The bad news: Yes, Former President George W. Bush is to be in town today, pushing his book, "Decision Points" locally.
The good news?
He's no longer in office.
Thank goodness.
I got to thinking about this book of his and my first thought was, how could any book be more self-serving than this one? Coincidentally, then, this morning, I got a link to the next New Yorker magazine and what did the reviewer, George Packer, say? "Very few of its four hundred and ninety-three pages are not self-serving."
Ah, sweet verification.
And more vindication.
I would gladly give all that up if we could just undo the 8 years he took us through, to get here.
Final note: You should read the review, if you have the time, as it's entertaining and informative, as usual for The New Yorker.
Enjoy those temps today, y'all.
Links: http://www.kctv5.com/news/25874910/detail.html
http://archives.newyorker.com/?i=2010-11-29&email-analytics=newsletter101129p072#folio=CV1
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Don't be too hard on George II he probably hasn't read it himself yet....
First, you're right, as we both know or can guess and second, believe me, I'm going easy on him. Partly because we can't change what he screwed up and partly because it's just so much energy wasted.
Please.
When Bill Clinton, or any other Democrat publishes an autobiography or a memoir, do you go off and rant about how 'self serving' it is? C'mon. What a waste of pixels.
Seriously, do you know anyone who, when describing an action or actions they have taken, doesn't put it in the best possible light and explain how it seemed to be the right thing to do at the time?
It's human nature to do so, isn't it?
So all you really should have had to say about this was 'George W is human'.
Which is the one thing about him that you may not have wanted to admit.
Oh, sure. I agree. Virtually everyone who writes an autobiography puts things in their own, good light, sure.
But if you read the article from The New Yorker, the author makes it clear George goes a bit beyond the pale with the self-serving writing, even to the point of changing where and how some things took place, according to other historians.
George Bush human? I'd be the first to say so.
Our problem, particularly when he was president, was that he was a bit "too human" and fallible, to the point of irresponsible, hence the debt and the war in Iraq, to name only two items. There was also the illegal torture, etc.
Oh, yeah, George W. Bush is, if anything, very human. You got me there.
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