Posted on 08/19/2011 2:13:32 PM PDT by Fitzy_888
EXCERPT: After going upstairs and looking around the store, Obama was seen holding five or six books, including "Brave New World" and "The Bayou Trilogy." He went to the cashier after Malia and Sasha had picked out some books of their own, but disagreed with the $32 price he was quoted, which seemed low for the size of his stack. He paid by credit card, telling the cashiers that he uses it only about three times a year.
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While Zero relaxes the market has plunged another 600 points in two days.
I love Daniel Woodrell (The Bayou Trilogy), I hope Obama doesn’t hurt his sales.
I think the idea is he knew they were purposely undercharging him.
“Brave New World” by Aldous Huxley
Comparisons:
“What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one. Orwell feared those who would deprive us of information. Huxley feared those who would give us so much that we would be reduced to passivity and egoism. Orwell feared that the truth would be concealed from us. Huxley feared the truth would be drowned in a sea of irrelevance.” -Neil Postman
:)
I've grabbed it and it's going into rotation with the rest of the line up!
I’m surprised he didn’t lecture someone that e-books are killing jobs at bookstores like this.
the rest of the time he uses his US taxpayer-issued line of credit, aka the Fed
Did he ask the store clerk:
“At some point, haven’t you made enough money?”
What no post-American world by fareed?
Nice post man. Nice post.
But in 1984 Reagan carried Massachusetts by more than 70,000 votes over Mondale.
Ha! I suspect he’d get third degree burns from even touching that book.
No danger of that—I doubt he ever reads anything that isn’t written by someone of his own ideological persuasion. Willingness to consider other points of view is rare among liberals, and most of all on the part of Obama.
They are cute girls. I hope he gets to spend a lot more time with them - starting in January, 2013. [It’ll be rough on them, but at least we’ll have a country left when they grow up.]
“He paid by credit card, telling the cashiers that he uses it only about three times a year. “
Yeh the few times he can’t stick to the American public.
Hey, this is FR..you didn't think I actually read the article before I posted, did you? ;o)
Ha! My favorite FR transgression.
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