It reads like a high school kids year book, or worse, diary.
This man is the leader of the free world? I did not find his story of conversion believable (too convenient)
and his "understanding" of Olasky's compassionate conservativism is not the same as Olasky's. Of
course, both are bunk. I came away feeling worse about this man than I did after reading Molly's book
which at least contained some information. He should be selling snake oil instead of letting his friends do
it at the expense of CA and the other western states. Can I have my money and my vote back?
If we survive the next four years with this doofus at the helm, it will truly be a case of divine intervention.
Bush gives new meaning to the phrase "hire the handicapped"!
How amazing that a man who seems incapable of stringing together several coherent sentences has the
nerve to think we really believe he wrote this book! In October, he joked that he had not read a book while
a "student" at Yale, but he has "written" a book.
Many of the passages from the book looked as if they were written for an English 101
essay such as this gem (that the Slate reviewer also noticed): "...I made friends and worked hard. The
students at Yale came from all different backgrounds and all parts of the country. Within months, I knew
many of them." This book would be unintentionally funny if it weren't for the chance that the "author"
could become President.
Even by the caterpillar-high standards of the campaign biography, this is an amazingly, staggeringly,
brain-freezingly vapid book. A real "Conversations With George" book might have some Harry
Trumanesque wit and bite to it, I'd love to sit down with him over a beer and hear him trash Yale, but this
mental enema, written by Bush's Edgar Bergen, Karen Hughes (who quotes her own speeches endlessly),
takes everything human out of what minuscule life story Bush has had. Imagine an entire book written in
the style of a memo from the head of your company's HR department, and you have this waste of trees.
The thing is, Bush isn't just announcing a new way for the HMO to screw you; he's dealt with real issues,
like executing people, and on the evidence of this book he did it with all the human concern and feeling of
an upperclassmen torturing a pledge.
Yep, there's a lot of things I had her leave out...the years I spent hopped up on Peruvian marching powder,
the time I went on a two-year bender while AWOL from the National Guard (Yeehah! Lotta fun...gotta do
that again, and soon!), the failed oil bidnesses in mah "home" state, that little bit o' insider tradin' I did
back in the early nineties (SHHHHHhhhh!!)...but that's all behind me now. Trust me, for I am your
pars'nent, and together we can all build the pie higher for my friends at ENRON.
Why would the review in question have been rejected and not the
one containing the last excerpt above, especially given
this paragraph from Amazon's
boilerplate rejection letter:
