The I Hate George W. Bush Reader: Why Dubya Is Wrong About Absolutely Everything (Paperback)

~ Clint Willis (Editor) "The more things change . . . Roughly ten years ago, I celebrated the criminal indictment of Elliott Abrams for lying to Congress by writing..." (more)
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Product Description

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.

Product Details

• Paperback: 320 pages
• Publisher: Da Capo Press (April 27, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1560255897
• ISBN-13: 978-1560255895
• Product Dimensions: 7.8 x 5 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #920,878 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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24 of 29 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Sure, it's partisan! That's the idea!, June 24, 2004

By	Harrison D. Bolter (San Diego, CA United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

A wonderful hate-fest for Bush haters (and there are a lot of them)! And plenty of facts along with the invective. I didn't agree with absolutely everything in the book, but a lot of it was right on target. Wonderful essays, cartoons and quotes from the Misunderestimated Man. Why should the cons have all the fun being partisan and nasty?

I was a bit surprised not to see some negative review by an outraged conservative, but then, would a Bush partisan actually ever buy this book?

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Bush Buster, March 12, 2007

By	BeatleBangs1964 (United States) - See all my reviews (TOP 500 REVIEWER)

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.

58 of 75 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Title scares peole away, October 9, 2004

By	isala "Isabel and Lars" (Fairbanks, Alaska,, US) - See all my reviews (TOP 1000 REVIEWER)

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.