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Clueless W was just like Palin, railin' ex-aide sez
nydailynews.com - 12/30/2008
Clueless W was just like Palin, railin' ex-aide sez
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Clueless W was just like Palin, railin' ex-aide sez BY RICHARD SISK DAILY NEWS WASHINGTON BUREAU Monday, December 29th 2008, 11:18 PM WASHINGTON - Former administration underlings depict President Bush as a " Sarah Palin -like" leader with a short attention span who deferred on big decisions. ...
huffingtonpost.com - 1/2/2009
Powell Aide Calls Bush "Sarah Palin-Like President"
— huffingtonpost.com — In its "Oral History of the Bush White House," Vanity Fair hears from Lawrence Wilkerson. The former... top aide to Colin Powell compares our current president to none other than Sarah Palin: Lawrence Wilkerson, top aide and later chief of staff to ... (more) Powell Aide Calls Bush "Sarah Palin-Like President"

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The well was fine
Political Animal — THE WELL WAS FINE.... I find this very annoying . Former Bush media adviser Mark McKinnon said the administration was in trouble even before taking office in the aftermath of the 2000 recount in which the Supreme Court effectively ruled that Bush had won Florida. "The recount poisoned the well from the beginning," McKinnon said. "A good number of people in this country didn't believe Bush was a legitimate President. And you can't change the tone under those circumstances." Nonsense. After the recount debacle, Bush, as president-elect, had ample public support, with ...

Rewrite! Chapter LXXVI
Hoffmania! — ... BUSH LEGACY REWRITE UPDATE! It wasn't the war, the failed fight against terrorism, the economy, the housing bubble, the inability to protect us for the first 9/11, the inability to properly respond to it, Katrina, Gustav, or any of that silliness that happened after January 20, 2001. It was the recount that "poisoned" the Bush presidency, according to his former adviser Mark McKinnon. The cool thing about that assessment is that McKinnon uses it to excuse Bush for being unable to rise above the recount debacle and prove himself to be an effective leader. It was ...

Cut from the same cloth
Political Animal — CUT FROM THE SAME CLOTH.... I've long believed one of the central problems with Sarah Palin, as a candidate for national office, wasn't just her breathtaking disinterest in matters of public policy, but also her similarities to a certain someone who had a comparable distaste for substance, veracity, and details. Larry Wilkerson, a top aide to former Secretary of State Colin Powell, said Vice President Cheney and then-Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld promoted the notion they were a national security "dream team" to guide the foreign-policy amateur Bush. "It allowed everybody ...

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