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Ex-Bush aide apologizes for 'groundless' remarks
Washington Times ^
| 12/03/02
| Joseph Curl
Posted on 12/02/2002 10:11:52 PM PST by kattracks
Edited on 07/12/2004 3:59:27 PM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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John DiIulio, the former director of the White House faith-based initiative office, yesterday apologized for saying that President Bush's domestic priorities are determined exclusively by political considerations.
Using words uttered hours earlier by White House spokesman Ari Fleischer, who called Mr. DiIulio's remarks in the January edition of Esquire magazine "baseless and groundless," the first high-ranking Bush official to leave the administration asked for forgiveness and vowed never to speak or write again about his short White House stint.
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posted on
12/02/2002 10:11:52 PM PST
by
kattracks
To: kattracks
Uh, you might want to post the original letter that DiIulio wrote. It looks like he said what the Esquire article attributed to him.
Its on Drudge
To: kattracks
Whew! He was "corrected". :-)
To: kattracks
Whoops. Sorry. I see that he is now trying to rescind those statements.
To: Howlin; Mo1
FYI ... come read this. :-)
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posted on
12/02/2002 10:19:10 PM PST
by
nopardons
To: kattracks
his desire to speak truthfully about his experiences at the center of power is to be hailed," Mr. Suskind said. Hmmm, wonder if he felt that way about Paula Jones or Juanita Broderick?
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posted on
12/02/2002 10:19:38 PM PST
by
Brett66
To: kattracks
Mr. DiIulio, a registered Democrat, so much for the new tone in Washington
To: KayEyeDoubleDee
Thanks for the link. The letter shows this is all much ado about nothing -- ie attempt to hype up an issue to slam Bush.
The guy was hardly critical at all.
What he did criticize about -- not doing enough on a domestic agenda - in my book isn't a criticism but point in their favor.
Dems and their press allies are running very scared.
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posted on
12/02/2002 10:40:28 PM PST
by
tallhappy
To: tallhappy
What he did criticize about -- not doing enough on a domestic agenda - in my book isn't a criticism but point in their favor The point seemed to me to be more, "we weren't having endless arguments about the detailed minutia of every policy decision." Now, some discussion is useful. And a fuller airing of the issues of the faith bill may have been warranted.
However, for people who KNOW what they want to do, who have an ideology which guides them (as I would assume all the people who reach the White House do) what is the point of writing up 30 position papers and making sure that 15 of them come from a centrist democrat so we can be bi-partisan?
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posted on
12/02/2002 10:54:47 PM PST
by
Dianna
To: kattracks
HE's lying again....That FAT RAT is a LIAR,,,And W shouldn't have ever hired that PIG !
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posted on
12/02/2002 11:03:11 PM PST
by
KQQL
To: kattracks
Like I said last night, this is nothing but sour grapes!
DiIulio was a nobody and remains a nobody. This proves it.
To: kattracks
Man, he goes on about his "limited and unrepresenative WH experience." Clearly, somebody got on teh phone and gave the idiot a talking to.....:) He is running away with his tail between his legs.
To: nopardons
but yesterday said a 10-page Esquire article contained factual errors and included statements "I did not write and I do not recall making." Well .. Well .. Well .. someone sure isn't telling the truth
The Reporter or the ingrate democrat ???..
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posted on
12/02/2002 11:20:38 PM PST
by
Mo1
To: Mo1
Both ? :-)
And to think that some FREEPERS used the misquoted / never said / said but now ashamed of having said ( ? ) statements, in an article, from a LIBERAL venue, to bash Bush ; yet again. Too bad, that they won't bother to read THIS retraction.
To: nopardons
Oh they'll read it and they'll misquote that too
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posted on
12/02/2002 11:29:51 PM PST
by
Mo1
To: kattracks
The guy recants so the news source repeats all the allegations for good measure. Gotta love the press.
To: Mo1
Right you are; Bush bashers are nothing, if not predictable. :-)
To: kattracks
I wouldn't have imagined that DiIulio was such a petty spiteful backstabber. But that's probably explained by the fact that he's a 'Rat.
To: KQQL
To: kattracks
Now it turns out this supposedly 'religious' man is a LIAR too. How very democrat.
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