Bush once wrote a book, A CHARGE TO KEEP, The Pulitzer Prize peeps

[opihimoimoi]

still laughing at the thought of giving him a prize for his efforts...

Reasons for not getting any awards, praise, recognition, credits, respect, etc are many:

1. Not ready for Prime Time....should stick to selling toys

2. Used copies are going for .01...a fkn penny....

3. Used the wrong picture (back Cover)

4. Level of writing was described as "His own unique style" ...tranlate that to 7th grade

5. Karen Huge helped him.

Just thought ya might wanna chuckle

[Olney Blue]

1. He was clearly talking about his Master Card.

[opihimoimoi]

5. I never thought of it that way...LOL

[peekaloo]

2. sounds like he took the title from Pickles' vibrator instructions.

[opihimoimoi]

6. Anal batteries??? OMG....

[uppityperson]

3. And here you go...

Lots of good comments also.
http://www.amazon.com/Charge-Keep-George-W-Bush/dp/0688174418

Editorial Reviews
Amazon.com
The political biography, complete with life-altering turning points and a political philosophy for leading the United States into greatness, has become obligatory for those running for president--just one more thing to check off the "to do" list on the way to the Oval Office. A Charge to Keep is George W. Bush's offering: a light and breezy book mixing personal and political remembrances that proves heavy on chatty anecdotes and light on policy prescriptions. If you read the last chapter you'll sort of learn where George W. stands on most things, but still not really discern how he would actually run the country. There are no revelations, either personal or political: Bush's wild side and youthful indiscretions, like stealing a Christmas wreath from a New Haven hotel for his Yale fraternity, are touched on lightly when he discusses them at all. A Charge to Keep is so upbeat and positive, in describing the Houston woman to whom he was engaged in college and from whom he "gradually drifted apart," Bush says simply: "I still think the world of her, and our parting was friendly. We were very young, we lived in different places, and we gradually developed different lives."

George W. has been labeled a lightweight by some; A Charge to Keep will do nothing to dispel that notion. It features lots of Bush family memories and numerous mentions of George W.'s famous parents, including letters from his president father. George W. has followed closely in his father's footsteps, attending the same prep school and college. He even belonged to the same secret society at Yale, Skull and Bones. From college it was on to flight school and the Texas Air National Guard, Harvard Business School, and then (again, like his father) the Texas oil business and politics. George W. seems mostly in sync with his father on policy issues as well. "A thousand points of light" is transformed slightly to become "compassionate conservative," which pops up in the final chapter more than 10 times. Readers will come away knowing many of the experiences and events that have helped shaped George W., but his future is still an open book. --Linda Killian

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[opihimoimoi]

4. Thanks for the confirmation...lol..ya cannot make this stuff up

[Bozita]

14. The customer reviews at Amazon for this book are incredibly hilarious.

[parasim]

7. The funniest thing about that title was...

...that he had no clue what the real meaning of the painting where he thought he got the title for his book from.

-snip

In an April 1995 memo, Bush invited his staff to come to his office to look at a painting. … The picture is a Western scene of a cowboy riding up a craggy hill, with two other riders following behind him. Bush told visitors—who often noted his resemblance to the rider in front—that it was called A Charge To Keep and that it was based on his favorite Methodist hymn of that title, written in the eighteenth century by Charles Wesley. As Bush noted in the memo, which he quoted in his autobiography of the same title: "I thought I would share with you a recent bit of Texas history which epitomizes our mission. When you come into my office, please take a look at the beautiful painting of a horseman determinedly charging up what appears to be a steep and rough trail. This is us. What adds complete life to the painting for me is the message of Charles Wesley that we serve One greater than ourselves." Bush identified with the lead rider, whom he took to be a kind of Christian cowboy, an embodiment of indomitable vigor, courage, and moral clarity.

Bush subsequently took the painting to Washington, hung it in the Oval Office, and continued to tell the painting's inspiring story, adding embellishments:

He came to believe that the picture depicted the circuit-riders who spread Methodism across the Alleghenies in the nineteenth century. In other words, the cowboy who looked like Bush was a missionary of his own denomination.

Only that is not the title, message, or meaning of the painting. The artist, W.H.D. Koerner, executed it to illustrate a Western short story entitled "The Slipper Tongue," published in The Saturday Evening Post in 1916. The story is about a smooth-talking horse thief who is caught, and then escapes a lynch mob in the Sand Hills of Nebraska. The illustration depicts the thief fleeing his captors.] In the magazine, the illustration bears the caption: "Had His Start Been Fifteen Minutes Longer He Would Not Have Been Caught."

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http://www.slate.com/id/2182222/

[Hekate]

8. Horse Thief, indeed. nt

[Kitty Herder]

9. That is so, so appropriate!

I don't understand where he got the idea that it depicts a Methodist missionary, unless those folks behind the horserider really didn't want to be proselytized to, and were pissed about it. The rider is clearly running away.

It's no wonder * relates to it. I'm sure he'd love to run away and not have to answer for his crimes. Unfortunately, he probably won't even have to run.

[Indenturedebtor]

10. LOL you can't make that shit up

It's uh er poetical-like n stuff. That's why I call it poetical-like. A heheheheheh.

[opihimoimoi]

11. Thank you for the article...Bush is so easy to make fun of..should be a movie

[billdemo]

12. I think Bush would be better off writing a kids book

LOL. I think Bush would be better off writing a kids book like the one he was reading when the towers fell. The one about the sheep.

One thing about Bush, when it comes to books, he's no JFK... He's no Clinton... He's no Nixon... He's no Reagan... Hell, he's about 49 books behind Jimmy Carter! :D

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

13. Please elaborate about Jimmy Carter. -nt

[opihimoimoi]

15. Bush cannot write anything meaningful for shit....he is NOT a Writer ...Period.

That he wrote THE CHARGE... in the first place was to say he wrote one...and with Karen? she had to hold his hand, load the tape recorders....what?

The man cannot talk, cannot write, cannot solve, cannot think....besides acting like a steady customer of a LOUNGE...what the hell can he do?