Here is the book and the author :

[kentuck]

http://www.ronsuskind.com/

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Ron Suskind is an author and journalist based in Washington, D.C.

His latest book, "The Price of Loyalty, George W. Bush, the White House and the Education of Paul O'Neill," is a sweeping tour of the inner working of the Bush Presidency, among the most secretive administration of modern times. The book follows the two-year arc of Paul O'Neill, Bush's Treasury Secretary and a principal of the National Security Council, as he and other senior officials assess the conduct and character of this Presidency.

[Torrey Pines]

1. Who are we to believe here?

This is how Bush described O'Neill when he appointed him Secretary of the Treasury:

"Our economy is showing warning signs of a possible slowdown and so it's important for me to find somebody who has vast experience, who has a steady hand, and when he speaks, speaks with authority and conviction and knowledge," Bush said. "I found such a man in Paul O'Neill."

Who are we to believe?

[Military Brat]

4. bush really thought o'neill would save him by saving the economy

O'Neill had better ideas than more tax cuts to help the economy, and he learned that bush only wants "yes men" and "yes women" around him. If O'Neill had gone along, bush would have quoted him as being in favor of all those tax cuts and found a way to blame him.

My guess is someone wrote those words for bush, and he parroted them. A lot of people hold O'Neill and his qualifications in extremely high regard. Do you really think a Pulitzer Prize winner is going to damage his own reputation by putting O'Neill's story out there if it's false? Not likely.

[Torrey Pines]

5. "My guess is someone wrote those words for bush"

Any complete sentence that Bush speaks has been written for him. And I really don't mean that as hyperbole. ;-)

[Marymarg]

6. Bush did not know O'Neill

until after Cheney chose O'Neill for Treasury Secretary.

{According to Suskind's book when O'Neill was escorted in to meet the "President-elect," ):
"He and O'Neill were strangers. Their only encounter had been cursory and long ago, at President Clinton's 1996 education summit."

[kentuck]

7. He didn't know Ken Lay either....

He doesn't know anyone tha doesn't go along with his program or messes up his plan..

[lovedems]

2. This is what I have been waiting for, for 3 years

a pulitzer prize winning author on the heels of *. Now I want an aspiring journalist to make a timeline of * quotes that have the evidence of being lies.

[wryter2000]

3. Not just O'Neill

O'Neill isn't the author's only source. Discreditting O'Neill doesn't save Whistle Ass.