Bush Advisors Speak Candidly About Failure

News Type: Event — Seeded on Mon Dec 29, 2008 9:26 PM EST

Article Source: Yahoo! News

I really want to read this Vanity Fair article. I love reading about Bush's personal life. I hate his politics, and I'm not fond of him, but I AM fond of non-success.

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SmashLifeWithHappyNHammers

i like that katrina was what broke it. i thought it'd be something VERY early in his second term...like the fact that he won a second term. i kinda just envisioned him going "DAMMIT! I HATE THIS JOB. WHY DID I SIGN ON FOR FOUR MORE YEARS!? I GIVE UP."

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2 votes

#1 - Mon Dec 29, 2008 9:29 PM EST

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Hayduke1

i can hear Dubya now: "Gosh darn it, these advisors are traitors! If this trend continues, who's gonna be left to spin my legacy?"

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1 vote

#2 - Mon Dec 29, 2008 9:53 PM EST

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R. Donald Snyder

If they're going to be speaking about Bush's failures then we'd better be ready for one looooooooong time of listening. I can't think of anything he did right, let alone list all of his failures.

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2 votes

#3 - Mon Dec 29, 2008 10:16 PM EST

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Ire

Wow. Cheney. I bet he bullied retarded kids in school, too.

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3 votes

#3.1 - Mon Dec 29, 2008 10:59 PM EST

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TritonT

Well, the article is 14 pages long. I would read it but I am at work and I think I know the gist of it. Unmitigated failure, money for those who have it, and collapse of the US economy. Here is the link.

http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2009/02/bush-oral-history200902

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4 votes

#3.2 - Mon Dec 29, 2008 11:56 PM EST

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SmashLifeWithHappyNHammers

oh thanks. i'm gonna read this one night when i'm super bored.

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1 vote

#3.3 - Thu Jan 22, 2009 7:36 AM EST

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SmashLifeWithHappyNHammers

wait. that sounded smarmy. but i'm being sincere. lol.

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#3.4 - Thu Jan 22, 2009 7:36 AM EST

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random sample

yeah, but will they show up for the war crime tribunals?

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1 vote

#4 - Mon Dec 29, 2008 11:46 PM EST

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Chris Boese

I've read the article and seeded it on the Vine here. It is just tremendous.

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1 vote

#5 - Tue Dec 30, 2008 1:00 AM EST

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dungbeetlemania

"In the political affairs shop in particular, you saw a lot of people who just rolled their eyes at ... basically every religious-right leader that was out there, because they just found them annoying and insufferable. These guys were pains in the butt who had to be accommodated."

Well, if they weren't religious fanatics themselves they were still bending to the will of them anyway. The effect is the same, so it's not worth arguing about.

"Katrina to me was the tipping point," said Matthew Dowd, Bush's pollster and chief strategist for the 2004 presidential campaign. "The president broke his bond with the public. Once that bond was broken, he no longer had the capacity to talk to the American public. State of the Union addresses? It didn't matter. Legislative initiatives? It didn't matter. P.R.? It didn't matter. Travel? It didn't matter."

One disaster, poorly handled by his own administration, and he's no longer able to govern? The Great Decider!

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2 votes

#6 - Tue Dec 30, 2008 7:38 AM EST

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