Bush's "Ecelectic" Reading List

[goback3spaces]

Bush was never a smooth talker, but then neither was Harry Truman. He's trying to expand his horizons by expading his reading list. I'd like to know how he felt about Camus. THE STRANGER or THE PLAGUE, George?

[shonjuan11]

this mother fracker is HIGH! Cocaine is a helluva drug.

[midnightwallflower]

Fucking hell, George Washington is weeping in his grave.

[bapyou]

"George Bush was a man with severely limited intelligence and no moral core. He exemplifies the legions of self-centered, spoiled, intellectually limited and wealthy elitists churned out by places like Andover, Yale, & Harvard. Bush was, like the rest of his caste, propelled forward by his money & his connections. The real purpose of these richly endowed schools is to perpetuate entitlement & privilege." ~ Chris Hedges, Empire of Illusion

[bsapaka]

man hes so dumb i feel sorry for him

[cinephilefromhell]

@bsapaka Irony.

[nathankbick95]

A great hero!

[203207ab]

Everyone says let history judge this President. Well I say, forget history and focus on solving the problems now and how we are judged in the "present and here and now".  Do you honestly think humans, generations from now, will actually care or know anything about history? Do you think some guy from Alabama traveling to Mars will be thinking about how great Bush was or about you and how you lived through this period? No, he'll be thinking about banging the hot flight attendant he just saw.

[dethica]

i doubt he read a single book while in the white house....okay maybe 1 or 3 tops...but you know what, i still love this guy. hes a classic

[RockinDaBronx]

wtf kind of reading list? What word was he trying to say?

[GuamIsGood]

The back story of The Stranger is that "Maman died today", and it's the first line of the book, George. Milan Kundera's Art of the Novel has conversation with Christian Salmon that addresses the absence of back story in the modern novel through Kafka's "K." and it's excellent. Incidentally, jmsimpson11, I wonder how The Stanger affected Bush too. I will read it again under that pretext.

[jmsimpson11]

i wonder how the stranger affected bush?

[rezarator]

@jmsimpson11

He understood and liked the main character for shooting and killing the Arab on the beach w/o any obvious reason....probably!

[fc007]

@jmsimpson11

You're better off asking your dog, either way you won't get an answer.

I'm picturing Bush with coloring books.

[VinceP1974]

Obama walks around with the same books he's been seen with a year ago.

[crazyblackman1]

wow he really is drunk, "I also read three Shakespeares." how horrifying, hearing that from a President.

[aarontk]

I really hate to state the obvious, but he's obviously drunk.

[CalibratedPh33r]

People george bush is a moron, but he is smart. Part of his appeal during his election and through his presidency was that he made mistakes, and he was similar to ordinary people, personally i would like that in a president, but not in the way that bush used it. He used it to appeal to people just to get votes and support his blunders, not to forward out country and give the power back to the citizens.

[qantasCapt]

Bush is an absolute imbecile and Cheney is pure evil - at it's worst. America would be a far better place without politicians of their ilk. Thank God he's gone and atlast there is an intelligent man in the Oval office! I hope he serves 2 terms.

[lurkerhermit]

a buffoon with cunning

[ChristiansMustLearn]

This man is so obviously a buffoon

[eugdog106]

despite his innumeravle social gaffes and faux paus, i think he was a somewhat underrated president, we havent had a terrorist attack since 911 and hes made some very tough decisions.

[oneviwatara]

He was the fucking president when we got attacked on 9-11-2001 idiot.

[bobkmando]

you douchetard, "since 911" leaves the Sept 11, 2001 attacks OUTSIDE the time frame being considered.

as opposed to, say, Bill Clinton who had numerous terrorist attacks against American property ( the Twin Towers, various embassies and ships ) during his presidency and who never once responded effectively.

[superjon5]

4,000 dead soldiers in Iraq is responding effectively?

[bobkmando]

considering what they're doing and how long they've been there?

exceptionally effective.

[Dagcatguy]

Will there ever be anyone as dumb to accend to the higest office in the this country again?

[doublealufwaffe]

He has us all fooled-That man is a genius!

[sybilll]

Bush gets finger pointing in the chest, and Obama gets a bow. Where did my country go?

[pajamamomma]

That's weird. I don't see Williams bowing to Bush.

[campsteveo]

Brian williams is a submissive little puppy who pees when he is confronted by real manhood.

[oryansnebula]

What does Brian say under his breath when Bush says "I don't know Brian what they get or don't get".

Is it, "You're still talking"?

[belgianhorst]

what language is this, not in my dictionary (well I must say it 'says' "Engels" (English) and not American)

[belgianhorst]

ahah! now I know why it was so difficult to make bush jr to do the real right thing, you should have demonstrated during the basebalgames, yeah yeah

[rodgerswithad]

Speaking as an observer from the UK, it strikes me that Bush is highly defensive due to self awareness of his own great ignorance about most things. It also strikes me that the USA has a chance to begin the process of undoing the awful Bush legacy by electing Obama

[letranger1217]

it strikes me that the UK ceased to be relevant over a half century ago and it thus also strikes me than you're opinion of our politics is thus of no consequence and it further strikes me that despite the most evident nature of the pathetic state of the UK (i.e. a royal navy vessel being captured and held hostage by iranian tugboats) britons continue to hold their chins high with audacity feeling entitled to put forth their two cents on the leadership of my country.

[rodgerswithad]

I have the audacity to put forth an opinion on any subject I choose because I live in the West where you and I both enjoy the freedom of speech...an entitlement I use periodically without fear of being bullied into silence by anyone.

[dionusos2]

He was shitting bricks when he thought the question was what the book was about.. "uh, it's about some fellah...who's...uh...epilepti­c..."

[shyboy6666]

bush can read?

[romanov1er1]

Reading a book that is describing the live of a guy who killed an arab and don't have any remorse? I guess he doesn't who is Camus.

[Explicit305]

Uh.. "i guess he dosen't who is Camus"?

What does that mean..?

[romanov1er1]

... he doesn't know Camus!

[Explicit305]

Um you didnt say it right..

And yeah who is that?

[Snowman374th]

He never red any of those books I bet,So dont get too affended,And I hope people around the world would not hold all Americans same as him. We do have compation for people...You just have to be in the right place, And let all people have a home and food N Job..

[12880018]

I think even more than his words, his body language says a lot. It's fairly easy to tell that the president feels challenged. His reaction seems to be to step up to a challenge physically manifested in a rather aggressive invasion of the interviewer's space. Right or wrong the president digs in and defends himself. It's too bad instead he couldn't just pick up a book once in a while. It probably wouldn't hurt.

[Snowman374th]

hahaha Yup!

[planetfine]

WOW such hard questions....good going Brian.

[taano71]

what is this ecelectic?

[peppermintpaddy]

you dont read shakespeare for fun-you study shakespeare as you are doing.only someone trying to appear intellectual would say they are reading shakespeare-he only wrote plays and sonnets, not books-course george dumbya wouldn't know that ,would he?

[peppermintpaddy]

he couldn't read the back of a cornflakes packet-he's a moron-plus you dont read shakespeare-he didnt write books

[glidinclyde]

"you dont read shakespeare" uhh, idiot, im in a masters level course ad guess what were doing...READING shakespeare!

[DrkrZen]

"plus you dont read shakespeare"

THAT was absolutely hilarious! That totally made my day.. lmao XD

[ghostofmtv]

Hey - if I lived in a trailer park, I would take great pride in knowing that I was smarter than the President of the United States. But working in a library as I do, it just scares me and makes me ashamed. By the way, how does he know when to watch a "good" baseball game? Does Cheney tell him when it's going to be a "good" game? I also wonder which "three Shakespeares" he read. Sonnets I'm sure - if that!

[fm37212]

He pretends to be throwing people off, pretending that he's trying to fool everybody into thinking he's dumb like he has some master plan but in fact he distracts the interviewer from his question which is, "Explain the book to me." The fact of the matter is...he can't, because if he DID read the book he could not explain it. Good ole boy my ass.

[ncr100]

The comedian president. Like Rush Limbaugh is the comedian analyst. Greaaat.