I'm waiting for the copyright infringement lawsuit from the author of Curious George.

A flawless marketing strategery paid off.

Anyone else hear that in Farnsworth's voice?

Wait- stupid question.

Unimpossible

Why do people doubt that Bush's book would sell a million copies. Like it or not, he's been doing a lot to rehabilitate his image post presidency. He was a horrible president, but post presidency he has been, frankly, rather classy in dealing with Obama. Has has had nothing but positive things to say about the president, including in his book. People like that.

Not so fast there subby.
There's a few more sales coming.
Keep the presses printing.

Anyone read it? Anyone? Dubya?

Right, because in a nation of over 300 Million, and 100 Thousand libraries, its impossible that a million of them would want to read a presidents memoirs.

Angusmeats: Anyone read it? Anyone? Dubya?

Review @ Slate (new window)

"But the book also has Bush's weaknesses: It is superficial, simplistic, and impatient to be finished. He leaps to conclusions without apparent thought or evidence. Bush's capable former speechwriter Chris Michel has done an impressive job structuring a readable narrative around a series of major events. But if he leads his old boss to water, he can't make him think. Because Bush is intellectually and emotionally incapable of truly reconsidering the past, his memoir fails to make a case that we should reconsider our view of him."

Four Horsemen of the Domestic Dispute: Not so fast there subby.
There's a few more sales coming.
Keep the presses printing.

I guarantee 98% of those voters cannot read above a first grade level. The book is going to have to be in audio form.

It was once said that Howard Stern's radio show had more listeners who hated him than who liked him. Both types, the story goes, listened for the same reason: to find out what he would do next.

Why would it be any surprise that Bush's memoir would be any different? Among supporters and detractors alike, some portion of them are going to be fascinated by the idea of learning exactly what was going on in his head. I haven't bought the book, but I've seriously considered it more than once, and I'm not a fan of his by any stretch of the imagination. Maybe I'll check it out at the local library or something.

The interview with Matt Lauer was very good. Bush took a dignified stance on his successors administration and admitted he made faults. He stayed so quiet for so long though, I'd have to wonder if doing interviews now is just marketing for his book.

I did figure out what I never liked about the guy though, he played the role of President like a poker game (and still does) but his poker face really sucks. A huge reason why he was successful in his role was that no one had any better cards to call him on his bluff. Which you can't call the guy for. BTW, I never voted for him.

Meanwhile, someone else we know wrote two autobiographies before becoming president. Because he is just that awesome.

Vacation Bible School: "But the book also has Bush's weaknesses: It is superficial, simplistic, and impatient to be finished. He leaps to conclusions without apparent thought or evidence. Bush's capable former speechwriter Chris Michel has done an impressive job structuring a readable narrative around a series of major events. But if he leads his old boss to water, he can't make him think. Because Bush is intellectually and emotionally incapable of truly reconsidering the past, his memoir fails to make a case that we should reconsider our view of him."

I swear W had a stroke sometime after the Rangers years. Either that or he just played down to his audience. The guy used to be sharp as a tack. Admittedly, I voted for him twice. Not so much because I liked him but because I loathe Kerry and Gore.

/It's still cheaper to burn than fuel oil.
//It smells like bullshiat when burned and gives off idiotic fumes.

I didn't think Dubya supporters could read.

EWreckedSean: Like it or not, he's been doing a lot to rehabilitate his image post presidency. He was a horrible president, but post presidency he has been, frankly, rather classy in dealing with Obama. Has has had nothing but positive things to say about the president, including in his book. People like that.

RedfordRenegade: The interview with Matt Lauer was very good. Bush took a dignified stance on his successors administration and admitted he made faults.

Living in America is like living in a mental ward...I swear over half of this country is f*king insane. Here we have a man that is arguably a war criminal, who did more to ruin America during his term than any other president that has ever lived, and this is what my "countrymen" have to say about him? "He's been really nice, lately."

mandyer: Admittedly, I voted for him twice. Not so much because I liked him but because I loathe Kerry and Gore.

...and then there's this.

RedfordRenegade: The interview with Matt Lauer was very good. Bush took a dignified stance on his successors administration and admitted he made faults. He stayed so quiet for so long though, I'd have to wonder if doing interviews now is just marketing for his book.

It's pretty SOP for Presidents to lay low during the first part of their successor's time in office. It'd be bad form if Bush was running around trying to affect policy immediately after stepping down. Conversely, Cheney showed a lot of poor form regarding comments on Obama's policies in the beginning.

glenlivid: Living in America is like living in a mental ward...I swear over half of this country is f*king insane. Here we have a man that is arguably a war criminal, who did more to ruin America during his term than any other president that has ever lived, and this is what my "countrymen" have to say about him? "He's been really nice, lately."

Plenty of people read Mein Kampf.

/thread over?

Millennium: It was once said that Howard Stern's radio show had more listeners who hated him than who liked him. Both types, the story goes, listened for the same reason: to find out what he would do next.

Why would it be any surprise that Bush's memoir would be any different? Among supporters and detractors alike, some portion of them are going to be fascinated by the idea of learning exactly what was going on in his head. I haven't bought the book, but I've seriously considered it more than once, and I'm not a fan of his by any stretch of the imagination. Maybe I'll check it out at the local library or something.

Letting the attack happen on the Twin Towers, Valerie Plame, saying he'd invade Iraq before getting elected, War in Iraq, tax cuts for the rich going straight to the deficit, cutting healthcare for vets, etc...Unless what was going on in his head at the time was "Oops, that was the wrong choice, I will have to write a book and apologize later.", then it might be worth reading. But I don't think he has the character to do what is right, therfore I don't think anyone really cares.

There will be alot of think tanks giving away dusty copies of this masterpiece for years to come.

The jury on GWB is in...

FlashHarry: is there a little dagger symbol (†) by the title on the NYT bestseller list? that indicates (bulk buying). you frequently see it by Regnery books from ann coulter and sean hannity.

No there's not.

EWreckedSean: Why do people doubt that Bush's book would sell a million copies. Like it or not, he's been doing a lot to rehabilitate his image post presidency.

That strikes me as Ted Bundy hoping he can salvage his reputation by apologizing. A million other scandals aside, it's the first time I've ever seen a first or even second-world government cheerlead the nation into blaming the destruction of one of its major cities by a natural disaster on. . . the city itself. After six days of inaction. Never mind the arguments; most people just aren't that shockingly cold-blooded. Even broken nations like to at least look more humane than that. Think of any other country that would basically shiat on one of its cities as it was destroyed. Japan? Canada? For fark's sake, even China wouldn't go there, and they kill their people wholesale! You have to scrape the scum of the barrel to places like Sudan before you find a country with a similar attitude towards its own countrymen!

Yes, I DO get butthurt over thousands of people dying. I won't forgive that kind of negligence with just a few kind words about the next guy who isn't all that awesome either. It was downright shameful.

Spirit Hammer: Right, because in a nation of over 300 Million, and 100 Thousand libraries, its impossible that a million of them would want to read a presidents memoirs.

A President's memoirs? Even supporters would expect it to be an overpriced, boring self-congratulatory pile of filth. That's what most memoirs are. Read, sure. Buy? Possible, but unlikely.

You do not have an unfettered right to travel in Class E Airspace. As a condition of doing so, the government requires you submit to a search. So long as the government can show the method of search is reasonably necessary, they will satisfy the special needs exception to the Fourth.

This guy may have delivered America its doom. Burn in Hell traitor Bush. May the army of treason to which you belong meet the fate it deserves in the hereafter. It certainly won't be in this world, the supreme court ruled the Republic is for sale.

Saborlas: mandyer: Admittedly, I voted for him twice. Not so much because I liked him but because I loathe Kerry and Gore.

Neither of which had enough personality at the time to actually qualify for loathing.

Admit it, you thought both times that he was awesome. History has proven you wrong and you're trying to soothe your conscience.

Oh I fully believe American's are that stupid: They voted for Bush because Gore and Kerry did 'woo' them like a belly dancer on $1.00 Ouzo-shot night. Think of how many people thought GW was the kind of guy they could "have a beer with". I'm just flabbergasted at the stupidity of this country.

And the thing is, it never used to be like this. Education didn't matter as much because even less educated people could rely on their wits. Now they don't even believe their own intuition...they believe Fox News. They believe Rush Limbaugh - a guy that most simple, Midwestern people would burn at the stake if they had the joy of knowing him personally.

EWreckedSean: Why do people doubt that Bush's book would sell a million copies. Like it or not, he's been doing a lot to rehabilitate his image post presidency. He was a horrible president, but post presidency he has been, frankly, rather classy in dealing with Obama. Has has had nothing but positive things to say about the president, including in his book. People like that.

Your right. He's so totally cool now, I have completely forgotten about all the people that died over that whole WMD lie -- sorry, I mean prank.

Gotta love the guy.

OK, so the lobbyists are trying to buy of Bush by purchasing bulk copies of his book because...?

He not president anymore and I seriously doubt that he has much sway with the current president. Heck, for the last two years of Bush's presidency, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid actually ran Washington.

I know that lib-tards have a really hard time believing that enough people might actually want to read Bush's autobiography that it would be #1 on the NYT best seller list. But really, your paranoia is making you look just a bit crazy. Purchasing bulk quantities of the book just to shove it in a warehouse in an attempt to sway public policy is probably the least effective means possible to affect what the government does due to the fact that Bush has no control over that stuff anymore. If this strategy were to be used, they would by buying "Dreams from my Father" or "Audacity of Hope". Obama is the president now ,not Bush.

Enjoy your paranoid fail subby.

glenlivid: [Bush] did more to ruin America during his term than any other president that has ever lived...

...and Americans wonder why we're stereotyped as being completely ignorant of even our own history. There haven't been all that many worse than Bush, to be sure, but no list out there ever puts him at the bottom (not even chronological lists, ba-dum-dum-TSSSSH), and there's a reason for that.

Angusmeats: .Unless what was going on in his head at the time was "Oops, that was the wrong choice, I will have to write a book and apologize later.", then it might be worth reading.

In other words, he wasn't thinking because he didn't agree with you, and if he hasn't changed his mind to agree with you then he clearly still must not be thinking.

It's funny how we judge others by our own standards, methods and motivations. Just like how the fundies figured that the homosexuals just had to be recruiting to bolster their ranks.

The fact of the matter is: GWB was (and still is) more popular with the reserved, more sedate crowd. The more vocal whiners and haters skew the appearance of popular opinion towards hatred by their very loquaciousness.

Millennium: glenlivid: [Bush] did more to ruin America during his term than any other president that has ever lived...

...and Americans wonder why we're stereotyped as being completely ignorant of even our own history. There haven't been all that many worse than Bush, to be sure, but no list out there ever puts him at the bottom (not even chronological lists, ba-dum-dum-TSSSSH), and there's a reason for that.

Just to be clear: I don't think he should be on a list of incompetent presidents of some kind...what Bush did was clearly by design. The wars, the spying on Americans, the torture, the redistribution of wealth...all of it. He enacted the most hardcore policies of the wealthy and radical economic purists. And all of it was completely anti-American in every way.

He is a treasonous saboteur that was more devastating to America than Bin Laden ever hoped to be.

HAMMERTOE: It's funny how we judge others by our own standards, methods and motivations. Just like how the fundies figured that the homosexuals just had to be recruiting to bolster their ranks.

The fact of the matter is: GWB was (and still is) more popular with the reserved, more sedate crowd. The more vocal whiners and haters skew the appearance of popular opinion towards hatred by their very loquaciousness.

/jib, newsletter, etc.

Millennium: Angusmeats: .Unless what was going on in his head at the time was "Oops, that was the wrong choice, I will have to write a book and apologize later.", then it might be worth reading.

In other words, he wasn't thinking because he didn't agree with you, and if he hasn't changed his mind to agree with you then he clearly still must not be thinking.

Wrong, you are trying to argue opinion, I am pointing out the right and wrong choices that were made. It is wrong to say you will invade a country when you get elected. It's wrong to cook up facts to let that invasion happen. It was wrong to ignore intelligence that would have prevented the Twin Tower attacks. It is wrong to rely on the military and then cut their healthcare when it's needed the most. It is wrong to compromise the country's security to settle a personal vendetta. Fighting two unfunded wars means a tax cut for the rich goes straight to the deficit.

The only opinion I shared was that he lacks character to own up to his mistakes. I will let you label that as 'opinion', but only because one's character is difficult to quatify. A 57 point drop in popularity over his tenure certainly speaks of some issues.

Perhaps you could refer to passages in this book that speaks to his character. I would love to hear about them.

HAMMERTOE: It's funny how we judge others by our own standards, methods and motivations. Just like how the fundies figured that the homosexuals just had to be recruiting to bolster their ranks.

I don't believe that at all: Fundies used "homosexual recruitment" as a scare tactic to stir up more anti-homosexual feelings. They knew exactly what they were doing: Fear is a great hypnotizing agent.

"The fact of the matter is: GWB was (and still is) more popular with the reserved, more sedate crowd. The more vocal whiners and haters skew the appearance of popular opinion towards hatred by their very loquaciousness."

Oh yeah? Well all you have to do is cite some sources showing the correlation between being reserved and liking GW. :)

Actually there is one correlation: There haven't been any talking points for the righties on how to help pimp GW's "new image". Therefore if you're not saying anything, it's because no one has told you what to say.

Mahhughes: This guy may have delivered America its doom. Burn in Hell traitor Bush. May the army of treason to which you belong meet the fate it deserves in the hereafter. It certainly won't be in this world, the supreme court ruled the Republic is for sale.

And I think his birth certificate was bogus.

I don't think you can feign surprise that it sold a million copies.

He has a lot of fans. And a million books isn't that much in the realm of memoirs from a still living president. I was expecting a lot more sales a lot quicker.

Children books always sell well, especially the pop-up ones.

Subby sounds jealous.

glenlivid: Living in America is like living in a mental ward...I swear over half of this country is f*king insane. Here we have a man that is arguably a war criminal, who did more to ruin America during his term than any other president that has ever lived, and this is what my "countrymen" have to say about him? "He's been really nice, lately."

Well that's because while he was horrible, he's not even remotely up there as doing more than any other president in his term to ruin America. There are some shiatty things that happened on his watch, like the Patriot Act. But really where is the long lasting damage. LBJ stepping up Vietnam killed 20 times as many people and we committed 10 times as many atrocities in that war compared to Iraq. Why does Bush rank higher other than he was more recent?

A million books sold- that's a lot of tables cured of their wobbles.

Grass Hopper: EWreckedSean: Why do people doubt that Bush's book would sell a million copies. Like it or not, he's been doing a lot to rehabilitate his image post presidency. He was a horrible president, but post presidency he has been, frankly, rather classy in dealing with Obama. Has has had nothing but positive things to say about the president, including in his book. People like that.

Your right. He's so totally cool now, I have completely forgotten about all the people that died over that whole WMD lie -- sorry, I mean prank.

Gotta love the guy.

So you hate Obama too for sending 100,000 more troops into Afghanistan, escalating the war to Iraq levels, or does he get a pass?

gsmphoto: A million books sold- that's a lot of tables cured of their wobbles.

And its 1 million more than you will ever sell, jealousy is a biatch.