Posted on 06/14/2006 6:42:44 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
A Bush aide's blunt words
New adviser pulled no punches in his magazine pieces
By Peter Baker
Updated: 5:39 a.m. ET June 13, 2006
WASHINGTON - Bill Clinton is a "virtuoso deceiver" and Hillary Rodham Clinton a "true chameleon" guilty of "self-serving behavior, comparative radicalism, and dubious personal morality."
Al Gore is a "mad dog" known to "foam at the mouth." John McCain is given to "showboating." And Jacques Chirac, Nelson Mandela, Gerhard Schroeder and Kofi Annan are all "feckless fools."
Says who? President Bush's new chief domestic policy adviser. While most White House aides carefully trim their public commentary, they can't take back what they said before arriving in the West Wing, and few in this day and age arrive with a more provocative paper trail than Karl Zinsmeister, who started his new job yesterday.
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I am glad to see Republicans saying it like it is for a change.
This is a promising development. FReepers will appreciate where Zinsmeister's coming from.
Anybody who can spin an obscure railroad into a skewering of government largesse has my attention and my admiration. I didn't realize that Zinsmeister had a streak of Mark Steyn running through him...
Sounds to me like he was being too kind.
Why, he just has a tradition of 'speaking truth to power,' MSM.
He's absolutely correct; these megalomanics (and worse) have no business being in public life.
I don't think that I could quibble with a single thing that he has said... I'll have to look up some of his past writings...
I think the President likes people with fairly sharp elbows and disdain for Washington.
Glad he's aboard.
Sounds to me like the Zinsmeister is right on. And you can never have too many John Boltons.
Love the Al Gore description!
I like him already.
Wow, good choice.
Looks good. :-)
Okay, that's it. I'm in love again!
Sounds good.
Al Gore is a bald headed mad dog known to foam at the mouth. There, that sounds better.
Karl Zinmeister?
I love the name!!
Hell yeah. I'd almost call him Master of the Obvious.
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