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Sir Paul is wrong...Bush is a book lover
Wall Street Journal ^
| 12-26-08
| Karl robe
Posted on 06/04/2010 10:25:16 AM PDT by freedom4me
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. (snip)
At year's end, I defeated the president, 110 books to 95. My trophy looks suspiciously like those given out at junior bowling finals. The president lamely insisted he'd lost because he'd been busy as Leader of the Free World. (snip)
Fifty-eight of the books he read that year were nonfiction. Nearly half of his 2006 reading was history and biography, with another eight volumes on current events (mostly the Mideast) and six on sports.
To my surprise, the president demanded a rematch in 2007. Though the overall pace slowed, he once more came in second in our two-man race, reading 51 books to my 76.
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TOPICS: Government; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: alteredtitle; dumbjunkie; dungbeatle; karlrove; mccartney; nobinrove; paulmccartney; rove
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Wonder what BHO is reading these days?
To: freedom4me
Homosexual porno magazines.
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posted on
06/04/2010 10:26:31 AM PDT
by
svcw
(Habakkuk 2:3)
To: freedom4me
We should send him the “Left Behind” series. He will start to imagine himself as Capathian.
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posted on
06/04/2010 10:27:07 AM PDT
by
nagdt
("None of my EX's live in Texas")
To: freedom4me
that over-the-hill has-been has killed so many brain cells with drugs over the years that it’s amazing that he can find his way home at night.
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posted on
06/04/2010 10:27:07 AM PDT
by
JohnBrowdie
(http://forum.stink-eye.net)
To: freedom4me
12-26-08 | Karl robe Why the insult?
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posted on
06/04/2010 10:27:10 AM PDT
by
Izzy Dunne
(Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
To: humblegunner
Homosexual porno magazines. Ping for your expertise.
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posted on
06/04/2010 10:28:36 AM PDT
by
Eaker
(Pablo is very wily)
To: freedom4me
Paul McCartney cannot even read or write sheet music. He's just another libtard projecting.
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posted on
06/04/2010 10:28:42 AM PDT
by
avacado
To: Eaker; freedom4me
Who the hell is Karl Robe?
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posted on
06/04/2010 10:30:53 AM PDT
by
humblegunner
(Pablo is very wily)
To: freedom4me
Thank you, Mr. Robe.
(snicker and a smile, f4me)
To: freedom4me
Nobody ever accused Paul McCartney of being a mental powerhouse.
To: freedom4me
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posted on
06/04/2010 10:35:02 AM PDT
by
ryan71
(Let's Roll!)
To: Izzy Dunne; Eaker; freedom4me; humblegunner
12-26-08 | Karl robe
Why the insult? Who the hell is Karl Robe?
On my keyboard, the "b" is right next to the "v" and I often hit one when I intend to hit the other. My guess is the misspelling was a typo rather than an insult. But again that is just my assumption.
To: freedom4me
How many books you read last year Paul??
Pray for America
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posted on
06/04/2010 10:35:51 AM PDT
by
bray
(No You Don't!)
To: freedom4me
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posted on
06/04/2010 10:37:00 AM PDT
by
listenhillary
(You might be a modern LIBERAL if you read 1984 & said "YEAH! That's the world that I want!")
To: All
To: freedom4me
More proof why Mensa has no chapter for actors and musicians.
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posted on
06/04/2010 10:38:18 AM PDT
by
N. Theknow
(Kennedys: Can't fly, can't ski, can't drive, can't skipper a boat, but they know what's best.)
To: nagdt
Haha - I’ve been imagining him as Carpathia all along
To: freedom4me
Heres a few books Obama's reading...
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posted on
06/04/2010 10:39:48 AM PDT
by
libs_kma
(If you RAM it down our throats in 2009, we're going to SHOVE it up your "donkey" in 2010!!!!!)
To: freedom4me
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posted on
06/04/2010 10:41:25 AM PDT
by
Oldeconomybuyer
(The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
To: freedom4me
I looked and looked and looked for all of McCartney's academic achievements, or just anything that could explain how he got so smart, but I couldn't find a thing..
So what...did someone name a library after him or something? Is that how he knows what a library is?
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posted on
06/04/2010 10:44:19 AM PDT
by
libs_kma
(If you RAM it down our throats in 2009, we're going to SHOVE it up your "donkey" in 2010!!!!!)
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