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Politics : WHO IS RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT IN 2004 -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: calgal who wrote (8778)	1/10/2004 12:26:54 PM
From: sylvester80	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10965

NEWS: Former Official Describes Bush as Disengaged By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS nytimes.com WASHINGTON, Jan. 9 — Paul O'Neill, who was pushed out of the administration as treasury secretary because it was felt he was not a team player, says President Bush was so disengaged during Cabinet meetings that he was like a "blind man in a roomful of deaf people." Mr. O'Neill, who has kept silent about the circumstances surrounding his ouster from the Cabinet 13 months ago, is now ready to give his side of the story with a book that paints Mr. Bush as a disengaged president who did not encourage debate. To promote the book, which will be available on Tuesday, Mr. O'Neill is to be on the CBS News program "60 Minutes" on Sunday. In an excerpt from the book released by CBS, Mr. O'Neill said that a lack of real dialogue characterized the Cabinet meetings he attended during the first two years of the administration. Mr. O'Neill was also quoted in the book as saying that the administration's decision-making process was so flawed that often top officials had no real sense of what the president wanted them to do, forcing them to act on "little more than hunches about what the president might think." Mr. O'Neill said in the CBS interview that the atmosphere was similar during his one-on-one meetings with Mr. Bush. Speaking of his first meeting with the president, Mr. O'Neill said, "I went in with a long list of things to talk about and, I thought, to engage him on." He added, "I was surprised it turned out me talking and the president just listening. It was mostly a monologue." Mr. O'Neill is described as the principal source for the new book, "The Price of Loyalty" (Simon & Schuster). It was written by Ron Suskind, a former reporter for The Wall Street Journal. Asked about Mr. O'Neill's comment about a disengaged president, the White House spokesman, Scott McClellan, told reporters on Friday: "I think it's well known the way the president approaches governing and setting priorities. The president is someone that leads and acts decisively on our biggest priorities and that is exactly what he'll continue to do."

To: calgal who wrote (8778)	1/10/2004 12:28:07 PM
From: sylvester80	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10965

NEWS: Bush official says Iraq invasion planned before 911 The Bush Administration began laying plans for an invasion of Iraq including the use of American troops within days of President Bush's inauguration in January of 2001, not eight months later after the 9/11 attacks as has been previously reported. That is what former Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill says in his first interview about his time as a White House insider. O'Neill talks to Lesley Stahl in the interview, to be broadcast on 60 MINUTES Sunday, Jan. 11 (7:00-8:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network. "From the very beginning, there was a conviction that Saddam Hussein was a bad person and that he needed to go," he tells Stahl. "For me, the notion of pre-emption, that the U.S. has the unilateral right to do whatever we decide to do is a really huge leap," says O'Neill. In the book, O'Neill is quoted as saying he was surprised that no one in a National Security Council meeting questioned why Iraq should be invaded. "It was all about finding a way to do it. That was the tone of it. The president saying 'Go find me a way to do this,'" says O'Neill in the book. drudgereport.com

To: calgal who wrote (8778)	1/11/2004 12:01:13 AM
From: American Spirit	Respond to of 10965

Bush approvals are very fragile. The real killer for Bush is the fact that last month alone he spent 50 billion in deficit financing yet only created 1000 jobs despite major stock market and defense gains. Shows the "recovery" is only for the rich and certain special interests, not average Americans who are the ones who actually vote. No recovery in history has failed to produce jobs like Bush's. and Bush created the recovery wityh record spending and tax cuts (giving money back). Proves trickle down does not work. Once and for all. Of course Wall Street types are pretty happy as our trust funders and oil-defense-pharma-HMO-timber cutter-developer sectors. Bush benefits about a half dozen sectors and everyone else can eat cake. All Bush sectors prey on consumers, public health and the environment.