Love the snark: Bush read 100 books per year while in office

Love how the snark oozes just a hair below the surface:

(CNN) — It appears President Obama has to step up his reading pace if he wants to beat his predecessor in one particular measure: how many books a president can polish off a year.

In an interview with the BBC Tuesday, Obama said he is currently reading Joseph O’Neill’s 270-page novel “Netherland,” a book Obama first said he began back in April.

If Obama is close to finishing the novel, that puts him on less than a 10 book-a-year pace, far less than the close to 100 books President Bush was reportedly able to finish in the same amount of time.

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In 2006, Bush read 95 books to Roves 110: a Herculean pace of nearly two books a week — in an election year to boot — for the ex-president. But, according to Rove, Bush’s reading slowed a bit in the final years of his presidency, finishing a not-too-shabby 51 books in 2007 and at least 40 in 2008.

And if that’s not impressive enough, Rove also said Bush found time to read the Bible “from cover to cover” every year.

What can one say, except, Yeah, right!? One hundred books per year my [blip]!

I wish he had read the August 6, 2001, President’s Daily Brief: Bin Ladin Determined to Strike in US.

Rove Wants to Spend Time with Family

Karl Rove resigns… his impact on American democracy will surely be missed.

Rove in the Middle of Latest Bush Scandal

When will the long national nightmare that republicans and the Bush administration have wrought be over? It is now clear that Karl Rove, Bush’s closest political advisor, is right in the middle of the latest Bush White House scandal:

"New emails show conclusively that Karl Rove was in the middle of this mess from the beginning. It is now imperative that he testify before Congress and give all the details of his involvement both in the proposal to fire the 93 U.S. Attorneys in the beginning of George Bush’s second term, and his involvement in the firing of the individual eight U.S. Attorneys who were fired throughout 2006.  If the White House prevents Karl Rove from testifying, it will be thumbing its nose at the American people and at the rule of law. The reason it’s so imperative that people testify under oath is that every time new information comes out, it proves that the White House was not telling the truth in their previous statements. Statements from those involved have proved to be false, false, false, time after time after time."

-U.S. Senator Charles E. Schumer

You can see one of the emails incriminating Rove here.