Market Leader, Paul O'Neill

[elleng]

"As an uncommonly outspoken business leader who was appointed secretary of the Treasury in 2001, then forced out in short order after challenging President Bush’s tax cuts, are you surprised by the recent flurry of depressing financial news? Not really. We’ve been creating this pass of events for several years." >>>

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/30/magazine/30wwln-Q4-t.html?ref=magazine

[wtmusic]

1. "I’m thankful I got fired when I did,

so that I didn’t have to be associated with what they subsequently did."

From a man who's worth $60M, but thought that the US kicking in $30M to build clean-water wells in Africa, and safe millions of lives, was a good idea (his boss disagreed with him).

[MADem]

2. What a good guy--and a hot shit.

Have you seen Dick Cheney since he fired you? I have been to a few events where the vice president was there, but we both did our best to ignore each other. You know, I was a pallbearer, and he was a pallbearer, too.

You mean at President Ford’s funeral? Yes.

And you didn’t say hello? Nope. It was a good time to be alone together.

[elleng]

3. Yes, he really is a good guy!

I read Suskind's book about him, The Price of Loyalty, shortly after it came out, and have admired him ever since. What a loss to U.S. govt. Would be HAPPY to see him in a Dem admin.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Price_of_Loyalty

[Sherman A1]

4. I read his book a few years ago

and really like the guy.