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Ari Fleischer
White House press secretary, 2001 to 2003

Tough Talk: There isn't any, at least not for Bush. Fleischer saves his derision for the press and its "subtle but important liberal bias." The book is as much an anti-media rant as an insider memoir, and includes an entire chapter devoted to battles with veteran White House reporter Helen Thomas.

"Taking Heat"
By Ari Fleischer
March 2005

Tender Love: Fleischer gushes over Bush: "one of the most uplifting ... humorous bosses you'll ever find." He spins "Mission Accomplished" by criticizing the press for using the banner "as a marker drawn with conflict in mind" and ignoring warnings that "Iraq remained ... dangerous"—a true statement, he says, that "they couldn't bring themselves to report."

George Tenet
Director of CIA, 1997 to 2004

Tough Talk: Tenet aims his attacks primarily at Bush's inner circle of neo-cons "obsessed with Iraq" even as the CIA was "intensely focused" on Al Qaeda. A chapter titled "No Authority, Direction, or Control" describes a disjointed plan for war, with "no strategy for when U.S. forces hit the ground."

"At the Center of the Storm"
By George Tenet
April 2007

Tender Love: The book is empathetic toward Bush, with whom Tenet clearly identifies. "In a way, President Bush and I are much alike. We sometimes say things from our gut, whether it's his 'bring 'em on' or my 'slam dunk'. I think he gets that about me just as I get that about him." He mostly gives Bush a pass, describing him as a focused leader.

Douglas Feith
Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, 2001 to 2005

Tough Talk: Feith assures readers that his goal is "not to write a polemic, but rather to make a contribution to history." He goes relatively easy on Bush. His roughest charge? That the boss could "justly be faulted for an excessive tolerance of indiscipline, even of disloyalty from his own officials."

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  • Posted By: Krohn @ 11/02/2008 11:09:04 PM

    The Wall Street crisis was planned the night of Obama's meeting at Bill Ayres home to put Obama in The White House. Together they put a beautiful plan into place.

    This Strategy was first elucidated in the 1966 issue of 'The Nation' Magazine by a pair of radical Socialist Columbia University professors, Richard Andrew Cloward and Frances Fox Piven.

    David Horowitz summarizes it as:

    "The strategy of forcing political change through an orchestrated crisis. The "Cloward-Piven Strategy" seeks to hasten the fall of Capitalism by overloading the Government bureaucracy with a flood of impossible demands, thus pushing society into crisis and economic collapse.
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    Obama begin with ACORN by funneling millions into their organization. He then trained ACORN to stage protests in banks to force them to issue risky loans or they would be threatened to face racial charges. ACORN was trained to intimidate financial institutions into giving ???Ninja??? loans to people with NO assets, NO job and NO income, who couldn???t afford these loans.

    That caused the housing bubble two years ago it was by ACORN's actions they were able to destroy our credit system.

    As this played out, D-Barney Frank and D-Chris Dodd were able to cover up the millions of improvident loans to these bad risky house buyers. And Barney Frank and his chums successfully were able to block all of President Bush's attempts to put a rein on this problem.

    So Fannie & Freddie was forced to purchase all these failed subprime mortgages.

    Then both Frank and Dodd denied that there were any problems, and refused the Bush Admin. requests to set up a regulatory agency to watch over Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and they were still pushing for these agencies to go even further in promoting sub-prime mortgage loans almost up to the 'minute they failed'.

    Democrats then blamed Bush saying it happened on his watch knowing it would hurt the Republican Party in the election setting it up that Barack Obama could use this to his advantage.

    Karl Marx once compared a Revolutionary struggle with the work of the mole, who sometimes burrows so far beneath the ground that he leaves no trace of his movement on the surface.

    Barack Obama is that Marxist mole !

  • Posted By: wendydk @ 11/01/2008 7:50:05 PM

    Fox News? Ugh, I just threw up in my mouth a little bit.

  • Posted By: wendydk @ 11/01/2008 7:48:58 PM

    What is most troubling in todays political climate is the promotion of hatred as a philosophy. The emergence of an ultraconservative dogma relies increasingly on the encouragement of mass hostility aimed at one group in particular - Americans with progressive political views. Liberals are spoken of with the kind of dripping contempt and virulent hostility that used to be associated with racism and sectarian religious strife. Liberals are viewed not fellow Americans citizens concerned with the future of their country, but as ideological enemies that need to be destroyed - and eaten if possible. This view is fundamentally anti-American.

    This right-wing sect manifests a complete lack of empathy toward other Americans whom it defines as its ideological enemies. Its core beliefs are absolutely impervious to reason and are unleashing ugly and violent impulses. What makes their zeal so dangerous for our country is their willingness to do serious damage to our precious American Democracy in their quest for absolute power.

    -The Assault on Reason (2007)

    SOUND FAMILIAR? IT DOES TO ME AND I AM SICK OF IT. IF YOU ARE TOO, VOTE OBAMA/BIDEN ???08

    www.republicansforobama.com

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