| Sunday, October 01, 2006 |
| Woodward ho! |
The leaks from the Woodward book (which appears to be a retraction of "Bush at War," no? I mean literally, the president has gone, in Woodward's esitmation, from Lion in Wartime to punk-ass beeyatch in under 120,000 words... the only thing consistent about the two books is Woodward's positive portrayal of George Tenet) keep coming. Here are a few good nuggests from the NYDN:
JCS Chair Peter Pace still thinks Saddam Hussein was behind 9/11 ... seriously ...
Collin Powell couldn't stand Don Rumsfeld...
Dick Armitage couldn't stand smarmy Doug Feith... (I've met him. Trust me, he's smarmy...)
Laura Bush is no Nancy Reagan... she can't get her husband to do anything...
Dubya's legs shake under the table during principals meetings.
Dubya's idea of personnel management is to coach Condi to be "playful" with Rummy in order to get him to return her phonecalls. (Makes you wonder if Rice's "promotion" to Secretary of State was more about removing an ineffective national security advisor without pissing off his girlfriend, then about putting the best person in the job. And hey, what a great way to get rid of that nuisance, Colin Powell without pissing off the Black people!)
Two great exerpts from book, also from the Daily News:
Vice President Cheney also disdained diplomacy. But when he found himself on the outs after Bush was reelected in 2004, he complained to Saudi Prince Bandar bin Sultan, "Who do they think they are? I was reelected, too."
Retired Lt. Gen. Jay Garner, who briefly ran Iraq after dictator Saddam Hussein was ousted, said the White House "resembled a royal court" presided over by a President who was not told bad news and did not want to know what really was happening in Iraq.
Back on that punk-ass beeyatch front. You've got to peep this, also from the NYDN:
A relieved President Bush burst into tears when he was finally declared the winner over John Kerry after a long nail-biting night.
"The President put down the phone and started to cry, a deep, convulsive cry," Bob Woodward writes in his new book "State of Denial." "As he tried to compose himself he went around and hugged each of the people in the room with him."
When Bush got to the gruff Vice President Cheney in a nearby hallway, however, the President straightened up.
"I know you're not the hugging kind," Bush said. He shook his veep's hand. ... Before all the sobbing and the hugging, however, there was the uncertainty:
At 2:43 a.m., someone noted that Bush was ahead in the popular vote nationwide, prompting the President to sneer, "If the popular vote made it, I wouldn't be here."
The campaign was left to anxiously wait for a statement from Kenneth Blackwell, a former black power student leader who had morphed into Ohio's gadfly Republican secretary of state.
"I'm the President of the United States," Bush fumed, "waiting on a secretary of state who is a nut."
The tension didn't ease until 10:30 a.m. when Kerry finally called Bush to concede. And the floodgates opened. I swear, I'm gonna miss this president. And how shitty is Ken Blackwell's life when a goober like Dubya is calling him a nut???
Tags: Bush, White House, Politics, Bush, News, President Bush, Bob Woodward |
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