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Woodward Slams Bush's Errors in Leadership
Ace of Spades HQ — Woodward Slams Bush's Errors in Leadership I don't believe everything this guy says, of course. Not only does he have a bias, but everyone he interviews has an axe to grind. Especially Colin Powell, who earned three of his stars simply by kissing ass and resume-padding. But -- a lot of this jibes with my own understanding of Bush as a frequently disengaged and often weak and passive leader. 1. Presidents set the tone. Don't be passive or tolerate virulent divisions. In the fall of 2002, Bush personally witnessed a startling face-off between National Security Adviser Condoleezza ...

Oh, Go Away
Daily Pundit — 10 Take Aways From the Bush Years Don’t bother. I’ll sum it up for you. Woodward’s entire “takeaway” from the Bush years: “Don’t be a GOP President named Bush.” And they’ve still got this faux lefty Goebbles doing “straight” news reporting.

POLITICS: Ten Lessons From the Bush Administration
Baseball Crank — ... I'd like to reflect here on ten lessons for future presidents, at least Republican ones, from things that went badly for Bush. (My lessons are different from those of Bob Woodward, who is amusingly unaware that his Lesson #10 would totally eviscerate his Lessons #2 and 4-6, as well as being unaware that saying "[i]nstead of a team of rivals, Bush wound up with a team of back-stabbers with long-running, poisonous disagreements about foreign policy fundamentals" is like saying "instead of a dozen eggs, Bush wound up with twelve eggs."). ...

Ten Lessons From the Bush Administration
RedState: Conservative News and Community — ... I’d like to reflect here on ten lessons for future presidents, at least Republican ones, from things that went badly for Bush. (My lessons are different from those of Bob Woodward, who is amusingly unaware that his Lesson #10 would totally eviscerate his Lessons #2 and 4-6, as well as being unaware that saying “[i]nstead of a team of rivals, Bush wound up with a team of back-stabbers with long-running, poisonous disagreements about foreign policy fundamentals” is like saying “instead of a dozen eggs, Bush wound up with twelve eggs.”). ...