More Political Babble The Dumbest Things Politicians Ever Said [Hardcover]

An award-winning journalist and renowned political cartoonist present over 1,200 entries of the silly, stupid, offensive, arrogant, racist and just plain dumb things politicians have placed on public record. Modeled on its successful predecessor, this often unbelievable yet always entertaining book contains chapters on such juicy subjects as scandal, campaigns, consultants, foreign affairs and the media and prominent political personalities including Bill and Hillary Clinton, Newt Gingrich and Bob Dole.

The author of Political Babble has collected a new book of political doublespeak and ludicrous statements which offers verbal missteps from political incumbents and Washington wannabes. And the fun doesn't stop at the border, nor is it unique to today's current crop of politicians. This book also has its share of miscues from all over the world. 15 cartoons.

DAVID OLIVE is an award-winning journalist whose business articles and book reviews are published widely. Editor of the Globe and Mail's Report on Business magazine, he is the author of the bestsellers Business Babble, Political Babble, and Canadian Political Babble (all available from Wiley).

BARRY BLITT is a political cartoonist and illustrator whose work appears regularly in The New York Times, Time, Newsweek, The New Yorker, Rolling Stone, Sports Illustrated, and other publications.

I was dramatically shaped by my grandmother and my aunts because they convinced me there was always a cookie available. Deep down inside I'm four years old, and I wake up and think out there, there's a cookie. Every morning I'm going, you know, either it can be baked or it's already been bought, but it's in a jar . . . somewhere. . . . -- Newt Gingrich in 1994,

from his Renewing American Civilization Lecture Series

Picking up where its hilarious predecessor left off, this wickedly witty new treasure trove of outbursts, bon mots, and miscalculations draws from every corner of the politicl#§