Truth and consequences
Subtitle: special comments on the Bush administration's war on American values
By: Keith Olbermann
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 172
ISBN-13: 9781400066766; 9780739359006
Subjects: Politics and government; Social values; Deception; Political corruption; Social conditions; Foreign relations
Description: The author shares his observations on the mismanagement, cronyism, duplicity, cynicism, and lack of accountability in the Bush administration, condemning a government that has lost its ability to distinguish between leading and ruling a nation.
Table of contents: title: Hurricane Katrina; title: Feeling morally or intellectually confused?; title: "Have you no sense of decency, Sir?"; title: This hole in the ground; title: Bush owes us an apology; title: A textbook definition of cowardice; title: On lying; title: "The beginning of the end of America"; title: Advertising terrorism; title: Bush owes the troops an apology, not Kerry; title: Where are the checks and balances?; title: Lessons from the Vietnam War; title: Free speech, failed speakers, and the delusion of grandeur; title: On sacrifice; title: Bush's legacy: the president who cried wolf; title: Bush shoots for jaws, delivers jaws 2; title: Condi goes too far; title: DeLay's delusions; title: Republicans equal life, Democrats equal death?; title: The entire government has failed us on Iraq; title: Bush and Cheney should resign; title: All hail the prophetic gut!; title: Go to Iraq and fight, Mr. President; title: Bush is just playing us with "troop withdrawal."