{"id":4508,"date":"2013-04-29T00:01:46","date_gmt":"2013-04-29T07:01:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/?p=4508"},"modified":"2013-04-13T10:17:15","modified_gmt":"2013-04-13T17:17:15","slug":"why-obama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/?p=4508","title":{"rendered":"Why Obama?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Recently a reader sent me an email regarding one of the images in my books. I was admonished not to let my personal politics into my books as it may deter future customers. I wholly agree!
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\nAs a writer, I enjoy jabbing politicians in my books. Some of the barbs are very subtle, some are overt.<\/p>\n

Oh, and as complete disclosure, I am an elected official, serving on my town’s City Council. That’s another story, however.<\/p>\n

In my books, I have placed a picture of the President of the United States. I do it often, and for two reasons:<\/p>\n

1. Everyone knows who the President is.<\/p>\n

2. The President’s image is public domain and I can freely use it.<\/p>\n

For my phone and tablet books, I can also take advantage of the President’s address and phone number, which are also public information. That means the entry for President Obama that you see in my phone\/tablet books is 100 percent legitimate.<\/p>\n

I’m serious: If you have one of the books, dial the number. It’s the White House switchboard. (Don’t sent them a text, however.)<\/p>\n

But by putting the President in my books, I’m not endorsing his politics nor am I boasting that I”m a supporter. It’s just a thing I do.<\/p>\n

Oh, and breaking into politics again: I didn’t vote for Obama, Bush, Clinton, or Bush the first. The last President I voted for who won was Ronald Reagan.<\/p>\n

Back to my books: The first Presidential image that appeared was Bill Clinton in my book on Microsoft Word 7.<\/p>\n

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Figure 1. Bill and Hillary in Microsoft Word 7 For Dummies<\/em>.<\/p><\/div>\n

After Clinton was re-elected, and the book was updated, I changed the image to this:<\/p>\n

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Bill Clinton in Word 97 For Dummies<\/em>.<\/p><\/div>\n

I’ll confess that I didn’t use George W. Bush as much as I thought I did. Either that, or I can’t find his picture. But he did appear in my lone, poor-selling, Windows Vista title, along with a lot of other politicians popular (or not) in the mid-2000s.<\/p>\n

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G.W. Bush, Nancy Pelosi, and others from Find Gold in Windows Vista<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n

George Washington also made the cut in Word 2003 For Dummies<\/em>:<\/p>\n

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Our First President in my Word book.<\/p><\/div>\n

It’s nice that you don’t hear anyone smack-talking President Washington. Although, given the partisan vitriol that infects the country, I wouldn’t put it past some bastard.<\/p>\n

And if you want to see President O’s picture, you’ll need to get one of my current books. And if the books continue to sell after 2016 — providing that people still read books then — you can see the next President’s picture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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