David Kuo's latest book, due out on Monday, asserts that the Bush Administration ridiculed Christian leaders behind closed doors and used them for their votes. By the time you read this, the Sunday talk shows will be discussing the book, which more or less guarantees it brisk sales.
Does the timing of this bother anyone besides me? We are three weeks from an election and a book which will raise questions with the Republican base is released. There's nothing illegal about this, but it certainly says something about the publishing industry.
I read David Kuo's last book "Dot Bomb". It was about his time at Value America a start-up that burned through its cash and turned friends into enemies in very little time. Funny thing about that book is that it sounds amazingly like his current book: attack your boss and show how he was an idiot and the little people were shown the door. I believed what he said in "Dot Bomb", but now I wonder if this is just Kuo's modus operandi.
This bothers me on another level. When you work for someone and leave on good terms, you don't then turn around and profit by making that relationship into something it wasn't. Plus, who will want to hire Kuo now? I hope he sells a cubic buttload of books, because he may have to live on those proceeds for the rest of his life.
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While I can't truly argue about this guy, his M.O. or the M.O. of the book industry - I can say that anyone that is a Christian (I guess of the fundamentalist, evangelical, pentecostal, charismatic, etc. type) that has even bothered to open their eyes in the past 6 years would have already known this was true anyway. This administration has played the "Religious Right" (and you have NO idea how much I hate that phrase) like fiddle, got them to turn out the vote - then said "thank you mam" (you fill in the context).
Do I think this hurts the Republicans going into the election? Honestly, not really. It's simple. A lot of folks that are of the type of Christians I mentioned above are voting on one issue. Pro-life. Period, paragraph. As long as the GOP seems to be more swayed towards pro-life and defining marriage as one man and one woman, they'll get the vote - even if they never deliver on the promise. Why? Because those folks are pretty sure that if they vote the donkeys in - they will do what they've been wanting to do and expand abortion support, support for same sex marriages and screwing in general with the Constitution.
Sad, but true. I find myself, as someone who could at first blush be classified with the aforementioned Christians, torn. I know that the GOP is lying. I know that this President is mocking the Constitution with his imperial Presidency. I also know that the Dems will lead us down the road to perdition even faster than the GOP. So, who do I vote for? Anyone got a Independent or Libertarian worth voting for?
Posted by: Phillip at October 15, 2006 10:16 PM