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Summary: Don't put money in this woman's pocket
Review: In her criticism of the pro-choice rally taking place in Washington on April 25, she is equating support for pro-choice policies and politicians as support for al-Qaeda. She is a shameless policial hack -- decency prevents me from stating what I really think of her. Don't buy her book. Don't support her destructive, divisive politics disguised as "compassionate conservatism."
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Summary: This appears to be a discussion board, not a review board
Review: so I'll chime in again. Again, haven't read the book, don't intend to waste the time, have read the customer reviews. Comments such as "If you are just some hate-filled liberal, please don't bother posting your hate here," are *dead on*, with one caveat (if you are pro-Bush you will likely ignore said caveat): that goes for mindless, cheerleading conservative praise from those who *also* haven't read the book, and never will. Let's have reviews that are fair and balanced (no, no - not the Fox news version - the *real* thing).Again 3 stars so as not to disrupt whatever consensus is building.
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Summary: Haven't read it
Review: but was not surprised by customer reviews including such comments as, "Anyone who criticizes this book clearly hasn't read it and just plain hate Republicans and/or George Bush." I have not read the book and it is logical that I should not criticize it. I *have*, however, read some of the customer reviews and "defensive" would be the word I would use. This repeated theme among Bush supporters of "if you criticize him it is because you hate him, nothing else" is getting to be disturbing. Surely even Bush supporters do not think he is beyond criticism? If not, I suggest you spend some time studying history and you may find that the leaders associated with this kind of mindless support are *not* the ones you'd most like to emulate. By the way, I gave three stars because it wouldn't let me post without doing it - figure an average score shouldn't mess up the consensus of ratings for the book.
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Summary: "Normal" Person Makes it to the White House
Review: Engaging overall, although a little slow at the start (as are most "normal" lives). The details of the 2000 campaign vividly describe its uncertainty and exhaustion. The trauma of Sept. 11 was painfully re-created with an inside look. The liberals will hate this book (one star or less) because they want dubya to look bad and he doesn't. The feminists will hate it because an intelligent woman chose to care about her family more than her career. The real question is, "Why would any "normal" person want to give up their life like that to work in Washington, anyway?" Thanks, Karen, for an accurate view of a "normal" supermom.
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Summary: Implosion
Review: More evidence of the disaster of the GW Bush presidency. Karen Hughes is not a really good writer and not really very forthcoming. She is a good shill for dead politcal slogans. More evidence that Texas is an evil place, Texas is more of a threat to America than Bin Laden. GW Bush has failed in every aspect of business and diplomacy. You wouldn't know this from reading Hughes' hagiography. I will never voted again for someone from the south or who has a southern accent. They all seem fake. They all seem like con men. I start thinking who is getting ripped off.
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Summary: Best book I have read this year. Ten Minutes To Normal
Review: Karen writes this book with such honesty and love. I am not a fan of President Bush but this book was worth buying. Karen Huges is up front and frank about her job and her boss. She enjoyed her work in Texas and Washington but takes her family back to Texas to be a wife and mom. This is one wonderful lady.
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Summary: Yea, Texas!
Review: After sixty years of heavy reading, I don't often find a book that engages and inspires me as much as this one did. The book is forthright (which you would expect), informative and entertaining. It helps to explain how Karen became the role model toward whom I can point my granddaughters. We're proud to call her a Texan. P.S. I had to laugh at her disdain for make-up---a disdain shared by my granddaughters and me. I hope she has discovered Lauren Hutton's "good stuff" which is effective, understated, comfortable, and long lasting.
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Summary: Another Version of What MIGHT BE the Truth
Review: I started to read this book with great anticipation; I had hoped to read about the nuances and details of life in the White House. After about thirty or so pages, I quit; because, I realized I had been had. If she spent all of her time at home in Texas writing this book, she needs a new consultant; she wasted a lot of time putting these words on a page. Ms. Hughes wrote the book to make $$$ from many unsuspecting folk; there is nothing "new" here. Feeling like I should have read more of the book for I had paid my money for this thing I returned to read randomly throughout the book. NOTHING HAS CHANGED FOR ME - I do believe that Ms. Hughes should go on national television and apologize for having written such a work; its best use would be to line the bird cage.
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Summary: I should have known.
Review: I started to read this book, but then after about twenty pages I quit because I realized that here was a lady who went "home" to be with her family, supposedly. While in actuality she went home to write this book. She obviously was putting us on when she said she wanted to be near her family. Once she got the book finished she went back to Washington under the guise of "being needed". Come on now, she must think we're all stupid. Apparently all she wanted was a little time off to make some money on her own, instead of being on the government dole.
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Summary: Half of the way through the book
Review: ... and I think it's fairly well written, though the book doesn't provide much "inside baseball" type of knowledge. If you either like or are on the fence about Bush and co. you will likely enjoy the book. If you hate George W, then you will likely hate this book as well, IMO.
Which leaves me to ask the question: of all of the negative reviews, why do most: mock Hughes looks, call her a man, mock Bush's heritage and intellect etc, and only one (as of 4/20/2004) mentions anything about the book and its' merits/flaws? Really, if you hate Hughes/Bush, fine, but if you review a book, review the book.
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