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Summary: Beam Me Up
Review: The sub title kills me. "A Guide to the Most Appalling Presidency of the Past 100 Years". This following the Clinton years? Pathetic!
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Summary: Read it in the Barnes and Noble cafe
Review: The title says it all. If you hate the current occupant of the White House and end up getting in arguments with your friends and family about how you should be patriotic and uspport out president this book will give you some ammunition to hold up your side of the argument.
I wish it had been titled differently as it is a better book than you might expect from the cover. Authoer Huberman does a credible job laying out tall the reasons why he thinks Bush doesn't belong on Pennsylvania Avenue.
I guess bias seems inescapable in a book so provacatively titled but it is more readable and credible than most of Micheal Moore's hysterical rantings.
In my opinion Jame Bovard lays out a better case in "The Bush Betrayal". If you were going to read one book that lays out the case against our fratboy president go for Bovard. If you can't get enough of the Bush bashing, this is decent followup to Bovards work even though it covers much of the same ground.
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Summary: Hate is more powerful than truth
Review: This book will only appeal to those on the far rabid left. Moderates, weather you are tolerate bush or not will gain nothing from the book. The books goal is to catalog in an A-Z fashion every negative rumor, no matter how specious it may be, put out against President Bush. There are very few footnotes and the sources that Mr. Huberman uses highly dubious sources. Balance, truth, objectivity are not the books goals, a one sided, hatchet Hate job is what you get. Since most intelligent people, weather from the right or the left, do not enjoy this sort of political screed the books audience is severely limited. Let's discuss some the more popular misconceptions in the book with only VERIFIABLE facts. We've all heard that Bush's Tax cut was a boone for the super wealthy. In order to prove this point the pro-high-tax people use numbers calculated by pro-high-tax-think-tanks. Of course the anti-tax people use their numbers from their anti-tax-think-tanks. So how do we get at the TRUTH to find out who the tax cuts helped or hurt? The answer is incredibly simple, look at the actual tax data from the IRS. When Clinton left office the top 20% of all households paid about 77% of all taxes. After President Bushs 'benefit the rich' tax cuts the top 20% of all household paid about 85% of all income tax. WAIT A MINUTE - Taxes on the rich went UP under Bush and actually went DOWN under Clinton. (When Bush SR. left office taxes on the top 20% resulted in 86% of all income tax). Sorry Jack, YOUR WRONG BIG TIME. While were at it lets discuss the party of big business, the; democrats. Throughout the book we hear about ENRON being Bush's biggest political donor, not true, but what is true is that it WAS Clintons Biggest political donor. We don't hear about that the Enron scandal took place during Clinton's tenure, as a matter of fact all of the major business scandals discussed in the book took place while Clinton was in charge. Bush just got to clean up the mess, and receive the blame. But that doesn't surprise me, when you look at who receives the most in contributions from businesses (pubic information BTW) you will find that the democrats have received MORE money from businesses every year since the records have been kept. What is also interesting is to see who the super wealthy ($500+ million net worth) give their money to, again it is overwhelmingly democrats (all public record folks check it out). As a matter of fact the middle class give more money to the republicans than the democrats (again all public record). Sorry Jack using your logic, the democrats are the party of the big business and the rich, they turn their backs on fraudulent activities of business and give tax breaks to the rich. Interesting how the liberal media, and yes jack they are liberal, go along with the deception. But please, don't get me wrong folks, I'm no friend of the Republicans, I actually think that both parties can be described as being bought and paid for but the Democrats have traditionally been far more bought than the Republicans. Lately though I find it very difficult to see much difference between the Demicans and the Republicrats. Kyoto Accord; this is by far the greatest propaganda ploy ever done. Simply put some scientist say that CO2 is the cause of global warming. According to Jack there is 'oceans of evidence' for this, he doesn't mention that for every 3 scientists who have signed on as supporters of the global warming hypothesis; EIGHT, yes, 8 disagree and say there is not enough evidence to support the hypothesis. But let's forget that fact and let's forgot the fact that CO2 was not considered to cause global warming until only 5 years ago. But let's just assume that global warming is happening and CO2 is the root cause, what are the leading producers of CO2? I love to ask this question of 'environmentalists'! The answer BTW is not disputed by either group of scientists, we have satellites in space that show us where the greatest concentrations of CO2 come from. RU ready.
#1) Old Growth Forests; hard to believe, but scientists say its from the decaying matter and that old trees let out CO2.
#2) Volcanoes; according to scientists Mt. Saint Helens let out as much CO2 in its eruption that has been produced in the US since 1900.
#3) Factories and the ancillary support structures that produce goods. Oh just another little factoid the forests and volcanoes account for roughly 85 - 99% of all CO2 emissions each year! The number varies so much because it depends upon the amount of volcanic activity. All right, I'm not saying we should destroy old growth forests and there isn't much we can do about Mother Nature. It seem the only thing we can really do anything about is the production of goods and trying to make the factories cleaner. Using this simple logic and the fact that the US produces 37% of all the world goods you would expect that we should be able to produce 37% of all the CO2, but get this we produce only 25%. We have the cleanest factories in the world but we will be the only country that gets punished by this accord. Compare us to India which produces about 1% of the world's goods but produces 8% of the CO2. India, with the worst polluting factories would actually be allowed to TRIPLE their output of CO2 under the Kyoto agreement without producing one scintilla more! Go Figure In this 'through the looking glass' world, the average American needs to arm themselves with FACTS not political ideology built on the Orwellian concept of war is peace and black is white. This book unfortunately embraces such ludicrous concepts. A deceptive read at best.
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Summary: Excellent Book!
Review: This is a book with that contains fact and substance. Because it is written with facts and not spin, it is a fair and balanced look at little George. Highly recommend buying this book.
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Summary: Excellent book on why Bush has failed Americans.
Review: This is a superb, tell it like it is chronicling of George Bush and his administration's failings. The economy is doing better 'on paper', but in reality, companies are still laying off workers in large numbers, and the true unemployment statistics are being skewed by our government. I have followed corporate layoffs over the last few months, and the numbers are still high, while good job creation has been left in the dust. The low wage, no or minimal benefit 'Mc Jobs' created under this administration cannot adequately support our population anymore. Bush is a clearcut disaster for this nation, and he has succeeded in dividing America to a point not seen since the Vietnam war. Pick this book up if you want to know the truth. We've had enough of this lightweight Bush.
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Summary: Great Resource for Election 2004
Review: This is an entertaining, well-written and researched, and user-friendly book for the 2004 election season.
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Summary: Useful guide to a bad presidency
Review: This useful book provides the facts of the Bush presidency, a disaster at home and abroad.
The American people are suffering growing unemployment, lower wages, growing trade and government deficits, and attacks on all their services, especially education, health, job training and social security. Huberman shows how capitalism in absolute decline depends on its governments to funnel public wealth to the private sector.
Between 1982 and 1995 Texas carried out 18 executions. Between 1995 and 2001, when Bush was Governor, it carried out 152 executions.
Huberman shows how Bush's much-hyped $15 billion AIDS relief package actually helped US drug companies. He provided AIDS drugs at the taxpayer's expense, so the drug companies did not have to cut their inflated, monopoly prices.
In 1998, US companies avoided $54 billion in taxes through using offshore tax havens, mostly British-run. The accounting firm Ernst & Young told its clients to use these havens: "the improvement on earnings is powerful enough that maybe the patriotism issue needs to take a back seat." To capitalism, profits are the be-all and end-all, patriotism is just one issue among many.
Huberman details the warmongering against Iraq, Iran, North Korea and Cuba. Vice-President Cheney once said, "You've got to go where the oil is", which rather sums up US foreign policy.
Bush and Blair's war against terrorism would be a permanent war, with a permanent police state. The US state is destroying the American people's rights; witness the police violence against anti-war demonstrators in every part of the country.
Blair helped Bush to win in November by sending British troops where Bush wanted and by ordering Ministers never to criticise the Bush government. The whole Labour Party was in effect part of Bush's election committee. The Republicans played the terror and scare cards, claiming that only they were sound on security. Labour is now playing the same dirty trick.
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Summary: Get RENEWED!!
Review: This was an interesting concept but unfortunately the ideas offer little insight and no action plans for positive solutions. If you would like to read the best book on social responsibility read RENEW: The Day We Solve All Our Problems by E. R. Marks. RENEW is electrifying and brilliant. It will change our views on social responsibility and will dramatically and immediately increase the quality of life of every American.
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Summary: A waste of money
Review: This was the most ridculous piece of work I can remember reading. It is full of lies and very much a liberal slant and spin just about from cover to cover. Spend your money more wisely on something else. The write should find another line of work.
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Summary: Bush must be defeated!
Review: This work is a beautifully written expose of what most us (except die hard fundamentalists, self intereted billionaires and people whose job depends on Bush's 2nd try at winning the presidncy) already intuitively knew. There are over 100 books out there about this man's dishonesty, corrupt nature, intellectual deficiencies that all tell a very important story. If it were a court of law where the preponderance of evidence was needed there would be a guilty verdict on 99% of what has been presented about this derelict. In a criminal court I beleive the circumstantial evidence would produce the same result. This book goes deeper and explains why. It almost makes one feel sorry for the selected president if his deeds were not so despicable. I read the negative reviews here also. In the torrent of wildly positively rated intelligent reviews these negative ones sounded silly and trite. I'd pay no attention to them -you'd be denying yourself an insigtful journey into the life and lack of character of a man that has a more negative influence on individual Americans' lives since King George. I mean a point of comparison with Clinton: travel gate, whitewater, sexual indescretion compared to war crimes, illegal wars, tampering with government records, allowing 9/11 through incompetence at least, manufactured intelligence to achieve a decitful end, outright lies to accomplish an predetermined agenda, I mean the list goes on and on - these are high crimes and I would question anyone's let alone the president's responsibility for a thought pattern that has produced the start of the near ruination of the country. The shrink is right - the therapy starts with removing him from office before he destroy's the entire country if he already hasn't and we won't know it for sure until after he is reappointed.
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