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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Mr. Palau who wrote (324922)	12/3/2002 12:33:50 AM
From: KLP	Respond to of 769670

You do know John DiIulio is a Democrat, right? Check google...you will see....

To: Mr. Palau who wrote (324922)	12/3/2002 2:11:31 AM
From: Selectric II	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Interesting, from a failed former aide who was out shortly after he started. nationalreview.com

To: Mr. Palau who wrote (324922)	12/3/2002 6:56:40 AM
From: Tom Clarke	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

DiIulio is now saying the quotes are fake. "John DiIulio agrees that his criticisms were groundless and baseless due to poorly chosen words and examples. He sincerely apologizes and is deeply remorseful," he said in a written statement. His third-person reference to himself followed an earlier statement in which he claimed that Suskind's piece contained factual errors, mentioned a conversation that never took place and mischaracterized his viewpoints. foxnews.com

To: Mr. Palau who wrote (324922)	12/3/2002 9:23:59 AM
From: PROLIFE	Respond to of 769670

reuters.com Former Bush Aide Apologizes for 'Machiavelli' Jibe Mon December 2, 2002 06:26 PM ET By Randall Mikkelsen WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A former senior aide to President Bush apologized on Monday after being quoted in an article saying a band of "Mayberry Machiavellis" were running a White House where politics trumped policy. The Esquire magazine article -- which extensively quoted John DiIulio, the former head of Bush's stalled effort to aid religious charities -- represents a rare criticism by a one-time insider of a Bush White House which has placed a near-total lid on internal dissent. "John DiIulio agrees that his criticisms were groundless and baseless due to poorly chosen words and examples. He sincerely apologizes and is deeply remorseful," DiIulio's office said in a statement. The statement was distributed by the University of Pennsylvania, where DiIulio works as a professor. The article, in the January issue of Esquire, quoted DiIulio and unnamed White House officials as saying top Bush aide Karl Rove had assumed unprecedented power at the White House and that political calculations regularly trumped policy concerns. "There is no precedent in any modern White House for what is going on in this one: a complete lack of a policy apparatus," DiIulio was quoted as saying. "What you've got is everything, and I mean everything, being run by the political arm. It's the reign of the Mayberry Machiavellis," he said. Mayberry, North Carolina, the fictional setting for the classic television hit "The Andy Griffith Show," is a symbol for small-town simplicity and backwardness. DiIulio said in the article that domestic policy in particular had suffered in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks on the United States. "Every modern presidency moves on the fly, but on social policy and related issues, the lack of even basic policy knowledge and the only casual interest in knowing more, was somewhat breathtaking," he said. He called the Office of Homeland Security, created after last year's attacks, "remarkably slapdash." Under Rove, he said, the White House has sought to steer legislation and policy "as far right as possible." White House spokesman Ari Fleischer rejected the article's charges. "Any suggestion that the White House makes decisions that are not based on sound policy reasons is baseless and groundless," Fleischer said. He said DiIulio, a Democrat who resigned last year after sparring with religious conservatives, had spoken with officials of his old office at the White House about the article but declined to elaborate. "I think his statement speaks for itself. He did issue an apology." DiIulio said in a statement Monday that he had held a long conversation with the article's author, Ron Suskind, which he had believed was off-the-record, and that he had then offered Suskind a long memo in October outlining his views. "Several quotes and anecdotes concerning or attributed to me in the article are not from that response," he said. Suskind said that he had made clear he did not regard the cited conversation as off the record and that he had checked the accuracy of comments attributed to DiIulio.