Rove: Bush Is a Bookworm

Bitter liberals may believe the president is an illiterate buffoon, but in 2006 the president read a whopping 95 books, and, just for good measure, read the entire Bible front-to-back, Karl Rove assures us in today’s Wall Street Journal. “In the 35 years I've known George W. Bush, he's always had a book nearby,” Rove writes. “Mr. Bush loves books.”

Each year, starting in 2006, Bush and Rove have had a contest to see who can read the most books. Rove won every year—“the president lamely insisted he’d lost because he'd been busy as Leader of the Free World”—but Bush racked up totals of 51 in 2007 and 40 in 2008, and each year once again re-read the Bible cover-to-cover. Plus a daily devotional. (More George W. Bush stories.)