Finn. Now his has given his critics a chance to say that he has even
flip-flopped on this.
I'm dumbfounded. Mitt Romney was a valedictorian English Major.
This site
http://www.youtube.com/mittromney
lists his favorite books as:
Huckleberry Finn, What It Takes, Theodore Rex, The World Is Flat ,
1776, The Purpose Driven Life. The West's Last Chance...
He lists other books on his facebook, and myspace profile. People have
been asking him this question a long time..
If you go here, I think you can see evidence that Mitt Romney is the
best read author out of all the candidates:
http://myclob.pbwiki.com/books
Here are some of the things he has said about the books he has read:
"But number five, the culture of America is under attack. Now some
people say wait, when you talk about culture, Governor, that's not of
the same order of magnitude as the things you just mentioned:
jihadists and the emergence of Asia, spending too much money, using
too much oil. And I disagree. There was a book written some years ago
by a fellow named David Landis; he's a Harvard professor. The book was
given to me. It's called The Wealth and Poverty of Nations. The jacket
cover included an endorsement by John Kenneth Galbraith. I said, oh
boy, this is going to be some liberal diatribe. I read through it and
found it pretty scholarly. And after about 500 pages, he concludes
with roughly these words: If anything can be learned from the history
of economic development in the world, it is this--culture makes all
the difference."
"The sea change applies to our military as well. At one time, we were
content with the idea that the military was responsible for winning
wars. Increasingly, we find ourselves responsible not only for winning
the war, but also for keeping the peace. We play, increasingly,
peacekeeping roles; how we prepare for those and train for those is
something which Jim and Paul in their book have spent some time
talking about." Heritage Lecture #904
"Amazingly, these rankings don't even include the countries that are
our real competition. India and China, in the words of Tom Friedman's
latest book, just brought three billion more people onto the playing
field." - U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Education and the
Workforce Hearing on "High School Reform: Examining State and Local
Efforts.
"Well, I happen to believe that one of the most important things a
president of the United States does is set a culture of integrity,
character, vision, patriotism, that the values that a president is
known for and lives by live on well beyond some of his or her policies
-- I guess all his, at this point. His policies. And, you know, I will
go back -- and read a couple of books about Teddy Roosevelt last year,
"Theodore Rex" and "The Rise of Teddy Roosevelt," I looked at some of
his policies and said, gosh, I have exactly the opposite view today.
The Republic Party has a different view then it did back in 1900." -
C-Span Transcript, BRIAN LAMB, HOST
Romney has made reference to reading: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage,
by Alfred Lansing, China, Inc., by Ted C. Fishman, Future Jihad:
Terrorist Strategies Against America by Walid Phares, American Jihad:
The Terrorists Living Among Us, by Steven Emerson, The Rise of Teddy
Roosevelt by Edmund Morris, Theodore Rex by Edmund Morris, The World
is Flat by Thomas L. Friedman...
Mitt Romney is not an idiot. Why would he say something so stupid?
I know I'm over simplifying things... Romney did not say that it was
his favoritest book in the whole wide world. He just said it was a
favorite book. But how could he like such a stupid book? He is a
freaking valedictorian English Major!
Is he just trying to show people that you shouldn't be afraid to read
things from people you disagree with? This has been a major Romney
theme. Read even those you disagree with.
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