Rage of a Relic: Paul O'Neill is angry that the world has passed him by.

The Wall Street Journal Opinion Journal ^ | January 12, 2004 | John Fund

[NYCVirago]

I highly recommend that everyone reads the full article. It is quite telling to O'Neill's true character.

I second your recommendation. The thing that kills me about this is how whenever anybody (Linda Tripp, Lucianne Goldberg, Kathleen Willey, Paula Jones, etc.) attacked Clinton, they were accused of wanting a book deal. Yet none of them have written any books on Clinton.

Meanwhile, O'Neill gets a book deal, with who knows how much money involved, and he gets not only a free pass from the media, but outright lionization.

[Brian Allen]

<< O'Neil was .... "hurt" .... [And] is looking to "even things up a bit." >>

One is not given offence but elects to take it.

And, what's the score now, pray tell?

FRom here it's looking like United States of America's President and Armed Forces' Commander-In-Chief, George Walker Bush: 99 -- and wottsisname: Zip?

Bump/Ping

[Fledermaus]

No one has posted a "response" to the WSJ article yet, or they just haven't posted any.

Go at it folks! lol

[Fledermaus]

Well you know, being the CEO of Alcoa, he helped all the homeless people that gathered aluminum cans off the street.

Of course, if he really cared, he would have kept the price of returns higher than 20 cents a pound! lol

[kingu]

Sometimes I think that being silent on O'Neal might be a better course, since by vilifying him, we simply show the RATs how 'scared' we are of him. But to remain silent is to cheat the future of the truth about this man, and history is usually a pretty fair judge.

In the long run what will happen is what usually happens. The most liberal will crow him as a champion whistle blower, the most conservative will just call him a loser who is seeking a bit of his former fame, and the rest of the world will just go on, chuckling about a Treasury Secretary who thought he was privy to the government's secrets.

[cajungirl]

You may be right. He comes across as petty, a bit deluded. How could this man have been so off the mark as to whom he was serving. And I hardly think Bush can be blamed for dismissing him so "cold bloodedly" as someone upthread posted. This is the big league, if you can't play with the big boys, you ought to stay on the porch. ONeil comes across as the consumate whining baby,,let him dig his own grave. He will do it if we don't give him importance. He deserves ridicule. Wish SNL would do a skit on him.

[kingu]

ONeil comes across as the consumate whining baby,,let him dig his own grave.

I read that and ghads, the first thougt was the headline in the New York Times in two weeks...

Dean Announces New Economic Adviser:
Former Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill looks forward to return to office.

Damn, he makes a good poster boy for the left.

[jagrmeister]

>Maybe he can still tour with Bono..

Bono won't return O'Neill's phone calls. Bono is the popular kid in school who "made friends" with the nerd (O'Neill) for his help on a project, and then didn't recognize him later on. I can't believe an oldster like O'Neill was so desperate for approval that he clung to Bono like that- how embarassing for him.

[MeekOneGOP]

Good article by the WSJ. Thanks for the post and ping !

Mr. O'Neill may have been a team player during his time in the Nixon and Ford administrations, but his tenure as the successful head of Alcoa, the aluminum company, seems to have instilled in him "CEO disease," the inability for someone who runs a large enterprise to adapt and subordinate a large ego to the interests of a group.

Far from being a truth-teller, Mr. O'Neill comes across in Mr. Suskind's book as a vengeful Lone Ranger, someone bitter because his advice was spurned but who stubbornly chose to stay in the job anyway. "He could have resigned quietly on principle," one White House aide told me. "Instead we had to push him out."

Mr. O'Neill may like to see himself as a contemporary Cyrus Vance, who in 1980 left as Jimmy Carter's Secretary of State over principled disagreements on foreign policy. But instead he resembles Don Regan, the temperamental White House chief of staff who, after President Reagan fired him, went on to write a tell-all book embarrassing his old boss with revelations about Nancy Reagan's fondness for astrologers. The book made Mr. Regan look small and it didn't do much damage to Mr. Reagan's reputation. The same will be true of Mr. O'Neill's poison-pen recollections.

[thesummerwind]

Nothing to see here folks - move along.

The mainstream/lamestream relentlessly destructive, liberal/commie/Democrat-loving, sycophantic media will be all over this story for weeks if not months. This is a huge story for them. And the gaunt and withered Leslie Stahl is acting as the emaciated media goon for taking part in these hit pieces for SeeBS. You'd think she'd still be pissed at SeeBS for her earlier treatment there;

Hiring her was one thing for CBS, treating her with professional respect was another. The humiliation began when Stahl reported for work in 1972, and was forced to sit at a children's-size desk. She was sent to cover Watergate when it looked like a minor story, then pulled off the beat when it became a major one. And after being assigned to a roundtable discussion series, she quickly discovered that the men weren't inclined to let her do any of the discussing.

[thesummerwind]

Global warming fellow. My, my!

[randita]

Did anyone watch the interview?

[philosofy123]

Did Bush invite Bono to the WH first? Did Bush request from O'Neill to tour Africa with the rock and roll star to appeal to the leftists (no child left behind nonsense)? I need an honest answer to these two questions first before we start dumping on O'Neill.

[sheik yerbouty]

Post #28 says it better than I can. In any case, ponde O' Neill's motivation and timing.

[sausageseller]

O'Neil is still an idiot. Too bad your hung up on the bono issue to see it!

[philosofy123]

My questions were about President Bush, and his relation with Bono, and not about O’Neill. I don't know much about the guy to think of him as an idiot. He was an advisor to Reagan, Chairman of Alcoa, and a lifelong Republican. He could not be that bad. I guess he had philosophical difference with the President, and was let go. His book is probably a sour grape, but I would not call him an idiot.

[philosofy123]

The Bush Whitehouse approved of this stupid trip to appeal to liberal pinco commies.

[PhilDragoo]

I don't want tax cuts!

[Grampa Dave]

Notice how the super rich lunatic libs and this clown were against the Tax Cuts. They knew what would happen to our economy when we got those tax cuts.

I believe that he was against reducing the tax on dividends. That was another important part of the tax cuts. Even Bill Gates got on the band wagon and MS has now declared dividends.

[MeekOneGOP]

ROFL !!

Perfect !