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Title: The Lies of George W. Bush: Mastering the Politics of Deception by DAVID CORN ISBN: 1-4000-5066-9 Publisher: Crown Pub. Date: 30 September, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.35 (52 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Lies of George W Bush: Mastering the Politics of Deception
Comment: An absolutely astonishing book. Clear-eyed, fair, well documented. This is no partisan rant. Should be required reading for all voters in the November '04 election.
The chapter on Bush's cozy relationship with Enron (before it became politically unwise to have such) and his career-long rap-sheet of questionable corporate machinations had me foaming at the mouth by the end. This man has not brought "integrity and honesty back to the White House." I long for the innocent days of Hillary and her cattle futures investing.
The lies that took our country into the war with Iraq are nothing new, but Corn's prose makes them read like a poem--an ugly poem about lost limbs and lost honor.
And the dissection of dishonesty in the Bush 2000 campaign is instructive as we see this year's campaign heating up with the same vile leftovers. Read the book. Especially if you love George W.
Rating: 5
Summary: Studying the Record
Comment: Political author and journalist David Corn is a regular contributor to The Nation magazine. He is known for his thorough analysis and research propensities. His exhaustive investigation of Bush promises versus performance covers important issues that should be in the forefront of next year's presidential election.
One major Bush discrepancy closely examined was his proclamation that he was an "outside the Beltway" Washington, D.C. outsider, and that he would be elevating political discourse and removing as best possible partisan politics from the national agenda. From the time he arrived in Washington, Bush, who was never the outsider he pretended to be, has interacted with Tom De Lay and other promoters of partisanship to shape a right wing agenda incommensurate with the voters, over a majority of whom cast ballots for Al Gore in the last presidential election.
In seeking to bring us together as a nation, candidate Bush eschewed the very thought that he was a narrow partisan seeking to march to the tune of the special interest groups who contributed mightily to his campaign. Upon arriving in office he sought a divisive tax cut that favored the very wealthy. Herein lies another lie or discrepancy in that Bush insisted with a straight face that middle income Americans would receive more substantial breaks from his tax cut than wealthier taxpayers. Studies reveal this claim to be a sham. Corn devotes significant attention to the tax cut and Bush's claims.
The most significant of all of Bush's untruths was his reasoning behind going to war with Iraq, also covered in detail by Corn. Saddam Hussein was on the verge of acquiring nuclear weapons. It was necessary to attack him preemptively before he could launch a blistering assault of his own. When UN inspectors sought to determine if this claim were true, and at a time when Saddam was even destroying weapons of his own, albeit reluctantly, Bush moved quickly, and outside the ambit of the UN, taking America to war. As America sits in a quagmire in Iraq with no end in sight, we now know that this was a blatant untruth.
Bush placed great emphasis on his "Leave no child behind" educational plan for America. What we now have is an unfunded mandate with the increasingly fund barren states expected to pick up the tab. All the while $87 billion is sought for Iraq while almost 50 million Americans are without health coverage and many classrooms are burgeoning in size.
When former Niger Ambassador Joseph Wilson honestly reported that the alleged effort by Saddam Hussein to receive beneficial assistance to his nuclear weapons quest from that country was false, suddenly his wife, a CIA undercover operative, is outed by right wing columnist Robert Novak. This placed her life in jeopardy. Bush proclaims that we will probably never know the identity of the person who tipped off Novak. On this point he is sadly believable. How hard has he tried to locate the cowardly culprit?
The right declared that Bill Clinton should be removed from office for lying on an affidavit about an extramarital affair. The issue, it was said, was lying, which was intolerable for a president. Have we heard anything comparable from these same individuals regarding Bush? Corn demonstrates that we are dealing with far more here than one false statement on a single affidavit.
Rating: 5
Summary: Coup d'etat
Comment: At least with Kissinger you have the shifty eyed looks telling you to watch out for a Machiavellian cutpurse in action. With George II the whipped margerine style actually fooled me and the public through dumb sincerity and disingenuous mumbling of disinformation. The issue is clearcut: elected at best to bridge a polarized nation (with corrupt help from the Supremes) our valiant made in Texas proceeded to abuse state apparatus for the destruction of democratic gains, with a pack of lies well organized from the start and well dissected in this book, which is lowkey compared to Franken and other exposes, but highly effective and useful.
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Title: Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right by Al Franken ISBN: 0525947647 Publisher: E P Dutton Pub. Date: 29 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Bushwhacked : Life in George W. Bush's America by LOU DUBOSE, MOLLY IVINS ISBN: 0375507523 Publisher: Random House Pub. Date: 23 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Big Lies: The Right-Wing Propaganda Machine and How It Distorts the Truth by Joe Conason ISBN: 0312315600 Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books Pub. Date: 25 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Against All Enemies: Inside America's War on Terror by Richard A. Clarke ISBN: 0743260244 Publisher: Free Press Pub. Date: 22 March, 2004 List Price(USD): $27.00 |
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Title: The Great Unraveling: Losing Our Way in the New Century by Paul Krugman ISBN: 0393058506 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: September, 2003 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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