Bush reads up on Teddy Roosevelt, US troops

[sabra]

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=1446148

Bush reads up on Teddy Roosevelt, US troops
Reuters

Dec 27, 2005 — CRAWFORD, Texas (Reuters) - President George W. Bush is spending part of his Christmas holiday reading about the post-presidential years of Theodore Roosevelt and the lives of U.S. troops in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere.

Bush was reading "When Trumpets Call: Theodore Roosevelt After the White House," by Patricia O'Toole, and "Imperial Grunts: The American Military on the Ground," by Robert Kaplan while on holiday at his Texas ranch, said White House spokesman Trent Duffy.

The book about Teddy Roosevelt is about the former president's African safari and his attempt to re-enter politics after he left the White House in 1909.

...

Asked whether there was any significance that Bush, who has three years left in office, was reading a book about the post-White House years of a former president, Duffy replied that Bush is a "history buff" and "avid reader."

[Pam-Moby]

1. This is not possible, his reading level is no higher

than reading my pet goat.

[unblock]

4. actually, he needed that to be read TO him.

:rofl:

[Pam-Moby]

5. My bad or what. I forgot.

:applause:

[Tedddy]

19. You bet :) nt

[saigon68]

2. HE ALSO READS UP ON HOW TO "Peel Bananas"

[NIGHT TRIPPER]

41. According to Pickles he tried to milk male horses- n/t

[liberal N proud]

3. History buff? LOL

I doubt he is even reading the damn book at all, unless they have written a pictorial version.
history buff :rofl:

[unblock]

6. what he meant was, teddy worked out. he's history, and he's buff.

get it?

:rofl:

[Pam-Moby]

8. I bet he is setting there pretend reading and

actually breaking out his coloring book and makin some more of them there pretty pictures of his.:rofl:

[0007]

9. Trent Duffy is just being silly again...he knows

junior hasn't finished "My Pet Goat" yet.

[Dr Fate]

7. Cliff's Notes: Not just for High School students anymore!! n/t

n/t

[sasha031]

10. has anyone seen the clip with Will Ferrell

he is imitating bush, he opens up a pop up book and screams, that scared me.

[sasha031]

11. found it, you got to see this

http://onegoodmove.org/1gm/1gmarchive/002648.html

[progressivebydesign]

12. Bush snuggles up with Teddy Bear on vacation. more like it. n/t

[AspenRose]

13. He can read?

Wow, that's news to me.

[CountAllVotes]

14. which one *, which one?

TR wrote about 30 books in his lifetime. I have a whole collection of them. Maybe he's reading the one about the Amazon jungle.

:evilgrin:

:kick:

[Roland99]

15. "avid reader"?? Of WHAT?!?!

[Ilsa]

40. baseball scores. I bet that's it. eom

[scarface2004]

16. sure and bush invented the telephone too!

jesus christ! stop the bs already you assholes!!

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[NYC Liberal]

23. "hope to meet some like-minded individuals"

LMAO!! :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[brucefan]

21. Wow ! I seen one.

They always get deleted before I see one.

[thebigidea]

22. you can't be proud of that either

bragging about 44% approval! Bwhahahhaahh.

[NYC Liberal]

24. LMAO! At this point in his second term, Clinton had **60 PERCENT**

approval!! :rofl:

44 percent? HAH!

[FarLeftRage]

25. Enjoy your very brief stay...

I just alerted your ass to the mods.

[cascadiance]

20. Hmm... Do you think he'll finally figure out what a "living wage" is?...

err... Probably not! I'm guessing a lot of what Teddy writes in his books will be lost on this bum!

[pinniped]

26. No one believes this BS- "history buff" and "avid reader."

This POS fantasizes about TR, he should grab a rifle and join the troops on the front line.

[bettyellen]

27. The Chimp will recast himself as Teddy R: He refused to let his vigorous

....courses of action be delayed by Congress' debate.

How much is he going to quote TR in order to defend his actions?

"Fortunately the crisis came at a period when I could act unhampered. Accordingly I took the Isthmus, started the Canal and then left Congress not to debate the canal, but to debate me. (qtd. in McCullough 383-384)."

"My view was that every executive officer . . . was a steward of the people bound actively and affirmatively to do all he could for the people, and not to content himself with the negative merit of keeping his talents undamaged in a napkin. . . . My belief was that it was not only his right but his duty to do anything that the needs of the nation demanded unless such action was forbidden by the Constitution or by the laws (Roosevelt 197).

Not only is he going to use some of this in his State of the Union address, he's going to pretend he read/ thought about it all by himself.

[ismnotwasm]

28. Right.

Now if he would have been a history buff BEFORE he illegally invaded Iraq, he would have done certain things very differently. Well, maybe not, since neither truth or history seems to mean much to him.

[Judi Lynn]

29. The pResident is attracted to all the "bully" stuff!

Portraying “Teddy Roosevelt”, Tech. Sgt. David Larrison and Col. Dan Adams 91st Space
Wing commander, lead members in a "Bully" cheer during the 91st SW’s 56th anniversary
celebration Nov. 10. The wing history transitioned from a reconnaissance wing during the Cold
War to its present space wing responsible for 150 Minutemen III intercontinental ballistic
missiles. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Joe Laws)

[Lithos]

31. He's more like this one

Teddy from Arsenic and Old Lace.

L-

[Judi Lynn]

33. Right you are! There is one difference. Instead of rushing downstairs

to Panama, _Bush rushes off to Crawford!

[Lisa]

30. "history buff" -- he pretends to read books while NUDE?

That's the only possible interpretation -- since he isn't inclined to be interested in anything except for himself (and unlikely to be a "buff" of any academic discipline). And ever since he quit jogging, his much-vaunted physique has slumped somewhat, so he's no longer "buff" in that regard.

[Judi Lynn]

34. How dare you! He's as honed (gag) as ever!

So is Arnold!

[yorkiemommie1]

32. i don't believe it

n/t

[otohara]

35. President Clinton's Reading List - Summer 1999

http://www.bookspot.com/listclinton.htm

I couldn't remember if during Clinton they released the names of books he was reading - I found this one entry.

Avid reader, my ass!

[cosmicdot]

36. guess that means a return to the TR painting for photo-ops??

press releases as 'news' has got to stop

please let the media creation gimmick be over already








a walk down photo-op memory lane ... the shots of ** walking back and forth on the White House lawn looking like Big Foot ... the 'halo' effect photo-ops ... all the orwellian backdrops ...

[Judi Lynn]

37. Unbelievable, cosmicdot. Wouldn't have believed it if I hadn't SEEN this!

He IS comparing himself to the old Rough Rider guy. Wild, isn't it?



He knows plenty about the great outdoors!

[BrotherBuzz]

39. Interesting, they volunteered that Bush* had just finished Theodore Rex

by Edmund Morris when they did all that stagecraft. Finished, my ass! Bush* only got as far as the war stuff down in Cuba. I suspect he lost interest in in the book by the time TR became president and was compelled to take on the corporations.



President, I served with Teddy Roosevelt, I knew Teddy Roosevelt, Teddy Roosevelt was a friend of mine. President, you are no Teddy Roosevelt. - what my Great uncle, a geniune Rough Rider, might have said if he were alive.

[dflprincess]

38. I hope the book contains that TR quote

about one's loyalty should be to the country, not the president. Of course, when Bush gets to that, he'll probably order Teddy wiretapped.