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To: T L Comiskey who wrote (2444)	7/17/2002 4:03:34 PM
From: stockman_scott	Read Replies (1) of 89467

Easy Come, Easy Come The Good Life in a Parallel Universe thedailyenron.com <<...As for the war against terrorism, the public's trust has so far proven justified. But now we have another war, a domestic war against corporate malfeasance. And the stakes in this war are no less than they are in the war against terrorism. The wave of corporate crime that has swept US financial markets in recent months has cost America more national treasure than any foreign attack or threat of an attack. In the prosecution of this war, Americans have good reason to distrust their Commander in Chief. Not because he is dishonest, because I don't believe he is - at least when you understand his frames of reference. Bush comes from a tradition where dealing fast and loose in the boardroom, and greasing the palms of friends and friends of friends, is the norm. It's kind of a parallel dimension where men like Ken Lay and Jeffery Skilling crisscross our dimension like harvest machines working a field of ripe corn. When confronted with the damage they do, these folks appear genuinely puzzled - and they really are. They are psychologically incapable of feeling or understanding our outrage at behavior they consider completely normal. It is from this dimension that George W. Bush comes to the task at hand. And this is why financial markets continue to lack confidence in his stewardship of this crisis. Those in the know understand that George W. Bush has spent his entire adult life surrounded by the very kinds of financial shenanigans he must now condemn. You might say it was all in the family...>>

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