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To: Dale Baker who wrote (15460)	1/23/2005 7:03:11 AM
From: Crocodile	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 20773

One thing that really struck me in that piece that you posted was this paragraph: The inspiration for Bush's thinking lately has been Natan Sharansky, the former Soviet political prisoner turned conservative Israeli politician. Bush read Sharansky's book "The Case for Democracy: The Power of Freedom to Overcome Tyranny and Terror" and invited him to the White House in November to talk about its ideas. Since then, Bush has been recommending the book to nearly everyone he sees, from friends to journalists to foreign leaders, telling CNN last week that "this is a book that . . . summarizes how I feel." Considering that we've heard that GW isn't a huge reader, it's kind of scary to hear that he's so sold on one book. Also, that the book "summarizes how I feel." So, he's recommending a book because it reifies his own "feelings". Sorry, the world is not so simple as reading a book and then clutching at it to express your political ideology. Something about that strikes me as very, very scary, indeed. ~croc