Best us executive government books according to redditors

We found 38 Reddit comments discussing the best us executive government books. We ranked the 23 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the top 20.

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u/mister_ghost · 51 pointsr/slatestarcodex

I have no idea how he found the strength to ignore the fact that Robinson's book is called Trump: Anatomy of a Monstrosity.

Maybe not the most charitable criticism, but man is it juicy.

u/cyanuricmoon · 27 pointsr/politics

>https://www.currentaffairs.org/2016/08/the-clinton-foundations-problems-are-deeper-than

LOL. You mean the man who wrote Superpreditor: Clinton's abuse of black America has written what I can only assume is a fair and balanced article. Let's take a look.

Nathan J. Robinson claims:

>The New York Times has described the Foundation as “more a nonprofit global consulting firm than a traditional philanthropy.”

When the actual quote from the New York Times article is:

>As a microcosm of the foundation’s worldwide presence, Rwanda reveals it to be more a nonprofit global consulting firm than a traditional philanthropy, with scattered interests that reflect the darting mind of its namesake, former President Bill Clinton.

In addition the Article claims:

>In Rwanda, a review of the foundation’s history shows that it has done vital, often pathbreaking work, particularly in health and rural development.

Looks like Nathan J Robinson over looked that part of the NYT article. And instead of writting that one of the many things CF has done in Rwanda is consulting, he instead claims that the foundation is simply a consulting firm. Shame propoganda pusher. Shame.

I assume your other articles are equally... convincing?

u/JSiobhan · 21 pointsr/UnresolvedMysteries

Dick Cheney was really Deep Throat and Watergate was about the CIA's attempt to keep Nixon from revealing the CIA's involvement in the assassination of JFK. Below is a link to the book that advances this theory.

https://www.amazon.com/Against-Them-Alexander-Assassination-Break-ebook/dp/B006A1L8E0

u/TotesTax · 10 pointsr/samharris

https://www.amazon.com/Anti-Semite-Through-Barack-Anti-Semitism-Failings/dp/1540628108

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Someone wrote a whole book about how Obama is anti-semitic.

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> In what is sure to be the hottest political book of the year, author Brett Bargar exposes the truth about former President Barack Obama - not only that he is an anti-Semite, but that his anti-Semitism was inculcated in him at a young age and that it continued to inform his policy decisions throughout his (failed) presidency. With such a rotten core, it's no wonder so many bad decisions came from the Obama White House. Now, for the first time, all his anti-Semitic actions and all the awfulness that radiated therefrom are run down in this one handy volume. Sometimes you have to laugh to keep from crying, and that's exactly the approach taken in The Anti-Semite.

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hmm. sounds familiar for some reason.

u/kathalytic · 10 pointsr/politics

>people don't choose leaders based on policy agreements, but rather they choose parties like sports teams and then retroactively shape their own beliefs and policy priorities around whatever the party leadership says.

Pretty much yup.

u/idwthis · 10 pointsr/tifu

I don't know about signs, but there is a book, apparently.

u/mcbuena · 7 pointsr/Philippines

There's apparently a Kindle Edition for $3

u/narutothemedsobbing · 6 pointsr/Philippines

Some books I recommend! Best to immerse yourself in as much accounts to get a better picture of things

u/[deleted] · 5 pointsr/politics

An opinion piece written by Andrew C McCarthy. Author of such brilliant and unbiased books like "The Grand Jihad: How Islam and the Left Sabotage America" or "Faithless Execution: Building the Political Case for Obama's Impeachment".

Definitely sounds trustworthy.

u/WeedsInMyMind · 5 pointsr/politics

You seem to be assuming he will lose. Betting sites still have him as the odds on favorite to win the 2020 election. Polling data shows that he is behind the democratic front runners, but we are too far out for polling to really indicate anything other than candidate name recognition. Here is what experts have to say about polling this far out:

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> In their book The Timeline of Presidential Elections, Christopher Wlezien and Robert Erikson find that polling a year in advance of the election has essentially no correlation with the outcome. Polling right before the election, by contrast, has a lot of correlation with the final outcome. And there’s a healthy middle ground 100-200 days out when the correlation isn’t particularly strong, but it’s not nothing either.

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And something else for you to consider before you think that Trump might be done politically ... POTUS Obama was almost as underwater as Trump in his approval ratings at this point in his presidency. He went on to rally, gain approval, and win a second term.

Never for a second think Trump is finished. The man is as detestable as they come, but he is an idiot savant when it comes to rallying his base and dodging the consequences of his criminality. I would be extremely surprised, even if Trump lost his bid for a second term, for him to face any negative effect of his actions. I'd be willing to put even money on that statement.

u/22Chuckles · 4 pointsr/IAmA

For getting Colorado to 100% renewable energy, how do you plan to get there? Currently Colorado uses quite a bit of coal, and nation wide natural gas is pushing coal out, as it is cheaper. Will you continue with fracking in Colorado, in the short term at least, to try push coal power plants out of operation? What is the end game for 100% renewable? Would you want to implement a carbon tax, such as in Bolder, have a cap and trade system, or ban all forms of green house emissions? How would this effect the cross national trucking industry? What forms of renewable would you focus on, and how would Colorado get the infrastructure for those renewable or would Colorado start importing electricity?

In your drive for free preschool and full day kindergarten are you basing it off of Hillary Clinton's proposals? Will you work with major economists in the field such as Raj Chetty?

Why exactly do you want Colorado companies to have employees to participate in ownership/profit sharing? How do you wish to implement this? What consequences for national, or international companies be?

What other policy proposals are you looking at pursuing?

Have you read, or interested in reading Show Me The Evidence?

Do you still play League? What video games do you play?

u/crabapplekyle · 3 pointsr/politics

Most of those things will need to be implemented by Congress. Best bet would be a centrist president that doesn't inspire the Tea Party to reactivate, win over a chamber of congress, and stonewall everything for another 8 years. For example, the ACA was only passed when Dems had both chambers. Dems will need that again to pass legislation related to UBI, healthcare, or higher education. The President can certainly allocate funds and take some action, but to see the monumental change that you are speaking of, Congress will have to pass laws. Buttigieg seems to understand what the limitations should be. His remarks at 4:22 in this video ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1ZHSe9ckCo&t=61s ) are grounded and realistic. He's not over-promising by saying he can get things done that would require Congress. I recommend reading 'The Cult of the American Presidency'. It details how the President has collected far more power than the founders originally intended.

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https://www.amazon.com/Cult-Presidency-Americas-Dangerous-Executive/dp/1933995157

u/queerjihad · 3 pointsr/Drama

This showed up on google: https://www.amazon.com/Obamao-Chinese-Shirt-Achtung-LLC/dp/B00J86VNGC

There's also a book about oba mao: https://www.amazon.com/Quotations-Chairman-Oba-mao-revisiting-State-ebook/dp/B00IRREV4E/

>Are you happy with your new proposed 4 trillion dollar budget? Isis? Arms in Iran? Illegal Amnesty?? President Obama's new legacy seems to be to make America into a Giant Welfare State! This book features the words and "wisdom" of the biggest purveyor of horsecrap this side of Putin, in his own words!

>Barack Obama! All the fun exciting outrageous quotations that made America the Third World country it's become ! The apology tour! Joe the Plumber! You didn't build that! It's all here!

>Relive the exciting moments of yesteryear! Remember - "we are the ones we've been waiting for!" Roughly 44 densely packed 'device' pages. The author spent two years collecting these instances where the President 'showed a little leg'. Includes excerpts of the Apology Tour as well as fun little Marxist expressions that have endeared him to all.

>Also included in each chapter head, a great little quote from Michelle expressing how little the country has meant to her! Trade quotes with your friends! Regale them at parties!

>This is one little red book you'll always want to have right by your side! Now at a new low price!! 44 - 50 device pages. As Obama goes on his third vacation in three months, its time to settle back with an interesting book and discover why Jimmy Carter is now considered only the 2nd worst President!

>Includes exciting highlights from the Original Apology Tour! A Tea Party must have!

u/IslamicShibe · 3 pointsr/politics

Only 2.99 on amazon

u/leifnotericson · 3 pointsr/Philippines

Regarding the INC and Martial Law -

The INC supported Marcos during the 1965 and 1969 presidential elections, but Marcos dropped them after he won in 1969 and classified them as political enemies for some reason (although there were rumors that Marcos suspected the INC of providing refuge to his political opponents, hence why the relationship soured). The night Martial Law was declared, the INC guards refused to allow the Metrocom soldiers inside their compound in Quezon City because the soldiers had no permission from Erano Manalo to enter the grounds and dismantle the INC's radio transmitter.

As Primitivo Mijares puts it: "The IN[C] guards were not resisting the entry of Metrocom troopers to protect the radio station. They just don't want the Constabulary to enter the compound, which they consider to be sacred and forbidden grounds to anyone without the blessings of Bishop Manalo." Eventually, Enrile himself had to negotiate with the INC to take their radio station off the air.

u/mehereman · 2 pointsr/politics

> National Review’s Jonah Goldberg suggests Trump apologize. His colleague Andrew McCarthy (author of a 2014 book arguing President Obama had committed seven entire categories of impeachable offenses) argues Trump’s misconduct does not rise to the level of an impeachable offense.

Yea... OK.

u/messytrumpet · 2 pointsr/moderatepolitics

>I've often said the firings of Comey and McCabe may be the only recourse we ever see.

>after being promised that Mueller was going to prove Russian Collusion for 2 years

It's nice that you get to have it both ways: simultaneously latching on to the most overwrought predictions about the Russia investigation to invalidate its findings while accepting apparently nothing of substance resulting from the Origin Investigation as a thorough vindication of your version of reality.

If you believe someone like Andrew McCarthy, you'd think this was one of the most diabolical plots against our democracy that we've ever experienced. The consequences of which should warrant the stripping down and imprisonment of the former President and top members of his cabinet.

And that's not going to happen, why? Because our system is corrupt? The levers of justice too weak? And that failure of our system couldn't also apply to the current President and his game of footsie with the Russians?

u/TheWestDeclines · 2 pointsr/AskTrumpSupporters

They're all process crimes. I'm not really interested in this low-level nonsense. I'm much more focused on the #Spygate fallout that's coming up:

See the following:

Spygate: The True Story of Collusion [Infographic]
https://www.theepochtimes.com/spygate-the-true-story-of-collusion_2684629.html

Ball of Collusion: The Plot to Rig an Election and Destroy a Presidency
https://www.amazon.com/Ball-Collusion-Election-Destroy-Presidency-ebook/dp/B079C2VT7Y

u/keithcu · 1 pointr/POTUSWatch

Obama put 9 whistleblowers in jail, and spied on tons of people besides Trump. I'm not sure he would have been as cooperative as you imagine.

But the point is that Obama didn't have hardly any MSM attacking him, in spite of all the laws he broke: http://directorblue.blogspot.com/2011/06/president-barack-obamas-complete-list.html

People have written entire books on Obama's abuses of power. https://www.amazon.com/Faithless-Execution-Building-Political-Impeachment/dp/1594037760/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_product_top?ie=UTF8

The media decide what the population should be outraged about. I'd be interested to know what you think Obama's top few most impeachable scandals are from that pretty complete list. Mine is probably the $100B to Iran, and the Iran deal. However, I also think Obamacare could be as well since it was such a disaster, and involved lies in passing it.

Here, we've got impeachment on made-up Trump crimes in Ukraine.

u/cynicalvanilla · 1 pointr/ChapoTrapHouse

I'm afraid not. Sorry.

But you could always be the change you want to see in the world. Her book could be yours for the low, low price of $39.84...used. But actually don't buy it. She goes into the material things that caused her to lose. Russian interference, the Comey letter, America's rampant sexism, and (suprisingly) her ineffectiveness in the midwest. These all had legitimate affects on the election. They don't tell the full story though.

She doesn't dive into policy or ideology at all. She never addresses that maybe her lack of support had something to do with her unappealing ideology.

u/rTrumpTweetsBot · 1 pointr/trumptweets
u/Theeeantifeminist · 1 pointr/insanepeoplefacebook

While not being Satan, he was arguably and pretty objectively, the worst President in history. It's a long read but it's very very well sourced and nearly impossible to try and rebut.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/0692310916/

u/Concise_AMA_Bot · 1 pointr/ConciseIAmA

+22Chuckles:

For getting Colorado to 100% renewable energy, how do you plan to get there? Currently Colorado uses quite a bit of coal, and nation wide natural gas is pushing coal out, as it is cheaper. Will you continue with fracking in Colorado, in the short term at least, to try push coal power plants out of operation? What is the end game for 100% renewable? Would you want to implement a carbon tax, such as in Bolder, have a cap and trade system, or ban all forms of green house emissions? How would this effect the cross national trucking industry? What forms of renewable would you focus on, and how would Colorado get the infrastructure for those renewable or would Colorado start importing electricity?

In your drive for free preschool and full day kindergarten are you basing it off of Hillary Clinton's proposals? Will you work with major economists in the field such as Raj Chetty?

Why exactly do you want Colorado companies to have employees to participate in ownership/profit sharing? How do you wish to implement this? What consequences for national, or international companies be?

What other policy proposals are you looking at pursuing?

Have you read, or interested in reading Show Me The Evidence?

Do you still play League? What video games do you play?

u/m477m4r60l15 · 1 pointr/Conservative

[An Amazon Bestseller! The Most Comprehensive Takedown of the Obama Presidency!] (https://www.amazon.com/Worst-President-History-Legacy-Barack/dp/0692310916)

"If you want to know why the history books will have a dim view of Barack Obama, this is the book to read." --John Hawkins, Right Wing News and Townhall.com

As Barack Obama's presidential failures keep adding up, remembering them all can be a challenge. Matt Margolis and Mark Noonan have compiled everything you need to know about the presidency of Barack Obama (so far) into one book. Now you can easily find all the information that was ignored by the media and that Barack Obama would like you to forget.

Did Barack Obama really save this country from another Great Depression? Did he really improve our country's image around the world, or unite America? What about the new era of post-partisanship and government transparency? Did he really expand health coverage while lowering costs and cutting taxes?

The Worst President in History: The Legacy of Barack Obama compiles 200 inconvenient truths about Obama's presidency--the facts that will shape his legacy: His real record on the economy; the disaster that is Obamacare; his shocking abuses of taxpayer dollars; his bitterly divisive style of governing; his shameless usurping of the Constitution; his scandals and cover ups; his policy failures at home and abroad; the unprecedented expansion of government power... and more.

All of these facts are now at your fingertips in a single source. The Worst President in History: The Legacy of Barack Obama is your ultimate guide to Obama's real record - the record he'd like history to forget.

u/throwaweight7 · 0 pointsr/politics

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>Aaron David Miller served as a State Department Middle East analyst, adviser and negotiator in Republican and Democratic Administrations and is the author of The End of Greatness: Why America Can’t Have (and Doesn’t Want) Another Great President.

>Richard Sokolsky is currently a non-resident senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. He was a member of the Secretary of State’s Policy Planning Office from 2005-2015 and served in the State Department in six administrations.




Ok, so how would we rate the job these guys have been doing in the State Department the last 20 years?

u/tokie_newport · 0 pointsr/politics

Sorry, that kind of dodge might work on your fellow Republicans, but it doesn't work on intelligent people. Educate yourself, and then you'll understand why these aren't mere "disagreements."

> Ironically, given that it is supposedly an exhortation to mutual understanding, the phrase “people you disagree with” seems to display a limited understanding of what human conflicts are actually like to those who participate in them. Do Israelis and Palestinians “disagree”? Well, yes, they do. But also, to characterize it that ways is naive, because it misses that the disagreement is built on a much deeper clash of interests. Did the Communists murdered in the 1979 Greensboro massacre disagree with the Klansmen who shot them? Do the Amazon workers who toil in warehouses stuffing boxes for Jeff Bezos disagree with him on how long a workday should be? Yes, and yes. It’s more than that, though. Seeing clashes of interest as “people disagreeing” is what we might call the “Obama view.” Barack Obama’s position was that while he may have disagreed with Republicans, he nevertheless believed they were well-intentioned people and hoped to be able to work out their differences. The Republicans, on the other hand, believed Obama was a poisonous socialist who needed to be destroyed at all costs. This disagreement was never going to be resolved harmoniously.
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>I don’t, for example, “disagree” with Donald Trump. I don’t even think he has any beliefs to disagree with. I think he is just a rapacious plutocrat who wants wealth, power, and fame and enjoys bullying others. I’d have nothing to say to him if I sat down in a room with him, because our dispute isn’t an intellectual one. He acts based on his gut feeling that America should be an imperial power with him in charge, and I act on my gut feeling that this will make the world horrible and needs to be stopped.

https://www.currentaffairs.org/2017/12/people-you-disagree-with

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u/Foxer604 · 0 pointsr/worldpolitics

LOL - i love that he's my 'lord emporor' now :) Is your logical training SO weak that you believe that by attempting an ad hominem like that it actually makes your argument better? Rather than making YOU look like the blind adherent to ideology? Shame - do better next time. Also - i'm not much of a trump supporter.

But to your actual point (once we shovel the manure out of the way), lets look at that.

"treasonous, traitorous, totally corrupt and self serving. " The Clintons with saudi arabia. That's worse than anything we suspect trump has done so far.

"Racist" - well like many left leaning racists Bill talked a good game but actually did a lot of things to benefit himself that hurt many black communities. Read this book:
https://www.amazon.com/Superpredator-Clintons-Abuse-Black-America/dp/0692736891

"sex assaullting, pathologically lying" - bill clinton raped a girl. And was widely reported to have sexually abused others, not to mention his many well known illegal affards. As to the lying - "I dod not have sexual relations with that woman". Yeah bill.

"cotton candy hair".

well - i've seen a few doozies of clinton's lately - i guess we all get a little scraggly when we get older. (it just kind of degrades into mindless insults after that),

Also they were both impeached. (well - technically trump hasn't been, but i'm willing to take a flyer on that).

So here's the thing - i 'm not a huge fan of trump, but I do find it quite detestable that the Left wing was quite happy to accept the same traits in hillary and bill that they now criticize in trump. They are two sides of the same coin (hell they used to be very friendly with each other).

But for trump, it's "Trump grabbed a girl by the Pxxxx - OUTRAGE! HATRED! ANGER! WOMEN! KILL THE EVIL DICTATOR".

For Bill it's "BILL RAPED A GIRL! - oh, well.. y'know.. (shuffle shuffle)"

it's "TRUMP MAY HAVE POSSIBLY WORKED WITH RUSSIANS TO TRY TO INTERFERE WITH THE ELECTION EVEN THO THAT CLEARLY DIDN"T DO MUCH - TRAITOR!"

But it's "THE CLINTONS TOOK MONEY FROM SAUDI ARABIA FOR A CHARITY BILL GETS 50 MILLION DOLLARS A YEAR TO RUN, THEN HILLARY GAVE THEM ARMS THAT SHE SHOULDN"T HAVE" - oh. Well. selling our political office positions for bribes... that's... hey but charities are great aren't they? I should start one.

Its the hypocracy that gets me. It really could be clinton in that picture and a lot of people would laugh thinking it was appropriate commentary. But of course - the left is just fine with their people doing it, but horrified at the other guys doing it. And you can bet if the next dem president does it, then the republicans will be horrified despite having given exactly zero craps when trump did.

That's the real joke here.


u/Lepew1 · -2 pointsr/AskALiberal

Here is a 300+ page book on the matter for $6 via Kindle with over 4-stars average review.

u/ikebu · -2 pointsr/politics

By the author:

> End of Greatness: Why America Can't Have (and Doesn't Want) Another Great President: Aaron David Miller
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> Miller argues that greatness in presidents is a much overrated virtue.

I skipped the article.