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Rating:  - Buy This Book!
Wow! Michael's done it again! This book hits the nail on the head or maybe prunes the Bush would be a better phrase.
As usual, Michael has done his homework, researched and re-researched to bring us reporting worth reading.
Whether you're right of, left of or dead center, this is a must-read book if you're at all concerned, truly concerned about our country and its future.
If you're a shallow flag-waving jingoist, this isn't for you but if you're a thinking, sensitive concerned American citizen (one who votes-or intends to)this is a must-read.
Keep it up Michael, we need guys like you!
Gib Miller
Florida
State of the Disenfranchised Voter
Rating: - Superb! Mike hits the bullseye once again.
Just finished his new book and it was right on the mark. I have to hand it to Mike, he doesn't pull any punches. I'm a Republican who didn't vote for Bush and even I have to admit that Mr. Moore has guts to stand up to the PC crowd who try to shout down anyone who disagrees with the Bush/Cheney disastrous economic policies. Hooray for free speech!
Rating:  - A bit of balance
Having come to 'Stupid White Men' after seeing Michael Moore's 'Bowling for Columbine', I really wanted to like this book. However, Moore suits film far better than the written word. On screen, his everyman persona and hard hitting diatribes make an impact, which one cannot examine too closely in the 100 minutes afforded by the film. But in print, Moore's lazy research fatally undermines him.In particular, his position that the current recession 'does not exist' is clearly untenable. He attempts to pin this on a conspiracy of big business and high taxpayers. He completely ignores the impact of over-investment during the tech boom, with companies losing huge sums of money in now worthless tech stocks and thus having to cut back spending. This willingness to accept the worst, without considering a possibly more rational explanation is also visible in the chapter when he claims that the US runs the largest budget deficit in the world. As far as I'm aware, the US has run a budget surplus for the last three years. The most damning statement Moore makes is in his list of world leaders. I have a lot of time for his arguments that Dubya was elected on somewhat shaky grounds... (!) However, he then peevishly refers to him as the "President" throughout (his punctuation). And yet, he's perfectly happy to refer to the premiers of North Korea, Indonesia, Kenya, and Burma, as if these countries were paragons of democratic virtue. Moore's saving grace is his sheer visceral anger. I might not agree with him the whole time, but this is a polemic in the mould of 19th Century writing. No-one should believe a word he says without further investigation of their own, but this is a damn good read.
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