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MidwestTransplant Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-28-08 01:42 AM
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Bush Is a Book Lover (according to Rove over 1 book per week over last 3 years)
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Edited on Sun Dec-28-08 01:55 AM by MidwestTransplant
Source: WSJ

With only five days left, my lead is insurmountable. The competition can't catch up. And for the third year in a row, I'll triumph. In second place will be the president of the United States. Our contest is not about sports or politics. It's about books.

It all started on New Year's Eve in 2005. President Bush asked what my New Year's resolutions were. I told him that as a regular reader who'd gotten out of the habit, my goal was to read a book a week in 2006. Three days later, we were in the Oval Office when he fixed me in his sights and said, "I'm on my second. Where are you?" Mr. Bush had turned my resolution into a contest.



Read more: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123025595706634689.html



Simply laughable. Operation legacy at its funniest. Does My Pet Goat count as one of them?

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