CNN: Bush agrees w/ O'Neill assesment.. meetings were "boring as hell"

[TheWebHead]

AC360 just had a news headline that Bush conceded the account by Paul O'Neill about him being disengaged during meetings. He says because they were "boring as hell" ... no online source I can find for this yet though...

[a_random_joel]

1. Let's liven this damn meetin' up...

Now Andy, go get us some damn cheeseburgers.

[Ripley]

4. Nope, that would be "some damn Lone Star's"

and Skoal.

[Blue_Roses]

6. and

beer!

[Demonaut]

45. well, it had numbers and stuff...........

[LifeDuringWartime]

2. LOL

im sure they were, georgie boy ;)

[Occulus]

3. My God.

My God, my God, my God.

We are, and have for a long time been, in very serious trouble.

[markses]

5. Bwahahahaha

That's the best they could do? A damning admission that President Dipshit needs Ritalin to listen to the Secretary of the fucking Treasury?

As is clear now, the O'Neil book seriously staggered Bushie, and the ill-conceived announcement of an investigation into O'Neil only fanned the fires of its popularity. So, Plan B?

I'm not sure I believe this. First, it is too stupid for words. Second, Bushie doesn't go around saying "boring as hell," which would be blasphemy, in any case. At least the public face of the imbecile.

[sistersofmercy]

7. I am almost speechless, jeezzzzz, there is a child in the WH!

It is like a 12 year old in a 50 something suit! He is such a foot stumping, "so what, doesn't bother me none" child who does not read and also does not pay attention in meetings about our national issues. I swear he must be ADHD. What a child.

[Thor_MN]

35. You give him too much credit

Many 12 year olds have already learned to accept responibility and that there are consequences to their actions. * is more akin to a 5 year old who still believe that they can do whatever they want and daddy will fix the problems.

[Just Me]

49. I would say,...more like a two-year old,...

,...mine, mine, mine,...me, me, me,...no, no, no,....mine, me, mine

[patricia92243]

8. I don't know whether to laugh or cry! I think cry will win out. That the

leader of the free world and the person who makes decisions that affect each of our lives is "bored".

Why doesn't he go home where he can have some "fun". Good bye to bad rubbish.

[Benhurst]

43. I agree; but we shouldn't think of Bush* as the Leader of the

Free World. Who is he leading besides little Tony Blair?

[Lorien]

52. According to Andy Card

Chimpy makes "angry, grumpy decisions" if he does not get to "eat, drink, and make merry" on a daily basis.( I wish it could find the link). He's the most infantile and embarrassing leader in US history. :grr:

[Beetwasher]

9. Now's Another True Test of the Media

Will he get clobbered by the media for this like Dean was clobbered recently?

[aquart]

13. Nah. It's a charming foible.

[Betty]

19. no because

of all the attention-span challenged adults in this country who think Georgie is "one of them". Too bad we can't make everyone who voted for the asshole pay for all of his mistakes... ship them all off to Iraq.

[SharonAnn]

42. Well, if they're attention-span challenged and so is he - then

Georgie is "one of them"

Good Grief!

[fizzana]

10. You mean being President means I have to pay attention and

actually work!!!

[Zhade]

34. Since he's not the legal president, maybe he thinks that way.

That fucking traitor KNOWS he never won.

[pompano]

11. Im not surprised...

a three year old in a 3rd quarter Calculas class might find it a little boring to.

[Emboldened Chimp]

12. What about the meeting on August 6, 2001?

You know, the Presiden't Daily Brief that detailed an Al Quida plot to hijack airplanes. Was that meeting boring as hell, too, you simian jerk?

[Barrett808]

46. Indeed. I hope the PDB leaks sometime in the next few months n/t

n/t

[SpiralHawk]

51. Smirky did have one "exciting' meeting

It came on 9/11, when he held a peer group meeting at an elementary school in Florida. He found the book they were "sharing" -- The Pet Goat -- to be so exciting, in fact, that he forgot to do a damn thing about the ugly little terrorist invasion that was happening.

At any rate, he really did enjoy sitting there and "sharing" his kompassionate konservativism with the little Rug Rats. Too bad about the WTC towers and the Pentagon and all. Bush spokespeople say it could not be helped because Bill Clinton got a BJ from a beautiful woman a couple of years ago.

So you see, there are some 'exciting' meetings for Bush after all.

[peacetalksforall]

14. His body was in the meeting and his

mind was still on his video games.

[NJCher]

15. jr sez'

"Meetings are boring as hell and I HATE BROCCOLI, TOO!"


Cher

[fishnfla]

16. In the book, the description was constantly

Paraphrase; I looked to get a response from the president, but it was too late, he had checked out.

I get the feeling the meetings were recorded and the puppet handlers went over policy afterwards

[RobertSeattle]

17. Uncurious George

Oh that boring multi trillion dollar economy employing 100 million + boring workers - yawn. We really need to paint Bush as out of touch and uncaring.

[mike1963]

18. what's ac360?

musta taken too many stoopid pills today...

[polmaven]

26. Anderson Cooper 360...

The CNN show that follows Lou Dobbs.....(We are prolly all a little punchy tonight)! ;-)

[mike1963]

31. Oh. I am desiccated with mortification.

:D

[JPace]

20. Bill Clinton said what he would miss the most

was the work....he LOVED taking
care of the business of the PEOPLE!
Bet he NEVER got bored with meetings
of any kind!

What a twit the supreme court picked.
Shallow, unfocused, uninterested in
the business of the people. He is so
inferior to the position.

[truthisfreedom]

21. if bush didn't want the job, he didn't have to steal it.

[JPace]

25. "if bush didn't want the job, he didn't have to steal it."

He likes Air force 1 and those long
long vacations, he really likes scaring
the world and pushing little people
around.

He will also like the profits from his
memoirs as the pResident, which as
usual someone else will have to write
for him.

[Benhurst]

44. And he likes making fun of bald members of the corporate

press. I guess the mediawhores don't mind the humiliation. And, at least as far as I know, he hasn't started putting lit firecrackers up their rear ends for his entertainment, as he used to do to hapless Texas frogs. :nuke:

[mike1963]

32. It wasn't his idea. He isn't anywhere near bright enough to plan a theft.

:eyes:

[LiberalFighter]

22. Is being President suppose to be exciting??

Being President is not for the lazy or unfocused.

[Lisa]

23. so what exactly did he get out of that Harvard MBA his aides brag about?

In my previous life, I had to take management-training courses .... most of them indicated that if people feel a meeting is boring or unproductive, the person supposedly in charge has to take the rap for it!

[tinrobot]

24. If you're bored - then QUIT!

I think we could certainly find a replacement.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

27. It was a joke

Some kind of fundraising dinner or something, trying to defuse the O'Neill situation... He said he didn't say anything during long meetings with O'Neill because O'Neill bored him and he fell asleep...

"I got a million of 'em..."

[Fovea]

28. perhaps he should find a new line of work...

or maybe another planet to rule.

[icymist]

29. Well, He did say that he

wanted to go to Mars!

[drscm]

30. The man who controls the agenda calls the meetings boring?

What the hell is this man doing in a position of power, much less responsibility?

If he is so damn disengaged from his responsibilities, then our nation has no hope.

But we will be told that he has a "BOLD" vision or some damn thing for our future.

This is tragic!

[fishnfla]

39. have you read the book?

The whole point is that Bush doesn't control anything. Suskind details how O'Neil and other Cabinet members (Whitman and Powell, especially) were not given any guidance at all by the Pres. Their agencies and the policies were just adrift. Oneill and Greenspan conspired together on monetary policy, behind the scenes.
* would just sit there in these meetings vacant and nodding, disengaged, as you say.There was no give-and-take discussions of policies and their repercussions, as Paul had encountered in other admins.
It was Cheney who called the shots, along with Rove. In fact Cheney hires and fires his old friend O'neill for the job. Oneill agonizes over why Dick Cheney, whom he claims was never an idealogue, had a conversion. He cant figure. The whole admin runs on tax cuts and Iraq. Thats it, along with keeping "the base' satiated. Ironic, "the base" in Arabic is Al-queada

The portrait of * presented in the book is not tragic. Its more disturbing, shocking really. How the CEO's and WSJ types can fawn over such a pathetically vacuous leader is actually more like a comedy. Mel Brooks as GWB.

[Tracer]

47. Yoo, hoo — Fishnfla ....

... certainly you understand why the CEOs fawn over BobbleBush!

Do the words "deregulation", "tax cuts", "privatization" ring a bell?

[Just Me]

50. "The base" in Arabic is Al Qaeda? That is ironic!!!

[Just Me]

57. I finished the book today and it left me feeling,...

,...like,...disassociative. I suppose in one sense it simply validated what I already knew,...yet, such validation isn't very helpful to retaining an optimistic outlook on our country's future.

How is it that we can end up with such awful, greedy, power-mongering, dishonest, f-uped people in charge of this country? It is damned scary that such evil creeps have the powerful resources of this nation at their full disposal. It is terribly sad that, while our country has nearly unlimited power to do good, it is being chewed up and spit out by a mere handful of freaks!!!

Yikes!!!

What does a person do with THAT reality, with THAT truth? It's almost overwhelming!

[tkmorris]

33. Someone post a link

If you see one. This is good stuff :)

[grasswire]

37. here's the link

The comment was made at the snooty Alfalfa Club dinner, where journos and politicians mix with Washington society.

"But what a stellar crowd," Bush continued. "It looks like the index of Paul O'Neill's book. Let me say something about that book. Paul said I was disengaged because he talked to me for 45 minutes and I didn't say a word. I wasn't disengaged. I was bored as hell and my mother told me never to interrupt. . ."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A50678-2004Jan26.html

[ignatius]

56. It wasn't O'Neills book, but he wouldn't even know

that since he never reads anything beyond kindergarten level.

He is such a smug,arrogant bastard, very much like a child king who is led to believe every word he utters is charming and totally captivating.

Do you notice how he brings his mom into many of his smart ass comments, reminding we, his loyal subjects, of the royal lineage from mumsy and poppy.

I remember reading a comment by Hitler, something to the effect of it is lucky for the leaders that the majority of men do not think.

I hope and pray,and judging from the turnouts in Iowa and NH just maybe,that the majority ARE thinking and will soon send Spacemonkey to the moon or Crawford.Tx., both desolate places.

Could you even imagine if he didn't have money and connections, what most people would think of this miserable little pr#ck?

[PaDUer]

36. Interesting how he's

all of a sudden coming out with different things to cover his ass as if it's "no big deal". He sickens me!

[kskiska]

38. He's a real card

From the article…

• It sounded like open-mike night at the Improv on Saturday night as President Bush cracked up the crowd of panjandrums at the Alfalfa Club dinner.

On former secretary of state Jim Baker: "Jimbo's been going around getting countries to forgive Iraq's debt. Next, I'm going to send him out and see what he can do about ours."

(snip)

Ba-dum-bum. Who knew the prez was such a stand-up guy?

[drscm]

40. "What he can do about our debt?" Hell,

why don't you just raise the lower 99% taxes to cover it. After all, we're just a lot of unproductive slobs.

[Zero Gravitas]

41. That remark should sink him.

By any rational standard making that comment should sink Bush's presidency.

Doing his job is boring as hell?
Running the country is boring as hell?
Fighting the "War On Terrorism" is boring as hell?
Making decisions that effect millions of people is boring as hell?

Maybe thats why you make so many bad decisions, Mr. "Great Leader" Bush!

Of course rational standards don't apply to Mr. Bush. By any rational standard he should never have become president, heck he should never have been nominated! He is only there because of the power of his aristocratic family. He's there because of money and connections and a subservient media. But even though the corporate media will all but ignore this remark, drip, drip, drip people are finally waking up.

[LeftHander]

48. Meetings and Diplomacy

Are so boring as compared to bombs, shock and awe and drumming up fear.

I know my coworkers have pictures of UN meetings on thier desktops...rather than US military aircraft and helocpters taking off in a red dusty sunrise.

They find the General Assemply meetings much more enthralling....

[ElementaryPenguin]

53. Of course they were boring meetings if you didn't UNDERSTAND anything said

Stupid fuck only manages to dig a deeper grave everyday - and prove that as far as ignorant, moronic pResidents are concerned - the Evil/Fool War Chimp is without peer!!

:puke:
:argh:

[justsam]

54. they probably were boring

if all he had on his mind was to settle the personal vendetta that the Bush's had with Saddam and the rest of the people at the meeting wanted to conduct business for America.. As Perle has stated there are two things that he likes about Bush (1) he is stupid (2) HE knows it..

[nansocal]

55. when I read these kinds of things

about bush, his total undeserved position. all I can think of is al gore and the way he was treated. and this idiot bush gets away with every wrong he does. I start asking myself "wheres the justice"?