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Rage of a Relic. Paul O'Neill is angry that the world has passed him by.
Wall Street Journal ^
| Monday, January 12, 2004 12:01 a.m. EST
| John Fund
Posted on 01/12/2004 12:01:26 PM PST by .cnI redruM
Edited on 04/23/2004 12:06:20 AM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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I once had dinner with Paul O'Neill, the former Treasury secretary who is now making headlines with a scathing portrayal of his days in the Bush administration prior to his firing in December 2002. Bush critics will hail Mr. O'Neill as a truth-teller, White House aides are already calling him a back-stabber. In fact, Mr. O'Neill is a relic. The man I broke bread with was clearly a product of the Nixon and Ford administrations, in which he had served, and simply hadn't adapted to the post-Reagan Republican Party.
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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Editorial; Government
KEYWORDS: bitterman; downsized; johnfund; kissandtell; liar; pauloneill; yourefired
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I read this article and ask myself. Why was this man ever in a Republican administration? He sounds like Howard Dean on a bloody day?
To: .cnI redruM
Who's Paul O'Neill?
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posted on
01/12/2004 12:05:19 PM PST
by
kevao
To: kevao
Some guy who's mad that life just passed him by. I think he played OF for The Reds and The Yanks.
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posted on
01/12/2004 12:07:28 PM PST
by
.cnI redruM
(if this guy wants to insult our president and call him evil, he can just join the Democrat Party ")
To: kevao
Didn't he play Al Bundy?
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posted on
01/12/2004 12:08:33 PM PST
by
BrooklynGOP
(www.logicandsanity.com)
To: kevao
Didn't he play Al Bundy?
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posted on
01/12/2004 12:08:35 PM PST
by
BrooklynGOP
(www.logicandsanity.com)
To: .cnI redruM
I read this article and ask myself. Why was this man ever in a Republican administration?"Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer."
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posted on
01/12/2004 12:10:03 PM PST
by
Poohbah
("Beware the fury of a patient man" -- John Dryden)
To: .cnI redruM
It now turns out Mr. O'Neill has talked nearly daily for the last year with Mr. Suskind, a former reporter for The Wall Street Journal, who has now written a new explosive book on President Bush's first term.O'Neill didn't let the grass grow, did he? And he left loaded for bear. He also, according to FNC this morning, approached Suskind, not the other way around.
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posted on
01/12/2004 12:11:11 PM PST
by
mewzilla
To: Poohbah
True enough.
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posted on
01/12/2004 12:12:27 PM PST
by
.cnI redruM
(if this guy wants to insult our president and call him evil, he can just join the Democrat Party ")
To: mewzilla
No, he's not a shrinking violet. It's a shame Bush ever hired this dorkmiester in the first place.
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posted on
01/12/2004 12:13:36 PM PST
by
.cnI redruM
(if this guy wants to insult our president and call him evil, he can just join the Democrat Party ")
To: .cnI redruM
Was he the one who cried during his Senate confirmation process?
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posted on
01/12/2004 12:14:46 PM PST
by
axel f
To: axel f
We should have cried when he was confirmed.
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posted on
01/12/2004 12:15:35 PM PST
by
.cnI redruM
(if this guy wants to insult our president and call him evil, he can just join the Democrat Party ")
To: .cnI redruM
Forget shrinking violet. I'm not sure this guy had time to get mad. It was like he was out one day and calling Suskind the next. That to me sounds like something a bit more premeditated. And what's with those thousands of pages of docs? Did he just happen to have them laying around? Or was he collecting them for a reason...?
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posted on
01/12/2004 12:16:36 PM PST
by
mewzilla
To: mewzilla
Rather pitiful ending for a man who was credited for saving Alcoa. He had admirable accomplishments in industry but chose to leave as his legacy, a whining, puke of a rant about global warming, and the mean ole president who didn't share his idiocyncracies..
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posted on
01/12/2004 12:16:57 PM PST
by
OldFriend
(Always understand, even if you remain among the few)
To: .cnI redruM
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posted on
01/12/2004 12:17:16 PM PST
by
mondonico
(Peace through Superior Firepower)
To: OldFriend
His legacy should include a bit more than that if he went about disseminating classified info.
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posted on
01/12/2004 12:18:09 PM PST
by
mewzilla
To: mewzilla
Joe Wilson redux, maybe?
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posted on
01/12/2004 12:18:31 PM PST
by
.cnI redruM
(if this guy wants to insult our president and call him evil, he can just join the Democrat Party ")
To: .cnI redruM
Funny you should mention Mr. Wilson. Did you know that Joe Wilson and Ron Suskind apparently have something in common: a profound dislike for Karl Rove.
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posted on
01/12/2004 12:20:11 PM PST
by
mewzilla
To: axel f
IIRC, he and Sen. "Sheets" Byrd got into a p***ing contest about which one of them grew up poorer, and O'Neill appeared to be nearly in tears.
To: Inspectorette
I'm not trying to make fun of him for crying. I just remember being amazed how thin-skinned he seemed to be, especially after what all John Ashcroft had just gone through a few weeks before.
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posted on
01/12/2004 12:27:47 PM PST
by
axel f
To: mewzilla
Seemingly the page marked SECRET that was shown on TV was a document made public by Cheney's office.
One wonders if O'Neil is suffering from mad ego's disease!
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posted on
01/12/2004 12:28:48 PM PST
by
OldFriend
(Always understand, even if you remain among the few)
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