Bush Is a Book Lover?

[Swede]

A job as president and all these books and off to bed by 9 PM. Hat's off to you George. :rofl:



With only five days left, my lead is insurmountable. The competition can't catch up. And for the third year in a row, I'll triumph. In second place will be the president of the United States. Our contest is not about sports or politics. It's about books.

It all started on New Year's Eve in 2005. President Bush asked what my New Year's resolutions were. I told him that as a regular reader who'd gotten out of the habit, my goal was to read a book a week in 2006. Three days later, we were in the Oval Office when he fixed me in his sights and said, "I'm on my second. Where are you?" Mr. Bush had turned my resolution into a contest.

http://sec.online.wsj.com/article/SB123025595706634689.html

[peekaloo]

1. The "Big Book of Farts" is a favorite.

seriously.

[peace frog]

2. Of course he's a book lover

Keeps them next to the john. The pages make ever such great TP when the roll is empty and Pickles isn't around to change it.

[baldguy]

6. He keeps them in his den too.

They make good kindling.

[Turbineguy]

3. Jeez.... and to think

we didn't insist he serve a third term. :sarcasm:

[Swede]

4. He just doesn't come off as someone well read.

I don't know who Rove was lying to in this article.

[jimshoes]

5. Of course he finds books to be very useful.

They are perfect for leveling out the couch after you've broken off one of the legs. And of course they are wonderful coasters so you don't mar and discolor the end tables with water/alcohol spots. They're great for target practice, actually there's no end to the usefulness of books.

[titoresque]

7. by Karl Rove

reminds me of "The Coalition of the Willing" and "The Axis of Evil" those were sold by Karl as well to people like my in-laws who called Bush their "Commander in Chief" for 8 years.
:freak:

[SteelPenguin]

8. I believe it

My mother in law reads like nobody's business. She comes to visit and rather than play with her grandkids she sits on the couch and reads. My wife could be 9 months pregnant, or just had a new baby, and she'll sit there on the couch reading. She'll read at night, with Fox News on in the background of course. She'll read in the morning. Read at any point during the day.

In no way have I ever seen this translate to any kind of intelligence, introspection, or thought.

Just sayin'. You can read 100 books in a year and still be dumb as a post.

[teamster633]

9. Shrub loves him some audio books.

He can't fall asleep without them ('cept when he's drunk as a skunk). And back in the seventies, during one of those rare instances when he was sober, he heard about subliminal learning, and figured he could do most of his "reading" while he was asleep.

[RoccoR5955]

10. Yeah, coloring books. n/t

[Stevenmarc]

12. Unfortunately he could never stay within the lines

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

11. Burning or reading, Chimpy?

[notadmblnd]

13. Comic book lover, that is.

[TexasObserver]

14. That's why he sat motionless upon learning "America is under attack."

They were reading a book, and he had to know how My Pet Goat ended.

[Swede]

16. I hear he's almost half way through it now.

It must be a real page turner.

[Texasbacksass]

15. Egads! Of course dubya is "a" book lover.

I live very near Dallas and I submitted a design for the gee dubya bush library......it's made out of painted orange fiber-glass, built on skids and has a half moon in the door, two, ahem, adjustable seats, with one tiny bookshelf for dubya's favorite and only book read upside down, My Pet Goat, all of which is far far far more tribute than that SOB deserves.

[Swede]

17. Welcome to DU.

Nice post.:hi:

[Texasbacksass]

18. Forgot

Ole gee dubya need to get Rosetta Stone to learn a new language ENGLISH!