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Book Reviews of Bad President
Book Review: VERY SMART AND FUNNY
Summary: 4 Stars
A joy to read, past it around to 8 people at a long party, everyone enjoyed it. It does help to be JewishBook Review: Quick, light read
Summary: 3 Stars
This is a curious book in that just when the captions get going the authors weigh down with the serious, sad parts of the Bush presidency (of which there are many, of course). It would have been better formatted as simply a book of cartoon-captioned offerings.
It may be that "Bad President" now appears to be somewhat outdated, two years after its original publication. Some of the contributions are mildly funny...none enough to make one laugh out loud... and refer to news items that seem stale today. Still, it's a reminder that while the dysfunctional Bush presidency hasn't run out of time yet, it ran out of ideas long ago.
Book Review: Call to Public Non-Violent General Strike
Summary: 5 Stars
Imagine ten million people putting every major city into grid-lock on 1 January, holding up a copy of this book, and chanting "Death to the Two-Party Spoils System--Electoral Reform now or every one of you is FIRED."
My caption may sound like hype, but as the guy who invented the T-Shirt with a front that has God Bless Dick Cheney around his snarling face, and on the back, "Enema of the Republic," I am totally comfortable with giving this book a full five-star rating.
Others are nit-picking this excellent work for no good reason.
1) The photographs are priceless and brilliantly selected.
2) The captions are not just thoughtful and hilarious, but often brilliant.
3) The Sad Facts pages add solid substance.
Bush is a village idiot, sexually confused, and a pathetic human being whose own mother does not like him. Cheney is the real amoral criminal.
I strongly recommend this book as a gift. I am on my way to Iowa to hand out flyers and business cards and playing cards pointing America to 52 touigh questions at Earth Intelligence Network. Not a single one of the candidates can answer all of these questions. My Op-Ed on seven reasons why I might vote for Barack Obama, as an estranged moderate Republican, is at OSS.Net under my personal web page.
I am having difficulty understanding why Americans are not burning tires in the streets and going on a non-violent national sick-out until Dick Cheney is forced to resign and go into permanent exile in Dubai, where his hide-out is now ready for occupancy. Go, Dick, Go.
At Earth Intelligence Network, see 52 questions and answers that no candidate in Iowa can answer today, and the one-page outline of Electoral Reform legislation that some of us are asking Ron Paul and Barack Obama to introduce, with a ROLL CALL VOTE, when Congress returns in January. We will not accept anything less.
For serious non-fiction that focuses on how a village idiot who had two elections stolen for him (born with a silver foot in his mouth), see:
Bush's Brain
Vice: Dick Cheney and the Hijacking of the American Presidency
Running on Empty: How the Democratic and Republican Parties Are Bankrupting Our Future and What Americans Can Do About It
Breach of Trust: How Washington Turns Outsiders Into Insiders
Broken Government: How Republican Rule Destroyed the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial Branches
Now the good news:
A Power Governments Cannot Suppress
The Tao of Democracy: Using Co-Intelligence to Create a World That Works for All
Society's Breakthrough!: Releasing Essential Wisdom and Virtue in All the People
One from Many: VISA and the Rise of Chaordic Organization
The Battle for the Soul of Capitalism: How the Financial System Underminded Social Ideals, Damaged Trust in the Markets, Robbed Investors of Trillions - and What to Do About It
Book Review: Funny and unfortunately pertinent
Summary: 5 Stars
I received this book as a gift from a friend; it proved to be as funny as it was downright depressing at times. What makes the book interesting is that it combines slap-in-the-face humor with jaw-dropping quotes/actions taken by the Bush Administration. Just two examples of many:
As Governor of Texas, Bush presided over 152 executions, by far the most of any contemporary governor...
Dick Cheney: "A lot of what needs to be done here will have to be done quietly, without any discussion."
Though the purposefully humorous pages of the book do provide a fleeting sense of entertainment, I found the most shockingly hilarious sections of the book to be those pages showcasing the unbelievable, downright criminal and immoral actions of this Administration (about every 4 pages or so) - anecdotal tales that make one laugh and wonder, "Are these idiots for real?"
Given its low price and high level of pertinence to the state of affairs in our country - as well as the cheap laughs you'll get from the clever use of captions combined with some rather candid photos - I would recommend this book to anybody, perhaps especially to those who find no problems with the USA's current situation.
Book Review: Bad Book
Summary: 1 Stars
The books Bad Cat and Bad Baby are both hilarious; a friend assures me Bad Dog is equally funny. This book pretends to be part of the same series of books, but it's really not. Only about 3 picture/caption parings in the entire book are even a little bit funny, the rest is political propaganda against George W Bush. I bow to no one in my disdain for that man, but this isn't even good propaganda and it's not even fair; it's the type of brainless pablum that gives liberals a bad name. The format is similar to the other "bad" books, a candid picture paired with a caption, but in this case the captions aren't funny, they're a way of putting words in someone's mouth to score a political point. Every 3 or 4 pages, there is a "the sad truth" page to reinforce the point just in case you are so entirely brainless you didn't already get it, with 'facts' that in most cases aren't facts, just more opinions, or statistics taken out of context. What REALLY annoyed me is that its not like you couldn't build a good case against Mr. Bush if that was your objective OR write funny captions if being funny was your objective, or even write funny stuff that builds a case against Bush. After all, Jon Stewart does that very well and he's very funny as well. But this? Not even remotely funny.