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Target_For_Exterm Donating Member (540 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-28-06 10:18 PM
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Ew! I understand reading Webb's book, but Rumsfeld's?
"GOP not taking loss by the book

Looks like Republicans aren’t looking for answers after losses in the November elections — at least not in books.

Tom Nissley, senior books editor for Amazon.com, says he hasn’t seen the same post-election bump in sales for what he thinks of as “self-help” books for losers. After Democrats got trounced in the 2004 election, he noticed a spike in sales of left-friendly books such as Tom Franks’s “What’s the Matter With Kansas” and George Lakoff’s “Don’t Think of an Elephant,” books he describes as “what can we do and how to fix things” tomes.

This time, there’s no Republican analogue, he said. “That was a surprise for me,” Nissley said. “It might be that conservatives don’t think of themselves as needing to make a change.”

The two political books that have seen big boosts are “Fields of Fire,” the novel set in the Vietnam War by incoming Sen. Jim Webb (D-Va.) and “Pieces of Intelligence: The Existential Poetry of Donald Rumsfeld.”"

http://thehill.com/thehill/export/TheHill/News/UndertheDome/112906.html

Existential Poetry of Rumsfeld? What the freak is that? And WHO would want to read the trash?

Republicans are sore losers who can't read the writing on the wall. Sharing Bush's bubble, I guess (or they're planning something bad for the US).
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silverweb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-28-06 10:29 PM
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1. It's not at all flattering.
And Rummy didn't exactly write it. It's similar to a book of bushisms, except full of rummy-isms. :D

Check it out here
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Target_For_Exterm Donating Member (540 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-28-06 10:31 PM
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2. Ah, that makes much more sense.
After reading this, I thought Rumsfeld had some groupies buying Rumsfeld writings or something.

Whew. Glad I was wrong.
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