Weads tapes could have been extremly damaging during two presidential campaigns. The fact that they didn't come out during either campaigns tells me that Wead wasn't seeking to harm the president.
Maybe there's nothing harmful in the tapes. What little I heard makes me admire Bush even more.
Or that there is nothing that could damage him on the tapes. Slow news cycle.
The only thing that worries me is the "light of day" statement. Doesn't that statement feed the MSM?
How do you know this?
The fact that most people would take umbrage that a "friend taped a friend" (remember how that goes?) and cause voter sympathy and that GWB is clearly the same in private as he is in public, the release during the campaigns would NOT have been damaging in the campaign.
The fact that Wead is lying--recorded only for historical purposes, was going turn them over to the Bush Archives one day, wait they were never meant to be public and nobody will ever hear most of them, and they end up in the New York Times and played on tv and radio, tells me he had a nefarious purpose, whether it be personal aggrandizement or to explicitly harm GWB.
He is not a good man (as Lynne Cheney might say).
... it tells me that he couldn't wait till 2008 to cash in. Cash flow and fame will ruin any friendships held together by the slimmest of threads.
I agree with a previous poster, he needs to be punched out......