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Memoir by George W Bush to be published in November

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Memoir by George W Bush to be published in November
Written by: Editor on 26th April 2010

Former US president writes about ‘never-before-heard detail’ of 9/11, his alcoholism, and mistakes and achievements while in White House

The autobiography of George W Bush will go on sale in November, offering the former US president’s take on the September 11 terrorist attacks, as well as personal issues such as his battle with alcoholism.

The cover of the book, entitled Decision Points, features Bush standing alone in the White House’s rose garden colonnade holding a presidential briefing book.

Bush has said the book will not be a memoir but an account of key decisions in his presidency and personal life. According to Crown Publishers, it will offer “gripping, never-before-heard detail” on 9/11 and the 2000 presidential election as well as his decision to quit drinking and insights into his family life.

“Since leaving the Oval Office, President Bush has given virtually no interviews or public speeches about his presidency,” Crown said in a statement. “Instead, he has spent almost every day writing Decision Points.”

A publishing industry source said Bush had completed a first draft and was editing the manuscript at his office in Dallas. A former White House speechwriter, Chris Michel, is helping. The source was unsure whether Bush had compared notes with his wife, Laura Bush, whose memoir comes out 4 May.

Bush was known for not acknowledging errors, but Crown said he “writes honestly and directly about his flaws and mistakes, as well as his historic achievements.”
Memoir by George W Bush to be published in November|WorldBBNews

Aside from the easy oxymoron of "Bush writing a book", when even Condi Rice warned his administration that, "He's not a big reader", does anybody believe Bush actually wrote a book when during his 8 years in office he probably didn't read one?

Will Bush come down to earth and admit to making mistakes?
Will he fill in any missing time from his National Guard service?
Will he admit his "No child left behind" was a colossal failure as it actually caused more work for our nations teachers due to more testing and being hugely under funded?
Will there be any confessions on his lies that caused us to invade an innocent country?
Will he admit invading Iraq was his plan even before he took office?
Will he confess to ignoring Clinton's heated warnings about Bin Laden when he first took office?
Will he tell us why Ashcroft starting flying on private jets just before 9/11?
Will he tell the truth about Cheeney's and Rove's and Libby's conspiracy to out a covert CIA agent and why he never fired anyone after he told the nation he would?
Will he speak to Rove's involvement in firing those U.S. Attorneys who didn't do Rove's political hack work?
Will he admit that Cheeney actually ran everything and worked him like a puppet?
Will he tell us why he suddenly grew a backbone when he defied Cheeney's constant requests to pardon Libby?

I don't expect any deep thoughts from this or any heretofore not known revelations. Even a good ghost writer can't get blood from a stone. I expect the same level of substance in this that's in Sarah Palin's "Going Rogue". That is... none. This will have a similar purpose as did Rove's book, to polish his image for the historians. He never cared about what the American people thought of him while he was our president. This will be no different.
 
Will it be a comic book?
 
Bush was known for not acknowledging errors, but Crown said he “writes honestly and directly about his flaws and mistakes, as well as his historic achievements.”

The Chapter on his "historic achievements" is going to be a very short one.
 
The ignorance and intolerance of the left is at it again...

Yes, now liberals are "intolerant" because we make fun of someone! Tolerance means you can't criticize anyone for anything after all! :roll:
 
Yes, now liberals are "intolerant" because we make fun of someone! Tolerance means you can't criticize anyone for anything after all! :roll:

Criticize? Sure. But a complete mischaracterization of someone is another story altogether. Sure, we may not like him, but the fact is that Bush is a voracious reader of serious books and is not the illiterate dunce that some have portrayed him as.
 
Criticize? Sure. But a complete mischaracterization of someone is another story altogether. Sure, we may not like him, but the fact is that Bush is a voracious reader of serious books and is not the illiterate dunce that some have portrayed him as.

But the real question is. "Is our children learning"? :2razz:
 
Criticize? Sure. But a complete mischaracterization of someone is another story altogether.

Again - fine. That may be unfair, but it's not "intolerance."

You throw out that word like it just means "bad". Kind of like the word "liberal" is abused to the point of meaninglessness.
 
Putting aside partisan politics and how one views the former President's tenure in office, the book might well provide a learning opportunity. One might be able to better understand the President's decisionmaking, how he viewed events, what risks he had to confront, what trade-offs he believed were inherent in his decisions, his "big picture" view of the context in which the U.S. found itself, his perceptions concerning the unfolding economic crisis that likely has been the seminal event of the first decade of the 21st century (if not longer), etc. Reading such books can allow one greater insight into a President's tenure. I, for one, will look forward to reading the book when it is published.
 
how about obama's book, he got the title for the second from his gd reverend from the church of chickens roosting

y'know, the spiritual mentor he said he could no more disavow than he could his own racist white gramma

that is, just weeks before cutting off at the knees the man who married him to michelle and baptized his children

talk about audacity
 
how about obama's book, he got the title for the second from his gd reverend from the church of chickens roosting

y'know, the spiritual mentor he said he could no more disavow than he could his own racist white gramma

that is, just weeks before cutting off at the knees the man who married him to michelle and baptized his children

talk about audacity

So intolerant of you.
 
Putting aside partisan politics and how one views the former President's tenure in office, the book might well provide a learning opportunity. One might be able to better understand the President's decisionmaking, how he viewed events, what risks he had to confront, what trade-offs he believed were inherent in his decisions, his "big picture" view of the context in which the U.S. found itself, his perceptions concerning the unfolding economic crisis that likely has been the seminal event of the first decade of the 21st century (if not longer), etc. Reading such books can allow one greater insight into a President's tenure. I, for one, will look forward to reading the book when it is published.

You're right. It "should" be informative. We'll have to see. Going by things he said during his presidency, I doubt it. I will read it. But, I won't buy it.
 
just why DID ashcroft start flying private before 9-11?

LOL!
 
Do you read? Do you tell anyone about the books you read? Is there anybody in the world who could state how many books you read this year? Last year?

How in the world would Rove know how many books Bush read? I'll tell you how - he told Bush how many books he read.

Actually, I do know because I keep a book blog. I don't see why the President wouldn't keep track of the books he reads as well...
 
Do you read? Do you tell anyone about the books you read? Is there anybody in the world who could state how many books you read this year? Last year?

How in the world would Rove know how many books Bush read? I'll tell you how - he told Bush how many books he read.

Here's a better question... Do you read? If so, read the link I posted. It makes it clear that Rove knew how many books Bush read, because they had a contest going.
 
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That reminds me of the that scene in A Fish Called Wanda where Kevin Klein says monkeys don't read Neitzsche and Jamie Lee Curtis says, "yes they do, they just don't understand it".

And yet, I'll bet he got better grades at Yale and HArvard then you got at Yale and Harvard.
 
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Memoir by George W Bush to be published in November|WorldBBNews

Aside from the easy oxymoron of "Bush writing a book", when even Condi Rice warned his administration that, "He's not a big reader", does anybody believe Bush actually wrote a book when during his 8 years in office he probably didn't read one?

Will Bush come down to earth and admit to making mistakes?
Will he fill in any missing time from his National Guard service?
Will he admit his "No child left behind" was a colossal failure as it actually caused more work for our nations teachers due to more testing and being hugely under funded?
Will there be any confessions on his lies that caused us to invade an innocent country?
Will he admit invading Iraq was his plan even before he took office?
Will he confess to ignoring Clinton's heated warnings about Bin Laden when he first took office?
Will he tell us why Ashcroft starting flying on private jets just before 9/11?
Will he tell the truth about Cheeney's and Rove's and Libby's conspiracy to out a covert CIA agent and why he never fired anyone after he told the nation he would?
Will he speak to Rove's involvement in firing those U.S. Attorneys who didn't do Rove's political hack work?
Will he admit that Cheeney actually ran everything and worked him like a puppet?
Will he tell us why he suddenly grew a backbone when he defied Cheeney's constant requests to pardon Libby?

I don't expect any deep thoughts from this or any heretofore not known revelations. Even a good ghost writer can't get blood from a stone. I expect the same level of substance in this that's in Sarah Palin's "Going Rogue". That is... none. This will have a similar purpose as did Rove's book, to polish his image for the historians. He never cared about what the American people thought of him while he was our president. This will be no different.

Is it written in crayon?

haha, and no, I don't think really any politician actually writes their own books.
 
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