Jews for Buchanan: Did You Hear the One About the Theft of the American Presidency?

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Summary: No Beating around the Bush
Review: Conceived in a breezy, almost soundbite manner, "Jews for Buchanan" gets right to the heart of the matter by throwing the hard facts at the reader. This is a book which one should lend (or buy copies and give) to any friends who are skeptical that partisan chicanery took place in Florida not just on 2000 election night but well before November 7th. This concise book shows how a perfect storm of deceit, incompetence, and opportunism robbed Al Gore of the Florida electoral votes and ultimately dragged the unwilling Supreme Court into the mess. We've experienced a lot of pain as a nation in the past three years since 9/11/01, a lot of it would have been prevented had the press and courts immediately and carefully examined the rolls of those "ex-felons" who were purged from voter rolls. The recount of undervotes and overvotes and chads isn't what mattered: the blatant disenfranchisement of African Americans is the real story, thousands of whose names were almost at random struck from voting. This willfully inept procedure virtually guaranteed a Bush win before November 7th.

Rating:
Summary: No Beating around the Bush
Review: Conceived in a breezy, almost soundbite manner, "Jews for Buchanan" gets right to the heart of the matter by throwing the hard facts at the reader. This is a book which one should lend (or buy copies and give) to any friends who are skeptical that partisan chicanery took place in Florida not just on 2000 election night but well before November 7th. This concise book shows how a perfect storm of deceit, incompetence, and opportunism robbed Al Gore of the Florida electoral votes and ultimately dragged the unwilling Supreme Court into the mess. We've experienced a lot of pain as a nation in the past three years since 9/11/01, a lot of it would have been prevented had the press and courts immediately and carefully examined the rolls of those "ex-felons" who were purged from voter rolls. The recount of undervotes and overvotes and chads isn't what mattered: the blatant disenfranchisement of African Americans is the real story, thousands of whose names were almost at random struck from voting. This willfully inept procedure virtually guaranteed a Bush win before November 7th.

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Summary: Prepare to be outraged all over again.
Review: Eye-opening book which makes it plain that George Bush Jr. doesn't have a leg to stand on in claiming to be the rightfully elected US President. While the so-called "liberal media" that conservatives always whine about was dumbing down the story and titillating the public with "hanging chads" and "dangling chads", numerous scandals went totally unreported. For example, discussion of Katherine Harris was limited to her makeup - there was no mention of her long record in flouting campaign finance laws and ethical standards, and using her public position for personal and partisan advantage. Also, there was no mention of the fact that the five Supreme Court justices who issued the bizarre and tortuous ruling halting the vote counting and installing Bush in the White House, had blatant conflicts of interests and should have recused themselves. Antonin Scalia had two sons who were lawyers working on the case for the Bush team!

John Nichols deserves a lot of credit for unearthing these scandals as well as throwing additional light on Jeb Bush's machinations (at great expense to the taxpayer) to disenfranchise black voters, the infamous butterfly ballot, and many other stories from the whole fiasco. We will probably never know the whole story (thanks to the "Patriot Act" and the White House shredder) but hopefully enough people will go into the polling booths in 2004, enraged by the stolen election of 2000, that we will have a little regime change where it counts and democracy will be restored!

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Summary: A definite eye-opener
Review: I learned volumes of information that Bush and Co. would have preferred to keep under wraps from this book. The degree of manipulation that occurred was astounding and in some occasions it even crossed over into the fraudulent. And this book is a highly entertaining compendium of those little-known events and revelations that took place before, during, and after the 2000 election. Such as exactly what sort of tinkering and string-pulling people like Katherine Harris, Karl Rove, and Tom Delay were involved in, which ultimately resulted in Dubya being named the 43rd president of our nation. I mean these people give an entirely new definition to the term 'political spin.'

The thing I find most appalling is that here I am writing this review two years after the election and some of these allegations which are undoubtedly true have yet to be examined by any court of law or even any major media outlet. This tells me there is an aura of deception still present over that whole debacle. Of course, there are some points in the book where the author tries too hard to make allegations and connections that might not necessarily be true; they are more perceived than they are tangible. Nichols can be overly subjective writer at times which can detract from the rest of the fact driven commentary in this book. I didn't find it to be too much of a problem though.

But I think every American should read this book or something like it that exposes crystal clear the flaws that exist in our government. Once these discrepancies become common knowledge I think America and its citizens will be better equipped to make the necessary changes so that this sort of thing will never repeat itself. Therefore, inform yourself and read this book.

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Summary: Comprehensive, Detailed, and Compelling
Review: If I could change one thing about this book, I would change the title. It's not that I don't think it's witty; it is. Nichols is an intelligent and insightful guy, and the title is good satire, but the truth is that this book is a much more detailed and compelling expose of the Florida 2000 debacle than its tongue-in-cheek title (and cartoonish cover art) might lead some readers to believe. This book contains more facts than rage, laying out a clear and in-depth explanation of the many and varied ways in which the political right-wing subverted democracy in Florida.

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Summary: Painstakingly detailed muckraking
Review: In this treatise, John Nichols provides a wealth of information which explain how personal bias and petty ambition led to an election outcome that produced the first court-appointed president of the United States.

Reform Party candidate Pat Buchannan ended up receiving an abnormally high percentage of Jewish votes--a rather interesting concept in light of his less than favorable public comments about this group of people. The mass media, shortstaffed, and already enamored with the slick media image that is dubya did not devote serious resources to investigating election discrepancys and political connections.

Although I usually find myself at extreme odds with Mr. Buchannan's idea of "good public policy", the very fact that he also recognized the large percentage of votes could have not possibly been intended for him was indicative that something was trully rotten in the Sunshine state.

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Summary: All Hail John Nichols !
Review: Jews for Buchanan:
almost as interesting as
Palestinians for Liebermann:

but of equal non-importance

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Summary: Shocking details in a wonderfully conceived book
Review: Remember the TV pundits trying so hard to convince us that the Bush presidency really began on 9/11? Don't let them fool you--the details of vote robbing, fraud, abuse of power, and political chicanery that played out in Florida, courtesy of the Bush family and GOP operative Katherine Harris, have been researched and presented in very convincing fashion by John Nichols. Until I read this book I thought I was pretty well up to speed on the Florida election fiasco. I was wrong: Jews for Buchanan not only has much to add about the infamous butterfly ballot (designed by a Texas firm, by the way!) but also goes into depth about such under-reported (or outright censured) aspects as the real extent of African-American voter disenfranchisement. The book is rich in details. For instance, I didn't know that there is a Bush cousin working at Fox who succeeding in manipulating that station's news coverage.

The saga is recounted with an appopriate touch of light humor (much needed, because the information is enough to make you scream and cry), with fascinating sidebars throughout focussing on particular technical or "human interest" aspects. It is extremely well-written.

I promise you will never look at Bush and his clique the same way again. It has stirred me to become more politically active, and to start paying close attention to this Administration and its media lackeys.

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Summary: jews for buchanan is an excellent read!
Review: This is a GREAT book about the 2000 election, Florida's electoral bungle and much much more that went into George W. Bush becoming President DESPITE not receiving the majority of the popular vote. Nichols puts so much evidence into play about the Florida mess that one can hardly not be convinced of who really won the presidency. Great stuff on racism, siblings in power, voting systems, outright lunacy and more. Loads of information, but more importantly its very funny! Excellent cartoons, writings from Hunter S. Thompson and Ralph Nader, and a great one-on-one conversation with Pat Buchanan after the election. (Pat thinks the election was stolen too!) I highly recommend this book.

Rating:
Summary: jews for buchanan is an excellent read!
Review: This is a GREAT book about the 2000 election, Florida's electoral bungle and much much more that went into George W. Bush becoming President DESPITE not receiving the majority of the popular vote. Nichols puts so much evidence into play about the Florida mess that one can hardly not be convinced of who really won the presidency. Great stuff on racism, siblings in power, voting systems, outright lunacy and more. Loads of information, but more importantly its very funny! Excellent cartoons, writings from Hunter S. Thompson and Ralph Nader, and a great one-on-one conversation with Pat Buchanan after the election. (Pat thinks the election was stolen too!) I highly recommend this book.