Did Bush really read "Mao: The Unknown Story"???

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Poll question: Did Bush really read "Mao: The Unknown Story"???

When President George W. Bush met with Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany in the Oval Office this month, the talk turned to Merkel's childhood under Communism, then wandered into the subject of Bush's latest bedtime reading: "Mao: The Unknown Story," an 814-page biography that presents the Chinese dictator as another Hitler or Stalin.

Participants in the meeting say that Bush spoke glowingly of the book, a 10-year project by Jung Chang, the author of the hugely successful memoir "Wild Swans," which has sold 10 million copies worldwide, and her husband, John Halliday, a British historian. "Mao" has been at the top of the best-seller lists in Britain and Germany and was published to mixed reviews late last year in the United States.

More here: http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/01/22/news/letter.php

[niyad]

1. this is a man who won't even read newspapers, has his staff prepare a

precis--and we are expected to think that he is reading an 800-page book (when he has bragged about not reading) I don't frikkin' THINK so.

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3. LOL, my thoughts exactly.

:kick:

[hopeisaplace]

2. Ok. Here's the math. If he started in 2000, goes to bed at 8:00pm

he could be on the fifth chapter? just sayin':shrug:

(I seriously doubt it)

[tridim]

4. It'd be really funny if someone in the WH press corps would ask *

to describe something specific about Mao's life that he learned from the book.

"Uhhhhh.. Uhmmmm.. Yea, I'm glad you asked that question.. Uhhhhhh.. Mao was this guy ya see.. Uhmmmm.. Uhhhhhh.. and they uhhhh.. they wrote a book about him. Ya see, reading is hard work! It's very time consuming and difficult... and uhmmm this Mao guy was written about in the book. The uhhhmmm book that I read. Uhhhh about Mao. Next-question-Stretch. Yes!"

[tom_paine]

5. Maybe Helen can ask it, not many left in the WH Press Corpse with the guts

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6. k