My New Blog written about a new book "DECISION POINTS" by President George W. Bush

The birth of my new blog located at http://www.bushdecisionpoints.net is now active. It is in existence to challenge all claims within President George W. Bush's new book called 'Decision Points', which are the Presidents memoirs. The book is scheduled to be released in the first week of November, after mid-term elections.  All claims made by the President of his actions and decisions during his 8 years in office from 2001 through 2009 stated in his book can be challenged as long as there is proof to the contrary. President Bush will be given credit for the positive things that I find in his book, but on the other hand, I will challenge everything in the book that is not accurate, with facts to back up my statements.
If there are any readers that would also like to contribute to the new blog, I would be willing to publish articles by the readers as long as the facts stated in the 'reader articles' can be substantiated. Articles and comments can be sent to bushdecisionpoints@gmail.com. If you enjoy the blog, please become a 'FOLLOWER'. Each new follower can submit an article for the blog. All 'followers' articles will be GUARANTEED to be published on the website as long as it is true and written in good taste.

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Books Read by Barack Obama and George W. Bush

Like President Bush, the Democratic President Obama is a very avid book reader. Recently he was caught reading "The Post-American World" by Fareed Zakaria. For one of his summer trips, President Obama packed the following books:
• The Way Home by George Pelecanos, a crime thriller based in Washington, D.C.;
• Lush Life by Richard Price, a story of race and class set in New York's Lower East Side;
• Tom Friedman's Hot, Flat, and Crowded, on the benefits to America of an environmental revolution;
• John Adams by David McCullough;
• Plainsong by Kent Haruf, a drama about the life of eight different characters living in a Colorado prairie community.

What does this list of American authors tell us about the president? Well, it's not as fun as the year Bush decided to read Camus' The Stranger. George Bush reading a French Existentialist is like Obama reading a Cabela's catalog. Plus, it was a story about a one-time layabout turned unrepentant Arab killer, which, if you wanted to overinterpret things, gave you enough material to get you through a few packs of Gauloises.

The Obama selection is not overtly controversial. In 2006, Bush's list included The Great Influenza, about the 1918 flu. If Obama were reading that today while his White House was issuing a new report about the H1N1 virus, he'd start a national panic. But his list is also clearly not poll-tested. Women played a key role in Obama's victory in 2008. They're swing voters. And yet all of Obama's authors are white men. The subject of the longest book, John Adams, is a dead white male. Obama couldn't get away with that in an election year, and, given his aides' penchant for cleaning up little things like this, we'll soon see the president with a copy of Kate Walbert's A Short History of Women.

       

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Christmas Tree Decorations at the White House

Decorations are usually going in full force during the Christmas season at the white house. It goes without saying that you will find some type of Christmas garland on the White House property shortly after Thanksgiving. The Christmas season is about to show its face again at the White House, with the annual christmas tree cerimony, along with Christmas music and various decorations. As Christmas is one of my favorite times of the year, I'm especially watchful of the activites at the White House and will report most of the Christmas activies at the White House in detail this year.

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