 "The Early Years of The Appaling Presidency" | 2009-05-26 |
| - Reviewed By Winslow_Bunny from Rockledge, Florida United States |
| As Jack Huberman's book was published in 2003, we had yet to see the full impact of an administration that set us on a course of national devastation and international disaster. Huberman was quite thorough in his timeframe for the destruction of environmental policies, the rigging of the national election, the infusion of business and politics in public policy, such as the energy policy, and a whole range of other important topics of the time, including Homeland Security, Iraq, judicial nominees, and nuclear armaments. Huberman's book showed the record of this administration in its first few years; it is profitic in its illustration of what we came to expect until this administration left office. |
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| "Ain't it the truth" | 2009-04-22 |
| - Reviewed By "Popera Lover" from Payson, Az United States |
| Makes you sick and ashamed that the conservative American nuts could have done this to us. |
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| "Love or Hate him, this Book has all of the facts lined up neatly" | 2008-04-13 |
| - Reviewed By paulocal from Falls Church, VA USA |
While this book may have been intended as a parody of Bush's colossally mean-spirited incompetence, its content is anything but parody: It is deadly serious in laying out chapter-by-chapter, fact-by-ugly-fact, and in alphabetical order, GW's "in-your face" corruption and incompetence. It underscores, more than any other book, why GW will no doubt go down as America's worse President ever.
Here in one concise compendium is not just Bush's record of "high-minded" and "entitled incompetence," but also what could easily be termed as his "intentional malfeasance" while in office. Why he and Dick Cheney were not impeached remains a mystery.
As the book notes on page 94: while street crime was on the decline all across the U.S., corporate and white-collar crime spiked above that of any government since that of Herbert Hoover's. Bush II's administration was a virtual Xmas Holiday for corporate crime and corruption.
Few may know for instance, that Enron was not the only energy company that was "busted out," and "raided" leaving tens of thousands without jobs and billions lost in retirement funds. The book gives a lineup of others that followed the Enron pattern: El Paso Oil, Williams Oil, Duke Oil, Dynergy, Mirant Energy, and Reliant Oil, mostly Texas-based and big contributors to GW's campaign coffers. These, along with Enron, were also raided and implicated in the "contrived" California energy crisis, in which, for the first time in its history, that state experienced a statewide blackout before energy prices were reinitialized at a new quantum higher level.
Read the full story of GW's connection to the Bin Laden family through Texas oil-man James Bath. After 911, it seems that the real war that Bush conducted was not on the Saudi backed terrorists, but on the economic interests of the majority of the American people. The "Bush Warriors" under the rallying cry of "no more class warfare" was nothing if not a war by a handful of the rich on the poor, and on the Constitution itself: Inadequate regulations were further reduced on the environment, on worker's health, on consumer protections, on programs designed to help veterans and the unemployed, and on the elderly and the poor.
While 2.5 trillion dollars in tax cuts were awarded to the rich, a two-dollar per hour increase in the minimum wage was denied the poor. Bush's own "No Child Left Behind Program" was left behind when it came to funding: It remained unfunded. At the same time, the two areas with the largest contributors to the Bush campaign, healthcare and energy, saw healthcare costs and gas prices skyrocket. This of course occurred at the same time that profits in these two areas increased to such obscene levels that it embarrassed company officials. They immediately began advertisement campaigns to offset the obscenity of the embarrassingly large profits.
In summary, I knew the Bush administration was incompetent, corrupt and overall just plain bad, but not this bad. What a revelation.
Five stars |
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| "Absolutely Fabulous, Funny, and Terrifying" | 2007-03-09 |
| - Reviewed By LAG1958 from Albuquerque, NM |
| I had a whole plethora of emotions when I read this book. I laughed hysterically when I realized how stupid our President really is, I was astounded by the investigative journalism and the their findings, all of which should never happen in the office of the President of the United States. The reporting on the war and the real reasons we went there are sadly shocking. Everyday, you read about the deaths of the young men and women from 18 to 24, just babies really. None of them have been alive long enough to learn how beautiful life can really be, and it is just heartbreaking. Jack Huberman has done a fantastic job of documenting the lies and scare tactics used by this administration to terrify the population, and the member's of Congress into voting for Bush's blank check into Iraq. The author needs to update the book since it was originally published in 2003. The book would double or triple in size by the time the author starts digging into all the alleged crimes committed by Paul Bremer in Iraq, the illegal contracts with American companies that should have gone to the Iraqi's, and the missing billions in cash. What would they find if they really looked at what that arrogant, ignorant liar, our Commander in Chief (the decider), has done to this country. Why for example, do we have over 100,000 American businessman and workers who are earning billions, when 75% of Iraqi men can't find a job to feed their families? Our country is going broke, we have become a severly fractured society and we no longer have any "good standing" left anywhere in the world. "The Decider" has destroyed our great nation and his foolish decisions are directly responsible for the thousands of dead troops and another 30,000 severly disabled men and women. It is almost too much to believe the true axis of evil, (Bush, Cheney, and Rumsfeld), could do so much damage to such a proud nation, in such a short period of time. Our ecomomy is in ruins, and they have stripped our Armed Services down to its bare bones. They have cut the funding on every program they possibly could, including VA hospital benefits to pay for this fiasco. It will take generations for this country to recover. George Bush will walk into retirement admiring himself for this hideous mess, and he will dump it on the next President to clean up. It took "The Decider" less than six years to turn the United States into a gigantic bull's eye. Terror is already walking on our soil, just patiently waiting. |
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 "Great read!" | 2006-11-27 |
| - Reviewed By kathrynelizabeth |
I found this to be a great book full of facts and statistics necessary to back up the feelings that anyone who picks this up to read must already have.
I especially enjoyed the history of the administration officials that was offered and the specific information on the Iraq "situation."
A quick read, which had me both shocked and in awe at some points. :) |
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| "A must have for any American!" | 2006-11-04 |
| - Reviewed By adreambeam |
| I can't get over how great this book is! It is well organized (all social/political issues are in alphabetical order). It covers all aspects of the presidents mistakes from the environment, appointment of jugdes, the war on terror, etc. Its presented in a concise manner so that its interesting but still information packed. This book is a must have for anyone who disagrees with Bush or anyone who is blind enough to think he is a good president. |
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