Originally Posted By barboy2 ....... helps finance the 'enemy'? Wife eagerly went out and bought Bush's "Decision Points" at Costco for $20. This isn't the first time that she did something against the best interests of the homefront but bringing George II into the living room is high treason.
Originally Posted By mele LOL! I'd say that it's time to give her the silent and no-sex treatment. ;-) This is funny: <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/11/12/george-bush-book-decision-points_n_782731.html#s180908" target="_blank">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...#s180908</a>
Originally Posted By skinnerbox <<Yeah don't let her learn Bush's side of the argument, Keep her ignorant.>> Even if she read the book, she'd still be ignorant. Bush is a dry drunk. Drunks rarely tell the truth.
Originally Posted By quincytoo George wrote a book??? Ummm Don't you to know how to read and also pronounce words properly before you try to write?? LOL He wrote a book??? "Georgie sees a Who dat?"
Originally Posted By Mr X Actually, no. His ghostwriter supposedly did. Even so, it appears a good amount of it was plagiarized. Here are 15 examples... <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/11/12/george-bush-book-decision-points_n_782731.html#s180927" target="_blank">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...#s180927</a> Somehow, being this is Bush we're talking about, I'm not the least bit surprised he would steal other kids' homework rather than bother doing his own. But Donny, why would you recommend a plagiarized book?
Originally Posted By RoadTrip You could buy Palin's autobiography and then you could both share the stupid parts of your books with each other. Nothing like sharing a good laugh to help a marriage.
Originally Posted By Longhorn12 >Yeah don't let her learn Bush's side of the argument, Keep her ignorant.< You do realize that we had EIGHT YEARS to hear his side right?
Originally Posted By Mr X When historians hundreds of years from now (assuming we even survive that long!) look back on this, our "Age of Idiocracy", I have to wonder if those two will be regarded as the new "founding grizzlies".
Originally Posted By mele <<You could buy Palin's autobiography and then you could both share the stupid parts of your books with each other. Nothing like sharing a good laugh to help a marriage.>> ROFL! That actually sounds kind of fun!
Originally Posted By Donny Well Mr. X it looks like President Obama will be the President that took a bad economy and made it worse.
Originally Posted By markymouse "Yeah don't let her learn Bush's side of the argument, Keep her ignorant." OK. A couple of things. That's why there's public libraries, so you can read someone's point of view without directly contributing to their profiting from their actions which you've spent 8 years opposed to. Please notice that barboy's wife "eagerly went out and bought" the book. She did not "eagerly plead with me to let her buy the book". Phrases like "don't let her" and "keep her ignorant" sound more than a little out of date, assuming you don't live in a neighborhood with child brides and honor killings.
Originally Posted By Dabob2 <Well Mr. X it looks like President Obama will be the President that took a bad economy and made it worse.> Only if you have a severe bias towards wanting it to look like that. So far, he's done anything but that. He's taken an economy that was hemorrhaging 700,000 jobs a month (a month!) when he took over, very quickly reversed the job losses, and now we've had 10 straight months of job growth. It's modest growth to be sure and not fast enough for anyone's liking, but it takes someone with ideological blinders on to think the economy is worse now than it was in late 2008.
Originally Posted By hopemax Obama may face a situation, though, where he's seen as not having done what needed to be done. There are still too many accounting tricks as far as the banks, mortgages, Wall Street is concerned. There are no prosecutions, as of yet. The administration isn't pushing for real reform. I think it's too early to say the economy isn't worse (or better or the same). We don't know how much is being hidden from view, behind, semi-positive job reports. The health of the economy is much more than who is and isn't employed at the moment. What big business and big finance are allowed to do between 2009-2012 is going to be on Obama's watch, and he will take blame if things take another dark turn.
Originally Posted By Dabob2 To be fair on that score, though, at least the Dems tried to get some reforms. They didn't get nearly what they wanted due to the abuse of the filibuster, resulting in the rather watered down version we got (which had Repubs yelling "socialism!" anyway.)
Originally Posted By barboy2 Update: Wife goes for Broke......LITERALLY!!!! she brought home Glen Beck's "Broke" ------what a pisser. She has now fired on Fort Sumpter and this house is divided more than the USA back on April 12 1861.
