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Help! Mom! There Are Liberals Under My Bed!

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I recently purchased this book for my daughter. I consider myself for the most part, conservative.

If you would like to be black and white about things, there are books on both side of the pollitical spectrum that would serve you well to have your children read, and if you're a hard-core conservative, then you'd appreciate this one. I however, wanted more of a light-hearted, tongue-in-cheek book that doesn't beat you about the head with how bad people on the left are. I was hoping for a happier ending, (you know, that monsters under the bed aren't real). This book just wanted to bash. It was like reading the editorial comics in the Los Angeles Times.

I believe there are a lot of intelligent people on the right AND on the left. Could we please have a few books that show it? This book just makes the right look petty and spiteful, I thought we were bigger than that.

I'll be one of the "adults" (read "liberals") who'll be giving this to their other liberal friends as a humorous gift. Children's book: $10.85. Troglodytes made to look ridiculous: priceless. Thank you, Katharine DeBrecht.

I am disappointed that so many people have decided they need to write hateful, disparaging remarks under the guise of a "review". It is obvious that none of them even bothered (or wanted) to read the book.

I have read it, and it is a humorous look at politics. Topics such as taxation are presented using humor and spur both children and adults to think about the proper role and rate for taxes. This is a great way to introduce children to the concept of "government" and the silly games adults play with it.

Hint for haters: if you don't like it then write your own book about conservatives under the bed!

I'm planning on giving 1 copy to my 22 month old son; one copy to a conservative friend's daughter who just turned 2; and one copy to a liberal (who is close to becoming a conservative) friend's son who will be 2 in December. Need to teach them the difference between conservatives & liberals when they are young!

Finally a kids book to teach kids about the destructive nature of liberalism! It's funny, has great illustrations and teaches kids right from wrong.

Having read all of the reviews even those of the liberals, I will be buying this book. This book is not about hatred it is about the liberals who want the government (oops that should be "OUR" government)to no longer be a republic but a socialistic society. Further more those of you who wrote bad reviews, who are you to be telling me how I should raise my children and what I should be teaching them. Obviously I am a conservative ("righty") and I will teach my kids according to my belief in God (yes I did invoke God) and what I believe the government is there for (man! I did it again I meant "OUR" government.)
If I may also suggest the book "The Conscience of a Conservative" by Barry Goldwater, it is very good reading. It is not a kids book but one you would definitely want to pass on to them some day.

Great for any "child" 8 to 80. I enjoyed it very much and I'm 50. I would like to thank all the liberal reviewers who so graciously proved authors premise. Their "reviews" were almost as entertaining as the book

This book is great for early childhood imagery. It is so hard to, as an adult, find the right words to express a view of the world for children to understand. I crack up at the people that want their kids to have an "open mind" so they think this is bad. Do you not think the world is trying to give them a filter 24/7? We have to combat the educational establishment and start early with just this kind of reading. Too bad none of my bosses have been anything like one of my teachers. If so I wouldn't really have to perform to any measurement. I would simply have had to try hard! What the hell is that? I read this to my kids before bedtime and now my wife and I fight for who is going to read to them. She won two nights ago and I walked in on them reading this book again.

Very nice...Its also good to see so many people liked the book. We should do a follow up study on these responses in 20 years so see which kids are working for which kids... hehehehe.

Regards

Look, we all know that Bush has been the butt of jokes for a long time so it's high time the left got hit with a few good-natured shots of their own. Disguised as a grammar school primer, this books mocks liberal policies and provides caricatures of liberal icons Ted Kennedy and Hillary Clinton. A bloated Ted shows up holding a suitcase I "heart" taxes and an out of control hillary makes ridiculous demands on the kids (Tommy and Lou) lemonade stand. Around the house there's big pictures of Ronald Reagan hanging on the walls.

I'm sure the left is getting their undies all in a bunch over the book, especially the tagline about how the book is a way for parents to teach their children the valuable lessons of conservativism. Look it's just a gag. It's a book written for adults as a parody. No one is going to use this to teach their kids about liberals or conservatives. Instead of getting all worked up, just enjoy it as a bit of sarcasm and have a good laugh like I did.

These reviews are classic! All the usual suspects showed up for the book signing -- the predictable, obligatory comparisons to Nazi propaganda, the word "hate" asserted baselessly and in every "newspeak" flavor of the rainbow-hued leftwing lexicon, the feigning of intellectual and cultural high-mindedness that is the typical knee-jerk reaction of those who susbscribe to the the holy tenets of orthodox, leftist dogma. And, of course, the sneering, hissing tone -- the trademark of the heady charlatan.

The reaction to this book is exactly the same as the excoriating backlash by commies against Orwell's Animal Farm in 1946. The only difference is that collectivism as an ideology and working model of government had yet to be fully debunked. Many early, naive ideologues of that era(Chambers, Solzhenitsyn, et al)came to see the folly of leftist philosophies... but not the enlightened modern day Amazon book critics. They are too busy expressing righteous indignation over a children's book that doesn't fit within the framework of their imagined 21 century utopia.

Its a great book...and hilarious. Kudos to Ms.DeBrecht for her satirical and light hearted take on stupidity in politics for the young and impressionable.