Real Time with Bill Maher:
By Nicole Belle Saturday Sep 15, 2007 9:02pm(guest blogged by Bill W.)
Bill Maher had Robert Draper, the author of the George W. Bush biography "Dead Certain: The Presidency of George W. Bush" on his HBO show "Real Time."
From Draper we learn that Bush considers himself a lonely man who reads alot-- 87 books last year alone Draper swears--including newspapers (even though Bush lies about that and says he doesn't). The President also supposedly has a hidden intelligence, handicapped by his stubbornness borne of insecurity and a "scruffy" charm that includes a penchant for eating while he talks to people with food falling out of his mouth.
Of course, Maher had to have some fun with him over much of that.
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We also learn that after Bush "won the Texas Governorship, he said to an aide, 'The Blacks didn't come out for me like the Hispanics did, so they're not going to see much help from me,'" but according to Draper, that was just an example of Bush's dismissive petulance, not vengeful bigotry or anything like that.
You can see Draper is actually trying really hard to make Bush look good, or at least not so bad. He just doesn't have anything much to work with to that end.
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If you guys can find it, I'd love to see the clip of Real Time with Bill Maher where Arianna Huffington calls Dennis Miller the next Sammy Davis Jr.
"The blacks didn't come out for me" Oh God. I'm gonna blow chunks. That explains the old black lady in the wheelchair covered with a sheet during Katrina. I hate that fuck.
Whoops. I mean, I hate Bush. Damn. dreg, down below made me down too much wine too quickly.
He's quite right.
W has equal disdain for every American who doesn't kiss his ass.
By now, he must be down to about a couple hundred who'll do it. But they're in the White House, in the Senate and House, and in the media.
In the end he'll only have Barney, unless Pickles gets him in the post-administration separation. The one where she goes in for rehab and he goes off on his bike.
What is with this guys hair? Is it just me or does it seem a fairly strange hair style?
It seems that EVERY time neo-cons try to "humanise" themselves, it ALWAYS
backfiresstuffs it updoes not go as well as expectedA GREAT book that came out a couple years ago that really analyzes Bush is BUSH ON THE COUCH. Draper says that there haven't been too many biographies. Hello? What about Shrub? Or Molly Ivins' other works?
Strawberry, no need to explain. We all know who "the fuck" is.
But I forgot to mention W's Saudi pals, and whoever the hell sold him land in South America. Surely they're ass-kissers too.
how about it you readers out there? exactly EXACTLY how many books did yo read last year?
23? 56? 87?
how the hell does anyone remember HOW many fucking anything they did in a year's time?
bullshit as usual.
Are we to believe, simply because this guys says it, that Bush is intellectually curious? So many former administration officials have admitted Dubya was dumb as hell, lazy, and complacent with what he was told (rather than say, eager to learn).
"The President also supposedly has a hidden intelligence, handicapped by his stubbornness borne of insecurity and a “scruffy” charm that includes a penchant for eating while he talks to people with food falling out of his mouth."
HUH??
OK, so why does he feel he has to hide this intelligence? Is Draper saying that Bush's comments (for example) on Native American tribal sovereignty is an example of Bush's clever plan to be perceived as an idiot while keeping his inner brilliance carefully concealed?
Meh. dismissive petulance, vengeful bigotry, it's all part of the same childish asshole we voted into office.
Actually, I do keep track of books read in a little notebook. Many people do that. But, I do want to know (as one who reads too much and neglects important tasks) - who the hell was running the country as he read 87 books?
I read an average of 3 books a week - and know that much is neglected for my reading. Can't imagine this guy actually reading anything - since his level of analysis seems - well - superficial.
One of his professors at Yale remembers him quite well. When asked why - he said, that he remembers a few very good students and Bush stood out as one of the very worst students in his experience. Recalls him as arrogant, petulant and self-absorbed. As I recall this guy was on several programs prior to the last election - wish I could find it.
What a miserable little ass-kissing shithead this guy is.
Doan he know thet George W. Bush, America's Greatest Conservative President don't have no need of such lickspittle adoration! He be the Preznint!
They pay this lil' clown to write stuff?
Martha! Honey! I'm a goan write me a biography o' my hero.
Yeah baby, Newt Gingrich!
Intelligent Bush MIGHT be.. but wise and mature, he is not.
numfar @ 11:
Who you callin' 'we' buddy?
Wonder just what draper left OUT of his book
That guy was so smug! I have never seen someone insult George W. Bush in such a sly way. This guy is Stephen Colbert in book form.
Jenny'O @ 8:
Well, the Hardy Boys books are numbered, and he's worked his way up to the Case of the Tinpot Scumbag, so he knows he's read 87 books.
Thinker @ 12:
You keep track of all the books you read...? Wow, to me that's like keeping track of how many times you have sex.
vivek @ 9:
Well, see...that didn't work out so well so they're 'Rollin' out demselves a new product!' Yep, a new, revised, Plan B Bush. Smart, tough, sensitive all that good stuff you whiny Liburuls like in a leader.
Yep,
'New Bush, better than you ever hoped he'd be!'
Now can we go ahead and bomb Iran now?
yeah, that dude could really use a $400 haircut. wtf?
OT
France says to prepare for war with Iran
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6997935.stm
Strawberry @ 18:
What? You don't do that either?
A.Citizen @ 14:
EVERYONE WHO ALLOWED THAT DOUCHEBAG TO BE VOTED INTO OFFICE A SECOND TIME.
Is that a good enough definition for you? We DEMS did not do ENOUGH to ELECT Kerry, which ALLOWED COMMANDER CODPIECE to back in the Oval Office.
Yes what is the deal with the comb over.....it was quite distracting although he was interesting to listen to
87 books is a lot. I keep track of how many I read, and I read a lot. I'm at 51 so far in 2007. I googled his reading list and checked to see how many pages the books had using amazon. There is no way he read all of those books. it would be a full time job. Mathematically impossible. Most of the books on his list are 900+ pages. Figure an average of 400 pages gives you a whopping 34,800 pages. 5 minutes a page = 174,000 minutes of reading, or 2,900 hours. 72.4 40 hour weeks to do that. Or maybe he is a speed reader? Or, maybe he's a liar
matt @ 27:
He's a liar.
I don't think Draper is trying to make Bush look good. If he was, he wouldn't include bits about how the President talks with food falling out of his mouth, which whether you're right-wing or left-wing, is gross. I think his main goal is to make the President look human, which I appreciate far more than books which would seek to demonize him or hail him as the messiah.
"Actually, I do keep track of books read in a little notebook. Many people do that."
Sure, but the people who do keep track are probably rather orderly types. Probably not the sort who talk while eating and let the food fall out of their mouths.
Hell, I'll write you a book right now. A Bush biography.
George W. Bush
by Bit NOLA
Chapter One
He's a liar and a cheat.
Chapter Two
But he's from powerful family.
Chapter Three
He failed at everything he ever did.
Chapter Four (to be finished quite soon)
He's dead. Now let's go piss on his grave.
if bush actually said,
‘The Blacks didn’t come out for me like the Hispanics did, so they’re not going to see much help from me.", then he should never have been president, less a governor. this shit-for-brains fascist is deplorable. that attitude of bush is all that should get him
IMPEACHED.
btw, there is no way bush could have read 87 books in one year, it isn't believable that he has read 87 books in his lifetime.
the hair style looks alot like the crybaby on youtube bellowing about britany or whoever.
So, just to recap, our President (well not mine or yours folks, but America's), the leader of the free world and commander in chief of (what was, at least)the most formidable army in history is: 1)A cretin who lacks even the most basic social skill of chewing and swallowing his food before speaking.
2) A petulant child who never listens to advice and detaches himself from day to day reality.
3)A racist scumbag
What happens if he becomes convinced that lobbing nukes all over the Middle East is a pretty fucking cool thing to do? The more that is revealed about this freak, the more he makes Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger look sane.
Goerge Bush read 87 books last year? If you combine that with his naps, video games and vacation, it explains why the Shrub is the worst pres ever. He never fucking works!!!!!
PS - I don't believe he's read 87 books in his life!
It's fitting that the fellow's surname is Draper because his hair certainly is a draper. I hope the Secret Service throughly searched under that drape before he encountered Bush.
I think the poster read this wrong. Draper seems to be a biographer far more than a defender. He spent the time with the man, and seems to have built a personal relationship. But I don't see him as being a staunch defender, nor do I see Draper as some sort of sycophant. I think he deserves a bit more credit for his apparent objectivity than the poster gives him credit for. Draper doesn't seem to be trying to make look Bush look good as much as just reporting on his research.
Does that make sense?
I hate that guy and his Ralph "Ralphie" Cifaretto from the Sorpranos haircut
Biggus Diggus @ 36:
Pretty fucking sad. He does a comb-over and he's not even bald.
Actually he read My Pet Goat 86 times. On the 87th he had an epiphany and the true meaning finally sank in.
where does a prez get the time to read 87 books?
if he said 20, that would be believable....
its such a stupid thing to lie about
You know, I actually read blog posts about W with an open mind. Especially videos here on C&L. Most of the time, the blog theme is spot on.
However, there is a level of vindictiveness that attends analysis of W that is as fundamentalist (in the Oxford Dictionary meaning) as the Islamists and Christianists. I did not read "Dead Certain", but hearing Draper speak, I can't quite get what the fuss is about. In this clip (taken at face value, and out of context), he seems perfectly willing to accept that W has some major flaws, and he's quite unflattering. Maher even points out at the onset that Draper seems antagonistic at times in the book.
I believe that the cumulative crimes and incompetence of our current administration will be spoken about as long as our Republic endures. The scars of their mistakes will take decades to heal, if ever. I'd encourage my fellow progressives not to fall into the Fundamentalist camp and demonize someone the way the above comments tend to do. Switch the names, and we could be reading Freeper comments.
I can believe W reads books. I can believe that he actually cares about the effects of his decisions. I believe that he gets in a deep blue funk when considering his responsibilities.
Where he's failed, I'm far more willing to believe it's due to being tasked for a job he just doesn't have the skill for. As a politician, he obviously has some charisma. But that's only half of the politician's package. Where policy is concerned, Draper admitted he's petulant, stubborn, and what I'd add, totally over his head as chief executive. And I'd also guess he's probably dealing with early-onset dementia, or a form of autism. Does it excuse his poor decisions? Absolutely not. Does it explain them? I think so.
Maybe it's because I'm from Minnesota, but I think the very last thing someone should be accused of is being evil. And the C&L setup for this video is inaccurate.
BLink
Strawberry @ 20:
I remember both times quite well.
dadams @ 33:
Or George McFly (Marty's Dad) in the Back To The Future movies...
Brian Link @ 42:
Hah--you should go to www.citypages.com and see where they have Minnesota Not Nice T-shirts with the flames coming out of the gopher's mouth. Have to admit though that the Twin Cities was one of the best places I ever lived.
Agree with you that two wrongs does not make it right.
GonzoD @ 35:
Right, Bush read 87 books, the surge is working, and he's still looking for weapons of mass destruction. He's totally pathological.
Pfft. I can read 87 comic books in a year, too. Maybe even more. It all depends on how big the pictures are and how many words there are in those balloon thingys.
Let's think about the times we have cringed as some idiot - i.e. Rush or Hannity or some stupid people in our own worlds - talked about Clinton as if he was responsible for all the evil that is or ever will be. Talking about Bush in that manner sounds just as dumb. Evil comes about when we allow ourselves to be sucked into the maelstom of the mob. The louder the voice of the mob becomes, the less it is able to reason and create any climate of justice. We are watching Republicans use rhetoric that is calculated to gather mobs around - immigrants, war, or gay marriage. We must be thoughtful enough to avoid such rhetoric or thinking. I think the public has become fatigued with it - might even realize that we were taken as suckers with the Patriot Act - to say nothing of fraudulent elections in 2000. Overtalking my disdain is neither reasonable or likely to produce change. I don't like Bush, but am trying not to make him into a martyr in the Clinton style.
hey you can read that meny comic books in a year if you read on sundays too!
part of bush's so called 'scruffy charm" is also playing pull my finger with interns and farting.
Ladies and gentlemen, i give you The President of The United States.
Kick ass hairstyle. You gotta give him credit for sporting that. Other than that Bush is a douchebag and I can't believe how many people fell for his schtick in this country. Call your Congressman. Write the letters. What else can we do...
A.Citizen @ 16:
AMERICA.
matt @ 27:
Now that is good investigative work. I'll give you that and its nice to have someone around who is capable of doing it. Appreciated!! And if lying was a crime... this man would be in prison.
Holy fucking shitballs! 87 books in one year?! I call bullshit. Let's do the math:
365 days in a year....87 books = 1 book every 4.2 days
The average speed of reading is 200-250 words per minute according to this site.
Let's give him the benefit of the doubt and put him at the top (I know, I know) at 250wpm.
According to this site, 250 is the standard words per page for a published novel.
So, Bush reads one page per minutes, let's assume.
The average length of a paperback from my shelves is about 400 pages.
Assuming Bush is reading "average" books, that would mean he would have to read for almost 1.6 hours every day, for the entire year. You have got to be shitting me.
Brian Link @ 42:
Do you know where this "read" 87 books last year falls flat? He's dyslexic ... reading 87 books in one year for a dyslexic means that he isn't doing much of anything else.
We dyslexics are slow readers, even if you have mild dyslexia.
W lied about WMD, and just about everything else that has ever been uttered has been a lie. Why would anyone believe anything he says to Draper? His credibility is subzero. Ever since he took office the maxim was that the truth was the exact opposite of whatever he said. WHATEVER HE SAID. Draper is an ass. He throws out crumbs like "he's stubborn" so that people will believe the rest. Don't.
Brian Link @ 42:
Bullshit. This guy is evil, as is his handlers. And the answer to progressive success isn't to be "nicer" to Repubelicans. We must confront our enemies foreign and domestic with furious vengeance of the mentality kind. The nice thing doesn't work, its in fact been our downfall on the left. Speak the truth clearly and leave a moment of silence after it.
Jenny'O @ 9:
I consider myself a reader, and I would guess somewhere between 25-50 a year. If I'm having the free time to read more than one a week, I'm having a great month, but most of the time I don't have enough to do that and do other things I enjoy.
You know I would have been willing to give Bush the benefit of the doubt and not assume that the guy hasn't cracked a book since college (or since high school!) if they had presented a more realistic number. Had they released a smaller number, I wouldn't have laughed over it. I personally would have been more than comforted to think that Bush read even 20 books in a year. He has a high power job that should (in theory) be taking up a lot of his time. Getting through 1.7 lengthy books a month when you have that many demands on your time is nothing to be ashamed of. I would even be as nice as to say it's commendable to give it even that much of your time when you have so much on your plate and all of the other work related things he should be reading (briefs, reports, newspapers, etc.).
But the WH saying Bush read 87 books last year is like when Pat Robertson said he can lift 2k pounds with his legs. The number is so shamefully inflated, one can only assume he doesn't read at all because if he did, they'd be able to figure out how to come up with a realistic yet impressive number to use for their lie. I mean with all of that reading he's supposedly doing, where would he find the time to ride his bike, clear brush or play t-ball and still be in bed by 9pm?
Shared Humanity @ 5:
Its David Spade , circa 1994.
My wife has a stronger stomach than me since she read the book. She agrees that the book draws a better picture of Bush than he deserves. However, when you think back on it, it ultimately insults Bush as an after effect.
Shared Humanity @ 5:
I think he might be a blonde, female relative of Hitler.
I didn't see Draper on Maher' show...but I did see him on The Daily Show. Good interview...Jon asked his questions, pointedly, as he does...and Draper was well spoken, articulate & as I perceived...non-judgmental. (Although I did note the little 'aside giggles' when Jon pinned Bush on his, ahem, issues.)
I hate George Bush. Have done since he started spewing crap about Iraq & ignoring his responsibility to go after Osama...just being the 'in over his head, Daddy paved the way for me' jerk that he is. I have been calling that spoiled brat down for many years...I truly cannot even watch him speak publicly...he makes my skin crawl.
However, I was really pleased that someone researched & wrote a 'neutral' book about Bushie. Just so that the 'real asshole' could be seen for what he is.
To me, it doesn't help one iota to rant & rave & call people names, when you're trying to make a perfectly valid point...in the hopes of actually, hopefully, initiating people to even just think about these issues in a different light.
As a last comment...I have to say that I am deeply disappointed (but at least the quantity was small) by the comments put forth about Draper's 'hairstyle'.I just knew when I watched the clip, like many others I'm sure, that there would be those who would jump on this fellow's rather 'uncool' way of wearing his hair & I hoped, so hoped, that the dialogue would be about his book, his research...but, good grief, not about the man's frigging hair!
Too bad that an inspired discussion (as is most of what is posted here) had to be interrupted by those who never really progressed past grade school-type anxieties.
Maybe it's because I'm from Minnesota, but I think the very last thing someone should be accused of is being evil.
BLink
i can agree with you on most of your other remarks, but this is just too over the edge. this statement is so disengenuious(sp). bush has called so many others evil and not just the heads of state of other countries. if anyone is truly evil, it's bush.
Brian Link @ 42:
Saying it makes it so. This was true of Herbert Herbert Bush. He was the enviromental president. Saying it makes it so. Dumya is a lonely intellectual who reads 87 books a year. Saying it makes it so. Say what ever you want.
George W. may be the second coming. Be very afraid.
Ah so George the Dim is just a classist fucker not a racist fucker.
Good to know.
I laugh at Maher's stuff but his humor is cheap. Bill Maher is
basically an unstable little man who looks for all the world
like he's deep. He is as deep as a blunt.
Bush to Draper; Looking a little fruity with that hair.
Ya know, it's a little lonely at the top.
Can I put mah hand on your leg, son?
Actually, that hairdo is somewhat Hitleresque. And Bit Nola, I loved your short biography of the great man.
Bush is a fraud and a liar - like Father like Son.
and this dude has Lego hair.
Bush read 87 books last year?? I call bullshit on that. Bush hasn't read 87 books in his entire life.
Since it has become painfully obvious to everyone that Bush is terminally retarded, the right wing spin turds make up shit like this to imply that Bush actually has an IQ that cracks 3 digits. Accept it Republican retards. Your boy king is just like you, stupid. That's why you like him.
Trying to make Premier Boosh look good makes himself look like a whore and doesn't make his biography very credible.
I entirely disagree that Draper is trying to make Bush look good. He's simply not trying to do a hatchet job. He talks about petulance, insecurity, "breathtaking casualness", a stubbornness that overrides intelligence and logic. This is not a man trying to whitewash his subject, it's a man trying to put across a nuanced picture of what Bush is actually like in person. I might not like the idea that Bush reads lots of books, because it punctures my mental caricature of the man as an idiot; but Draper makes clear that Bush is not an idiot in terms of mental ability - he's more dangerous than that: he's a man who has the ability to read lots of history books, but such a damaged personality that he is not able to learn from them on any deep level; he is "conversant" with the issues, but he is "dismissive" of interpretations that differ from his own, or outcomes that differ from his desires. This is extremely important. Liberals pride ourselves on understanding nuance, on not resorting to stereotypes, and therefore making more sound judgments than those who read the world as black and white, cut and dried. Draper came across as a man who has done this.
I should also have pointed out that it's not a biographer's job to make value judgments on their subjects, but to present them as honestly as possible. Maher makes a big deal of how "unkind" Draper is in his biography. I believe this means that Draper has been honest.
"You can see Draper is actually trying really hard to make Bush look good, or at least not so bad."
To me, all it proves is he is human (and I did give him that much already, even though I'd rather not), and with bad manners to boot. His "idiosyncrisies", like not knowing if he decided to disband the Iraqi army, or not, send up red flags. The guy is president; that is unacceptable. Petulance is never endearing in anyone. Maybe he tried, but making this guy (Bush) look good? It's a stretch.
Shared Humanity @ 5:
Certainly not one shared by humanity often ;).
87 books?!?!? I have trouble reading 2 a month.
87 books / 52 weeks = approximately 1.7 books per week!
BULL-ISHt
If he grew a little square mustache he'd look like Mayberry's version of Hitler.
bmw 528 @ 40:
Best comment on this thread ! (no offence to the authors of the numerous other witty comments)
Thanks for the laugh
Fuck Bill Maher and Robert Draper. Draper is trying to polish the morons' image while Maher is an Israeli apologist.
87books? @ 77:
Did that include the three Shakespeares?
Total BS. Maybe, just maybe, if he spent as much time reading as he does clearing shrubs he'd get through one per month. But then he wouldn't be doing any presidenting, which is really tough work I understand.
I think someone once told Draper that with the right hairdo he'd look like a younger Tom Wolfe.
"87 books last year alone"
I didn't know Superman comics counted as books.
Drapers book on Bush should sit nicely along side his bios of Huey Louis and the News and ZZ Top.
"Fuck Bill Maher and Robert Draper. Draper is trying to polish the morons’ image while Maher is an Israeli apologist."
i posted about the same thing on fark, and you should have seen the fur fly.
isn't is obvious that maher is a tool?
do a 'little 'reseach', america.
it may save your nation.
Just an add-on. I have been a book a day reader since I was fifteen and had an English teacher show me how. In just 10 hours a substitute helped me and a class breakthrough reading with the 10% rule. Although it isn't as useful with fiction, it lets you wipe out non-fiction in no time. All it is simply put is reading for content, knowing that 90% of what you're looking at is filler. On of the commercial instruction systems that use the general method is Photo Reading.
Didn't Hitler have a similar hairstyle?
..soooooo, Kanye West was right?
Greenspan's new book says the Iraq war is about oil, and Bill Clinton was a sponge for economic knowledge, whereas boosh seemed totally disinterested.
vivek @ 7:
Although it's a bit dated (written in 2002), Frank Bruni's "Ambling Into History: The Unlikely Odyssey of George W. Bush" is very good. (*Nothing's* as good a Molly's work, though. Damn, I miss her.)
I didn't read Molly Ivins' book about Shrub, but I believe she said he was not stupid. Anybody remember?
A.Citizen @ 16:
I didnt vote for the greedy bastard in either election. Dont blame ME for prez fucksupalot!!!
Chris @ 18:
Nope, he comes close but Colbert's turn at the press corp dinner was a freaking classic!! I havent seen anything like it since. As I watched it, I wondered how he was getting away with his "truthiness"!! LOL
...Ok fellow C&Lr's...can we leave personal attacks out of this? Hair comments from fellow progressives, vs. hair comments from repugnant republicans does not a difference make.
More like "making fun of his hair = WTF?!?"
Are you guys fashion critics?
With that said, Bush is not mentally retarded, he has an average intelligence. Still, I do NOT want my dad running the country. Jus sayin
Other than the sports pages, he did not read last year. Only "two Shakespeares." And one Camus.
Ninety five comments and not one mention of the biggest bald-faced lie that the author (and by extention) Bush made. Forget about how many books (or of what type) Bush may or may not have read. Focus on this:
Bush reads the newspaper. He admits it. Why in the hell would he LIE to the public about something so banal as that (claiming he didn't on record)? That's the smoking gun right there folks. He lies about shit that doesn't even need lying about. He's an ADMITTED LIAR. Call him out.
Impeach, then hand over to war crimes tibunal.
Enjoy.
The idiot can't read!
Researchers took groups of three volunteers and randomly put one of them in charge. Each trio had a half-hour to work through a boring social survey. Then a researcher came in and left a plate of four cookies. The volunteer who had randomly been assigned the power role typically grabbed the extra cookie, and was also more likely to eat it with his mouth open, spew crumbs on partners and get cookie detritus on his face and on the table
"Scruffy Charm"? My mother called it "bad manners, born of bad parenting"!
Ooof. What a terrible episode. Drew Carey, a fucking conservative idiot? Hillary's book writer, calling two illegal wars 'folly' instead of high crimes? Man, they missed so many points,... this talking out of the side of the mouth middle of the road bullcrap is what's kept us in Iraq for six years & will continue to run this country into the ground until there is nothing left,...
BOO!
Has anyone noticed how WEIRD this author's hair is???
He looks like an overgrown emo kid! Change the hairstyle, bro!
"Bush reads a lot" is just a convenient cover for a guy who has probably had difficulty reading all his life.
One of Bush's brothers, at least, is dyslexic. I think it's Neil.
Hey Draper, the 80s called... they want their hair back.
Josh @ 94:
Your dad's an AWOL, coke sniffing drunk?
Hmmm. I'm a grad student (in English) and I read about two books a week for school and another two or three a week for fun. 52 x 4 (or so) is 208 books a year, conservatively.
I suppose that Bush might be brighter than he appears (he could hardly be dumber), but the question remains about why he is not learning and why he treats the public at large and any group (i.e. the comment about the blacks that didn't kiss his ass) that does not support him without criticism with contempt. I mean, for gawd's sake, the firing of all those generals? Talk about shooting yourself in the foot!
If you ask me, here is a man who read just enough psychology to realize that people can be manipulated but not enough to demonstrate that there will always be people who can resist that manipulation. Hubris. We're looking at hubris.
[...] Watch Video [...]
Coming soon, to a theater near you, "87" the movie. The president shows almost superhuman effort to tackle and absorb......... words,....many many words,....many new words, by many different folks,........its hard work.
numfar @ 28:
Maybe he's a prodigy like Kim Jong Il who says the first time he played golf he had 6 holes in one...ON HIS FIRST 18 holes. Nah. Like Numfar says, Bush is a liar. They're both sawed off little dictator wanna-bes who never were.
Rusty B. Shakleford @ 95:
That's a Cah-moose. Pronunciation, please!
The prologue is hilarious.
Totally 80s haircut. I remember it well. It was a little outdated even when Edward Furlong sported it in Terminator 2.
87books? @ 77:
doesn't take him that long to read "see dick run" 87 times
also it appears that kanye was right
Of course Bush is lying ....
After years of passing himself off as a plain-speaking moron, now
he wants to establish his "see, I read books too" credentials.
Nice try.
I'm sorry - I don't buy it. I'm a reasonably fast reader, tend to have 2-3 books going at one time, am in a book club that meets monthly, and keep a list of every book I read. A good year for me is 70-75 books - and I'm not president of the U.S., constantly jetting to fundraisers, and biking 2 hrs a day. What a load of BS!
Is that a cat that Draper has draped over his head? A Burmese longhair, perhaps?
Jenny'O @ 9:
I keep a list of what I read each year because I can't remember all that I read, and quite honestly, I don't want to re-read most books I've read. My goal is to read at least 50 and that's a challenge when my life is busy. Perhaps Bush is not busy?
numfar @ 28:
Maybe he meant that he OWNS 87 books! Rather like the way people had "great literature" in leather volumes on their shelves to look educated without, merely for decorative purposes.
On the other hand, maybe he's read 87 children's books like "My Pet Goat."
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