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Sunday, February 22, 2004

Dude, Where's My Country? I finally sat down Saturday to finish reading this Michael Moore book.  I'm a Moore fan from way back (Roger & Me, TV Nation, all that).

I liked the book a good deal, but I'm surprised at how dated it is already.  The focus of the book is to take a not-so-serious yet serious look at the W. administration and put down what's needed to have a new administration in place after the election of 2004.  Yet you run into dated parts where Moore muses how he thinks Wesley Clark would be a good candidate (in the meantime, Gen. Clark of course tried and pulled out). Some other interesting highlights:

·         The part on page 189 that starts: "Admit that the left has made mistakes." Yep.  I especially like "Mumia probably killed that guy."  And that Nixon has been the most liberal President we've had in 30 years.  Oy.

·         Downplaying Nader's role in electing Bush (just in time to do it all over again).

·         Pushing for Oprah to run for President.

·         Providing more background than I've personally read about Bush & Co's relationship with corporations and the Saudi royal family (I didn't realize privileged Saudi's were able to fly around and out of the US right after 9/11 while the rest of the aviation infrastructure was shut down).

·         Covering an idea I've had of my own of forming the Common Sense party (well, CommonSense so it can be one word at listable on ballots in some parts of this country).

I personally think no one had high domestic expectations for the current administration, and they've given us abundant low-results.

 

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