Americans have a lot of reasons to hate George W. Bush—and readers will find them all in The I Hate George W. Bush Reader. The anthology features the best writing about the myriad reasons to hate Dubya, including his bald-faced lies about everything from Iraq's "nucyular" program to his industry-written energy policy, his corporate giveaways disguised as environmental policies, his chicken-hawk militarism, his disdain for our civil liberties, and his pathetic economic record of squandered surpluses, record deficits and millions of lost jobs. In addition, there is his smug smirk, his silver-spoon incompetence, the way he butchers our language, his staff of misers, hypocrites and closet fascists like Gale Norton, John Ashcroft, Donald Rumsfeld, and Dick Cheney. The I Hate George W. Bush Reader features selections from our funniest, sharpest and most convincing political writers so that readers never again have to worry about losing an argument to a cocksure, ill-informed backer of the Pretender-in-Chief. Included are pieces from Al Franken, Paul Krugman, Molly Ivins, Greg Palast, Joe Conanson, and Michael Moore.
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"Contains well-argued essays by mostly froth-free authors."
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This review is from: The I Hate George W. Bush Reader: Why Dubya Is Wrong About Absolutely Everything (Paperback)
I will readily admit that I am no fan of Bush. In fact, the local democrats in my area refer to him as "Dumbya" and the Commander in Thief and Puppet Figurehead, sobriquets I feel he has truly earned. There are, as another reviewer on the US Amazon boards pointed out many reasons to hate and fear this "incompetent buffoon of a president," which is a chillingly apt description of Dumbya. One almost wishes he was a demagogue because one has to have some intelligence to be a demagogue.
Clint Willis has written some excellent, trenchant essays about the Commander in Thief as have other notable and distinguished authors such as Molly Ivins, Greg Palast, Michael Moore, Paul Krugman and Joe Conanson. These authors write with brilliant detail, offering levity to balance out the dire situations this president has caused. Dumbya's tenure in office is of the emperor's new clothes genre and it is long past time others admitted that the emperor is naked! Naked! It is galling and appalling to hear the malapropisms directly from this president. It is even more alarming and horrifying to see his glaring misdeeds and atrocious administration replete with scandals. This book pulls the news pundits' reports on Dumbya and his atrocious administration and the reasons for why so many view it this way. For those who support Bush, this book will certainly provide input from a different perspective.
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Title scares peole away,
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This review is from: The I Hate George W. Bush Reader: Why Dubya Is Wrong About Absolutely Everything (Paperback)
This is an excellent book! My wife gave it to me as a birthday gift. I just finished it before the second "presidential" debate. The book could serve as a primer for the debate. In the book there is a chapter on Dubya's language. He vey much uses "I", in short: he personalizes the state a la Luis XIV. If you question Dubya, you question the US. The he uses statements that are either sweeping, or detailed. Both difficult to contradict, since they are not actually false, but not actually true either. He paints everything in black and white, right or wrong. Kerry, when in a more statesmanlike manner, tries to say that for a president, things cannot be that simple, gets mocked.
Enough on that. Many chapters detail the calculated lies of the administration. Some of them are overly detailed, but that just make them so much more painful to read. Luckily there are several cartoons, Dubya gaffes and quotes, and games included in the book, to give the reader the relief fo laughter. The most shocking facts are left to last: the republican spin doctors use the fact that americans want to believe that the US President is doing his best for the country. By careful spin and propaganda they have twisted the mindframe of Americans so that questioning Dubya is equal to questioning the US Constitution or the American Way of Life. Of course, media gets its share too. Bush is treated much more lenient by the media than any other president. Scary stuff.
39 of 50 people found the following review helpful:
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Great book. Crummy title,
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This review is from: The I Hate George W. Bush Reader: Why Dubya Is Wrong About Absolutely Everything (Paperback)
This is a great book that really outlines many of the wrong-misguided antics of our present administration. I have used this book with my kids(11 and 13), it's set-up really well to have family discussions with small sections of 5-15 pages. I wish the name would have been changed. I don't hate the president, however I dislike his policies and his agenda. Many of his ideas were good in conception but lacked the backing to make them effective(ie No Child Left Behind). And many of the ideas were wrong to begin with(ie Stem Cell Research Ban). It's a good book to get you started, and will give you a good basis on which to research on the current president.
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The more things change . . . Roughly ten years ago, I celebrated the criminal indictment of Elliott Abrams for lying to Congress by writing an Op-Ed in the New York Times on the increasing acceptance of official deception. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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United States, President Bush, Social Security, Saddam Hussein, New York Times, Paul Slansky, George Bush, Rudy Roy Clifford, Dick Cheney, Karl Rove, Washington Post, New Bridge, Republican Party, Donald Rumsfeld, Middle East, Ronald Reagan, Supreme Court, Department of Defense, Ari Fleischer, New Deal, North Korea, President George, Bill Clinton, Colin Powell, Fort Hood New!
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The more things change . . . Roughly ten years ago, I celebrated the criminal indictment of Elliott Abrams for lying to Congress by writing an Op-Ed in the New York Times on the increasing acceptance of official deception. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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United States, President Bush, Social Security, Saddam Hussein, New York Times, Paul Slansky, George Bush, Rudy Roy Clifford, Dick Cheney, Karl Rove, Washington Post, New Bridge, Republican Party, Donald Rumsfeld, Middle East, Ronald Reagan, Supreme Court, Department of Defense, Ari Fleischer, New Deal, North Korea, President George, Bill Clinton, Colin Powell, Fort Hood New!
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- Atomic Energy (Merit badge series) by Boy Scouts of America on page 41, and page 370
- Epics on Everest: Stories of Survival from the World's Highest Peak (Adrenaline) by Clint Willis in Back Matter
- The Other America: Poverty in the United States by Michael Harrington on page 97
- Economic Policy by Brian Atkinson on page 75
- The New Year by Pearl S. Buck on page 107
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