White House denies Bush called Ohio election official 'a nut' (Blackwell)

[sabra]

http://www.fortwayne.com/mld/newssentinel/15668312.htm

White House denies Bush called Ohio election official 'a nut'
Associated Press

The White House denies President Bush called Ohio's chief election officer Ken Blackwell "a nut" on election night in 2004, as a new book by a celebrated Washington journalist states.

In "State of Denial," which criticizes the president's handling of the war in Iraq, writer Bob Woodward, known for his reporting on Watergate, recounts a scene inside the White House at 3 a.m. as Bush waited for results from Ohio. The state ultimately clinched Bush's re-election.

Bush was incensed about waiting for a statement from Blackwell, Ohio's Republican secretary of state who is running for governor in the November election, Woodward wrote on Page 347.

The passage reads: "'I'm the president of the United States,' Bush said fuming, 'waiting on a secretary of state who is a nut.'"

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"It didn't happen," Snow said Monday at an appearance in northeast Ohio.

[LoZoccolo]

1. And we all know we can take Bush*'s word for it. n/t

[WHEN CRABS ROAR]

6. Yeah he wouldn't lie.

[Vexatious Ape]

2. Hell,

The Coward of Crawford should be down on his knee's kissing this guy's ass for the rest of his life.

[Hav]

3. .

It's true. He probably used the other n-word ;).

[bunny planet]

4. I think this is really interesting.

Perhaps they don't want Blackwell to be pissed off when he hears about this. I'm sure he's got lots of information they'd rather never saw the light of day.

[Cha]

7. Zactly! Who in the chimphouse wants

a vindictive pissed off kenny blackwell at mid term election time?

They've lied about Everything since the supreme 5 gave them the country so what's a little lie like denying calling kennyboy a "nut"?

[Cha]

5. Oh good, they're callin' bob

woodward a liar. I'm wondering how woodward got privey to this info? I know he must have verified it to put it in his book.

[rodeodance]

8. Still in a State of Denial I see.

[qanda]

9. Well, I finally found something that I agree with Bush on

Go figure.

[0rganism]

13. Strange, I had the same thought

Of course, now that we can agree about something, his spokesman is out there denying he said it...

As you say, go figure.

[jseankil]

10. If he called Blackwell a nut does that help Blackwell at the polls ;) /nm

nm

[deminks]

11. Smirky, after all he did for you,

is that anyway to treat you minion? Did your mother teach you anything? Oh, wait...nevermind.

IIRC, he had the connection in his office to the tabulators. He was workin hard that night, ya know.

[Missy M]

12. Sounds like Bush's vocabulary to me.

[Tellurian]

15. From One NUT to another NUT!

I'm sure Blackwell will consider this a sweetheart deal!

:hi:

[lonestarnot]

14. Snow job you just blow. Why do you lie so much?

[davidinalameda]

16. Blackwell's from Ohio

it's the Buckeye State

a buckeye is a nut

thus anyone from Ohio is a nut

I can see the logical progression here

:shrug:

:bounce:

:rofl:

[ProgressiveEconomist]

17. "It takes one to know one"

[truthisfreedom]

18. hmph. sounds like a tacit admission. if he really didn't say it, Tony's

line would have been "doesn't warrant a response."