of the book to be those pages showcasing the unbelievable, downright criminal and immoral actions of this Administration (about every 4 pages or so) - anecdotal tales that make one laugh and wonder, "Are these idiots for real?"

Given its low price and high level of pertinence to the state of affairs in our country - as well as the cheap laughs you'll get from the clever use of captions combined with some rather candid photos - I would recommend this book to anybody, perhaps especially to those who find no problems with the USA's current situation.

Imagine ten million people putting every major city into grid-lock on 1 January, holding up a copy of this book, and chanting "Death to the Two-Party Spoils System--Electoral Reform now or every one of you is FIRED."

My caption may sound like hype, but as the guy who invented the T-Shirt with a front that has God Bless Dick Cheney around his snarling face, and on the back, "Enema of the Republic," I am totally comfortable with giving this book a full five-star rating.

Others are nit-picking this excellent work for no good reason.

1) The photographs are priceless and brilliantly selected.

2) The captions are not just thoughtful and hilarious, but often brilliant.

3) The Sad Facts pages add solid substance.

Bush is a village idiot, sexually confused, and a pathetic human being whose own mother does not like him. Cheney is the real amoral criminal.

I strongly recommend this book as a gift. I am on my way to Iowa to hand out flyers and business cards and playing cards pointing America to 52 touigh questions at Earth Intelligence Network. Not a single one of the candidates can answer all of these questions. My Op-Ed on seven reasons why I might vote for Barack Obama, as an estranged moderate Republican, is at OSS.Net under my personal web page.

I am having difficulty understanding why Americans are not burning tires in the streets and going on a non-violent national sick-out until Dick Cheney is forced to resign and go into permanent exile in Dubai, where his hide-out is now ready for occupancy. Go, Dick, Go.

At Earth Intelligence Network, see 52 questions and answers that no candidate in Iowa can answer today, and the one-page outline of Electoral Reform legislation that some of us are asking Ron Paul and Barack Obama to introduce, with a ROLL CALL VOTE, when Congress returns in January. We will not accept anything less.

For serious non-fiction that focuses on how a village idiot who had two elections stolen for him (born with a silver foot in his mouth), see:

Bush's Brain
Vice: Dick Cheney and the Hijacking of the American Presidency
Running on Empty: How the Democratic and Republican Parties Are Bankrupting Our Future and What Americans Can Do About It
Breach of Trust: How Washington Turns Outsiders Into Insiders
Broken Government: How Republican Rule Destroyed the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial Branches

Now the good news:
A Power Governments Cannot Suppress
The Tao of Democracy: Using Co-Intelligence to Create a World That Works for All
Society's Breakthrough!: Releasing Essential Wisdom and Virtue in All the People
One from Many: VISA and the Rise of Chaordic Organization
The Battle for the Soul of Capitalism: How the Financial System Underminded Social Ideals, Damaged Trust in the Markets, Robbed Investors of Trillions - and What to Do About It

First, there was "Bad Cat" and its funny pictures and captions of our fine feline friends...

Next, there was "Bad Dog" and its hilarious pages...

Then, there was "Bad Baby" and its continuation of the tradition...

Now, we should have seen it coming, there's "Bad President." This takes real photos of POTUS Bush II and his lackeys and makes bitingly funny and cringe inducing comments about them. There are also "Sad Truths" peppered throughout the book that give you some analysis of why POTUS Bush II is a bad president.

All-in-all, an enjoyable, albeit short funny look at the many who has a little more than 2 years and one month to lead us.

and an excellent gift book. Of course, with Bush as prez, the joke is ultimately on all of us.

delightful book good spin on a testy subject

This review is coming from two viewpoints: when I bought it & now.

The synopsis of this book is easy: this book has several pictures of Bush & crew in various situations along with a humorous caption. Interspersed throughout the book are several "Sad Truths" about Bush that will either intrigue or infuriate most readers.

The only problem? Most of the captions aren't that funny. In fact, most of them read like they were written by a pack of 7 year olds on the school playground. This is highly disappointing because by all accounts the people who wrote this book are all highly educated & should be capable of coming up with better ones than they did. Even so, I still bought the book & chuckled at it.

Years later I come across my copy on a dusty bookshelf & for nostalgia's sake I flip through the book. Most of the stuff I thought was funny years ago comes across even worse now than it did when I first bought it.

If you are looking for something interesting to give to a Bush fanatic (or anti-fanatic), this might please. Otherwise I suggest that you just rely on the internet for captions to silly pictures. It'd be a lot funnier & free to boot.

A joy to read, past it around to 8 people at a long party, everyone enjoyed it. It does help to be Jewish