Bush To Obama On Reading: Who’s Your Daddy!
It looks as though when it comes to reading books, Bush is the Master, and Obama is the Padawan. Bush=Captain, Obama=deckhand
It appears President Obama has to step up his reading pace if he wants to beat his predecessor in one particular measure: how many books a president can polish off a year.
In an interview with the BBC Tuesday, Obama said he is currently reading Joseph O’Neill’s 270-page novel “Netherland,” a book Obama first said he began back in April.
If Obama is close to finishing the novel, that puts him on less than a 10 book-a-year pace, far less than the close to 100 books President Bush was reportedly able to finish in the same amount of time.
While Obama may have had to put aside “Netherland” last month in favor of pages of court briefs with a Supreme Court vacancy to fill, it nevertheless appears the president has some summer reading to do.
It would indeed! So, I guess this makes Bush the smart one, eh?
(Just for clarity, this is a light-hearted poke at those who always said Bush 43 was stoooooopid. Some people are readers, some aren’t. Some go through books like candy, some take a long time. I probably go through at least 1-2 books a week, mostly fiction. Mix in about 10-20 non-fiction a year. If Obama doesn’t read much, to each his own)
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Posted by William Teach on June 4, 2009 8:52 am
» Filed Under Barack Obama, Education, Humor
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If Obama doesn’t read much, to each his own)
As with almost anything else reading is easier for some than for others, regardless of their overall intelligence.
I had to drop out of school after the ninth grade, but wound up with a year at Yale (courtesy of the USAF) and then careers in engineering and IT.
In my case, I was lucky; I loved to read (almost anything) and it was always easy for me. I never had any study discipline whatsoever, but it’s very difficult to read as much as I have without something sticking.
For some people (even very intelligent ones) reading is an effort and is accomplished by them by sheer force of will; others (including myself) are fortunate to have been born with a knack for it.
So, I will Amen to the statement to which I am replying, while pitying him for what he is missing (if that is indeed the case).
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Come on you-all. Every body knows how dumb Bush is. No way he could have read 100 books; he was to busy thinking up lies.