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He is dumbfounded by the press and its lack of investigation. Phillips seems genuinely concerned about the future of American Democracy, hinting strongly that Bush 41 was involved in the Bay of Pigs and he almost came out and said that Bin Laden did 9/11 to get at Bush for running the politics of Suadi Arabia.
This would be powerful stuff in a democracy.
"Now what I get a sense of from all of this -- and then topped obviously by spending all the money in 2000 to basically buy the election -- it that this is not a family that has a particularly strong commitment to American democracy. Its sense of how to win elections comes out of a CIA manual, not out of the Declaration of Independence or the Constitution." -- Kevin Phillips
BuzzFlash: The title of your new book is "American Dynasty." You make the argument that the return of George W. Bush to the presidency restores, in essence, a Bush dynasty. What is wrong with that?
Kevin Phillips: Well, dynasties are something that the United States came into being fighting against. We have George III in 1775 and 1776. I don't see any reason why, in the last 25 years, we should have George I and George II, and think about Jeb I and so forth. It's pernicious, almost, by definition of what America's all about. It's doubly pernicious when you start thinking about the legacy of economic politics and bias, the legacy of association with the national security state intelligence agencies, the legacy of involvement in the Middle East in a way that may send some horrible chickens coming home to roost. I just don't think there's anything good about a dynasty in this country at all.
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