Genre: Activism
Paperback: 280 pages

Description: 2,004 Reasons to Boot Bush: A Book to Motivate Electoral Action

Synopsis:

In the summer of 2003, we received an email from Terry McAuliffe, who was then the chair of the Democratic National Committee. The e-mails subject line read "57 Reasons to Boot Bush". That sounded like a pretty interesting email, and we wanted to see what such a list might contain. We had been looking for a good summation of the problems with the Bush administration, some kind of resource that we might send on to some friends of ours who had been sitting on the political fence.Bizarrely and unfortunately, it turned out that McAuliffes 57 Reasons to Boot Bush were the 57 years in Bill Clinton's life so far. The day that we received the email was Bill Clinton's birthday and Mr. McAuliffe wanted us all to wish him a happy one. Yes, its hard to believe, but just a year and a half before the next presidential election, the chair of the Democratic Party appears to have spent his days sending out idle messages of this sort. The continuing fixation of the Democratic leadership on celebrating someone who's been out of office for three years has been simply bizarre. Not to badmouth Clinton on a personal level, but we know that the Democrats can do better than to rehash past glories. This email message from Mr. McAuliffe was symptomatic of the national Democratic Party's three-year submission to the political glamour of George W. Bush. Given our national leaders' inaction, we decided to take the burden of action upon ourselves. If McAuliffe and his allies on the collaborationist Democratic Leadership Council would not give us a good list of reasons to boot Bush, we would come up with a list ourselves. The only problem in compiling this list is that 57 turned out to be too small a number. Our list quickly grew to 100, to 150 and beyond. So, we set ourselves a higher goal. With our sights on the 2004 election, we decided that we would create a list of 2,004 reasons to boot Bush. This book represents the culmination of that effort, completed the night after the second debate between Furious George and John Kerry.

Product Details:

· Paperback: 280 pages
· Binding: Perfect
· Publisher: Irregular Books (October 2004)
· Product Number: 030-13965576