Has Bush Ever Written Anything?

[ThomWV]

I have never seen a document of which he was the author, not so much as a college paper. Has the man ever written anything, anything at all? Ghostwriters do not count.

[Cha]

1. Has bush ever even

said anything?

[me b zola]

2. His name in the snow

but he probably misspelled it

[rzemanfl]

4. Good one. n/t

[Stinky The Clown]

32. Was the lettering in yellow?

I mean ... I'm just wondering ... :shrug:

[me b zola]

35. yellow lettering, aye

[ellenfl]

3. he's written his name on a lot of death warrants. eom

[applegrove]

5. Before he was 'chosen' as a candidate... he got a position on the

board of directors of some company. After a year or so. They asked him to leave because he didn't add anything.

Then - someone bought him a company and flipped that into a team and the rest is made up empire.

[OldLeftieLawyer]

6. Supposedly.....

... he authored his autobiography.

http://tinyurl.com/cmoqg

(Insert loud, extended, hysterical laughter here)

:rofl: :rofl: :woohoo: :woohoo: :rofl: :woohoo: :woohoo: :applause: :applause: :applause: :applause: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :woohoo: :woohoo: :rofl: :woohoo: :woohoo: :applause: :applause: :applause: :applause: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :woohoo: :woohoo: :rofl: :woohoo: :woohoo: :applause: :applause: :applause: :applause: :rofl: :rofl:

[Bozita]

24. You gotta see the book reviews at Amazon ... Hilarious!

from the Amazon.com site:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0688174418/qid%3D1119224688/sr%3D2-2/ref%3Dpd%5Fbbs%5Fb%5F2%5F2/103-6530260-9588600


58 of 77 people found the following review helpful:
A charge to heave, March 5, 2001
Reviewer: "nimlos" (Dallas, Texas United States) - See all my reviewsAs a journalist and small business owner, I've met and spoken to our ex-governor four or five times. I can't remember for certain how many, as he made almost no impression on me - any attempt to talk about something more substantial than how hot it was proved fruitless. The same holds true for this book, which was obviously written for him.

This book (I hate to give it so noble a term) is a slick piece of marketing material, nothing more. It's designed to sell the same insipid and irritatingly unbelievable 'compassionate conservatism' nonsense Bush Jr. (let's all face it, people - the removal of Herbert does not a different name make) hawked from coast to coast throughout 2000. I found it most enlightening that while zooming around the country, talking about how compassionate he is and sucking up every dime that wasn't nailed down, he couldn't take one day off and go to Fort Worth last spring, after a tornado ravaged its way through downtown, leaving a swath of destruction which is still in abundant evidence.

If you want to put on some rose-colored glasses and read a biography which bears a tangential relationship to the real story, by all means pick up this book and memorize it. If you're interested in the truth, look elsewhere.
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USA! USA! USA!, June 14, 2005
Reviewer: Jim Carey "stabbyappleton" (Sarasota, Florida) - See all my reviewsit is now more importnat than ever to read this book. before the terorists and the liberals and the liberal terroists decide to burn all the books in a bonfire except michael (fat dumbbell) moores. bush proves in this book that the blame america first crowd is a bunch of spineless pantywastes who are afraid of a little war and want us all to speak french and pray to mecca 900 times a day and pay a million taxes to lazy 'welfare people' and tahjnk god george bush is president is all i gotta say becasue i for one would never marry another man just becasue john 'communist' kerry wanted to be a a little prancing, minincing president this is a great nation and it deserves a great saint of a man like g-dub. this book is a mandatory read if i had my way.
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A CHARGE CARD TO PAY, June 3, 2005
Reviewer: Nada "matrixtrilogy" (USA) - See all my reviewsBush makes Hoover look like Mother Teresa. He makes Bozo the Clown look like Einstein. Uhh, ummm, liberty is hard work...uhhh, its hard, hard work...for our hard fighting men and women. Liberty is just damn hard. Yeah thanks a lot dumbo. A charge to keep? Gimme a break. Your cowboy "bring em on" mentality has cost the lives of over 1600 people. You have bankrupted the nation with $300 BILLION quietly requested to date to rebuild Iraqui infrastructure - new schools, hospitals, roads, and yes electrical grids while ours in the U.S. fall apart. Iraquis fill up their tanks for pennies per gallon while Americans get raped daily at the pump. And what's up with Bush giving the middle class a measly 3% tax cut while the wealthiest get 6% cut plus all the loopholes they can create? We can all rest easy that Halliburton is doing great. One question: How does Halliburton get caught overcharging the Pentagon by a few hundred million, yet get rewarded with a $100 million BONUS over and beyond what they overcharged? The oil companies are raking in record profits while the monkey peels bananas in the White House. And remember this nation-building in Iraq is gratis - FREE! No loans, no oil in exchange, nothing. The monkey just inexplicably flattened everything and now must rebuild all of it. Oh, I forgot we have help in the form of mostly small nations whose hands have been generously greased by doofus and his merry band of Rumsfelds and Wolfowitzes. Meanwhile on the borders...Bush protects the Iraqis nicely with our troops but adamantly refuses to do the same in the U.S. He does a Texas two-step when confronted with the fact that illegal immigration has increased a whopping 23% since he took office. Of course he refers to law-abiding U.S. citizens protecting our borders with sandwiches and binoculars (the Minutemen) as "vigilantes". Bottom line - the only charge Bush should be keeping involves a small cell in a federal lockup. This book is dumb. And if I ever hear another word about silver-spooned harpie Barb Bush, aka "George Washington" I'm gonna puke. I voted a straight republican ticket but never again. The RNC can kiss my red state behind.Was this review helpful
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more, lots more ...

[kittenpants]

39. there is no way that middle review can be real!

"i for one would never marry another man just becasue john 'communist' kerry wanted to be a a little prancing, minincing president" oh man, & he wants us to speak french & bow down to mecca like 900 times a day. :rofl:

[Bozita]

40. There are over 100 reviews there ... Many are just like that

[man4allcats]

7. He tried his ABCs once,

but it didn't go well.

[jeff30997]

8. What will they put in his damn library ?

My pet goat ?

[nytemare]

9. Yes, "Profiles in Chickenhawk".

:)

[Cocoa]

10. "A Charge to Keep,"

but then he forgot he wrote it...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A44256-2004Jul12.html?nav=rss_politics/administration/whbriefing

This is one example of what happens when Bush gets a question that he hasn't anticipated.

"Q Thank you -- I was wondering, there's a lot of talk right now about memoirs being written with the former President. After you are elected in 2004, what will your memoirs say about you, what will the title be, and what will the main theme say?

"THE PRESIDENT: I appreciate that. (Laughter.) There is a painting on my wall in the Oval -- first of all, I don't know. I'm just speculating now. I really haven't thought about writing a book. My life is too complicated right now trying to do my job. (Laughter.) But if -- there's a painting on the wall in the Oval Office that shows a horseman charging up a steep cliff, and there are at least two other horsemen following. It's a Western scene by a guy named W.H.S. Koerner called 'A Charge to Keep.' It's on loan, by the way, from a guy named Joe O'Neill in Midland, Texas. He was the person, he and his wife Jan, introduced -- reintroduced me and Laura in his backyard in July of 1977. Four months later, we were married. So he's got a -- I'm a decision-maker and I can make good decisions. (Applause.)

"And so we sang this hymn -- this is a long story trying to get to your answer. (Laughter.) This is not a filibuster. (Laughter.) That's a Senate term -- particularly on good judges. (Applause.) The hymn was sung at my first inaugural church service as governor. Laura and I are Methodists. One of the Wesley boys wrote the hymn. The painting is based upon the hymn called, 'A Charge to Keep.' I have. The hymn talks about serving something greater than yourself in life. I -- which I try to do, as best as I possibly can. (Applause.)

"The book -- I guess one way, one thing to think about it is -- one of the themes would be, I was given a charge to keep. And I gave it all my heart, all my energy, based upon principles that did not change once I got into the Oval Office. (Applause.)"


Now that's a rambling response.

And I have to wonder: Did he forget that he already has a memoir called "A Charge to Keep"?

That was the name of his "autobiography" -- ghost-written by adviser Karen Hughes in 1999.

[ConfuZed]

11. I'm very interested if he's written anything myself n/t

[dweller]

12. he takes copious notes...

but, no he's not published.

dp

[tnlefty]

31. LMAO! I hope that you don't mind that I saved this onto my hard

drive!

[Jackpine Radical]

13. He bounced a check once.

The store clerk suspected something when he spelled his last name "Butch."

[tanyev]

14. "Let Freedom Reign"

He couldn't even get that right.

[madrchsod]

15. what? bush write anything?

what the hell would he write about?

[nonconformist]

16. He can scrawl his name on shitty legislation when necessary

And don't forget piles upon piles of death warrants. But to be fair, he probably had a rubber stamp for those due to the sheer volume.

[jimshoes]

17. This is about it

And I think he got it wrong.

[edson_hendricks]

18. Bush proves the old axiom

As I grew up in Pennsylvania in the early 1950s, my elders were fond of telling us kids that the USA was unique in the world, and great because "anyone could grow up to become president."

Our current president is the first definitive proof I've ever seen of that claim.

[Orangepeel]

25. Sure, if your Dad was president and your brother the governor of a state

you "won" by 537 votes.

Anybody can be rich, too, if their Daddy's friends buy their companies after they run them into the ground.

Ann Richards described him well. He was born on 3rd base and thought he hit a home run.

[Career Prole]

19. He wrote an excuse note once.

Dear Nashunal Gaurd,

Please ixcuse George W. Bush from any more doody because he has to help my freind win a impotent election campane witch isnt in Veetnom but is in Alabama.

Thank You, Sir.

Signed,
George W. Bush's dad

[Divernan]

26. Like Juan Epstein's excuses in Welcome Back Kotter -

always signed "Epstein's Mother"

[Career Prole]

30. That's exactly what I was thinking of!

You're good! :toast:

[jmm]

20. He wasn't much of a writer in school

http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1033904,00.html


On top of that, Barbara added substantially to the pressure from his father to be a high achiever by creating a highly competitive family culture. All the children's games, be they tiddlywinks or baseball, were intensely competitive - an actual "family league table" was kept of performance in various pursuits. At least this prepared him for life at Andover, where emotional literacy was definitely not part of the curriculum. Soon after arriving, he was asked to write an essay on a soul-stirring experience in his life to date and he chose the death of his sister. His mother had drilled it into him that it was wrong when writing to repeat words already used. Having employed "tears" once in the essay, he sought a substitute from a thesaurus she had given him and wrote "the lacerates ran down my cheeks". The essay received a fail grade, accompanied by derogatory comments such as "disgraceful".

This incident may be an insight into Bush's strange tendency to find the wrong words in making public pronouncements. "Is our children learning?" he once famously asked. On responding to critics of his intellect he claimed that they had "misunderestimated" him. Perhaps these verbal faux-pas are a barely unconscious way of winding up his bullying mother and waving two fingers at his cultured father's sensibility.

[ET Awful]

21. I heard he did a book report on "The Pet Goat"

:evilgrin:

[KarenS]

22. I remembered Pickles saying he wrote her a love poem ,,,,

I went out to find it on the internet(s) and wouldn't you know it, apparently she said later he really didn't,,,,

sheesh,,,

here's a link:
http://slate.msn.com/id/2093466/

soooooo,,,, nevermind,,, :eyes:

[progressivebydesign]

23. "Let Freedom Reign"... I think that one sentence is all I've seen. n/t

[barb162]

27. he prints, he doesn't write

no cursive for that moron

[Bouncy Ball]

28. ...

HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA

:rofl:

[kcwayne]

29. He writes his name on the back of the checks he gets from Halliburton

[LeftyDarthBrodie]

37. No

He uses an autopen like Rummy did for letters to families of the dead.

[robertpaulsen]

33. Seriously, here is an excerpt from his diary entry on 9/11

"The Pearl Harbor of the 21st Century took place today..."
-George W. Bush - 11:30 PM, September 11, 2001

He may not be an eloquent writer, but he learned the language of his PNAC masters well.

[noamnety]

34. This is all I could find

[Coexist]

36. ...too tempting... must not type snide comment..... eom

[Lori Price CLG]

38. Write???? He can't even *read!* n/t