Okay, I confess. I can't take the pressure. My recollection was not complete. Do you know what one of the chief complaints that they had about Bush? Cheney?
That Bush admitted that he didn't read newspapers. Can you believe it?
I asked if they thought that the President should spend his day reading papers or be involved in decison making? I said that he probably gets an indepth briefing because of a lot of people are reading a lot of papers and condensing it all into a report for him each day. Now get this -- They said it is being filtered by his staff. I said, "Who do you want to filter it? Saddam Hussein? Are you serious?" They still think that the NYT has credibility.
Cheney's horrific sin? That he is taking a pension from Haliburton and it's not in a blind trust. I said, "My God, it's a pension. He earned it. Should he give it up?" Their reply was that he is already worth $400 million (or some such number). I said that the few hundred thousand that he gets in pension shouldn't make any difference. It's not stock or an investment. It's his retirement being paid to him.
They really are vitriolic. I guess that they aren't as nice as I gave them credit for, are they?
Thank you for the kind words.