A presidential bookworm

According to this article in US News & World Report, George Bush has a lot of free time on his hands. Enough time, at any rate, to read 60 books so far this year. It's Week 34 of 2006, which means that, in between running the United States of America, George W. is consuming books at the voracious rate of one every three to four days, and has been maintaining that pace since January 1! He should be darn near 100 by the end of the year at this rate.

OK, so who reads 100 books in a year? Who has time to read 100 books in a year, even if they'd like to? I enjoy reading, and my job allows me to fit reading time into my schedule as study, but I can tell you I don't come close to reading as much as the president supposedly does. I just don't have the time.

So where does the leader of the free world find all this spare time? Is he a speed reader? The type who reads the first and last ten pages, the table of contents, and the book jacket, and calls it good? Could he be getting all his literature from the kindergarten files at the DC public libraries? If his PR people are - pardon the pun - cooking the books on this one, could they possibly be so stupid as to throw out such a ridiculous number?

Or, is it just that much more leisurely to be the President of the United States of America than to be a country pastor?

Things that make you go, hmmmmmm...