US politics: the books we would like
George W Bush, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld and Karl Rove have all chosen to publish their memoirs in 2010, thereby ensuring that at least three of them will be on the remainder piles by Christmas. The problem is that we already know what we are going to get: a badly written piece of fiction about how nothing went wrong and how if it did it was nothing to do with me.
George Bush: 43rd President of the United States
"Uh waz drahvin in ma car havin had a few drinks an mah Dadda callz mah an says: 'Son, Ahm gonna make yah President of the United States.' Ah tellz him ahm more inerrested in baseball but Dadda tellz mah not ta wurry bout nuthin so ah wakes up an finds maself in the White House and its all quite cool with nice leather jackits n stuff n then someone tellz ma Osama Hussein has blown urp tha twin towers ah cin tell ya that shocked ma deepla until ma Dadda told mah ta invade Iran ta finish awf his war and the American folk sure loved that especialla when that Limey Tony Someboda came crawlin up ma ass an we sure did wup them Iraqians in New Orleans in Operation Desert Katrina."
From: Books: Books + News | guardian.co.uk
Friday, 1 January, 2010
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