Posted on 01/11/2009 6:50:46 PM PST by nuconvert
Thank you for the non sequitur
Bush and Rove reading “Team of Rivals” on New Years Eve, 2005? Impossible. MSM led us to believe that Barack Obama discovered this book.
I’m thinking Bush and Rove are more literate than some of the posts here.
BDS?
I think so.
library
we freepers knew Bush was a voracious reader, its the leftist dopes who thought he was stupid and uninterested
I wrote the Elder Bush during the final days of his Presidency, and got a nice response from his staff. Still have the letter.
Many of the Elder Bush’s friends left me cold. I had real problems with them. But he also was a moral principled man.
In the letter I thanked him for Pardoning Ollie North, and told him that he had done nothing while in office that I agreed with him more on than that.
I have been temped to do the same for W, about the Kosovo thing. I feel we have betrayed what could have been a good ally, Serbia. I wrote off the thing in Bosnia, as Slick Willie wagging the dog. But Kosovo is a mistake.
I was sickened by the revelations of Karla Del Ponte about the organ trafficing.
I read MOST of “Salt”....it is very dry, but interesting...
My dad has acres of bookshelves filled with 60 years of learning, mostly history, philosophy and economics. He’s read all of them and a significant portion have been re-read, underlined and highlighted. Some have pages of notes added with his own thoughts.
We can be having a discussion on some obscure piece of history or trait of human behavior and he’ll wander off to come back with a book, open it up and read a passage or quote relevant to our exact conversation, often with his own notes scribbled along side it.
He was good on defense but he has been awol for the last year. Hard not to blame him since 2006 for being disgusted. However - he lost a LOT of his conservative base when he pushed amnesty. The GOP had one of the best small donor programs and almost overnight small donors stopped giving due to amnesty. The GOP/RNC laid people off because donations just about stopped due to amnesty. His poll numbers tanked after amnesty because a lot of conservatives ashed their hands of the Bushes.
Bush said the other day to the press in Houston that he regretted that amnesty did not pass. His old man rode in on Reagan’s coattail and poppy is a RINO. Poppy was very close to the Clintons.
GW is better than dad and could have been a great President. He did a lot of very good things - Alito & Roberts.
The amnesty was BS. He and other RINOs like McCain practically called us racists for wanting to protect the borders and our sovereignty. They are all CFR, one worlders.
You are better than I. I couldn’t even pick it up.
I buy books I’m specifically looking for off ebay, half.com or craig’s list.
But if you go to garage/yard sales, you can buy books for next to nothing. You can’t set out to find a specific title, but you’ll still find lots of great reads at under a buck a book.
It’s curious that the failures of this Administration could have originated with a voracious reader as he is called here. Something else is going on here that we’re not aware of.
“You have to be near the front of the line when they open, though”
True story. Local church has an awesome book sale each year, the line wraps around the church and hour before opening. A local bookseller is always first in line and heads for the high dollar re-sale books. To keep people from crowding him he pisses on his clothes a couple of days ahead of time and lets it ferment. Works very well.
Many libraries have books for sale also, sometimes for a dime or a quarter per volume. I’ve been to libraries that were holding annual book sales, bought prodigious quantities of books for a dollar per dozen, or all-you-can-carry. We at 668 are notorious for book collecting, there are thousands of books here.
“The amnesty was BS. He and other RINOs like McCain practically called us racists for wanting to protect the borders and our sovereignty. They are all CFR, one worlders.”
Again, it’s about B-O-O-K-S.
Even if you’re right about all the rest, aren’t you venting on the wrong thread?
Books. I like em. I like em a lot.
Stop wrecking the book thread.
At last a pertinent insight. Thank you.
Agreed.
“Bush on the other hand, sadly, is a RINO like his father. Not as bad as McCain the RINO but pretty close. Karl Rove is another open-borders RINO.”
Shut your mouth... :) You are talking about a man who liberated over 50 million people, stood up for life as no other President in our history, saved millions of African lives, and you have the audacity to call him a Rino? I think you mis-understand the concept...
Not to be a naysayer, but his own countrymen/women have created a wonderful world of fiction. I mention Vardis Fisher of Idaho and his "Testiment of Man" series. Also as was recomended one Charles Portis and his laconic style, in "Dog of the South". I hope GWB gets into good old American fiction as well.
GW’s two biggest Mistakes were Amnesty (bad philosophy) and this bailout (bad advice and a betrayal of conservative values). On the other hand, he has helped to keep this country safe for 7 years at the price of his personal reputation. His Supreme court picks were great as were the other judicial nominees. His foreign policy was generally good, though he like every President had to deal with the UN. Domestically, he did cut taxes and gave us a rebate which was nice. I think history will judge him favorably, though not perfectly. Amnesty will not be held against him since he didnt’ get it passed. The bailout will. Usually historians write most about a President’s accomplishments, and President Bush had a very active tenure at the White House.
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