Oh My God! He Said He's Going To Read The Book!!!!

[Solomon]

Burn the books! Burn them!

[Arugula Latte]

1. NOOOOOooooooo!

:o

[cwcwmack]

2. Obama is a consumate scholar...

He'll read the book to better understand the angst of some in Central/SO America. In fact I wouldn't be surprised if he'd ALREADY read it.

[WCGreen]

3. Ain't them all commies down there?

That what the right wing insists.

[AtomicKitten]

4. Pinko commie!!

[Pirate Smile]

5. When did he say that?

[Better Believe It]

6. Does Obama read Spanish?

If not, hope someone gets him the English translation.

[HereSince1628]

8. I'd bet on him reading a translation. Staff said he doesn't read Spanish

Although as he was a community organizer I suspect he's not all that bad at Spanglish.

[kestrel91316]

9. I'd call my niece and tell her to go to work for Obama doing his

Spanish translations, lol, but she's busy translating some silly Brazilian novel in Portuguese. For her Master's at Iowa.

[HereSince1628]

11. Will she ever finish? Tough project translating Brazillions of pages!

I suspect that the CIA has Cliftnotes for it.

[baldguy]

7. Of course he shouldn't read the book.

People should only read books when they know all the points being made in them beforehand and agree with all the conclusions of the author.

:sarcasm:

[Solomon]

10. Hannity is shitting bricks over this one.

[Clio the Leo]

12. What fascinates me so much about this whole story...

... is that Chavez has apparently studied Obama enough to know that he likes to read. I mean, I guess that's kind of obvious but I bet if you polled most Americans on "what would make a better gift for the President a book or a basketball?" the fools would pick "basketball."

Chavez is crazy, but he aint stupid.

[DutchLiberal]

13. He ain't crazy either. Turn off the cable 'news' already.

[DutchLiberal]

14. I saw photo's of Chavez giving him a book. Which book is it?

[Solomon]

16. Here you go.

http://www.amazon.com/Open-Veins-Latin-America-Centuries/dp/0853459916/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1240274211&sr=1-1

[hedgehog]

17. Is there any way of finding out if sales of this book have taken a sudden uptick?

[dalaigh lllama]

18. Now that's putting it mildly

It's now #2 at Amazon.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/bestsellers/books/ref=sv_b_3

Someone yesterday said it was @ 54,000 before Chavez gave it to Obama.

[Solomon]

20. This was the theme of the day for Limbaugh. That it

"only" made it to number 2 because Mark Levine's book, Liberty and Tyranny is number 1. :puke:

[DutchLiberal]

19. Not the most subtle of titles...

[asdjrocky]

15. It's all over now.