Do not drink a hot beverage while reading this

[brentspeak]

(I don't want to get sued for causing someone's throat to be burned due their snarfing) ;-)

From the inside flap of Ronald Kessler's puff-piece 2004 biography of George W.Bush:

"Honesty. Integrity. Character of purpose. These are the qualities that Ronald Kessler, author of the New York Times bestseller, Inside The White House, discovered while investigating our current president who is so scrutinized - and criticized - at home and around our world...

...And some of Bush's closest friends reveal how down-to-earth he has remained since his middle-class boyhood in West Texas."

:crazy: :crazy: :crazy: :wow: :wow:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/1595230149/ref=sib_rdr_ff/103-7637319-4837450?%5Fencoding=UTF8&p=S002&j=0#reader-page

[Arkana]

1. What. The. FUCK?!

That's all I have. There are no other words. No other words. How FUCKING STUPID CAN YOU BE????!!!!

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. Thanks for the warning. SNARF!

I might add:

:puke: and :rofl:

[Inland]

3. *spittake* Owwww! nt

[SharonRB]

4. Surely you jest!

[babylonsister]

5. Just ... wow. They're both living a lie, and probably

making a pretty penny for it to see them through their golden years.

[Spinzonner]

6. Classic case of Kool-Aid poisoning

[Jara sang]

7. The elite must have a different scale.

The Saudis with all their new found petrodollars are throwing the grade curve.

[Norwood]

8. come on they cant be serious can they?

Be honest you just left out the :sarcasm:

[brentspeak]

15. I'll put that in, in case someone couldn't possibly get the point

[mazzarro]

9. Woooow - "his middle-class boyhood in West Texas."!

Everywhere you turn, * and his minions are have been trying to re-write history in all forms - from his childhood history to his contemporary f**kup! No wonder there is no shame in these people!

[brentspeak]

11. As another poster on a different thread put it

How many middle-class fathers set up their sons as owners of oil companies and major league baseball teams?

[MrMonk]

30. Yep - on the family ranch in Crawford.

[GOPisEvil]

38. Uh, he didn't buy the pig farm until he ran for President.

He grew up in Midland, mostly.

[rosesaylavee]

10. That is some picture they chose for the front cover of

the book. Does it look slanted to you? Or that the windows are spinning behind him at an odd angle? Very odd choice IMO yet fitting knowing that he is cracking up now due to his addictions.

Middle-class? Not like grandpa made his fortune selling guns to the Nazis or Poppy was an oilman.

[WePurrsevere]

12. LoL! Which alt reality do these people live in? It sure isn't the same

as I do. Bush middle-class? Yeah right... and the Pope's an Atheist. :rofl:

[SillyGoose]

13. Kessler is mainlining the kool-aid.

Middle-class boyhood??? HAHAHAHA!!!

[TheCowsCameHome]

14. Like his ratings - burrowing down to the center of the earth.

[upi402]

16. kesslertard, almost a bushtard

:spray:

[Vickers]

17. Heck, all the fellas in my neighborhood prepped at Andover!

:eyes:

[rosesaylavee]

18. Here's the front cover -

isn't it an odd photo? The room looks like its spinning and he's about to fall backwards - zombie like.

[brentspeak]

21. They wanted a photo of a "resolute" Bush

Standing in a Mt.Rushmore-like pose. And it's a very strange "biography", to say the least: 1/5 of the book is spent bashing John Kerry, with another 1/5 bashing other Democrats. This book was just a paid-to-order puff piece/partisan hack job. Kessler is quite a soulless individual.

[rosesaylavee]

29. Resolute? He looks stricken with a serious illness

and about to fall over.

And as for content, what else could it be about it? This is technically his second job, right?

[brentspeak]

33. Maybe they took a photograph of him being resolute

trying hard not to sway and fall flat on his face.

[rusty charly]

19. unfortunately for the chimp

it HAS come down to "a matter of character", hasn't it?

[Vickers]

26. More like "A Question of Character"

Or maybe even "An Absence of Character."

[KamaAina]

20. Is that anything like O'Really?'s "working-class" boyhood?

which was, in fact, middle-class.

How rich does a repuke have to be before he'll admit he's rich? Trump, perhaps? Funny, I always thought repukes were in favor of being rich... just not of seeming like it, I guess.

[chat_noir]

22. Kessler in interview

"For this book, I was able to interview all the major players — Karl Rove, Andy Card, Condi Rice, Al Gonzales — as well as close friends from Andover and Yale and aides who are not well known but are just as influential in their own spheres as the more well-known figures."

http://www.nationalreview.com/interrogatory/kessler200408090855.asp

No bias here. :sarcasm:

[rusty charly]

25. " -as well as close friends

from Andover and Yale and aides who are not well known but are just as influential in their power to royally screw the average American from the cover of smoke-filled boardrooms as the more well-known figures."

[Catherine Vincent]

28. Did he interview any former NG members that served with him?

[Der Blaue Engel]

23. WTF? Did he even LIVE in Texas in his "middle-class boyhood"?

:wtf:

How many freakin' lies do they have to spin to make him look good?

[mmonk]

24. middle class? Texas?

They weren't kidding when they said they would create their own reality.

[mmonk]

27. I never got a major league baseball team. That's one middle class thing

I sure would like to have.

[Initech]

31. What is this guy smoking and where can I get some?

:spray:

The qualities he's describing are all the things that Commander Cuckoobananas lacks!

[Marr]

32. Honesty. Integrity. Character of purpose.

These are personality traits of history's most impressive individuals. But forget about them for now- this is a book about GW Bush.

[atommom]

36. Sounds like something we might see on The Daily Show!

:rofl:

[corbett]

34. Send Him This Free DVD!

No one needs a copy more than that hack/rubberstamp!

https://secure.reopen911.org/freedvd.php

[Berserker]

35. Ronald Kessler's

mouth is not round from eating banana's

[drb]

37. New: $16.00 Used: $1.06 ---- Enough said right there! eom

nt

[proud patriot]

39. "his middle-class boyhood" hahahahahahahahahaha

"Honesty. Integrity. Character of purpose"

hahahahahahahahahahaha:rofl:hahahahahahahahahahaha
hahahahahahahahahahaha:rofl:hahahahahahahahahahaha
hahahahahahahahahahaha:rofl:hahahahahahahahahahaha

(breath) these pukes are craking me up tonight

hahahahahahahahahahaha:rofl:hahahahahahahahahahaha
hahahahahahahahahahaha:rofl:hahahahahahahahahahaha
hahahahahahahahahahaha:rofl:hahahahahahahahahahaha

[jmowreader]

40. That's "middle class oilman's son's boyhood," sir

I'm certain there are Texas oilmen who make more money than Poppy Bush ever did out on the patch, and there are Texas oilmen who made less than he did, so therefore since Poppy's brood was in the middle of the salary range for Texas oilmen, obviously his sons would have had a middle-class upbringing.

Okay, never mind the fact that the tuition at the private school Bush slept through is more than I make in a year, or that he's a legacy at Yale...