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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. My reaction to this is, nobody's perfect, and I think unless we honor the Native Americans properly, there's going to be no final joy to American leadership. There have been improvements, but the language is an important key. But I'm off the book's theme, the reason being - how can one respond to the utter dishonesty that is right in front of people! It seems there is a deep need for America to stay free of welfare systems... but they are there, and where they are there, are they working? And now they are probably growing. But, quel surprise, it's more than offset by welfare contributions to the rich HAHAH!! So my off-topic reaction is fuelled by, where's the balance??!! It just goes to show the Germanic and Arabic race are finally rediscovering their lost link!! Through Bush and oil. Roll out wind power, solar and...?? anything clean without a downside??  Sally-AnneLambert | Aug 16, 2009 |  bought recently, buy books when i end up getting out of library too many times (  ) purplesue | May 29, 2009 | Sometimes you need to get away from your usual reading. Step away from the fluff. Look at real issues. This was my dose-of-reality book. It's still humorous, but in a different way. And I am moderately interested in politics if they don't involve killing people. (  ) kikilon | Mar 31, 2009 | Boring, incoherent, inconsistent, illogical, venomous and not very funny. 1  jmcilree | Nov 18, 2008 | You know, I liked what this book had to say, but I didn't really like how MM said it. Somebody somewhere has apparently told him he's a comedian and he's not, but he 'thinks' he is. I could have done without the chapter where he thought he was writing as God, for instance, and the one that was supposed to be an interview between his 100 year old self and a yet to be born great granddaughter.... Poorly done, very unfunny, and unfortunate, I think, because, like Bowling for Columbine, MM has some very important things to say in this book concerning America, 9-11, why we are really in Iraq, etc. I wish the talking heads on TV would ask the hard questions that he asks in this book, and stir the whole country up. But, alas, with the inflammatory picture on the front of the book (the statue of Saddam being torn down, only this one has George Bush's face on it, with a leering and laughing Michael Moore just below it) a lot of people won't pick this up and give it a chance. Middle America, those soccer Moms and Nascar Dads who will determine the outcome of the next election and who change their minds politically with the regularity of the four winds, those are the folks who need to read this book. No, they just need to know the truth that is contained inside this book, the truth that the news media is not talking about. But they won't get it and this book will be dismissed as left wing buffonnery. And that's sad. For content, this book is a 5. But for delivery, I'd have to give it a 2. He could have done so much better than this. (  ) madamejeanie | Sep 17, 2008 | 
 I keep thinking of people that I'd like to give a copy of this book to. I'm not saying that I agree with everything Michael Moore says, but how nice to have someone easy to read, articulate and FUNNY to express the many of the things that Carl and I have been saying for the past couple of years. Yes, I realize that the current United States political scene is so polarized -- and especially with only weeks to go before the election -- that I'll probably have all kinds of people unsubscribe from the MostlyFiction.com newsletter before they even get to the end of this paragraph.  The objection that commentators of the right make about Michael Moore is, generally, that his arguments are facile. To be perfectly honest, I had suspected this myself, and moreover found the title "Stupid White Men" - and, for that matter, "Dude, Where's My Country?" - to be controversialist purely for the sake of attracting young, impressionable readers. Plus there was the fact that, from what I gathered, his written works seemed very much to be preaching to the choir. One does not have to work very hard at all to make me see that George W Bush is not a legitimately elected president - the basic theme of Stupid White Men.  Can the left communicate to a wide popular audience? Can it free itself of the prison of jargon? Can it reach out to the unconverted? New Labour and its co-thinkers in the Democratic party decided the only answer was to stop being on the left. Michael Moore has chosen the opposite route, and proved that it can work. His Stupid White Men sold 600,000 in the UK and several million in the US, which, he dryly recounts in his new book, qualified him for Bush's infamous tax cut. He helpfully provides a copy of the federal tax form for refunds of $1 million or more, and promises his benefactor, George W, that he'll "spend it all to get rid of you".  Gone are the days when the British broadcaster Gilbert Harding could safely satirise the asinine question on the United States visa card that asks whether the visitor intends to overthrow the government of the republic. “Sole purpose of visit,” was Harding’s merry reply. The same answer today might earn the joker a one-way ticket to Guantanamo Bay.
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