How many times have you returned home from work consumed, emotionally and physically fatigued, wanting to float away from the stresses of the day but were instead greeted by the bustling sounds of a mirthful household? You might feel the strong urge to escape reality for a while through solitude, the television or some other medium. Oftentimes, the last thing one wants to engage in is the daunting task of trudging through an intellectually challenging book. If you feel this way perhaps your perspective might change after reading Karl Rove’s article in the Wall Street Journal detailing President Bush’s voracious appetite for reading.

Surprised? You should be. Late night comics and the liberal media have tried for the past eight years (with some success) to caricaturize President Bush as an uneducated dolt. In reality, he is an avid reader that has a profound intellectual side to which those who know him best personally attest. I would submit to you that if the truth were told, President Bush’s reading record would stand head and shoulders above that of his naysayers'.

Imagine, the Leader of the Free World, the most powerful man in the world sets aside time to read the Bible each year from cover to cover among copious other writings to include biographies, histories and volumes on current events to name just a few. If the one man who has the pressures of a global war on terrorism, a world-wide financial crises and political unrest throughout the globe can find time to read, then I find it challenging to muster an argument against not reading through the Bible in a given year or finding time to read any other number of edifying books.

To find out what President Bush enjoys reading and how he finds the time, check out Karl Rove’s Wall Street Journal article Bush Is a Book Lover.

As for me, I think I'll go find a good book to read...I have some catching up to do.