[.cnI redruM]

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?

[kevao]

Who's Paul O'Neill?

[Poohbah]

I read this article and ask myself. Why was this man ever in a Republican administration?

"Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer."

[mewzilla]

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.

[mondonico]

Lid Blown Off O'Neill/Suskind Hoax
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1056442/posts

[ReleaseTheHounds]

What a politically tone-deaf, inarticulate, stupid, uneducated, ill-informed, wrong-about-everything individual. When Bush made his cabinet appointments, this one had me shaking my head from the get-go. And then when he started under-mining tax-cuts, you knew he was off the reservation and should be confined on a funny farm. Why President Bush didn't demand his resignation within months of the appointment (other than the obvious embarrassment from acknowledging such a huge mistake) always concerned me. Then, when he was pushed out, it was obvious that he STILL didn't have a clue... But, oh so predictable, here come Demos -- who ridiculed him from the outset -- now paying their respects and acknowledging his great wisdom.

If ever there was needed a case study in why RINOS should be targeted and eliminated from positions in the Government, Paul O'Neil has just risen to the top of the heap. Way to go, Paul... your legacy is now assured.

[jpl]

O'Neill is a classic northeastern Rockefeller Republican. As Ann Coulter correctly pointed out in her book, he's the type of guy who's a Republican solely because he was raised in the country club set to view Democrats as the dirty working class.

[Digger]

Time magazine reports that he considered himself, Environmental Protection Agency administrator Christine Todd Whitman and Secretary of State Colin Powell to be "three beleaguered souls . . . who shared a more nonideological approach

This is one item I would agree with him. Powell has become either neutered or enlightened, who know which but these three along with Minnow Mineta were bad picks & they have hurt his administration.

[talleyman]

Bump. I'm sure Rockefeller will demand an investigation into the leaking of these documents...

[mombonn]

I was impressed by his candor but not by his wisdom.

Great line.

[Sonny M]

Why was this man ever in a Republican administration?

Its actually says why in the article, but its been mentioned numerious times before. He was close friends with Dick Cheney, he's friends with Donald Rumsfeld (who, believe it or not, is pretty moderate with the exception of foreign policy) and he is very close with Alan Greenspan.

Basically he was brought in because he was close to Greenspan and Cheney had worked with him and they had become friends.

[JesseHousman]

...and simply hadn't adapted to the post-Reagan Republican Party.

When this moron toured Africa with Bono he was intellectually bankrupt as far as I was concerned.

That being said, the above excerpted quote applies to me as well. Only fools have adapted to the Republican Party of today! This jerk should have fit in perfectly!

[JesseHousman]

"I do."