Early Bush Attacks

Here’s a couple weekend stories that are starting the Election Year standing POTUS attack.

Reuters kicked it off with this article featuring summarized information from Former Bush Treasury Secretary Paul O’Neill’s report.

He likened Bush at Cabinet meetings to “a blind man in a room full of deaf people,” according to excerpts from a CBS interview to promote a book by former Wall Street Journal reporter Ron Suskind, “The Price of Loyalty.”

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“From the very beginning, there was a conviction that Saddam Hussein (news - web sites) was a bad person and that he needed to go,” O’Neill said in the “60 Minutes” interview scheduled to air on Sunday. “For me, the notion of pre-emption, that the U.S. has the unilateral right to do whatever we decide to do, is a really huge leap.”

CBS News has this article attacking the publicized record of Bush’s Secretary of Education who performed “The Texas Miracle”.

It was called the “Texas Miracle,” and you may remember it because President Bush wanted everyone to know about it during his presidential campaign.

It was about an approach to education that was showing amazing results, particularly in Houston, where dropout rates plunged and test scores soared.

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But that’s not what Kimball saw: “I had been at the high school for three years, and I had seen many, many students, several hundred a year, go out the door. And I knew that they were quitting. They told me they were quitting.”

What a great way to start the election year!

Posted by etrigan at January 10, 2004 9:31 PM