If you thought that author Michael Moore said too many nasty things about President Bush in his 2002 book, Stupid White Men, consider this:

Those who choose not to be "politically correct" after he became governor of Texas had already written nasty things about him, his little brother, Governor Jeb of Florida, and their advisors, long before Moore started to write his tale. Moore, you may recall, also did the now infamous General Motors documentary, Roger & Me.

This book, The Two Bush Con, also contains chapters, about the president and his brother that they probably would rather not have repeated. All were news events, reported in 2001.

The volume of disjointed, chaotic, confusing, repeated, corrected and rewritten stories appearing in newspapers daily, and on television and radio 24-hours a day, made the historical events difficult to follow and understand.

Author Bill McCarty says his book sorts out extraneous news that had nothing to do with administering the American Democratic Republic. Who sleep with whom was not very relevant, or important when President Bill Clinton was in office and the personal escapades of the Bush clan were not very important either, he explained.

What was important, he suggests, is how the Bushes are reinventing democracy and rewriting the meaning of freedom. What tragically has made this a relatively easy process was the September 11 attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, followed by a plea that the American public show unity of purpose behind the president in his "war against terrorists to protect the homeland."

Some of the reprinted news would seem to suggest the American people may get more than was bargained for before the president and his brother retire, or are retired, from public life.