Liar, Liar

Speed-reading with the President

The picture included with the linked Wonkette post is pretty damning. Unless President Bush is biking to meet a friend to whom he wants to lend his copy of I Am Charlotte Simmons, Tom Wolfe's recent raunchy take on college life, he's still making his way through it, which would defy a report in February that he had already finished--and enjoyed--the nearly 700-page tome. I know it's important to our vital interests that Bush, Cheney, and everyone around them lie about matters of national security, the economy, and which way is up, but whether you've finished a book? That, Mr. President, is a bridge too far.