Our government, welfare programs, schools, and everything else in our lives are shaped and directed according to our character. Responding to questions regarding his personal character, President Bill Clinton once told his audience that 'character isn't the issue.' Yet our character defines the world we live in. If you appreciate solid, common sense advice presented in a way that will make you laugh until your nose bleeds, then this is the book for you. And once you know exactly how to fail, it is much easier to avoid.

Pat and Laura claim that while they cannot tell you the secrets to success, they can can tell you the secrets to failure. In the new book, Nine Hallmarks Of Highly Incompetent Losers, he and wife/writing partner Laura Ainsworth bring these two worlds together by using the analytical skills they honed in their corporate work to pinpoint nine basic human errors that everyone makes, then illustrating them with hilarious-but-true stories of failure and embarrassment from their daily internationally-syndicated radio service, The Comedy Wire. That led to a powerful lesson about patience and a reminder that the best Christmases are the simple ones.Nine Hallmarks of Highly Incompetent LosersĪuthors: Pat Reeder, Laura Ainsworth, Mike Huckabeeįor over 20 years, Pat Reeder has divided his time between business communications (sales training, advertising, etc.) and writing intentional comedy for the entertainment industry. The plan worked great until one Christmas when young Mike unwrapped a brand-new football.that was covered in mud. For instance, as kids, Mike and his sister would sneak open their gifts before Christmas, play with them, then rewrap them so their parents wouldn't notice. These true stories will help you smile, take a deep breath, and maybe slow down your own holiday treadmill. Huckabee recounts twelve Christmas memories that range from his childhood in Arkansas to his years as a young husband and father to his time as a governor and then a presidential candidate. The hard part, in today's crazy world, is remembering that those simple things are the most precious. Going back to the Nativity, Christmas is supposed to be about simple things: faith, love, family, and hope.

But according to Mike Huckabee, that was never God's intention.

Christmas has become synonymous with shopping, overindulging, and stress. 'The New York Times' bestseller by the former governor and presidential candidate-an instant classic, reissued for 2010.

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