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Title: Misunderestimated: The President Battles Terrorism, John Kerry, and the Bush Haters by Bill Sammon ISBN: 0-06-072383-1 Publisher: ReganBooks Pub. Date: 11 May, 2004 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $27.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.68 (73 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Misunderestimated: The President Battles Terrorism, John Ker
Comment: This, i.e., Misunderestimated: The President Battles Terrorism, John Kerry, and the Bush Haters by Bill Sammon (Author), is riveting portrait of President Bush as he broadens the war on terror overseas -- and plunges into high-stakes political battles at home "They misunderestimated me," George W. Bush famously remarked on the eve of his historic presidency. Fractured syntax aside, Bush was right: his detractors misunderstood his appeal to the American public, and underestimated his considerable political skills. In this compelling new book, Bill Sammon reveals how the president is turning these misperceptions to his advantage in the looming showdown with John Kerry and the Bush haters. As senior White House correspondent for the Washington Times, Sammon has been granted extraordinary access to the president and his closest confidants, from political gurus Karl Rove and Andy Card to foreign policy advisers Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice. The result is a compelling chronicle of the second eighteen months of George W. Bush's term, as the administration's focus shifts from al Qaeda and Afghanistan to Iraq and the 2004 election. Sammon's on-the-scene reporting and exclusive interviews with the president and his top advisers reveal how the White House is implementing the most profound shift in U.S. foreign policy in more than half a century, prompting an eminent Democratic historian to rank Bush alongside John Quincy Adams and Franklin Delano Roosevelt as one of America's "grand" strategists. For the first time, Sammon discloses the president's vow that Kerry will "regret" bad-mouthing the liberation of Iraq, the seminal event in the post-9/11 phase of the Bush presidency. Rove even details for Sammon the White House strategy to paint Kerry as a condescending elitist whose "blatant" attempts to capitalize on his Vietnam experience will ultimately come back to haunt him. Misunderestimated also meticulously tracks the rise of the Bush haters, a disturbing political phenomenon that colors everything from the war on terrorism to the presidential campaign. The impact extends to the press, which Sammon exposes for racing to brand Operation Iraqi Freedom another Vietnam "quagmire" less than eighteen months after making the same blunder during the Afghan war. In Misunderestimated, Sammon takes readers inside the Oval Office for historic decisions of war and peace, aboard Air Force One for a daring, surprise descent into Baghdad, and even on an intimate tour of Bush's beloved Prairie Chapel Ranch in Crawford, Texas. It's a mesmerizing account of a president determined not to repeat his father's two fundamental mistakes -- abandoning Iraq and failing to vanquish the Democrats.
Rating: 5
Summary: He's in for the Long Haul
Comment: I've watched Bill Sammon at Presidential news conferences and on the Fox News Channel. He is a lanky, understated kind of guy, who doesn't have the hubris one has come to associate with the Washington press core.
I enjoyed reading this book, because it gives an insider's view of the Bush White House. Bill highlights the incredible outpouring of hate in Seattle (Little Beirut), the build-up to the Afganistan and Iraq wars, the Thanksgiving visit to the troops and other significant events.
It was also interesting to read about the Washington Press Core. Without being overtly negative, Bill shows their preening and obnoxiousness, the jockeying for position, and the twisted news coverage of this president and his administration. I especially enjoyed reading about NBC's David Gregory, with his hand-held computer and organizer. Gregory wouldn't let anyone else stand next to Dubya at the Crawford, Texas ranch.
George W. Bush may be a former frat boy, the son of a rich man who has led a privleged life, but he has grit.
To all the Bush haters--Dubya's in for the long haul. He will be "misunderestimated into" another four years.
Rating: 5
Summary: Libs have no clue
Comment: "Let's forget the fact he sent us to this "war" against a country that can't have a democracy (Anyone with the most minimum knowledge of history and/or anthropology knows that the idea of getting into a country and/or society (That has NEVER, in hundreds of years, had a democracy because of historical factors)"
Can one get any more bigoted? The same could have been said for Japan, Russia, Israel, etc.
"with tanks and bombs to "introduce" the "freedom" is dangerous, ridiculous and impossible)."
Like in Germany, Japan, Spain, Itay, the Phillipines, etc.?
"Being against an illegal war (It is illegal. In front of our laws and in front of the International laws) "
It is in no way illegal. But I'll let an Iraqi citizen put it this way:
"Because Iraqis have a lot to deal with regarding their daily life needs and the fact that we're not a major player in international politics, it becomes understandable that they pay less attention than the rest of the world to the legal complexities of the war and most of them see this war legitimate simply because it lead to their solvation and freedom.
You cannot tell a man that saving him and his family from torture, humiliation and death was a mistake and it should've not been done because it's illegal. This is almost an insult to Iraqis to hear someone saying that this war was illegal. It means that our suffering for decades meant nothing and that formalities and the stupid rules of the UN (that rarely function) are more important than the lives of 25 million people.
Still, this is not only about us and despite how inconvenient the present international law is, we do care about preserving normal and healthy relations among all countries, especially the strong ones. As the future of the world will be endangered if there was a lack of coordination among these strong nations not to mention a dispute.
I always find myself wondering; what is legitimacy? Is it ink on paper that some beaurocrats in the UN agreed on and have used it for decades to suck the blood of poor people while they give their "legitimate representatives" like Saddam, Gaddafi and Omar Al-Bashir comfortable seats in NYC to say all that crap about "the US breaching the international law, violating human rights and threating world's peace" while these regimes slaughter their people in millions?
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Title: Rewriting History by Dick Morris ISBN: 0060736682 Publisher: Regan Books Pub. Date: 04 May, 2004 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: More Than Money: True Stories of People Who Learned Life's Ultimate Lesson by Neil Cavuto ISBN: 0060096438 Publisher: Regan Books Pub. Date: 01 June, 2004 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: A National Party No More: The Conscience of a Conservative Democrat by Zell Miller ISBN: 0974537616 Publisher: Stroud & Hall Pub. Date: 01 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $26.00 |
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Title: Deliver Us from Evil : Defeating Terrorism, Despotism, and Liberalism by Sean Hannity ISBN: 0060582510 Publisher: Regan Books Pub. Date: 17 February, 2004 List Price(USD): $26.95 |
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Title: Bush Country : How Dubya Became a Great President While Driving Liberals Insane by John Podhoretz ISBN: 0312324723 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 23 February, 2004 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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