OMG!!! Bush has published a political version of "My Pet Goat"!!!

[CatWoman]

:rofl:

from Frank Rich:

Another, far more elaborate example of legacy spin can be downloaded from the White House Web site: a booklet recounting “highlights” of the administration’s “accomplishments and results.” With big type, much white space, children’s-book-like trivia boxes titled “Did You Know?” and lots of color photos of the Bushes posing with blacks and troops, its 52 pages require a reading level closer to “My Pet Goat” than “The Stranger.”

This document is the literary correlative to “Mission Accomplished.” Bush kept America safe (provided his presidency began Sept. 12, 2001). He gave America record economic growth (provided his presidency ended December 2007). He vanquished all the leading Qaeda terrorists (if you don’t count the leaders bin Laden and al-Zawahri). He gave Afghanistan a thriving “market economy” (if you count its skyrocketing opium trade) and a “democratically elected president” (presiding over one of the world’s most corrupt governments). He supported elections in Pakistan (after propping up Pervez Musharraf past the point of no return). He “led the world in providing food aid and natural disaster relief” (if you leave out Brownie and Katrina).

If this is the best case that even Bush and his handlers can make for his achievements, you wonder why they bothered. Desperate for padding, they devote four risible pages to portraying our dear leader as a zealous environmentalist.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/04/opinion/04rich.html?_r=1&ref=opinion

A link to the booklet:

http://www.whitehouse.gov/infocus/bushrecord/documents/legacybooklet.pdf

[NYC_SKP]

1. I see, a picture book, with lots of pictures and not too many big words.

Perfect!!!

[CatWoman]

2. and lots and lots of giant type and white space

:rofl:

[Muttocracy]

3. yep, writing their own legacy. The agencies are at it too. nt

[sandnsea]

4. It's got a picture of the blue fingers, rotflmao

Remember at the State of the Union, when they all came with blue fingers. There's a full size pictured of it.

:rofl:

This is some funny shit. I have to print this because nobody will ever believe we had an Administration this pathetic.

[WillYourVoteBCounted]

5. "a narcissist with no self-awareness whatsoever"

Frank Rich nailed him good!

[unhappycamper]

6. It appears they forgot a few things

like the drowning of New Orleans, torture, stop-loss, spying on Americans, the gagging of free speech, and of course, trashing the world economy.

[CatWoman]

8. maybe Swampy can contribute some of his artwork for that

ya think? :)

[WinkyDink]

7. Sounds like it's intended for propagandizing elementary-school students, for real.

"Educators! Down-load this FREE U.S. History Unit, complete with Lesson Plans and Evaluation Packets! Be ahead of the textbooks by a decade with accurate and contemporaneous accounts!"

[janx]

9. Did You Know?

:rofl:

[Cha]

10. bush is "not a reader" but cheney

keeps lying about it all the same.

Does cheney think bush will be more loved if everyone believes that bush can actually read above The Pet Goat level?