Bush reading reveals history fan

George W Bush is a "history buff", a White House spokesman revealed as he disclosed the president's holiday reading list.
Mr Bush is said to be reading a book on former President Theodore Roosevelt and another chronicling the US military.

"He reads a lot of books, based on recommendations," the president's spokesman Trent Duffy said.

In April, Mr Bush's iPod playlist was disclosed, showing an avid taste for country music and classic rock.

His reading includes When Trumpets Call: Theodore Roosevelt After the White House by Patricia O'Toole, which is about the former leader's African safari and his attempt to return to politics after leaving the White House in 1909.

He is also reading Imperial Grunts: The American Military on the Ground - an account of the daily lives of US soldiers as told by Robert Kaplan, who accompanied several units overseas.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4563804.stm

IMO

no way he could read these.

Bush reads a book !!!!!


The White House is spinning as fast as it can to no avail.
Everyone knows... Bush don't read !!! Hahahaha.

http://onegoodmove.org/1gm/1gmarchive/2005_11.html

every time I read or hear how W is now Reading books, what come to mind is Ferrals imitating of shrub, and freaking out when he opens a pop up book.

has read a book.

"His reading includes When Trumpets Call: Theodore Roosevelt After the White House by Patricia O'Toole, which is about the former leader's African safari and his attempt to return to politics after leaving the White House in 1909.

He is also reading Imperial Grunts: The American Military on the Ground - an account of the daily lives of US soldiers as told by Robert Kaplan, who accompanied several units overseas."

In a futile effort to improve Gee Dubya's mind, he was given two books for Christmas. Gee Dubya asked angrily if this was someone's idea of a joke and left the books on the nearby coffee table. He then ordered the NSA to wire tap the giver.

The spinmeisters placed a bookmark in one of the books and held a press briefing on the president's reading habits.

you should write comedy! :rofl:

I love you guys, you are all so smart and witty :loveya:

:blush:

.. where a worn copy of Leo Tolstoy's "War and Peace" was next to the commode.

have some WMD in Iraq for ya.

bush knows less than ZERO about history..he couldn't even stand to think about his own history.

I can't imagine him reading anything except maybe the sports page. :(

or the fact that he reads about 2 or 3 books a years according to the WH. :(

And the NY Times puts a picture of Shrub up in front of a painting of Teddy riding up San Juan Hill?

Gimme a fucking break now, Karl, woulja?

TR's African Safar? IMPERIAL Grunts? Hmmm....

so he can't even choose which books to read by himself?

(He probably gets someone else to read the books for him too).

"Aw c'mon Laura last night you made me watch that thing on the History Channel about that painter guy who made airplanes--now you want me to read about Teddy Roosevelt. I mean I'm a better president than Teddy Roosevelt ever was. He just rode some horse up some hill in San Juan. Me, I rode a bike with Lance Armstrong."

"Read the book, George."

His reading includes When Trumpets Call: Theodore Roosevelt After the White House by Patricia O'Toole, which is about the former leader's African safari and his attempt to return to politics after leaving the White House in 1909.

Q: Thinking about a take over, a third run?


He is also reading Imperial Grunts: The American Military on the Ground - an account of the daily lives of US soldiers as told by Robert Kaplan, who accompanied several units overseas.

Q: Preparing notes for those who would question his AWOL status?


Bush may be skimming the books for ways to circumvent the law or spin his positions. Anything on the list about Truman?

George W Bush is a "linguistics expert", a White House spokesman revealed as he disclosed the president's holiday viewing:

"Sesame Street, brought to you by the letter W", the president's spokesman Trent Duffy said.

:eyes:

Remember in the Chimp's first term, when he was always carrying books around and pretending he was reading them? The media whores would breathlessly analyze what book he had under his arm when he got off a helicopter, etc.

This is a re-run of a PR offensive, folks.

than the others by almost the thickness of "When Trumpets Call."

Attempts to check other furniture were rebuffed, and Scottie called the whole affair a "ridiculous coincidence."

He was then seen ordering new tables...

..while wandering one of the local Chapter's outlets with a handful of gift certificates. Hooray for impulse purchases!

I kind of figured any contemporary-events books which brought up the "US is an empire" meme in the first sentence of the dust jacket would be potentially interesting. Alas, I'm a Gwynne Dyer fanboy and found his new book right next to it, and nabbed that instead.

Has anyone here actually read IG?

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

It's all PR all the time with this guy. Someone on his staff must have figured out how many of us think he's an illiterate asshole, which of course is worse than just being a regular asshole.

He is also considering a position as a professor at Harvard when his term is up.

Please. This gets more absurd by the day. Now he's an intellectual. I can tell because his cronies tell me he reads these big thick books all the time.

This is the same idiot that they already admitted is so ADD that they have to condense everything into Cliff's Notes for him to read. Or better yet, read it to him, because he just doesn't like to read boring long missives, you know.

when he "reads" them?

Nah, the pictures are funnier his way.

He got a Brazilian books for Christmas.

Your "out-of-touch"ness is showing, George. AGAIN.