The I Hate George W. Bush Reader: Why He's Wrong about Absolutely Everything

People who give this book one star because of the title are completely missing the point. It isn't real HATE - it's frustration and it's a jab at the fact that it is the conservative blowhards like rush and billo that only deal in such words. The book is full of intelligent, well reasoned, and objective essays about the failings -- be they political, moral, intellectual, etc -- of our president.

This is an excellent book! My wife gave it to me as a birthday gift. I just finished it before the second "presidential" debate. The book could serve as a primer for the debate. In the book there is a chapter on Dubya's language. He vey much uses "I", in short: he personalizes the state a la Luis XIV. If you question Dubya, you question the US. The he uses statements that are either sweeping, or detailed. Both difficult to contradict, since they are not actually false, but not actually true either. He paints everything in black and white, right or wrong. Kerry, when in a more statesmanlike manner, tries to say that for a president, things cannot be that simple, gets mocked. Enough on that. Many chapters detail the calculated lies of the administration. Some of them are overly detailed, but that just make them so much more painful to read. Luckily there are several cartoons, Dubya gaffes and quotes, and games included in the book, to give the reader the relief fo laughter. The most shocking facts are left to last: the republican spin doctors use the fact that americans want to believe that the US President is doing his best for the country. By careful spin and propaganda they have twisted the mindframe of Americans so that questioning Dubya is equal to questioning the US Constitution or the American Way of Life. Of course, media gets its share too. Bush is treated much more lenient by the media than any other president. Scary stuff.

This is a great book that really outlines many of the wrong-misguided antics of our present administration. I have used this book with my kids(11 and 13), it's set-up really well to have family discussions with small sections of 5-15 pages. I wish the name would have been changed. I don't hate the president, however I dislike his policies and his agenda. Many of his ideas were good in conception but lacked the backing to make them effective(ie No Child Left Behind). And many of the ideas were wrong to begin with(ie Stem Cell Research Ban). It's a good book to get you started, and will give you a good basis on which to research on the current president.

A wonderful hate-fest for Bush haters (and there are a lot of them)! And plenty of facts along with the invective. I didn't agree with absolutely everything in the book, but a lot of it was right on target. Wonderful essays, cartoons and quotes from the Misunderestimated Man. Why should the cons have all the fun being partisan and nasty?I was a bit surprised not to see some negative review by an outraged conservative, but then, would a Bush partisan actually ever buy this book?