Monday, January 5, 2009

A Reader, A President


I found this link posted on another blog; I liked it, and I think it’s fitting to re-post here. However you view GWB’s presidency, you’ve got to extend credit for his personal literacy program. If the American President, with all of the pressures and demands on his time, can still read dozens of books in a year, what excuse do we have for any lesser reading accomplishment?

And (although this is not, and will not be, a political blog), I challenge anyone hooked by the popular opinion of GWB as ignorant, unlearned, and dumb to compare their reading accomplishments to his. I bet you’d lose.

1 comment:

Thomas D said...

DH:

I was at the Melwoods awhile ago and picked up a book that their Grandma was reading--a biography of GWB. I only made it to page 13, but there was a excerpt from the author's interview with GWB where he comments that "Rove is ahead--I'm only on #76." Sort of embarrassing that wI have just a teeny bit more time that GWB, but I probably only got to half of his score in '07....

Good post; I still check often :-).

t