You know he just took these books so he looks smart in front of his staff.

[charliesmum]

When he isn't biking up hills or slashing overgrown brush, President Bush has 1,500 pages of reading material to fill his down time this month.

The history of salt? There's a war on and he has time to read a 500 page book about salt?

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[zelle999.livejournal.com]

"I'd reeeeeeeally like to meet with that soldier's mother, and all, but I just got to the really exciting part my book about salt, where it talks about how salt can come from seawater OR rock compounds!"

[zelle999.livejournal.com]

And also? Yeah RIGHT. He's probably got a friggin' Archie comic book hidden in the pages. I bet Laura's wondering what's so damn funny about The Great Influenza: The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in History."

[charliesmum.livejournal.com]

I thought that too.

Is George W really Homer Simpson? Discuss...

[slammerkinbabe.livejournal.com]

I never got the point of that book. It was all mega-bestseller for a long time, and my thought always was - yes, salt was doubtless highly important through history. That does not make it interesting.

[jessii-6.livejournal.com]

Never heard of the salt book, but it could be interesting, actually.
However, I think he just grabbed the books off his secretary's desk (who uses his name to get books in advance ;) to look better
I think he'll be watching TV all week. I mean, you know, comic books can be difficult (or so I heard)

[wolfma.livejournal.com]

The salt book is the kind of book I'd read too.

[wolfma.livejournal.com]

Yes, he reads the books, but does he RETAIN or COMPREHEND them?

Literature obviously hasn't helped his vocabulary...