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On a day when Washington was abuzz with the news that former White House spokesperson Scott McClellan had published a tell-all memoir, President George W. Bush offered his personal reason for not reading it.

"I have no intention of reading Scott McClellan's book," Mr. Bush told reporters, "because it's a book."

Mr. Bush said he was "surprised" that Mr. McClellan had written a book to criticize him because "if you're trying to communicate some criticism to me, a book is pretty much the last place you'd put it."

The president said that he thought the chances of his someday reading Mr. McClellan's book were "zero," adding, "If I didn't read the Iraq Study Group's report, I really don't think I'm about to read Scott McClellan's little book."

Presidential historian Davis Logsdon of the University of Minnesota observed that if Mr. McClellan honestly expected his memoir to somehow reach Mr. Bush's nightstand, "that demonstrates just how little he knows George W. Bush."

"Scott McClellan would have had a much better shot if he had put his memoir in Xbox 360 format and then slipped it into a package labeled 'Grand Theft Auto 5,'" he said.

For his part, Mr. Bush said that there was in fact a book published this week that had caught his eye: the new James Bond thrilled entitled "Devil May Care."

"Now, that book looks like it could be good," he said. "Maybe I'll have Laura read it to me."

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Road workers in a small New Zealand town got their wish granted when a woman stripped saying she was fed up with their wolf-whistles.

The Israeli tourist was about to use an ATM in the main street of Kerikeri, in the far north of the country, when the men whistled, the New Zealand Press Association reported.

She calmly stripped off, used the cash machine, before getting dressed and walking away.  The woman told police she didn't take too kindly to the whistling from the men repairing the road.

"She said she had thought 'bugger them, I'll show them what I've got'," Police Sergeant Peter Masters told NZPA.  "She gave the explanation that she had been ... pestered by New Zealand men. She's not an unattractive looking lady," Masters said.  "She was taken back to the police station and spoken to and told that was inappropriate in New Zealand."  The police had the woman reenact the event for their video achives.

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Just moments after former presidential candidate John Edwards endorsed Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill) for president, Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY) vowed to “continue the fight” for Edwards’ endorsement.

“My friends, I will fight for the endorsement of John Edwards, even if it takes all summer,” she told supporters in Louisville, Kentucky. “I have not begun to fight for this endorsement!”

The New York senator appeared to brush off Mr. Edwards’ endorsement of Sen. Obama, saying, “I don’t know what that has to do with anything.”

While Sen. Clinton acknowledged that Sen. Edwards had made a joint appearance with Sen. Obama in which he endorsed the Illinois senator, she said, “If you think that’s going to make me give up trying to get John Edwards’ endorsement, you’ve got another thing coming.”

She said that she was also “unconcerned” that Sen. Edwards had recently gotten a new phone number and not shared it with her.

“Anyone who believes that I’m going to be deterred by an obstacle like that doesn’t know what I’m made of,” she said. “Mark my words, I am going to get that endorsement.”

Sen. Clinton’s aides refused to comment on her quest for Edwards’ endorsement, saying that they were too busy hiding copies of this week’s Time magazine from her.

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“Don’t stop believing.”

That’s the message from former Arkansas governor and Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee to Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY) one day after her disappointing showings in the North Carolina and Indiana primaries.

Even though her rival, Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill), is now less than two hundred delegates from clinching the nomination, “the math favors Hillary now more than ever,” Gov. Huckabee said.

“I didn’t major in math, I majored in miracles,” he told reporters in Little Rock today. “And after Tuesday’s results, my Mircle-o-meter is tingling off the hook.”

He said that even if Sen. Obama gets a majority of the delegates, “the smart money is still on Hillary.”

“The only difference between majority and minority is spelling,” he said. “And I didn’t major in spelling.”

But even as Gov. Huckabee reminded reporters of what his major was, one of his university professors, Darren Galtheim, said that the former Arkansas governor’s field of concentration in college had been overstated.

“Mike majored in miracles, but he didn’t get A’s,” Dr. Galtheim said. “We all encouraged him to switch to an easier major, like Phys Ed.”

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After a week in which a chorus of television pundits talked about the Rev. Wright controversy ad nauseam, Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama introduced a proposal today to silence such repetitious discussions.

“I am proposing a gas-bag holiday,” Sen. Obama told a capacity crowd in Indianapolis. “Under my plan, all gas-bags would go on vacation until the second week of November.”

Some observers called the Illinois senator’s plan a shrewd one since, in addition to the pundits, it seemed guaranteed to sideline the Rev, Wright himself for the next four months.

But within minutes of floating the idea of the gas-bag holiday, Sen. Obama came under fire from several prominent gas-bags, including MSNBC’s Chris Matthews.

“This whole gas-bag holiday thing raises two important questions: how much has the Rev. Wright controversy hurt Barack Obama?” he said. “Also, how much has the Rev. Wright controversy hurt Barack Obama?”

CNN’s senior gas-bag, Lou Dobbs, said that Sen. Obama’s proposal of a gas-bag holiday should make Americans “question his patriotism.”

“The right to be a TV blowhard is as American as wearing a flag pin on your lapel,” he said. “By the way, isn’t Hussein a Mexican name?”

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