Blue V. Red: The Blue Starter's Guide to the Great State Debate

By E.J. Boeke and Deborah Baer

Can't we all just get along? The 2004 election is over and people are pissed. The re-election of W for a second term has divided the country in ways we haven't seen since the OJ verdict, since Britney... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0740754254
• ISBN13: 9780740754258
• Release Date: January 2005
• Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing
• Length: 120 Pages
• Weight: 0.24 lbs.
• Dimensions: 6.7" x 0.3" x 5.5"

Customer Reviews

A look at the losers who won the 2004 election

Winston Churchill said that the best argument against democracy was a five-minute talk with the average voter, while Benjamin Disraeli said that a conservative government is an organized hypocrisy. This provides all the hard evidence to show why 51% or so of the American electorate still chose to go with Bush despite his track record of failure and incompetence. The contradictions and hypocrisies of the "moral" right are spelled out in detail with researched figures from the CDC, FEMA, and the Center For Rural Strategies: red states have a higher incidence of drug addiction, AIDS cases due to needle drug use, poverty, physical violence despite being the "Culture Of Life," and general ignorance (almost 90% of 18-to-24-year-olds, the primary military recruiting demographic, can't find Iraq on a map). The best part is the armistice treaty/nonaggression pact at the end, spelling out all of the tradeoffs both sides of the political divide are to endure just to make the noise stop (Michael Moore and Ann Coulter both have to do life without parole in the same Gitmo jail cell).

Man this is funny stuff!

This little book had me laughing out loud just browsing through it at the bookstore. I won't give away any of the jokes, but I have to hand it to the authors who take a no-holds barred approach to making fun of all the bible slapping, god-fearing, full of hubris and hatred Bushers out there. And for all you Bushers, don't worry. The authors were equal opportunity offenders and wrote Red v. Blue.