Bad President

by Harry Prichett and Rob Battles

Featuring photographs and captions about the Bush administration, this title aims to capture the US commander-in-chief doing what he unintentionally does best.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0761146202
• ISBN13: 9780761146209
• Release Date: October 2006
• Publisher: Workman Publishing
• Length: 165 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.1" x 7.0"

Customer Reviews

Call to Public Non-Violent General Strike

Imagine ten million people putting every major city into grid-lock on 1 January, holding up a copy of this book, and chanting "Death to the Two-Party Spoils System--Electoral Reform now or every one of you is FIRED." My caption may sound like hype, but as the guy who invented the T-Shirt with a front that has God Bless Dick Cheney around his snarling face, and on the back, "Enema of the Republic," I am totally comfortable with giving this book a full five-star rating. Others are nit-picking this excellent work for no good reason. 1) The photographs are priceless and brilliantly selected. 2) The captions are not just thoughtful and hilarious, but often brilliant. 3) The Sad Facts pages add solid substance. Bush is a village idiot, sexually confused, and a pathetic human being whose own mother does not like him. Cheney is the real amoral criminal. I strongly recommend this book as a gift. I am on my way to Iowa to hand out flyers and business cards and playing cards pointing America to 52 touigh questions at Earth Intelligence Network. Not a single one of the candidates can answer all of these questions. My Op-Ed on seven reasons why I might vote for Barack Obama, as an estranged moderate Republican, is at OSS.Net under my personal web page. I am having difficulty understanding why Americans are not burning tires in the streets and going on a non-violent national sick-out until Dick Cheney is forced to resign and go into permanent exile in Dubai, where his hide-out is now ready for occupancy. Go, Dick, Go. At Earth Intelligence Network, see 52 questions and answers that no candidate in Iowa can answer today, and the one-page outline of Electoral Reform legislation that some of us are asking Ron Paul and Barack Obama to introduce, with a ROLL CALL VOTE, when Congress returns in January. We will not accept anything less. For serious non-fiction that focuses on how a village idiot who had two elections stolen for him (born with a silver foot in his mouth), see: Bush's Brain Vice: Dick Cheney and the Hijacking of the American Presidency Running on Empty: How the Democratic and Republican Parties Are Bankrupting Our Future and What Americans Can Do About It Breach of Trust: How Washington Turns Outsiders Into Insiders Broken Government: How Republican Rule Destroyed the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial Branches Now the good news: A Power Governments Cannot Suppress The Tao of Democracy: Using Co-Intelligence to Create a World That Works for All Society's Breakthrough!: Releasing Essential Wisdom and Virtue in All the People One from Many: VISA and the Rise of Chaordic Organization The Battle for the Soul of Capitalism: How the Financial System Underminded Social Ideals, Damaged Trust in the Markets, Robbed Investors of Trillions - and What to Do About It

Funny and unfortunately pertinent

I received this book as a gift from a friend; it proved to be as funny as it was downright depressing at times. What makes the book interesting is that it combines slap-in-the-face humor with jaw-dropping quotes/actions taken by the Bush Administration. Just two examples of many: As Governor of Texas, Bush presided over 152 executions, by far the most of any contemporary governor... Dick Cheney: "A lot of what needs to be done here will have to be done quietly, without any discussion." Though the purposefully humorous pages of the book do provide a fleeting sense of entertainment, I found the most shockingly hilarious sections of the book to be those pages showcasing the unbelievable, downright criminal and immoral actions of this Administration (about every 4 pages or so) - anecdotal tales that make one laugh and wonder, "Are these idiots for real?" Given its low price and high level of pertinence to the state of affairs in our country - as well as the cheap laughs you'll get from the clever use of captions combined with some rather candid photos - I would recommend this book to anybody, perhaps especially to those who find no problems with the USA's current situation.

extremely funny

and an excellent gift book. Of course, with Bush as prez, the joke is ultimately on all of us.

bad president

delightful book good spin on a testy subject

Great Gift

This would be a great gift for anyone who is a fan of President Bush. It is more than just funny captions to pictures, because everytime you think it's all in fun, you are hit with a "sad" fact about the President. It's two books in one, pictures of Bush & his staff with very funny captions, many that hit home & true "sad" facts about things that this administration has done. Not very funny. I read it & everytime I laughed, I read a fact & wanted to cry.