Full Version: Looking forward to the George Bush Bookmobile
I know it's like 6 years from opening but the nation's first official presidential bookmobile should be pretty cool. I mean, really, there is no need for a whole library. It certainly will easily be big enough to give proportional-sized shrines to GW's accomplishments. It could hold all of the books that GW has actually read. It could have really cool little enclaves like "The Narrow Thinking Room" that you could walk through (well, sideways). It could just go to other places and leave them a mess and just drive away. It could have little GW bobbleheads to giant Karl Rove and Dick Cheney and Richard Pearle chucky dolls. This thing is going to be awesome.
How about 'See Spot Run', 'Green Eggs and Ham', and 'The Three Little Pigs'? 
Bush's favorite books range from Texas history to criticism of 1960s counterculture. According to the website of the Arizona Republic, AZCentral.com, Bush's favorite books are The Raven: A Biography of Sam Houston by Marquis James (Univ. of Texas Press); Robert J. Samuelson's The Good Life and Its Discontents: The American Dream in the Age of Entitlement (Vintage), a book that delves into the modern American psyche in regards to the "American Dream"; and The Dream and the Nightmare: The Sixties' Legacy to the Underclass by Myron Magnet (Encounter), which argues that the honorable intentions of 1960s liberals produced tragic consequences by ultimately creating today's underclass.
QUOTE(erynthered @ Nov 18 2004, 09:39 AM)
Bush's favorite books range from Texas history to criticism of 1960s counterculture. According to the website of the Arizona Republic, AZCentral.com, Bush's favorite books are The Raven: A Biography of Sam Houston by Marquis James (Univ. of Texas Press); Robert J. Samuelson's The Good Life and Its Discontents: The American Dream in the Age of Entitlement (Vintage), a book that delves into the modern American psyche in regards to the "American Dream"; and The Dream and the Nightmare: The Sixties' Legacy to the Underclass by Myron Magnet (Encounter), which argues that the honorable intentions of 1960s liberals produced tragic consequences by ultimately creating today's underclass.
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Were all those books in the Oprah book club?? Is there a link to that read list...or did Laura read them to him..she is a librarian
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I'm pretty sure Harpo wouldn't have had any of those books on her favorite list, especially the book by Myron Magnet.
I wonder if "My Pet Goat" will be included.
QUOTE(Kelly the Fair and Balanced Dog @ Nov 18 2004, 10:19 AM)
I know it's like 6 years from opening but the nation's first official presidential bookmobile should be pretty cool. I mean, really, there is no need for a whole library. It certainly will easily be big enough to give proportional-sized shrines to GW's accomplishments. It could hold all of the books that GW has actually read. It could have really cool little enclaves like "The Narrow Thinking Room" that you could walk through (well, sideways). It could just go to other places and leave them a mess and just drive away. It could have little GW bobbleheads to giant Karl Rove and Dick Cheney and Ricard Pearle chucky dolls. This thing is going to be awesome.
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Maybe we should save the taxpayers some money and use a Book-Pinto or a Book-Miata.
QUOTE(erynthered @ Nov 18 2004, 10:39 AM)
Bush's favorite books range from Texas history to criticism of 1960s counterculture. According to the website of the Arizona Republic, AZCentral.com, Bush's favorite books are The Raven: A Biography of Sam Houston by Marquis James (Univ. of Texas Press); Robert J. Samuelson's The Good Life and Its Discontents: The American Dream in the Age of Entitlement (Vintage), a book that delves into the modern American psyche in regards to the "American Dream"; and The Dream and the Nightmare: The Sixties' Legacy to the Underclass by Myron Magnet (Encounter), which argues that the honorable intentions of 1960s liberals produced tragic consequences by ultimately creating today's underclass.
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Books on tape do not count!
QUOTE(Peter @ Nov 18 2004, 11:25 AM)
I wonder if "My Pet Goat" will be included.
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Only if it's read upside-down.
You can go to the Clinton Library and purchase a copy of his famous "Five-pound Bible".
You know, the one he used to carry in and out of church. He had one with him on one Easter Sunday, and went back to the White House to get his "Lewinsky".
It gave new meaning to the term, "He has Risen"...
You know, the one he used to carry in and out of church. He had one with him on one Easter Sunday, and went back to the White House to get his "Lewinsky".
It gave new meaning to the term, "He has Risen"...
QUOTE(erynthered @ Nov 18 2004, 09:39 AM)
Bush's favorite books range from Texas history to criticism of 1960s counterculture. According to the website of the Arizona Republic, AZCentral.com, Bush's favorite books are The Raven: A Biography of Sam Houston by Marquis James (Univ. of Texas Press); Robert J. Samuelson's The Good Life and Its Discontents: The American Dream in the Age of Entitlement (Vintage), a book that delves into the modern American psyche in regards to the "American Dream"; and The Dream and the Nightmare: The Sixties' Legacy to the Underclass by Myron Magnet (Encounter), which argues that the honorable intentions of 1960s liberals produced tragic consequences by ultimately creating today's underclass.
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It is nice to see that his intellectual curiosity leads him to sample the ideas of all sorts of people who reinforce what he already believes. *sigh*
It's gotta be better than the Clinton "DOUBLE WIDE" that opened today. What's funny is even CBS news was calling it that this morning.
To the Bushmobile!
I'm actually expecting that Bush will have the first presidential library to cost $1 billion.
QUOTE(nobody @ Nov 18 2004, 01:09 PM)
I'm actually expecting that Bush will have the first presidential library to cost $1 billion.
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Aren't the presidential libraries privately funded?
QUOTE(Kelly the Fair and Balanced Dog @ Nov 18 2004, 09:19 AM)
I know it's like 6 years from opening but the nation's first official presidential bookmobile should be pretty cool. I mean, really, there is no need for a whole library. It certainly will easily be big enough to give proportional-sized shrines to GW's accomplishments. It could hold all of the books that GW has actually read. It could have really cool little enclaves like "The Narrow Thinking Room" that you could walk through (well, sideways). It could just go to other places and leave them a mess and just drive away. It could have little GW bobbleheads to giant Karl Rove and Dick Cheney and Richard Pearle chucky dolls. This thing is going to be awesome.
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Please tell me that in his second term, you guys are going to come up with new and better material than the standard "Bush is an idiot".
The thought of four more years of you haters recycling the same old, same old almost makes me wish Kerry had won. (Almost, that is....
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QUOTE(erynthered @ Nov 18 2004, 12:19 PM)
Aren't the presidential libraries privately funded?
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Currently they are.
Nevertheless, his buddies have deep pockets which get fuller everyday.
QUOTE(KD in CT @ Nov 18 2004, 01:33 PM)
Please tell me that in his second term, you guys are going to come up with new and better material than the standard "Bush is an idiot".
The thought of four more years of you haters recycling the same old, same old almost makes me wish Kerry had won. (Almost, that is.... )
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The thought of four more years of you haters recycling the same old, same old almost makes me wish Kerry had won. (Almost, that is....
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Pinch yourself, you know they won't.
QUOTE(nobody @ Nov 18 2004, 12:53 PM)
Currently they are.
Nevertheless, his buddies have deep pockets which get fuller everyday.
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Nevertheless, his buddies have deep pockets which get fuller everyday.
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You mean guys like Marc Rich?
QUOTE(KD in CT @ Nov 18 2004, 12:57 PM)
You mean guys like Marc Rich?
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No - I was talking about Bush's buddies - not Clintons.
QUOTE(nobody @ Nov 18 2004, 02:06 PM)
No - I was talking about Bush's buddies - not Clintons.
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Oh I see it's okay for Clinton to have rich friends to buy off his library, etc... but not Bush. I guess that makes sense.
DING.
QUOTE(VABills @ Nov 18 2004, 01:08 PM)
Oh I see it's okay for Clinton to have rich friends to buy off his library, etc... but not Bush. I guess that makes sense.
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If you want to think that way go ahead.
Don't infer into what I stated.
Will Slick's library have the stained dress, torn nylons (of the woman he raped) and cigars from his "humidor"?
I heard it has a neon sign out front showing rates by the hour!
I heard it has a neon sign out front showing rates by the hour!
QUOTE(KD in CT @ Nov 18 2004, 01:33 PM)
Please tell me that in his second term, you guys are going to come up with new and better material than the standard "Bush is an idiot".
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Facts suck.
Realizing this, however, makes them no less factual as time goes on.
QUOTE(Gene Frenkle @ Nov 18 2004, 10:40 AM)
Facts suck.
Realizing this, however, makes them no less factual as time goes on.
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Realizing this, however, makes them no less factual as time goes on.
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Too bad those intellectual giants Al Gore and John Kerry weren't able to find people smart enough to run a campaign to beat him.
The Bills had their asses handed to them the last two times they played the Patriots. If the Bills players then began to talk about how stupid the Patriots are, I suppose I'd end up with the same opinion of the Bills players as I have of some of the posters here.
QUOTE(Alaska Darin @ Nov 18 2004, 02:43 PM)
Too bad those intellectual giants Al Gore and John Kerry weren't able to find people smart enough to run a campaign to beat him.
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I didn't say that the Republican party is not intelligent, just Dubya.
You're on a tear today. Not that I'm trying to start anything, but I've noticed that you usually seem to log on, post feverishly for 30-60 minutes, and then disappear again. It's easy to notice because at times you'll be the last person to post in the 10 most recent threads or so. This seems to happen several times per day. What gives?
QUOTE(CaWingNut @ Nov 18 2004, 02:45 PM)
The Bills had their asses handed to them the last two times they played the Patriots. If the Bills players then began to talk about how stupid the Patriots are, I suppose I'd end up with the same opinion of the Bills players as I have of some of the posters here.
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And the Bills players would probably care even less than the posters you are referring to, "WingNut".
QUOTE(Gene Frenkle @ Nov 18 2004, 02:48 PM)
I didn't say that the Republican party is not intelligent, just Dubya.
You're on a tear today. Not that I'm trying to start anything, but I've noticed that you usually seem to log on, post feverishly for 30-60 minutes, and then disappear again. It's easy to notice because at times you'll be the last person to post in the 10 most recent threads or so. This seems to happen several times per day. What gives?
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You're on a tear today. Not that I'm trying to start anything, but I've noticed that you usually seem to log on, post feverishly for 30-60 minutes, and then disappear again. It's easy to notice because at times you'll be the last person to post in the 10 most recent threads or so. This seems to happen several times per day. What gives?
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Maybe you could do a spread sheet on your hypothesis.
QUOTE(Gene Frenkle @ Nov 18 2004, 10:48 AM)
I didn't say that the Republican party is not intelligent, just Dubya.
You're on a tear today. Not that I'm trying to start anything, but I've noticed that you usually seem to log on, post feverishly for 30-60 minutes, and then disappear again. It's easy to notice because at times you'll be the last person to post in the 10 most recent threads or so. This seems to happen several times per day. What gives?
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You're on a tear today. Not that I'm trying to start anything, but I've noticed that you usually seem to log on, post feverishly for 30-60 minutes, and then disappear again. It's easy to notice because at times you'll be the last person to post in the 10 most recent threads or so. This seems to happen several times per day. What gives?
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Work.
QUOTE(Alaska Darin @ Nov 18 2004, 02:56 PM)
Work.
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He is waiting for his welfare check. He has more time each day.
QUOTE(Gene Frenkle @ Nov 18 2004, 01:49 PM)
And the Bills players would probably care even less than the posters you are referring to, "WingNut".
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Wouldn't change the fact that they'd be making asses of themselves.
QUOTE(CaWingNut @ Nov 18 2004, 03:01 PM)
Wouldn't change the fact that they'd be making asses of themselves.
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What are opinions like again?
QUOTE(Gene Frenkle @ Nov 18 2004, 02:03 PM)
What are opinions like again?
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Touchy. Strike a nerve?
QUOTE(CaWingNut @ Nov 18 2004, 03:09 PM)
Touchy. Strike a nerve?
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Not really. Who are you again?
QUOTE(Gene Frenkle @ Nov 18 2004, 04:07 PM)
Not really. Who are you again?
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Who am I, like name and address?? Not a chance. I just think when you get beat at something, then rant about how stupid your opponent is, then get beat again, and continue to rant about how stupid your opponent is, it doesn't reflect on you very well.
Anyway, my last couple posts were getting personal. I apologize. (Wouldn't want anyone challenging me to a spearing contest in the parking lot or anything.)
QUOTE(CaWingNut @ Nov 18 2004, 05:45 PM)
Who am I, like name and address?? Not a chance. I just think when you get beat at something, then rant about how stupid your opponent is, then get beat again, and continue to rant about how stupid your opponent is, it doesn't reflect on you very well.
Anyway, my last couple posts were getting personal. I apologize. (Wouldn't want anyone challenging me to a spearing contest in the parking lot or anything.)
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Anyway, my last couple posts were getting personal. I apologize. (Wouldn't want anyone challenging me to a spearing contest in the parking lot or anything.)
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Don't flatter yourself, tough guy.
Grow a pair! You sound like a pansy-ass liberal!
It was more like a 'who are you' in a 'why should I care what you think' kind of way.
I'm not the type to get all bent out of shape about what gets said on an internet message board (unlike some I know
). I'm certainly not going to take anything up in a parking lot unless you do something that is really out of line (or I'm really drunk) - especially not with a Bills fan, which I assume you are.
QUOTE(CaWingNut @ Nov 18 2004, 01:45 PM)
The Bills had their asses handed to them the last two times they played the Patriots. If the Bills players then began to talk about how stupid the Patriots are, I suppose I'd end up with the same opinion of the Bills players as I have of some of the posters here.
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The Patriots won the Super Bowl twice. There is NO analogy that you can come up with on Bush there!
Ohh, and btw, I would not call TWO razor-thin victories having their 'asses handed to them'. Another analogy bites the dust.
QUOTE(erynthered @ Nov 18 2004, 09:39 AM)
Bush's favorite books range from Texas history to criticism of 1960s counterculture. According to the website of the Arizona Republic, AZCentral.com, Bush's favorite books are The Raven: A Biography of Sam Houston by Marquis James (Univ. of Texas Press); Robert J. Samuelson's The Good Life and Its Discontents: The American Dream in the Age of Entitlement (Vintage), a book that delves into the modern American psyche in regards to the "American Dream"; and The Dream and the Nightmare: The Sixties' Legacy to the Underclass by Myron Magnet (Encounter), which argues that the honorable intentions of 1960s liberals produced tragic consequences by ultimately creating today's underclass.
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You forgot he also noted in public that his favorite book as a child was:
The Very Hungry Caterpillar ~Eric Carle
The board book was published in 1969...
Order It Here!
QUOTE(RabidBillsFanVT @ Nov 19 2004, 01:14 AM)
The Patriots won the Super Bowl twice. There is NO analogy that you can come up with on Bush there!
Ohh, and btw, I would not call TWO razor-thin victories having their 'asses handed to them'. Another analogy bites the dust.
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Ohh, and btw, I would not call TWO razor-thin victories having their 'asses handed to them'. Another analogy bites the dust.
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But, weren't both of the Pats' SB wins 'razor-thin'? And now he's working on a 21 quarter streak of hold both houses of Congress. Seems like a valid analogy to me
QUOTE(Gene Frenkle @ Nov 18 2004, 08:45 PM)
Don't flatter yourself, tough guy.
Grow a pair! You sound like a pansy-ass liberal!
It was more like a 'who are you' in a 'why should I care what you think' kind of way.
I'm not the type to get all bent out of shape about what gets said on an internet message board (unlike some I know). I'm certainly not going to take anything up in a parking lot unless you do something that is really out of line (or I'm really drunk) - especially not with a Bills fan, which I assume you are.
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Grow a pair! You sound like a pansy-ass liberal!
It was more like a 'who are you' in a 'why should I care what you think' kind of way.
I'm not the type to get all bent out of shape about what gets said on an internet message board (unlike some I know
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Grow a pair? I need a wheelbarrow to carry around the ones I got now!
Why should (Democrats) care what I think? Because they want my vote. Calling (Republican) voters every name in the book is not a particularly useful way of winning them over.
Getting drunk in a parking lot is one of the better ideas I've heard today.
QUOTE(RabidBillsFanVT @ Nov 19 2004, 01:14 AM)
The Patriots won the Super Bowl twice. There is NO analogy that you can come up with on Bush there!
Ohh, and btw, I would not call TWO razor-thin victories having their 'asses handed to them'. Another analogy bites the dust.
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Ohh, and btw, I would not call TWO razor-thin victories having their 'asses handed to them'. Another analogy bites the dust.
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Ok, so the Democrats ran everything for a couple generations - and now they're the minority party in every way. But they didn't lose, so don't change anything - just keep calling everyone on the other side stooopid - that'll win 'em over.
QUOTE(CaWingNut @ Nov 19 2004, 09:46 AM)
Why should (Democrats) care what I think? Because they want my vote.
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By your screen name, I'm assuming your in California. If that's the case, the Democrats do not need your vote. Personally, I find that affiliating oneself with a particualar party leads to narrow-minded partisan thinking. I'm a registerd Independent and simply wish that people would think for themselves instead of voting along party lines.
QUOTE(CaWingNut @ Nov 19 2004, 09:46 AM)
Getting drunk in a parking lot is one of the better ideas I've heard today.
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Finally, something I agree with!
QUOTE(Kelly the Fair and Balanced Dog @ Nov 18 2004, 09:19 AM)
I know it's like 6 years from opening but the nation's first official presidential bookmobile should be pretty cool. I mean, really, there is no need for a whole library. It certainly will easily be big enough to give proportional-sized shrines to GW's accomplishments. It could hold all of the books that GW has actually read. It could have really cool little enclaves like "The Narrow Thinking Room" that you could walk through (well, sideways). It could just go to other places and leave them a mess and just drive away. It could have little GW bobbleheads to giant Karl Rove and Dick Cheney and Richard Pearle chucky dolls. This thing is going to be awesome.
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In the spirit of Captain America... GET OVER IT!
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