[Rhodes22-list] Politics

[Steve]

Ron
Ever wonder why he got fired.  Research that, not what
he quoting to CYA.
Steve


--- Ronald Lipton <lipton at fnal.gov> wrote:

> I don't want to start another tirade - no one is
> unbiased -
> not even me!  Nevertheles I will take the cheap way
> out and quote
> W's Treasury Secretary, Paul O'Neil:
>
(http://www.ustreas.gov/organization/bios/oneill-e.html)
> 
> O'Neill says that the president did not make
> decisions in a methodical way: 
> there was no free-flow of ideas or open debate.
> 
> At cabinet meetings, he says the president was "like
> a blind man in a 
> roomful of deaf people. There is no discernible
> connection," forcing top 
> officials to act "on little more than hunches about
> what the president might 
> think."
> 
> This is what O'Neill says happened at his first
> hour-long, one-on-one 
> meeting with Mr. Bush: "I went in with a long list
> of things to talk about, 
> and I thought to engage on and as the book says, I
> was surprised that it 
> turned out me talking, and the president just
> listening . As I recall, it 
> was mostly a monologue."
> 
> He also says that President Bush was disengaged, at
> least on domestic 
> issues, and that disturbed him. And he says that
> wasn't his experience when 
> he worked as a top official under Presidents Nixon
> and Ford, or the way he 
> ran things when he was chairman of Alcoa.
> 
> Ron
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: <pdgrand at nospam.wmis.net>
> To: "The Rhodes 22 mail list"
> <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
> Sent: Thursday, October 28, 2004 3:53 PM
> Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] Politics
> 
> 
> > Ron,
> >
> > The humor was in using the word "unbiased" in
> reference to John Kerry.  Do
> > you really believe either candidate is truely
> unbiased?
> >
> > Paul
> >
> > On Wed, 27 Oct 2004 15:35:01 -0500, Ronald Lipton
> <rlipton at earthlink.net>
> > wrote :
> >
> >> Absolutely I will vote for Kerry, and I see no
> humor in my statement
> >> or in the acts of the current administration
> which I view as disgraceful
> >> and disasterous.
> >>
> >> Ron
> >> ----- Original Message ----- 
> >> From: <pdgrand at nospam.wmis.net>
> >> To: <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
> >> Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 2004 1:49 PM
> >> Subject: [Rhodes22-list] Politics
> >>
> >>
> >> > "I would like to see someone leading this
> country who will make 
> >> > rational
> >> > judgements based on unbiased thought and
> analysis."
> >> >
> >> > Ron Lipton
> >> >
> >> > Ron,
> >> >
> >> > So you're going to vote for a liberal from
> Massachusetts to make these
> >> > rational judgements based on "unbiased" thought
> and analysis?  I hope
> > you
> >> > see the humor of your statement.
> >> >
> >> > Paul
> >> >
> >> >
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