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Summary: A Well-Documented Tome!
Review: "Was it possible, O'Neill wondered, that the country thought it had elected a centrist when if fact it had empowered an ideologue?"
..."What became clear to me at that point... is that the presence of me and Colin and Christie [Whitman] helped convince people that this would, actually, be an administration that would look hard for best solutions, without regard for which party had claimed an idea first or some passing political calculation. That's what the three of us were kind of known for, for being non-ideological, for walking across political borders and looking for common ground. Thinking back about how all of us started to be banged up so early on, from the inside, it now seems like we inadvertently may have been there, in large part, as cover." - Ron Suskind, THE PRICE OF LOYALTY, p.130.
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Summary: I agree. Treason
Review: This book is pure treason. We are at war, and the authors of this book are traitors to criticize a war-time President. Nobody should say anything negative about our President while we are under attack. He is our President, and was President during the 9/11 attacks by Saddam Hussein. He deserves credit for having been President on September 10th, and remained President on September 12th, despite the attacks! He has said that "either your for us or against us." Obviously, the authors of this book are against the United States becuase they are against President Bush. It is our Patrioritic duty to hide things that go against the President, however true they might be. The authors say that Bush was planning the Iraq war before 9/11. Good! I hope they are planning the removal of other dictators right now, and I hope they keep it a secret so that traitors like O'neill and Suskind can't try to stop him. We have to ask ourselves, would we rather know the truth, or would we rather have a leader that looks strong? Is it really our business to know the truth, or is it the business of Presidents who know a lot more than us? I think the answer is obvious.
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Summary: A Well-Documented Tome
Review: "... in 1998, George H. W. Bush introduced his son to Condoleezza Rice...[,] who teamed up with Paul Wolfowitz, and a tutorial commenced. Over the next year and a half, others were called in, almost all of whom were part of a small, neoconservative community.
Renditions of what went on in these sessions are sketchy. What the governor knew--what he learned and from whom--is mostly limited to comments about his having 'good instincts'. One exception is from the loquacious Richard Perle, a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and a former assistant secretary of defense in the Reagan administration, who commented publicly, 'The firts time I met Bush 43, I knew he was different. Two things became clear. One, he didn't know very much. The other was he had the confidence to ask questions that revealed he didn't know very much...'" - Ron Suskind, THE PRICE OF LOYALTY, p. 80.
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Summary: I THINK IT'S GREAT!
Review: I'm almost finished w/ this book and all I can say is hoo-ray that a (former) Bush insider has finally come clean with all the stuff we knew was true all along! Bush is a swaggering cowboy puppet with an agenda (tax cuts, Iraq, anti-environment) that he knows goes against the mainstream, which is why he has to lie about it. No wonder it drives the Bush admin and all their fans crazy that one of their own has said this stuff -- they know it's true! HA HA! Eat it up, Bush, Cheney, Condi, Rummy etc etc!!...And thank you, Paul O'Neill -- a true hero (unlike our draft-dodger prez and his neo-con pals)
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Summary: Outstanding
Review: Highly recommended -- much better than I expected. It makes for fascinating reading and confirms my own perceptions of Bush as an incompetent ideologue. God help us if he gets re-elected. Contrary to the perception one gets through media coverage, it is obvious that Suskind had many other sources besides Paul O'Neill, such as Greenspan, Whitman and Powell A very impressive work. If only all voters would read it. To the people who gave this book just one star: Your comments might be more credible if you actually bothered to read the book.
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Summary: O'Neil's loyalty is to his country, not the President.
Review: Paul O'Neill is the whistle blower of the Enron Administration. Truth is a greater virtue than loyalty to a politician and this book gives a personal and comprehensive look in to a highly secretive administration.
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Summary: Stick to Making Beer Cans
Review: What an eye opener! Here we have a mid level bureaucrat who had a middling career in aluminum, a mediocre role in government, and a middle rate ethical and moral sense trying to bad mouth the guy who gave him a break. His notoriously bad advise to raise taxes, and to sacrifice our competitive role in world economic affairs on the alter of global warming should have been enough to get him fired immediately. The only thing Bush did wrong besides hiring this sorry bureaucrat was acting with too little haste in dumping him. If O'Neill had a chance to "serve" a full term in Treasury, we'd all be paying the price now. A quack, a loose cannon, and a knucklehead, perhaps O'Neill is just a dope and not a criminal, but, if he did violate national security laws by disclosing national secrets, he ought to pay the price.
His main thesis seems to be this: That I, Paul O'Neill, am a smart, no, make that brilliant, guy and my brilliance seems to have been ignored by the stupid operators around the Whitehouse. I mean it was the blind leading the deaf leading the senseless or something like that around that Whitehouse. Bush listened to me for an hour and hardly said anything. And, oh, yes, Bush planned to get Saddam all along. Let's take these one at a time. Bush listened for an hour without much reply. I can see Bush thinking to himself during that hour that this doesn't look good. Here's a guy who doesn't look right for the job. Should I trust my instincts and let him go now, or hope he pans out. Sadly for Bush, what you see is what you get with Mr. O'Neill. He turned out to be flaky. You should have trusted that little voice that was telling you that O'Neill was a back seat driver without a clue. And, of course, the cabinet was like the blind leading the deaf. The only brilliant mind present was O'Neill and he was being ignored. The rest of em were just so many jaws flapping, from the O'Neill point of view.
Right, the cabinet was senseless! Perhaps O'Neill has been smoking the pipe. Perhaps he was just sleeping. However, as odd man out he has chosen to attack from his position of weakness. And this is a silly way of attacking. As to the "get Saddam" theory, I say yes. Saddam had been on the radar screen since 1989. His guns were firing away at our air force pilots in the no fly zone. He was bank rolling the anti US forces. Bush knew that Saddam would have to be faced and Bush fearlessly faced him. We are beginning to see the fruit of positive change in the Middle East. Libya has surrendered. Afghanistan is on the road to a more democratic form of government. Syria is toning down its act. We may even be seeing the first signs of an Israeli-Palestinian settlement emerging. O'Neill is being proven wrong on all his points. The economy is expanding and the markets are flourishing, not with tax increases but with tax cuts. The removal of Saddam has worked magic in the Middle East. We are safer today from terrorism than 2 years ago. Making beer cans was clearly O'Neill's forte. Masterminding high policy was not. He should have stayed in the beer can biz. He is a case of the guy who gets seriously overextended. Every man should know his limits, O'Neill did not. And, given his many limitations, he should never have been in the Treasury. O'Neill goes down as a sore loser. The ultimate winner here is Bush. He just looks better and better. Only Bush would have given this man nearly 2 years to prove himself adept at his job before firing him as a total failure. I love that about Bush. All in all this book does nothing to bring disrespect or dishonor to Bush, but it does undermine any respect for O'Neill. Seldom has a portrait been drawn with so biased a pen and for such petty reasons. O'Neill emerges a smaller man.
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Summary: How Can One Be Surprised??????????
Review: It was so obvious before the election that "what we have" is "what we were going to get" and that is why I did not vote for the subject matter.
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Summary: The Price of Loyalty:
Review: Another one of "those books" written "about" someone else's experience by an author trying to utilize political emotion to sucker the blind into sending him their money. No administration is perfect, but with this one I am not spending any of my time explaining what fellatio means to my 12-year-old daughter. Paul O'Neill has been very lucky and very fortunate over the course of his life. It is a pity that the old fool would sell his name to Ron Suskind because his feelings got hurt when he was fired. Now, the only thing the world will remember him for is his daily retractions of negative statements he made about the Bush administration.
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Summary: Just wondering...
Review: I am just wondering. After reading this book, would they vote for Bush to serve for another term or would they rather vote for someone else to serve our country? Honestly, I haven't gotten the book myself and I am looking forward to have my copy arrived at the end of this week. According to CBS "60 mins", (if I remembered correctly), they were talking about the Bush Administration planning for war before 9/11, tax-cut, etc... We, the citizens of United States NEVER know such things like this. Recently, with the increase in funds towards NASA. Does anyone know how much this "1 billion every single year thing" can do to our country? I am not saying that putting a men up on the moon isn't a good thing, but like many critics have said, back in President Kennedy's time, NASA doubled their funds every single year. (If I remembered correctly) Here's the meat: 1 billion and doubled their funds every year! Look at how much problems we have in our country... High Unemployment rates, poor education funds, war guilt. You name it, our country has it. With that 1 billion dollar, we could have solved a lot of these problems, but... In conclusion, with such a president in our country, would you be willing to ask him to continue to serve our country...
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