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Is Our Children Learning?: The Case Against George W. Bush [Paperback]

Paul Begala (Author)
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James Carville Every Democrat should memorize this book, every Independent should read it, and every Republican should fear it.

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He was a poor student who somehow got into the finest schools. He was a National Guardsman who somehow missed a year of service. He was a failed businessman who somehow was made rich. He was a minority investor who somehow was made managing partner of the Texas Rangers. He was a defeated politician who somehow was made governor. You can hardly blame him for expecting to inherit the White House.

"Is Our Children Learning?" examines the public life and public record of George W. Bush and reveals him for who he is: a man who presents the thinnest, weakest, least impressive record in public life of any major party nominee this century; a man who at every critical juncture has been propelled upward by the forces of wealth, privilege, status, and special interests who use his family's name for their private gain.

A Texan, political analyst, strategist, and partisan, Paul Begala has written a devastating assessment of the Bush brand of politics.

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To understand how ludicrous it is for George W. Bush to claim that his time as governor of Texas has prepared him for the White House, consider this story: Back in 1996 I was teaching at the University of Texas at Austin. Read the first page
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5.0 out of 5 stars The Main Point, April 15 2004
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This review is from: Is Our Children Learning?: The Case Against George W. Bush (Paperback)
This interesting book proves the point of millions of Americans (including mine): George Bush is an idiot that deserves to be defeated in the November election by a man who actually knows what he is doing for our country and the world, John Kerry. A superb book!
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2.0 out of 5 stars Democrat fun, Mar 17 2004
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We like to poke fun at those in public office, its an American tradition to make sure those who we elected don't respond to the bluster of their office. George W. Bush has a rather extraordinary resume: Yale undergraduate degree, Harvard MBA, military fighter pilot (F102 driver) a cocktail of brains and brawn that sends the fatuous left into conniptions. Indeed this Christian seems to have been placed onto the earth to drive liberals bonkers, none of them can even keep up with him. Can you think of anyone who achieved Yale-Harvard-Figher pilot credentials? I canï¿t.

Mostly the book is the typical Left-over misrepresentation of W, making fun of his poor verbal skills, noted, and ignoring his strong foreign policy skills. Indeed after 9/11 he persuaded 40 countries to join us in Afghanistan and all without the UN involvement. When Congress directed him to invaded Iraq he put together a coalition of 31 countries to do so without the United Nations. In 1991 the United Nations could gather only 29 for the same task.

The fun title of the book is a claim, without a tape recording of course, that W used the wrong tense in a simple sentence. Obviously unlikely, and just as obviously a bitter attempt by the Left-overs to slight a sitting American President that has disassembled their world view.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Biased but Good, Jan 5 2004
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While Begala is certainly biased against Bush, the book is based in solid facts, whose sources Begala carefully annotates. This book makes a few things abominably clear: Bush has made many mistakes, as a student and as a businessman, and yet he has always advanced anyways, largely due to his family's wealth and power. The label of "Compassionate Conservative" is nothing more than a campaign gloss. Bush's tax plan saved the wealthiest one percent an extra $46,000 per year, while the bottom twenty percent got a whopping $42 (that's per year too, if you can't beleive your eyes). Where is the compassion in that? Or in laughing when asked about death penalty cases? Whatever the topic, Begala makes it clear that Bush doesn't really care about the poor and needy, at least when it comes to politics. He follows wherever the big money lures him.
The chapters are a short, easily readable length; the book makes for light and easy reading-- although at some points the more liberal minded may want to cry. Each chapter starts out with several quotes from W about the topic, many duplicates of the ones which appear in the Bushisms. The parenthetical comments (It's _____________, Governor, Karl Rove will explain it to you.) are hysterical. A simultaneously funny and sobering book, it is well worth the read.
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