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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: redfish who wrote (2022)	2/13/2004 10:15:03 AM
From: stockman_scott	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81568

Bush has no serious intellectual curiosity...He fails to challenge the assumptions of those right wing NeoConservatives that dream up his policies...at least Clinton and Kerry are very bright and can engage folks on the big issues that are very complex and have a lot of grey areas. Bush was never totally honest with this country about the threat we really faced from Saddam. He and Cheney got the Administration (especially Powell) to hype the threat and go to the UN and force our allies to go to war with Saddam....WE HAVE NOW WASTED A LOT OF OUR CREDIBILITY AND WELL OVER ONE HUNDRED BILLION U.S. TAX DOLLARS -- we could have spent that to go after Al Qaeda and secure our homeland appropriately...Yet, Mr. Bush chose not to do that. My uncle went to school with Bush at Yale and said he was not a serious student at all. I've worked for a CEO of a very successful billion dollar company -- he was incredibly bright and always was 2 steps ahead of those around him in our operating group meetings with top management. My old boss would ask very tough and penetrating questions in our meetings...His key managers were challenged and often learned through the socratic method. We know from Paul O'neil (a lifelong Republican who worked for the Ford Administration) that Mr. Bush's cabinet meetings were not full of any meaningful debate...O'neil was also concerned that when he went to meet with Bush that he never was able to have a robust debate and discussion about policy and major issues...this troubles me...I have read O'neil's book and it was written by Suskind who is a former Wall Street Journal reporter and a Pulitzer Prize winner -- he has great credibility and does his homework. I really feel that this country would be much more effectively lead by John Kerry -- in just over 6 months we'll see what the country thinks.