Posted on 10/03/2006 8:43:27 AM PDT by MNJohnnie
So it is starting to look more and more like Bob Woodward, in his following of Kitty Kelly's footsteps, also decided to simply made up large portion of his current book.
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2006/10/1/151 303.shtml?s=lh
Andy Card Denies Woodward Claim
Ronald Kessler Monday, Oct. 2, 2006
Former White House Chief of Staff Andrew H. "Andy" Card Jr. has denied Bob Woodward's claim that he and first lady Laura Bush tried to get Donald Rumsfeld fired as defense secretary.
Card told NewsMax that the assertion in Woodward's book "State of Denial" that he thought Rumsfeld should have been the one to leave the administration instead of himself was also "not true." Card left as chief of staff in April.
According to an excerpt to be published in the Washington Post on Sunday, "State of Denial" says, "He [Card] was leaving. And the man most responsible for the postwar troubles, the one who should have gone, Rumsfeld, was staying."
But Card told NewsMax, "I never felt that someone should have left ‘instead' of me." Card said any implication that he was bitter about leaving was also "not true at all."
News accounts about the Woodward book led with Andy Card trying to oust Rumsfeld with the support of Laura Bush. But White House spokesman Tony Snow quoted Laura Bush's office as saying Woodward's claim relating to her was "flatly not true." In addition, Card told the Associated Press that Laura Bush never encouraged an effort to oust Rumsfeld.
"Mrs. Bush and I never discussed it," Card said.
Only two major news outlets ran Laura Bush's denial — the Los Angeles Times and the Washington Post.
In his book, Woodward wrote that Card urged Bush to replace Rumsfeld with former Secretary of State James Baker following the 2004 election. According to the book, Bush decided not to do so after Vice President Dick Cheney and chief political adviser Karl Rove convinced him it would be seen as an expression of doubt about the direction of the war and expose Bush to criticism.
Woodward claimed that Card, with the backing of first lady Laura Bush, tried a second time to persuade Bush to fire Rumsfeld around Thanksgiving 2005. But according to Woodward, the president again refused to replace him.
But according to Card, he never pushed for Rumsfeld's resignation. He said he kept a list of potential Cabinet and staff changes for Bush to consider after the 2004 election, as he did after other important dates.
"To say that it was a campaign or an orchestrated effort would be wrong,"' Card said. "But were there times that we talked about potential changes in the Cabinet? Yes. Did they center around Rumsfeld? Not necessarily. They were in a broader context."
Tony Snow, besieged by questions about it at his daily briefing, said the book was similar to others critical of the war effort and that much of it was less than meets the eye.
"In a lot of ways, the books are like cotton candy. They kind of melt on contact,'" he said.
In a story that ran July 31, Card told NewsMax that his own resignation arose after he had been thinking for some time that "the president needed something that would allow external observers to see that he had new momentum." Card said he already had a lot of changes in the works, but nobody would have seen them as change.
"So it was time for new personalities to help give definition to the word change," Card said. "I first went to the president more than a month and a half before I left. I said, ‘You know, I think it's probably time to think about it.'"
"Nah!" the president replied at Camp David. "I'm not going to do anything."
Card suggested he give it some thought.
"We talked a handful of other times about it, and finally it was the right time," Card said.
Yes, I do remember that!
Let me go searching.
kcvl???
You were right...
"personal friend" Rush said.
Who is this caller??
Defending Foley??
Foley is guility as hell
I misunderstood what you said (sometimes I read faster than I comprehend!). Thanks for understanding me!
I'm sorry, Mo1, I'm in a hurry........ but I guarantee that Ross is dirty!
The truth will be known!
Rush implies that teens don't save IM messages. I have four daughters (ages 25-17) that print out "conversations" and also save them on the computer. I have watched them do this over the years on many occasions.
They e-mail IM messages and show them to friends.
I have regularly warned them about what they write to others because once they "send" it, it is out there for all to see.
We have had the school administration involved in some students IM messages where they have Bragged about being so drunk at high school homecoming events or they just got away from a raid on a house party and then other students have turned those IM in to the authorities.
Same kind of things most PIs do all the time. Especially the Lezner(sp?) kind.
This could be funny if it wouldn't be so close to the truth.For anybody that is thinking of not voting.
Upcoming 2008 Democratic Convention Agenda!
6:00 p.m. - Opening flag burning ceremony. 6:05 p.m. - Opening secular prayers by Rev. Jesse Jackson and Rev. Al Sharpton 6:30 p.m. - Anti-war concert by Barbra Streisand. 6:40 p.m. - Ted Kennedy proposes a toast.
7:00 p.m. - Tribute theme to France. 7:10 p.m. - Collect offerings for al-Zawahri defense fund. 7:25 pm. - Tribute theme to Germany. 7:45 p.m. - Anti-war rally (Moderated by Michael Moore)
8:25 p.m. - Ted Kennedy proposes a toast. 8:30 p.m. - Terrorist appeasement workshop.
9:00 p.m. - Gay marriage ceremony (both male and female couples) 9:30.p.m. - * Intermission
10:00.p.m. - Posting the Iraqi Colors by Sean Penn and Tim Robbins 10:10 p.m. - Re-enactment of Kerry's fake medal toss. 10:20.p.m. - Cameo by Dean 'Yeeearrrrrrrg!' 10:30 p.m. - Abortion demonstration by N.A.R.A.L. 10:40 p.m. - Ted Kennedy proposes a toast. 10:50 p.m. - Pledge of allegiance to the UN.
11:00 p.m. - Multiple gay marriage ceremony (threesomes, mixed and same sex). Rep. Barney Frank (D,Mass.), Sponsor 11:15 p.m. - Maximizing Welfare workshop. 11:30 p.m. - 'Free Saddam' pep rally. 11:59 p.m. - Ted Kennedy proposes a toast.
12:00 p.m. - Nomination of democratic candidate.
Any chance we could get Ted Kennedy to drive Hillary home from the convention?
yeah...another member of that "orientation"...
bump
You are right. Deep down that is not really funny because it is too close to the truth about the Democrat Party
I think that was the Senate Intelligence Committee memo that Sean Hannity got hold of.
The Dems left their portion of the computer without password protection.
Hello A.Hun
Mostly lurkin today. BAH day (Busy as h*ll).
Rush nearly immediately today on the show mentioned this: (the subject of my post # 24). Only for a few seconds did he mention it.
Then ............ not again the entire show so far.
Odd, very, very odd!!!
He knows that The Washington Times was compromised to write the editorial that they did against Hastert. So many others in D.C. are compromised too.
The truth will come out!
May God be with you my friend
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