April 2009
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Nepali Finance Minister Baburam Bhattarai
Nepali Finance Minister (and commited Maoist) Baburam Bhattarai digs John Perkins’ Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, according to e-kantipur.com. Considering that development spending in Nepal has dropped since the Maoists took over (ironic, huh?) and electricity has dropped to about four hours a day, you’d think he’d be reading about how to build the economy, rather than...
First Lady Michelle Obama
According to a tipster, Saul Alinsky’s 1971, “Rules for Radicals,” is a favorite of the Obamas. Michele Obama quoted it in her Democratic Convention speech (after which Hillary Clinton needed to pick a new “controversial inspiration” to “connect” with the Democratic “base”) :
“Barack stood up that day and spoke words that have...
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez
U.S. President Barak Obama, whose efforts to distract the world from his true identity as emperor of the evil empire with his new Portuguese water dog obviously aren’t working, was given greatest gift one can receive - a book in a language you can’t read. It’s a great strategy; give Obama a book written in Spanish (NOT the English translation), then call him out at the UN or OAS...
Former U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney
Sensing the first brisk chill of the winter of his discontent, Cheney picked up David Halberstam’s, “The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War,” and the companion book to Ken Burns’ PBS series on World War 2, “The War, An Intimate History: 1941-45” in the Fall of ‘07 according to the Washington Post.
Former U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney
According to The Politico, former U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney is all over the Kindle, part of the dramatic, comprehensive steps he has been taking to reduce his carbon footprint since emerging from his secure location beneath the surface of the earth. He is reading James M. McPherson’s “Tried by War: Abraham Lincoln as Commander in Chief.”
February 2009
3 posts
Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter
Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter likes poor people, but he loves “Let Us Know Praise Famous Men”.
Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Tony...
Back in the day when former British Prime Minister Tony Blair was an angsty pre-Prime Minister, he was way into The Prophet Unarmed, Isaac Deutscher’s ginormous biography of Trotsky. He also reads the Koran and Flat Stanley for street cred.
Former Prime Minister of Spain José María Aznar
José María Aznar, former Prime Minister of Spain from 1996-2004, is rumored to be reading España inteligible by Julián Marías and La España Invertebrada by Josae Ortega y Gasset.
January 2009
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez
What is Chavez reading these days?
Back in 2006, he gave a massive plug for Noam Chomsky’s “Hegemony or Survival: America’s Quest for Global Dominance” amid complaints of the remnants of U.S. President George W. Bush’s sulphuric stench.
Does anyone out there know what Chavez is reading these days?
Japanese Prime Minister Aso Taro
Prime Minister of Japan Taro Aso may have a secret (or not so secret) addiction to the longest running manga series in Japan, Golgo 13. Supposedly the caption below speaks to how Aso has proclaimed that the story Duke Togo, professional assassin, “is the most informative piece on international affairs”.
I can only assume that this song is playing in his head when he ducks out of Davos...
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Former U.S. President George W. Bush
Former U.S. President George W. Bush is reading everything ever written, according to humble puppetmaster/portly cheerleader/loveable curmudgeon Karl Rove. He is also reading the bible. Over and over and over and over again. And you aren’t. So there.
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U.S. President Barack Obama
Apart from running the world and practicing Blue Steel, U.S. President Barack Obama is reading Fareed Zakria’s “The Post-American World” (Actually, he’s probably finished by now. This photo was taken in May. But hey, he’s a busy guy).
God bless Post-America. P.U.S.A! P.U.S.A! P.U.S.A!