Kerry Camp's Mole in the Bush White House?

NewsMax.com ^ | 3/01/04 | Carl Limbacher and NewsMax.com Staff

[kattracks]

First Lady wannabe Teresa Heinz Kerry had a good friend inside the Bush White House - former Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill, who, after he was fired, wrote a book that painted the president as an ignoramus who was itching to go to war with Iraq.

"I have to mention how proud I am to share this podium today with my friend . . . fellow Pittsburgher, Paul O'Neill," Mrs. Kerry said while delivering the commencement address at Carnegie Mellon University last May.

"Paul is a decisive, intelligent man who speaks his mind, and I have always admired that about him," added the woman whose husband was seeking to depose O'Neill's ex-boss.

The admiration was apparently mutual. O'Neill served with Heinz Kerry on the Heinz Center Board of Trustees from 1996 through 2000, where the two shared a passion for environmental activism.

After he was sacked by Bush in 2002, O'Neill began working on his White House expose, "The Price of Loyalty," which was seized on by Kerry backers when it was released this January.

Much to the delight of the ketchup heiress and her friends, O'Neill said in his book that Bush reminded him of "a blind man in a room full of deaf people" and offered documents purporting to show that the White House had a plan to invade Iraq well before the 9/11 attacks.

After O'Neill's revelations hit the fan, Mrs. Kerry defended her old friend in an interview with MSNBC.com.

"Paul is a very honest man, and a brilliant man. He is, in the best sense of the word, a CEO: totally practical and non-ideological," she insisted.

Reacting to O'Neill's claim that he would have softened some of his comments if he'd known they were going to generate so much controversy, Heinz Kerry said, "I would like to talk him and say, ‘Did you really mean all the things you said in the book? Of course you did.'"

[PGalt]

...and the both of them went on to become irrelevant.

[martin_fierro]

"Paul is a decisive, intelligent man who speaks his mind, and I have always admired that about him"

He's a bloomin' twit.

[Humidston]

>>Heinz Kerry said, "I would like to talk him and say, ‘Did you really mean all the things you said in the book? Of course you did.'"<<

Brilliant. Just brilliant. She should donate that brain to science.

[CyberAnt]

But .. I loved our President's comeback to that question by the press .. "I wasn't disengaged, I was bored, but my mother told me never to interrupt".

[Spotsy]

You are right - they are irrelevant.

O'Neill's "revelations" play only to hard core lefties. The rest of the electorate, if they even know who O'Neill is, will think he is spitting sour grapes.

Did you hear Cheney in Davos at the World Economic Forum answer a question about O'Neill's book? Cheney, having recommended O'Neill for the Treas Sec spot, poked fun at himself for having poor human resources skills!

[Don Joe]

He's a bloomin' twit.

Bloomier 'n this?

[ClintonBeGone]

hee hee I remember that picture from I think the Asian financial summit. I can't believe GWB put on that thing!

[doug from upland]

Brilliant. Just brilliant. She should donate that brain to science.
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Today.

[gov_bean_ counter]

The only thing one really needs to know about O'Neill is during the 90s Clinton worked with Marc Rich to make aluminum available to ALCOA when ALCOA was on the ropes (like every other aluminum company). Clinton saved O'Neill's career, but expected payback. Sorta like Vito and the undertaker. I don't think O'Neill wanted to write the book, but was made an offer he couldn't refuse.

[atomicpossum]

Brilliant. Just brilliant. She should donate that brain to science.

In pristine condition....almost unused...

[mombonn]

LOL!

[spacewarp]

They would give it back.

[mewzilla]

O'Neill wasn't the Kerrys' mole.

[FreedomPoster]

There you have it, and beat me to it.

[DLfromthedesert]

You're just jealous cuz you weren't invited to Bon's PJ party.

[DLfromthedesert]

You're just jealous cuz you weren't invited to Bon's PJ party.

[DLfromthedesert]

Oops. That's Bono. And I accidetnally posted the dumb thing TWICE. Grrr

[Spotsy]

O'Neill wasn't the Kerrys' mole

Who is the Kerry mole then? I hope he/she/it isn't still in the White House. Regardless, I'm not worried. Methinks a)this White House is clean as any White House can be; b) the attack statergy against Kerry is so obvious that Kerry camp don't need inside info BRING IT ON! Sorry, I'm getting a little excited about this race. I'll save it for the convention.

[Spotsy]

Oooops! Make that STRATERGY.