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Obama chooses fiction for four of five books on his summer vacation reading list
Cleveland.com ^ | 8/20/11 | Plain Dealer wire services , Alister Bull and Laura MacInnis

Posted on 08/22/2011 10:19:24 PM PDT by Nachum

VINEYARD HAVEN, Massachusetts -- President Barack Obama, perhaps seeking a break from harsh reality after a tough summer battling the economy and Republicans in Congress, has picked a summer reading list that is long on fiction.

The White House says four of the five books that Obama has to choose from during a nine-day family vacation here are novels.

Obama's reading list -- like the criticism from Republicans for vacationing while the economy is stumbling -- is a rite of the summer.

But his choices ignored the weighty biographies of great Americans typically on a president's reading list.

(Excerpt) Read more at cleveland.com ...


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KEYWORDS: chooses; fiction; obama; summer
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To: Brian_Baldwin

He’s not going to seriously read any of these books.


You beat me to the punch.

Sure, he’s going to read 4 books in 9 days of vacation. What a liar! More than likely he is being briefed on each one of them so that if he’s asked any questions about them he can give some type of answer to impress the MSM and fool the stupid voters who put him into office.

You just gotta love the fact that we now have a Ministry of Propaganda here in the U.S. now.


21 posted on 08/23/2011 3:53:47 AM PDT by DH ( Rick Perry 2012...Be proud to be an American once again!)
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To: Nachum
"Mr. president, Michelle bachmann is reading Von Mises - any comment?

"Um, er, oh Ms. Bachmann - I've heard of her - but what is a 'Von Mises'?"

22 posted on 08/23/2011 4:23:52 AM PDT by Psalm 73 ("Gentlemen, you can't fight in here - this is the War Room".)
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To: Nachum
"The White House says four of the five books that Obama has to choose from during a nine-day family vacation here are novels."

Notice, it doesn't say he intends to read all of these books. It's five books he has to choose from. No way he reads five books on a nine day family vacation where he spends a majority of his time on the links...
23 posted on 08/23/2011 4:34:17 AM PDT by Old Teufel Hunden
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To: Old Teufel Hunden
No way he reads five books on a nine day family vacation where he spends a majority of his time on the links...

Maybe his girls read them to him at bedtime.

24 posted on 08/23/2011 4:43:35 AM PDT by DejaJude (Obama - in over his head and above his pay grade.)
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To: Nachum

Without a teleprompter, Obama does not impress as either intelligent, articulate, well-educated, or well-read. I doubt if he has the attention span to read anything serious.


25 posted on 08/23/2011 4:51:32 AM PDT by Nepeta
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To: DejaJude

Don’t they like to call the comic books now days graphic novels? Perhaps he was referring to them. He has enough time to read five comic books in 9 days.


26 posted on 08/23/2011 4:59:54 AM PDT by Old Teufel Hunden
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To: haroldeveryman
Barack Obama IS a fiction. The man who was not there.
27 posted on 08/23/2011 5:30:42 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: ProtectOurFreedom
Obama chooses fiction for four of five books on his summer vacation reading list

So he was rereading his two "auto"-biographies, what were the other two?
28 posted on 08/23/2011 5:37:07 AM PDT by aruanan
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To: wastedyears

I’m reading, “The Longest Day” atm .. :)


29 posted on 08/23/2011 1:40:17 PM PDT by Bikkuri
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