Today's Rant: The Most Dangerous Book Ever Written

[jmowreader]

The conservatives have issued a list of the Top Ten Most Dangerous Books. Naturally, it's ten liberal titles or what they see as liberal titles. John Maynard Keynes' "General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money" figures prominently on the list, as does "Mein Kampf," "Das Kapital" and "The Communist Manifesto."

So I thought to myself, if I was going to make a liberal version of this list, one that had ten conservative books on it, what would I choose? Certainly Jude Wanniski's "How the World Really Works" (the treatise that introduced supply-side economics to the GOP) would make the list, as would any book by Arthur Laffer. Some would argue the Holy Bible should be on the list, but I disagree--I'm looking for books no good has come from, and a lot of good has come from the Bible.

Then I came to the realization that liberals don't have to copy conservatives in everything we do. We can just stand up and call one book "the most dangerous piece of crap ever written by the hand of man." This I have done.

The most dangerous book ever written is "A Charge to Keep" by George W. Bush, Governor of the State of Texas.

"A Charge to Keep" kicked off Bush's presidential campaign. It convinced a lot of people he's not an incompetent drunk who you wouldn't trust with the key to the register in a low-plan McDonald's, much less the nuclear football. If it weren't for "A Charge to Keep," the GOP might have been forced to run a competent candidate whose vice-president wouldn't have put a map of Iraq into his energy policy documents.

But nope, Bush released "A Charge to Keep," enough people voted for the sorry SOB to let them steal the 2000 election, and 1600 dead soldiers later...here we are.