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hungry101

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Former President Obama has written his third book on his favorite subject: Himself.

I understand that this book is a trilogy. I expect that former President Obama will most likely waste millions of dollars to build a presidential library in his name. I hope that he can build one large enough so that he can fit all the books that he plans to write about himself.

How do you feel about presidents building presidential libraries and publishing memoirs? Who reads them? Enclosed is an article entitled Books by Politicians and the People Who Read Them.
The author of the article, Jim Nagle, points out that every politician seems to be writing a book. He asks the question who has the time or inclination to read all these books? He wrote the article after seeing Bernie Sanders on Colbert. He is a self proclaimed fan of Sanders and is willing to read articles about Sander's policies etc. but there is no way he would commit to reading an entire book by the guy. For one thing, the information gets stale very quick and they are not professional writers. In contrast, Winston Spencer Churchill was at one time in his life, the highest grossing Journalist in the world. I've read three four of his books and I can tell you they are very good to this day. But still, I don't think that WSC wrote as many words about himself as Obama. I won't read this dribble.

 
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Sol Tee Nutz

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Look behind you.

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You make a very good point. Just like when Obama was talking to his friend Putin and didn’t realize he was hot-miked. What Obama was talking about - colluding with Russia - was off the record. shouldn’t some things stay off the record?

Obama is also the first President in recent memory to criticize a sitting President. I remember the press trying to get Bush 41 to comment while he was fishing for bone fish. He said something like I’m out of the public eye and I’m not going to criticize a sitting President. In contrast, Obama won’t shut up but why should he? He’s wonderful. Just ask him.

I have Bush 43’s Decision Points on my shelf. Incidentally, in the article that I posted above, this book was called out as a better book because it’s focus was a handful of critical decision points during 43rd’s Presidency. This way, you can skip the obligatory chapters about early life and Jr High school etc. The book was a gift and I haven’t touched it and do not plan to anytime soon.
 
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One book I would stand in line to buy at a book signing would be Between the Sheets, One man’s quest for intimacy after decades of marriage to a man-hating Bitch. This would be a tell-all book about Bill Clinton trying to cope and find some fulfillment after years of his marriage of convenience to the most hated woman in Government since Marie Antoinette.
 

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I think some of you gentlemen are being unfair to Obama. He is unquestionably the worst president of the last half a century or so, but there are so many redeeming qualities that we need to give him credit for. As far as I can tell, he is the closest to a real Renaissance man we have ever seen, definitely since Leonardo. To wit: in addition to being a great writer, he is equally at home in:

- linguistics (singlehandedly invented the Austrian language)

- geography (Malvinas, Maldives, who the fuck cares)

- world affairs ("president of Canada")

And that is just to scratch the surface... And who could forget his revolutionary use of the teleprompter? Give him a break...

obama-teleprompter.jpg
 

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Well, there are politicians -- and politicians. Whatever, say, Churchill wrote (a lot!) is worth reading, in my view. I can not however picture a reader of Obama's trash.
I am not saying I haven't read portions of their life and their actions in history, but to read a politicians self published memoirs from cover to cover never.
 

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to read a politicians self published memoirs from cover to cover never.
If I can a venture a guess... You did not grow up in a communist country, did you? ("Self-published", btw, is a very precise epithet, as opposed to "self-written.)"
 
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As far as I can tell, he is the closest to a real Renaissance man we have ever seen, definitely since Leonardo.
I would rather compare him to Galileo. Obama was an unrecognized genius and if he failed as president, it was only because he was so far ahead of his time. It is such a shame that his breathtaking idea of building the Intercontinental railroad was met with universal derision and contempt. If not for these despicable jeering racists, we would now be taking comfortable trains from New York to Paris or San Francisco to Tokyo (the visionary inexplicably failed to specify which would come first.)
 
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I personally do not read any political memoirs by any leaders, but my mother, who passed away earlier this year, was a voracious reader of them. She read all of them, both sides of the political aisle, and would have her name on the local library waiting list as soon as they hit the market. She also voraciously watched the Sunday morning political talk shows, and could not be talked to while they were on, lest you spark her anger. She had a life long fascination with these books and TV shows that I never fully understood. She was not born in the USA but became obsessed with its politics. I believe she also read memoirs written by certain foreign leaders.

I think there is a market for these books and it's probably people like my mother. If she was alive she would almost certainly have ordered the Obama book.
 

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On a serious note...
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As I have said before, I thought Obama did a pretty good job of running the first thing he ever ran -The United States of America.
Just to be sure, could you please point to the spot where the serious part of your note starts.
 

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I would rather compare him to Galileo. Obama was an unrecognized genius and if he failed as president, it was only because he was so far ahead of his time. It is such a shame that his breathtaking idea of building the Intercontinental railroad was met with universal derision and contempt. If not for these despicable jeering racists, we would now be taking comfortable trains from New York to Paris or San Francisco to Tokyo (the visionary inexplicably failed to specify which would come first.)
I am all for these high speed bullet trains that could literally carry thousands of passengers comfortably and in record time.
Imagine how fast and efficiently China would be able to spread the next pandemic all over the world.
 
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In a belated attempt to answer the question posed by the OP (as to who is reading this piece of garbage), I plead guilty to having read a short portion of this masterpiece, on a subject of particular interest to me. I won't dignify it by posting quotes here, but as Hungry said elsewhere, I won't get those 10 (5 in my case) minutes of my life back. As usual with this author, the question I have is whether he is so totally ignorant (of history in this case) or does he deliberately distort it to fit his biased worldview. Probably a little of both.

Full disclosure: I never paid a single penny for this reading pleasure, so not guilty of contributing to his mortgage on that Martha's Vineyard mansion.
 
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