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What the hell is he reading????
« on: August 30, 2011, 10:11:24 AM »
Saw a picture that's been circulating Facebook of Obama reading some book.

Took me to this snopes link

http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/postamerican.asp

Okay, so it doesn't sound too bad.  Blithering anti america globalisim.  No surprise.  Then, at the bottom, it linked a reading list of books he bought on one of his vacations

http://www.thomaslfriedman.com/bookshelf/hot-flat-and-crowded

Much scarier then the other book.  Right hand is over here.....you'd better look and see what the left hand is doing before you get stabbed in the back.....

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Re: What the hell is he reading????
« Reply #1 on: August 30, 2011, 10:22:20 AM »
He is what we thought he was.
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Re: What the hell is he reading????
« Reply #2 on: August 30, 2011, 10:30:39 AM »
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I wish the Ring had never come to me. I wish none of this had happened.

So do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us. There are other forces at work in this world, Frodo, besides the will of evil. Bilbo was meant to find the Ring. In which case, you also were meant to have it. And that is an encouraging thought

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Re: What the hell is he reading????
« Reply #3 on: August 30, 2011, 01:15:48 PM »
It bothers you that he reads books?
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Re: What the hell is he reading????
« Reply #4 on: August 30, 2011, 01:41:56 PM »
Quote from: fistful on August 30, 2011, 01:15:48 PM
It bothers you that he reads books?

Not that he reads but that he might think 1984 is an instruction manual rather than a prescient warning.
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I wish the Ring had never come to me. I wish none of this had happened.

So do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us. There are other forces at work in this world, Frodo, besides the will of evil. Bilbo was meant to find the Ring. In which case, you also were meant to have it. And that is an encouraging thought

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Re: What the hell is he reading????
« Reply #5 on: August 30, 2011, 02:21:17 PM »
I know, but it's his own writings, statements and actions that are worrisome, not his reading outside of The Conservative Book Club's recommendations.
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Re: What the hell is he reading????
« Reply #6 on: August 30, 2011, 02:23:57 PM »
Quote from: makattak on August 30, 2011, 01:41:56 PM
Not that he reads but that he might think 1984 is an instruction manual rather than a prescient warning.

This week it was Brave New World.
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Re: What the hell is he reading????
« Reply #7 on: August 30, 2011, 06:04:25 PM »
Quote from: fistful on August 30, 2011, 01:15:48 PM
It bothers you that he reads books?


It surprises me that he reads books .....  >:D
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Re: What the hell is he reading????
« Reply #8 on: August 30, 2011, 06:12:53 PM »
If he starts reading "The Gulag Archipelago", run like hell.
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Re: What the hell is he reading????
« Reply #9 on: August 30, 2011, 06:19:35 PM »
Quote from: fistful on August 30, 2011, 01:15:48 PM
It bothers you that he reads books?

 :facepalm:

Its a matter of influence, and further proof of what the man believes in.  Green is the new red.
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Re: What the hell is he reading????
« Reply #10 on: August 30, 2011, 08:16:34 PM »
So a person believes in whatever they read?
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Re: What the hell is he reading????
« Reply #11 on: August 30, 2011, 08:24:39 PM »
Quote from: fistful on August 30, 2011, 08:16:34 PM
So a person believes in whatever they read?

Now you're just being a tool.
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Re: What the hell is he reading????
« Reply #12 on: August 30, 2011, 08:45:29 PM »
Quote from: JamisJockey on August 30, 2011, 08:24:39 PM
Now you're just being a tool.

Doh! Since I just read that, I'll have to agree with it.
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Re: What the hell is he reading????
« Reply #13 on: August 30, 2011, 09:38:13 PM »
Quote from: makattak on August 30, 2011, 01:41:56 PM
Not that he reads but that he might think 1984 is an instruction manual rather than a prescient warning.

....and I'm starting to think RED DAWN is going to be a training film.....
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Re: What the hell is he reading????
« Reply #14 on: August 30, 2011, 10:36:15 PM »
Quote from: Monkeyleg on August 30, 2011, 06:12:53 PM
If he starts reading "The Gulag Archipelago", run like hell.

Ok, I admit, I actually laughed out loud at that one.
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I wish the Ring had never come to me. I wish none of this had happened.

So do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us. There are other forces at work in this world, Frodo, besides the will of evil. Bilbo was meant to find the Ring. In which case, you also were meant to have it. And that is an encouraging thought

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Re: What the hell is he reading????
« Reply #15 on: September 02, 2011, 10:00:30 AM »
Has he read 1984 and Brave New World before?  Those were required reading when I went to high school.
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Re: What the hell is he reading????
« Reply #16 on: September 06, 2011, 02:15:06 PM »
Might I suggest that our esteemed President read "Dummies Guide to Economic Policies?"
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