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"Provides an original and exciting global framework for understanding the political economy of international adoption."
—Catherine Ceniza Choy, author of Empire of Care: Nursing and Migration in Filipino American History
"This is a fascinating project, a book that (at last!) gives the phenomenon of transnational China/U.S. adoption the sustained, serious attention that it deserves."
—Laura Briggs, author of Reproducing Empire: Race, Sex, Science, and U.S. Imperialism in Puerto Rico
Each year, thousands of Chinese children, primarily abandoned infant girls, are adopted by Americans. Yet we know very little about the local and transnational processes that characterize this new migration.
Transnational Adoption is a unique ethnographic study of China/U.S. adoption, the largest contemporary intercountry adoption program. Sara K. Dorow begins by situating the popularity of the China/U.S. adoption process within a broader history of immigration and adoption. She then follows the path of the adoption process: the institutions and bureaucracies in both China and the United States that prepare children and parents for each other; the stories and practices that legitimate them coming together as transnational families; the strains placed upon our common notions of what motherhood means; and ways in which parents then construct the cultural and racial identities of adopted children.
Based on rich ethnographic evidence, including interviews with and observation of people on both sides of the Pacific—from orphanages, government officials, and adoption agencies to advocacy groups and adoptive families themselves—this is a fascinating look at the latest chapter in Chinese-American migration.
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Timely and Accomplished.......2007-06-12
Transnational Adoption: A Cultural Economy of Race, Gender, and Kinship provides a sociological examination of Americans who adopt Chinese born children and the dynamic but uneven cultural `economy' that shapes their politics of belonging and processes of identification. This book does not set out to describe the practice as an unworthy or untroubled pursuit where individuals are held accountable for either the negatives and positives that can emerge. One of the many admirable characteristics of this book that makes it stand out from most other accounts of adoptive parenting is how it resists representing the practice as a highly individualistic, personal and `fate-driven' endeavor. There is an ongoing need to look beyond more common narratives which heroically position adoptive parents' own ability to love and care as something universal, culture-free and outside hierarchies of racial privilege - whilst failing to move beyond tropes that reify, underestimate and/or denigrate adopted children's cultural heritage, birth parents and communities of birth. Thankfully Dorow's study does not build its narrative from easy but damaging assignments of heroes and villains although we are made aware of how hard it is to resist such stereotyping - such as when she views Americans with Asian babies ready for departure at an airport and her first reaction is that "they're stealing the children".
Dorow does not hide her own moral struggles and culturally loaded reactions, and instead makes them transparent and situated in a dialogue with a scholarly process that usefully identifies some of the complex representations of race and ethnicity, as well as relationships of power unfolding in adoption that can be interrogated and challenged by all. The people I had in mind of being able to collaborate with the critical thinking and strategizing on offer in this book includes the ever growing and mostly White middle-class adoptive parents whose considerable commitment to ensuring the well-being of their adopted children should not be taken lightly. The likelihood of adoptive parents being able to engage with the intellectual tone and jargon in this book also shouldn't be underestimated.
People who are adopted might experience this book somewhat differently from adoptive parents and the general public. This is not the first account adopted people have of what it's like to be an adoptive parent. It's something they've been able to observe, assess and query for most of their lives and this experience can produce a special (but rarely recognized) kind of expertise on the topic. However, I think that many mature-aged adopted people can still be surprised when looking at how a `new' - and a sometimes younger generation of adoptive parents - are raising overseas born children in an era of greater global connectivity and mobility. I too am keen to have a deeper understanding of adoptive parenting, which is the topic of my dissertation, but I would have liked to found out more about Dorow's own biography as well as having deeper detail about where she fits into the hierarchies within and pushing along adoptions as they operate today. Coming from a different position, that of an Asian adoptee and researcher, I am would have appreciated finding out more about where her own perspectives have emerged from and how her own subject-positions have an impact on her ethnographic efforts.
However, Dorow's study remains a real achievement as it begins to fill a significant gap of literature featuring more theoretically informed accounts of transnational adoptive parenting. Dorow illustrates her representation of adoption with sociological theory and empirical material made up of interviews and observation of a number of American adoptive parents (including the mostly marginal and overlooked population of Chinese-American adoptive parents). Dorow also conducted interviews and observation in China as well as referring to texts by both Chinese and non-Chinese scholars.
This multi-layered approach successfully allows us to look at important but less sentimental aspects of transnational adoption. We begin with Dorow's critical overview of some of the key conditions that compel parents to adopt overseas born children. Her work challenges the humanitarian image of adoption saving needy babies, for example, by highlighting how many adoptions are driven by biological complications (infertility) and domestic racial tensions (i.e. overseas adoption is less fraught with racial politics than say, the adoption of Indigenous American Indian or African American children).
Dorow's book also reveals the culturally loaded, and sometimes racist narratives that White adoptive parents are particularly vulnerable to employing in order to justify their adopting children across racial and cultural lines of differences and away from their country of birth. There is also a considered discussion of some of the discourses, practices and power relationships that currently shape the ways adoptive parents not only embrace but also filter the incorporation of the ethnic heritage of the children who join them into their family life. The poetic but analytical detail in Dorow's work is rich and memorable - with themes such as gifts, ambassadors, clients and cultural bridges taking us through the sensitive lines adoption bleeds into and crosses over - moving between the makings of a new human market and matters of the heart. At no time, however, did I feel that Dorow was suggesting that adoptive parents were completely blind to these complexities or that they were unwilling or incapable of changing. On the contrary, Dorow's informants appear to be well positioned to effect change from within the circles of power and privilege they inhabit.
A final point worth making is that a major weaknesses in most adoption studies is how most fail to take full advantage of, and refer to what is a healthy and growing body of literature by researchers and experts whose biographies include being transnationally adopted. However, this is disclosing one of my biggest disappointments with academic writing on adoption today in general.
Dorrow's study thankfully for the most part avoids such oversights. She refers to work by several Korean adult adoptees and at least one Chinese adult adoptee...their fiction, their creative non-fiction, presentations they have made and their films. This really strengthens the research and her standing as a resourceful scholar.
Too many other investigators who make decent contribution to the field are still let down by their failure to refer to literature by transnationally adopted researchers and professionals. To push the relevance and significance of this point one only needs look at the canon of work by authors who are say, Women, Queer, Asian-American, Latin-American or African-American - in fields about Women, Queers, Asian-American, Latin-American and African Americans - to see how strange the absence of adopted authors is in studies about adoption.
Researchers of adoption would benefit from searching out and referring studies emerging from researchers who are transnationally adopted such as Kathleen Bergquist, Farnard Darnell, Perlita Harris, Tobias Hubinette and Julia Chinyere Oparah to name just a handful. There are also the creative works by people such as Jane Trenka, Hoa Stone, Kevin Minh Allen and Sunny Johnsen. Such scholars and authors are beginning to write about Korean or Chinese adoptions as well as on a range of other countries and from a variety of displines. Here's to more healthy and vibrant approaches to understanding adoption.
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Complex and insightful........2007-05-12
This is, without a doubt, the best book I have read about transnational / transcultural adoption. It includes rich examples from the lives of adopted children and their families and it intelligently and sensitively analyzes the contradictions that surround the strange world of international adoption. I have served as a mentor for adopted teens, and the issues Sara Dorow describes here are very much felt by transcultural adoptees themselves, whether their parents are sensitive to them or not (I've found that many adoptees are terrified to talk to their parents about what they really feel due to deep-seated fears of abandonment). I find it interesting that the one person to give this book a low rating is an adoptive parent, which to me only supports Dorow's points in this book. There are many wonderful adoptive parents out there who knock themselves out to understand their children's struggles, but some parents get defensive and deny the complicated terrain that international adoptees are forced to negotiate in a racially divided America (and world). Adoptive parents need to realize that there are people in the countries of origin who have the legitimate gut reaction, "They're stealing our babies" (and that their children may themselves feel "stolen" at some points). Thank you, Sara Dorow, for your diligent research and careful analysis. This is an important, foundational work.
Fascinating analysis of adoption from China.......2006-09-14
I have read this book from cover to cover (unlike the author of the review above), and I must say I am deeply impressed with the even-handed, nuanced analysis of this vitally important yet extremely touchy issue. I am an adoptee and a researcher and writer in the area of adoption. Dorow's analysis succeeds in doing what so few books on adoption do: she balances between a critical (in the best sense of the word) appraisal of transnational adoption as a process of child-transfer in a global capitalist marketplace and an empathetic understanding of the life experiences of adoptive families. It is indeed an academic sort of book, but it is also a valuable read for non-academics interested in the issues of race, gender, and kinship that arise in transnational transracial adoption. This book is the most insightful analysis of adoption from China that I have read. I applaud the author for her sensitive discusion, and highly recommend this book for anyone interested in considering the issue in social and cultural context.
"They're taking the children.".......2006-06-05
Let me start by saying that I'm (a) an adoptive parent of a girl from China, (b) a sociologist by training, and (c) a big believer in the benefit of the doubt. I read this book's introduction (from nyupress(period)org), and I would strongly advise any other prospective buyer to read it, too, before deciding on the book.
Within the first 2 pages, the author raises major red flags (no pun intended) about her approach. First, there's this passage about watching adoptive parents in China with the babies: "A twinge of neocolonial discomfort surfaced: 'They're taking the children', said a voice in my head". This is not a warm & fuzzy book like her earlier When You Were Born, or even an attempt at objective description like Johnson's or Evans's books.
Two paragraphs later, her misuse of "beg ... questions" shows an ignorance of what that phrase means (surprising for a Ph.D.). That error is revealing, since the rest of the introduction ramps up the kind of tortuous, obfuscatory jargon used in so much of race/gender/class-studies academics' arguments toward pre-established assumptions. I found myself wishing for mental hip-boots and a lexical machete as I tried to wrestle meaning from her sentences, and I'm certified in ethnomethodology.
Although she closes the intro with a very touching anecdote taken from an FCC newsletter, the intervening pages give the impression that this book is written for people who like a heavy dose of Humpty-Dumpty-ish terms like "poststructural kinship", "flexible racialization", and "response-ablility" on their way to foregone conclusions about the offenses of white middle-class Americans.
Having said all that, I would like to know more about her actual experience in the Chinese and US adoption bureaucracy, but from what I've seen of the book I'd prefer to skim those sections at a library. I'd be interested to hear other readers' reviews, but I think anyone who's curious about the book should get a taste of it with the online introduction.
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As Argentina, Brazil, and Chile made transitions from democratic to authoritarian forms of government (and back), they confronted challenges posed by the rise of the feminist movement, social changes, and the power of the Catholic Church. This study explores the patterns of gender-related policy reform in these countries and reveals their implications for the peoples of Latin America. In addition, it offers a broader understanding of the logic behind the state's role in affecting private lives and gender relations everywhere.
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Winner of the 2000 William J. Goode Book Award from the Family Section of the American Sociological Association. In Weaving Work and Motherhood, Anita Ilta Garey analyzes what it means to be simultaneously a mother who is employed and a worker with children. Moving beyond studies of structural incompatibilities between work and family, this book challenges the notion of the exclusively "work-oriented" or exclusively "family-oriented" mother. As women talk about their lives, Garey focuses on the meanings of motherhood and of work that underlie their strategies for integrating employment and motherhood. She replaces notions of how women juggle work and famly with a better understandng of how they integrate, negotiate, and weave together their identities as both workers and mothers.
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"Over the past century, Americans' images of China have fluctuated wildly from victim, to heroic fighter, to Communist fanatic. We have loved them and feared them. And now, as Sara Bongiorni shows in vivid personal terms, we are in a new phase where it is a little of both. China has become an economic giant that can step on our toes, but that we must embrace."
-John Maxwell Hamilton, Dean and Hopkins P. Breazeale Foundation Professor Manship School of Mass Communication, Louisiana State University
"When the writer resolves to forgo Chinese imports for one year, she leads her lively family in a fascinating experiment that requires surprising feats of will power and ingenuity. The family's adventure through the maze of modern America's consumer life is both thought provoking and delightful to read. Those little 'Made in China' labels will never seem the same again."
-Mark Fabiani, former White House special counsel and media/political consultant
"Breaking up is indeed hard to do, as Sara Bongiorni proves in this winning memoir of her household's one-year boycott of Chinese products. Equal parts Erma Bombeck and economics, A Year Without 'Made in China' is that lively miracle-a crash course in globalization that is also consummately entertaining."
-Danny Heitman, columnist for The Advocate (Baton Rouge)
"A funny and engaging story about one family's experiment in our global economy. The Bongiorni family does without sneakers, sunglasses, and printer cartridges, but develops a dogged creativity and much needed sense of humor. The myriad moral complexities in the relationship between American consumers and Chinese factory are evident in each shopping trip."
-Pietra Rivoli, PhD, Professor, McDonough School of Business, Georgetown University and author, The Travels of a T-Shirt in the Global Economy
"You will never go shopping the same way again! It's impossible to read Sara Bongiorni's book and not be captivated by the complexity and challenge of her task, and to then try it yourself for a day and fail miserably at it by lunchtime. This is the rare book that makes you think about how big global issues actually hit home, and it will have you discussing those issues with your friends."
-Chuck Jaffe, Senior Columnist, MarketWatch host, Your Money (www.yourmoneyradio.net)
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Perfect Holiday Gift if you can not buy Chinese toys due to to recall fears.......2007-10-07
I think my title says it all. I gave it as a gift to a Danish friend who taught me 10 years ago that Legos are Danish, so is Hans Christian Anderson. Buy books, not toys for this Holiday season. This is a smooth narrative, easily readable during a long flight or unexpected lay overs at air ports.
Good idea - Very bad book !!.......2007-10-07
Sara's idea & experience is very interesting and could have let to a very good book if only she had been able to describe the inner thoughts of her family during this "year without any new chinese products".
She lacks writting skills to make it interesting. The characters (her husband and kids) are not real characters. She's the only one talking about her.
It could have been a great book.
Despite these writting issues, another point that makes Sara's book uninteresting is that she didnt take the experiment to its extreme, which is taking all chinese made products out of her life & family life.
On the first few pages, we understand it's going to be a "no additional chinese products, but we keep the ones we have" kind of experiment.
The real question of interest is : Can we live without chinese made products at all ? She didn't cover this question. She answered somehow to the question : Can we stop buying additional items for 12 months.
Not good enough.
This book is of no interest to me.
Delightful look at the impact of China on everyday life.......2007-09-29
Let me state upfront that I am very interested in all things China because of my job. I was in China earlier this year for 2 1/2 weeks on a business trip, and was blown away by what I saw. Sara Bonjiori, a business reporter, adds yet another interesting slice to the debate on China in this book.
In "A Year Without "Made in China": One Family's True Life Adventure in the Global Economy" (252 pages), the author brings us the tale of her family (with her husband and 2 young children) of what life would be like to buy things not made in China for one full calendar year (2005). Not surprisingly, this is quite a hard feat to accomplish, and the author brings into full detail the problems this is posing in everyday life, but none more so than the impact it has on buying toys for her 2 young children. She picks up her 5 yr. old son's wishlist for Christmas: "Fire truck? Probably China. Sno-cone maker? Absolutely China. Superhero backpack? China. Lunch box? My best bet, China. Yogo? China. Sky Shark? China. Stuffed Bear? China. Light sword? China. I've checked, and more than once." Yet somehow, with some loopholes (such as gifts from other family members), they manage the best they can and get through it, more or less. The author also makes her dislike for Walmart clear, and I will join her in that. I mean, the direct link between sourcing products from China (as Walmart does obsessively) and the loss of US manufacuring jobs is clear, and what blows my mind is that many of those very same Walmart shoppers then turn around and complain about the loss of US manufacturing jobs!
The author brings her tale with lots of humor and resilience, and the pages flash by in no time. This book made me wonder if I could ever manage what the Bonjiorni family tried to accomplish, or if I even would have the stomach for it. This book drives home the point that China is truly everywhere in our daily lives, like it or not. For other excellent reading on the macro-economic changes that China is bringing onto the world, I highly recommend "China Shales the World" by James Kynge, "The Writing on the Wall" by Will Hutton and "The Elephant and the Dragon" by Robyn Meredith.
"Ok" book.......2007-09-23
I thought it was a great idea for a book. But the author, though she had some interesting things to say, said them few and far between. She tended to ramble about a lot of off-topic things, leaving me to wonder how many paragraphs/pages it would be before I would again read about her boycott of China. I found myself flipping page after page, just scanning until I found something interesting. Maybe women find this sort of rambling readable; as a guy, I didn't.
God bless us, everyone.......2007-09-16
Very funny and eye opening. It makes the reader look much closer at country of origin tags. This poor woman made a valiant effort which should be emulated by millions of Americans. China holds our wealth; we hold her junk. This is not quite a fair trade. What will we use to buy the junk we find so necessary for life if China calls in her notes?
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An economy that operates 24/7—as ours now does—imposes extraordinary burdens on workers. Two-fifths of all employed Americans work mostly during evenings, nights, weekends, or on rotating shifts outside the traditional 9-to-5 work day. The pervasiveness of nonstandard work schedules has become a significant social phenomenon, with important implications for the health and well-being of workers and their families. In Working in a 24/7 Economy, Harriet Presser looks at the effects of nonstandard work schedules on family functioning and shows how these schedules disrupt marriages and force families to cobble together complex child-care arrangements that should concern us all.
The number of hours Americans work has received ample attention, but the issue of which hours—or days—Americans work has received much less scrutiny. Working in a 24/7 Economy provides a comprehensive overview of who works nonstandard schedules and why. Presser argues that the growth in women's employment, technological change, and other demographic changes over the past 30 years gave rise to the growing demand for late-shift and weekend employment. She also demonstrates that most people who work these hours do so primarily because it is a job requirement, rather than a choice based on personal considerations. Presser shows that the consequences of working nonstandard schedules often differ for men and women since housework and child-rearing remain primarily female preserves, even when both spouses are employed. As with many other social problems, the burden of these schedules disproportionately affects the working poor, reflecting their lack of options in the workplace and adding to their disadvantage. Presser also documents how such work arrangements have created a new rhythm of daily life within many American families, including those with two earners and absent fathers. With spouses often not at home together in the evenings or nights, and parents often not at home with their children at such times, the relatively new concept of "home-time" has emerged as primary concern for families across the nation.
Employing a wealth of empirical data, Working in a 24/7 Economy shows that nonstandard work schedules are both highly prevalent among American families and generate a level of complexity in family functioning that demands greater public attention. Presser makes a convincing case for expanded research and meaningful policy initiatives to address this growing social phenomenon.
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Women Between Two Worlds: Midlife Reflections on Work and Family (Women in the Political Economy)
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Myra Dinnerstein examines the choices and compromises of a generation of women who came of age after World War II. Her in-depth study traces the experiences of twenty-two middle-class women from childhood to adulthood and their evolution from traditional wives and mothers to career women at midlife. Her richly detailed interviews explore the tensions of combining work, marriage, and family life and remind us of the significance of one's social and personal context with respect to the ability to make satisfying choices.
Middle-class women born between 1936 and 1944 have been split between two worlds. As they were growing up, traditional expectations and limited opportunities seemed to make marriage and motherhood inevitable choices. When they reached their thirties, the Women's Movement and expanding opportunities in the workplace presented options for them that had not been available to their mothers. Now it was considered appropriate for women to have ambitions and to act on them—and the women described in this book were among those who did.
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Marriage in a Culture of Divorce (Women in the Political Economy)
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Today, when fifty percent of couples who marry eventually get divorced, it's clear that we have moved from a culture in which "marriage is forever" to one in which "marriage is contingent." Author Karla Hackstaff looks at intact marriages to examine the impact of new expectations in a culture of divorce.
Marriage in a Culture of Divorce examines the shifting meanings of divorce and gender for two generations of middle-class, married couples. Hackstaff finds that new social and economic conditions both support and undermine the efforts of spouses to redefine the meaning of marriage in a culture of divorce. The definitions of marriage, divorce, and gender have changed for all, but more for the young than the old, and more for women than men. While some spouses in both generations believe that marriage is for life and that men should dominate in marriage, the younger generation of spouses increasingly construct marriage as contingent rather than forever.
Hackstaff presents this evidence in archival case studies of couples married in the 1950s, which she then contrasts with her own case studies of people married during the 1970s, finding evidence of a significant shift in who does the emotional work of maintaining the relationship. It is primarily the woman in the '50s couples who "monitors" the marriage, whereas in the '70s couples both husband and wife support a "marital work ethic," including couples therapy in some cases.
The words and actions of the couples Hackstaff follows in depths of the '50's Stones, Dominicks, Hamptons, and McIntyres, and the '70's Turners, Clement-Leonettis, Greens, Kason-Morrises, and Nakatos--reveal the changes and contradictory tendencies of married life in the U.S. There are traditional relationships characterized by male dominance, there are couples striving for gender equality, there are partners pulling together, and partners pulling apart.
Those debating "family values" should not forget, Hackstaff contends, that there are costs associated with marriage culture as well as divorce culture, and they should view divorce as a transitional means for defining marriage in an egalitarian direction. She convincingly illustrates her controversial position, that although divorce has its cost to society, the divorce culture empowers wives and challenges the legacy of male dominance that previously set the conditions for marriage endurance.
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Widows And Orphans First: The Family Economy And Social Welfare Policy, 1880-1939 (Women in American History) (Women in American History)
S. J. Kleinberg
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In recent years the factors influencing young people's transition to adulthood have become much more problematic. This edited collection of papers from Pennsylvania State University's fifth annual Family Symposium explores the main issues involved in this transition, such as the widening gap between rich and poor, downsizing, global competition, and technological change. These factors have made jobs scarce in many areas, especially inner cities, and have profoundly affected family formation, making cohabitation, delays in marriage and parenthood, and prolonged residence with parents, the life choices of many young adults. These and other issues are explored by scholars from a wide variety of disciplines, who focus on four main questions: alterations in the structure of opportunity, prior experiences in the family, prior experiences in the workplace, and career development and marriage formation.
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In time for the most critical election in years, Thank You, President Bush is a collection of essays reflecting on George W. Bushs first four years as president. Through observations from some of the nations leading thinkers, this readable anthology explores the administrations accomplishments and future agenda. Contributors include Gov. Jeb Bush and former Sec. of State George Shultz.
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This is a parody, right?.......2007-04-28
I picked up this book because I was sure it was a parody. Imagine my surprise to find that it was actually a collection of hagiographic (Bush supporters may want to look up this word)"essays" commending our divinely-appointed president for his "achievements" in major policy areas. When the reader discerns that the contributors include folks like "Jeb" Bush and James Dobson, and William "the Gambler" Bennett, it becomes immediately evident that objectivity was not a major concern here. What, no contribution from a friendly Saudi prince, thanking Mr. Bush for his unflagging support for one of the world's most oppressive dictatorships? Nothing from Harriet Miers lauding her boss's judicial appointments? My only regret here is that this book, published in 2004, could not include additional paeans of praise from those who survived the Bush administration's "response" to Hurricane Katrina, the Abu Ghraib prison atrocities and four years of determined efforts to "democratize" Iraq that have reduced that nation to a "state of nature" that would have alarmed Thomas Hobbes. Maybe the next edition could include a piece by Paul Wolfowitz praising Mr. Bush's foresight in turning the conduct of US foreign policy over to a small group of neoconservative radicals whose greatest consistency has been in being absolutely wrong about everything. Face it, Bushies, the historical verdict on Mr. Bush has already been written. He will have the dubious distinction of supplanting (that's a fancy way of saying replacing) the erstwhile James Buchanan as the absolute worst president in US history. Save your money and watch Fox "News" instead.
He's a winner........2006-09-12
GWB has won two wars and he's winning two more.
He won in Afganistan and Iraq and he's winnint the war against terror.
He's also winning the war against the American Left.
You can tell by the posts here that the Communists, Socialists and Liberals know that they are losing.
It's hard to understand why they din't know by now that most Aericans who hear them call us Nazis and Fascists know that they are just naming themselves.
Thank God for George W. Bush.
Thank God for the American military.
This book fits right into what I believe.......2006-03-05
that we should never, ever question our president in anything he does, and we should just accept what he does because he is the most smartest man in the world. If we question him, then we are traitors, giving aid and comfort to the enemy. So thank you, President Bush, for making it OK for people like me, who don't like to think for themselves, to feel like I fit into America.
Hello everyone, I'm your modern day liberal........2006-01-03
I just want all of you people that voted for Bush last year to know: You're all a bunch of uneducated, misinformed, boorish, slopeheaded, misogynistic neanderthals who live in trailer parks, beat your wives and eat boogers. BTW, vote for my candidate in '08 because I really care about you and know what's best for you, you old-person-starving, cram-your-fairytale-religion-down-my-throat, wedding-party-bomber-supporting cretins. And I say that in a loving way. Really I do.
Don't you know that people wanting to say prayer in school and put Ten Commandments monuments in courthouses are trying to institute a theocracy would cause Middle Eastern Sharia law to pale by comparison? How stupid can you be? Never mind the fact that we had those things for almost 200 years and were no closer to a theocracy in the 1960's than we were in 1776. That was the truth then. There is a different truth now. Look at me! I'm talking to you!
Those 45,000,000 parasitic cellular masses that have been vacuumed out of wombs since Roe v. Wade? Those weren't human lives, they were Choices. I mean, they might have grown up without Nikes and Xboxes, so it was really in their best interests. Better to deprive them of life than have them growing up in hardship. Don't even get me started on how giving birth to them might have prevented their moms from attending raves and yoga classes. Have to think about the mental health of the mother, ya know?
We're living in a fascist state under Chimpy McCokespoon Bu$hitler! Every time I go to the corner Starbuck's for a Double Decaf Half-Skim Latte, I've got black helicopters buzzing all around my head. My phone's a-clickin' and my email's analyzed and logged and there's a cop a-jumpin' outta every bush along my street. Why aren't you listening to me?
You people, excuse me, sheeple, who went out and spent all that money this Chistmas, I know you went deeply into debt for it with your credit cards. How do I know? Stop asking me that, you brain-dead dictator-loving Bushista robots (and I say that in a loving, progressive way)! We're in the Worst Economy Ever. I know because I read it at DU. What? Why yes, I have more disposable income this year than last, but I read the other day that someone lost their job, so that's proof positive, isn't it? Nobody ever lost their job when the Democrat Party was in control. DEMOCRATIC! I mean DEMOCRATIC! Geez, they've even got me using proper English now. What was I saying? Nevermind.
Just let me wrap this up now. What have I covered so far! Umm, let's see...voters dumb, theocracy coming, abortion good, economy bad, police state...oh yeah! How could I forget?!
BUSH IS HITLER! BUSH IS HITLER! BUSH IS HITLER!
Atleast read the book before posting a review.......2006-01-03
There are a number of reviews that have been posted here from a certain democratic site that had told it's members to write NEGATIVE reviews even though they have NOT read this book.
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