Whew! For a second there I thought one of the book titles was U.S. Senators and Tiger Woods! And I thought, “Man, is there not one human being that guy won’t fuck?!?” ;)

These are obviously decoy covers disguising the books containing Obama’s true philosophical influences: “Kumbaya: Achieving the Zen of Bipartisan Consensus” by G.W.Bush, “Just Letting Off Some Steam: Why the Far Right Don’t Really Mean What They Say or Do” by M.L.King, and the historical perspective of “Winning the Peace: The New Statecraft of Appeasement” by N.Chamberlain.

“To Serve Whitey” is a cookbook!

Thank you sir, you made my day.

Jeez, the way these retards unique thought process types connect the dots, it’s a wonder they can feed and dress themselves in the morning before they go off and do whatever it is they do that gets them all worked up in a lather.

Somebody needs to read and dress that bookshelf – bring those books to the edge of the shelf, dammit! And if they aren’t put in Dewey Decimal order by tonight, there’s a page gonna be on the street! (flashback to life at teh library.)

Being a bit of a bibliophile…

Pfft. I’m not impressed. I buy my books by the motherfucking foot!

Being a bit of a bibliophile(Pauses for a pinch of snuff), I wondered if many of our problems don’t stem from teaching the lower orders to read.

I got a book on how to make shelves, but you don’t hear me bragging about my son turning water into wine. do ya?

Hold on, Nellie. How does one get to “tag along” on a tour when the names of any tour participants have to be submitted beforehand? And according to the White house website, cameras are not allowed on the tour, either (and any boof with sense would understand that to mean camera phones, too.) I say lock him up.

I know a lot of people who read books constantly.

I know people who refer to themselves as “bibliophiles.”

The intersection of these two groups is the null set.

What, she couldn’t throw a copy of “Atlas Shrugged” up there? You know, just in case some enterprising investigative wingnut journalist went snooping around in the library.

My faith in Mrs. Obama’s political instincts has dropped considerably.

Wait, really? The First Lady’s job includes clearing out the old books in the library and making a list of new ones? By title and author, rather than just delegating, say, the history section to a history professor or something? I mean, I like books. A lot. My house is full of them, they’ve taken over the room our housemate used to have and line my hallway and stuff because a bookcase costs the same as seven to ten books, and what seems like the better use of cash there? But I still wouldn’t be able to sit down and think of a library’s worth of books I wanted in anything less than six months, and I don’t have kids to raise or First Lady stuff to do. So I’m gonna guess that she isn’t actually personally responsible for every book on every shelf.

I couldn’t make out the title of the book on the far right until I magnified it considerably. Now, “Trotsky, Ayers, and the Sleeveless Dress” is on my christmas list. That is, if I wasn’t at war with christmas.

Christ, that’s the most depressing thing I’ve seen in a while. Seriously, that approach is to intellectual gravitas as an inflatable goat is to sex.

“”that approach is to intellectual gravitas as an inflatable goat is to sex.”"

Why did I immediately think of Jonah Goldberg when I read that line?

Mickey Kaus. Also. Too.

Well, I bet his point is perfectly clear to Meggs McArdle, and she went to Penn and has a Chicago MBA and many of you don’t. Also.

Excuse me, but I thought that Mickey Kaus blows goats. I doubt that even Jonah Goldberg’s (probably) extensive collection of inflatable livestock includes anatomically correct male goats.

Observe! “The Populist Revolution” is there, too!

But it is very cool that “US Senators and Their World” is there. There is one that came out by that name in 1960. Caro has it for a source.

Since 1960 the Senate has changed a lot but that book looks very closely observed.

Populist Revolution, Populist Revolt, same difference.

I can’t help but comment on the Michele Bachmann ads on the right. Call me strange, but I find her somewhat attractive. That is, if you could get past that look in her eyes. You know, the look that says her stuffed animal collection probably reflects her forays into home taxidermy.

Neighbor: “Why does Ms. Bachmann put cat food on her front porch every night? They don’t have any pets. By the way, have you seen Puffball or Mr. Snuggles recently?”

Seriously, the look in her eyes is usually accompanied by a jacket that fastens in the back.

I’ll just get the obvious joke out of the way: even though the previous First Lady was an ex-librarian, she was buying them for George, so there were two books and one was colored in (but he didn’t stay inside the lines).

Seriously, though, does he really think that the current residents completely replace all the books, or conversely that even a rabid anti-commie wouldn’t want a comprehensive collection on different political philosophies in a sort of know-the-enemies way? Hell, those books could have been bought by Nixon (who would have written “Those fuckers!!!” in the margins. In ink). But, no, the next Spy in the House of Love will be equipped with a Dr. Who “sonic screwdriver” so that they could use the blacklight to scan for semen stains on the carpet. Jonah Goldberg would put on his stick-on Mirror Universe Spock goatee for that mission, you betcha.

that looks like a pretty standard shelf of books about political history. I suspect Ms. Obama specified some general subjects (history of politics in the US) and a librarian at the Library of Congress picked some standard works…

Well, it looks like a certain Colored Woman needs to commence with some cleanin’, don’t it? And while we’re at it…. Boy! Get yur feet off’n our furniture!1!

Sweet Jeebus, make it stop…..

I have thrown my back out laughing at your comment, sir. My second will be contacting you directly.

“Look what I found!”

Somebody keep this guy away from the Whitehouse Easter Egg Hunt this year. You just know he’ll ruin it for the kids.

A lot. My house is full of them, they’ve taken over the room our housemate used to have and line my hallway and stuff because a bookcase costs the same as seven to ten books, and what seems like the better use of cash there?

I knew there was a reason my double-secret-probation love for you has reached unimaginable levels.

Speaking of recommended reading material, Digby was kind enough to post a link to this excellent distillation of Ayn Rand’s masterwork.

Also, too.

As is well known, a book wouldn’t be on someone’s shelf if they didn’t agree with every single word in it. Since I, too, am something of a bibliophile, I am guided in my life by the books in my home, including Mein Kampf, Sergei Khrushchev’s bigraphy of his father, a manual of Wehrmacht infantry weapons, and numerous Garfield cartoon books that my son bought when he was in the fifth grade. I believe every word in all of them.

See below.

Can we have an edit function that doesn’t run all the paragraphs together after you use it?

Anyway, I was saying, if you intend to live your life in accordance with Garfield’s principles, you’ll end up looking just like Jonah Goldberg. Fur included.

Heaven forfend.

Since mentally they’re still functioning in the good old days when “darkies” weren’t allowed to read or write, they’re probably offended that the Obama’s have any books at all.

Oh lord. You guys are slaying me. Which is good because this bullshit is just making me grind my teeth. I have thousands of books in my house. I highly doubt that I agree with every single fucking one of them. I even have a copy of the Bible somewhere, and I certainly don’t agree with that.

How soon before teabagging Republicans defend this nutjob? He appears to be the perfect poster boy for all their beefs against the government.

I thought teabaggers considered themselves to be populists.

Damn, looks like Rob’s scoop, pooped.

Update: According to the Washington Post it was First Lady Jackie Kennedy who oversaw the placing of the books in the White House library, and they’ve been there since 1963. Apparently no administration since has changed the contents of the library.

So the guide I was with didn’t give me the whole story. Either that, or we misunderstood one another.

But that doesn’t stop him from concluding with some required teabaggery without basis:

The Chairman Mao Christmas ornament, the Obama adviser who idolizes Mao and the nationalizations of the banks, car companies and attempted nationalizations of student loans and health care are all, unfortunately, still very true.

Sucks to be Rob…

Rob blithers: Either that, or we misunderstood one another.

Or you could be the planet’s premier fucking fool.