I hate to say I told you so ... but I told you so

[cal04]

Ellis Henican
NY Newsday

I tried to save the president from all this embarrassment. Believe me, I tried.I got started a full nine days ago, even before George W. Bush had formally nominated Bernie Kerik as head of Homeland Security for the whole United States. I warned the president and his people in no uncertain terms.Here's what I wrote about the former New York police commissioner in the Newsday for Dec. 3:

"He's a personal and professional time bomb the Bushies will learn to regret. Don't say I didn't warn you, guys!"Could I have been any plainer than that? So now, I'm trying to think of a nice way to put this. How 'bout:Tick, tick, tick ... KA-BOOM!

Accurately and vividly, I sounded my alarm about this "hard-charging, thick-necked, shaved-head lightweight" and his relentless career climb.Kerik was, I wrote in that first column and a second one, a "campaign bodyguard to Rudy Giuliani," an "errand boy for the Saudi royal family," an "energetic exploiter of Sept. 11th tragedy" and a "tough-talking publicity-hound vowing to bring law and order to Iraq -- then hightailing it out of there after a disastrous 14 weeks, leaving the place far less safe than he found it."


Too bad the people in the White House didn't pay attention when it could have helped them. Too bad the members of the Senate, including the two from New York, also turned away.Everyone in Washington was saying Kerik was the guy for Homeland Security. Hero of 9/11. Slasher of crime in New York City. A man who could really get things done. You have to figure all of them were blinded by the strong endorsement from Giuliani, Kerik's current business partner and longtime after-hours pal. And now look at the mess they're cleaning up.



http://www.nynewsday.com/news/local/newyork/columnists/ny-hen12,0,4812135.column?coll=ny-ny-columnists

[gordianot]

1. The funniest story of the week. ROFLMAO

:) :evilgrin: :party: :toast: :bounce: :thumbsup: :kick:

[benfranklin1776]

2. Cheers to Ellis Hennican!

For sounding the alarm about this bozo. Maybe Schumer and Clinton could put him on staff in order to get better background information about the stooges Junior is nominating so the next time they don't go rushing to endorse the next unqualified jerk like this who Junior dredges up.

[Johnny Noshoes]

6. Schumer and Clinton

were an embarassment to NY on this one. Doesn't Kerrik look like the bad guy in one of those really awful '70s TV movies?

"Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings." — John F. Kennedy

[ElectroPrincess]

7. Yes, and what cracks me up even more is ...

that Hillary Clinton (although I respected her strength and grace while under attack as First Lady) actually believes that she stands a ghost of a chance in winning the Presidential Election of 2008.

As much as I respect her strength, she's republican lite and may just go down in 2006. If a decent democrat runs against her like a REAL democrat, I hope she is voted out of the senate.

[Johnny Noshoes]

9. She was

a great First Lady but I hate to say it she would be a disaster if she were the nominee in '08. If people think that John Kerry caught hell this time you ain't seen nothing like the fury the rethuglcan bastards would unleash on Hillary Clinton.

"Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings." — John F. Kennedy

[genieroze]

10. Heck, I hope they pick another just like him. lol eom

[indigobusiness]

3. This guy is a regular poster-boy...

for the Bush administration.

[Skittles]

4. EVERYONE Bush nominates is a freaking disaster

f***ing MORON

[dweller]

5. yeh, *he's a regular King Midas . . . oops

i mean king *moron.


dp

[PATRICK]

8. Other opinion

Bush has nothing to lose now. He will simply
Bush is byond fear or embarassment. This is just a slap in the face at America. If he misses, he will do it again. Really, what has Bush lost or America gained except "no Kerik"? There are a lot of *'s swimming in the Bush bowl.