[Rhodes22-list] Politics

[Ronald Lipton]

I don't want to start another tirade - no one is unbiased -
not even me!  Nevertheles I will take the cheap way out and quote
W's Treasury Secretary, Paul O'Neil:
(http://www.ustreas.gov/organization/bios/oneill-e.html)

O'Neill says that the president did not make decisions in a methodical way: 
there was no free-flow of ideas or open debate.

At cabinet meetings, he says the president was "like a blind man in a 
roomful of deaf people. There is no discernible connection," forcing top 
officials to act "on little more than hunches about what the president might 
think."

This is what O'Neill says happened at his first hour-long, one-on-one 
meeting with Mr. Bush: "I went in with a long list of things to talk about, 
and I thought to engage on and as the book says, I was surprised that it 
turned out me talking, and the president just listening . As I recall, it 
was mostly a monologue."

He also says that President Bush was disengaged, at least on domestic 
issues, and that disturbed him. And he says that wasn't his experience when 
he worked as a top official under Presidents Nixon and Ford, or the way he 
ran things when he was chairman of Alcoa.

Ron
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> Ron,
>
> The humor was in using the word "unbiased" in reference to John Kerry.  Do
> you really believe either candidate is truely unbiased?
>
> Paul
>
> On Wed, 27 Oct 2004 15:35:01 -0500, Ronald Lipton <rlipton at earthlink.net>
> wrote :
>
>> Absolutely I will vote for Kerry, and I see no humor in my statement
>> or in the acts of the current administration which I view as disgraceful
>> and disasterous.
>>
>> Ron
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: <pdgrand at nospam.wmis.net>
>> To: <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
>> Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 2004 1:49 PM
>> Subject: [Rhodes22-list] Politics
>>
>>
>> > "I would like to see someone leading this country who will make 
>> > rational
>> > judgements based on unbiased thought and analysis."
>> >
>> > Ron Lipton
>> >
>> > Ron,
>> >
>> > So you're going to vote for a liberal from Massachusetts to make these
>> > rational judgements based on "unbiased" thought and analysis?  I hope
> you
>> > see the humor of your statement.
>> >
>> > Paul
>> >
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