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themp
Citizen
Username: Themp
Post Number: 447
Registered: 12-2001
| | Posted on Friday, January 30, 2004 - 12:06 pm: |     |
I'm halfway done. Anyone want to borrow it? Although O'Neill is insufferably intellectually vain, it is interesting to read his perceptions of how different in character this administration is from any other republican adminstration he has worked for. And those differences are not for the better. |
themp
Citizen
Username: Themp
Post Number: 453
Registered: 12-2001
| | Posted on Friday, January 30, 2004 - 3:26 pm: | |
No takers? This is fascinating reading even if you don't like O'Neill (as many republicans now suddenly don't). I was reading it on the train last night, and some old guy leaned over and said "the butler did it" in my ear, which was creepy, and I suppose his point was that I am credulously reading it like an agatha christie novel, looking for a "gotcha". I guess for many not opening a book is the answer.
I know I make fun of Ayn Rand without ever reading any more than ten pages, but reading Ayn Rand is extreme punishment in the interest of being fairminded. Reading Ayn Rand to be fair is like entering a hotdog eating contest just so you have the right to call the winner a pig. "The Price of Loyalty" can be read in a weekend. Also gives interesting non-partisan civics lessons on how an administration works.
Lot's of stuff like this "That's just the type of number-crunching give-and-take that a maverick like Paul O'Neill liked. Finding the best answer, no matter where it came from is what he is all about. Policy demands no less. " |
harpo
Citizen
Username: Harpo
Post Number: 1089
Registered: 6-2001
| | Posted on Friday, January 30, 2004 - 3:35 pm: | |
I want to borrow it! Please! I'll send you a private line. Thank you.
I'm a fast reader so if anyone else wants it after me and that's OK with themp, please let me know. And I will readily give up my place in line to any Republican.
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Dave
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Username: Dave
Post Number: 6271
Registered: 4-1998
| | Posted on Friday, January 30, 2004 - 3:38 pm: | |
You can read Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead if you have some interest in Frank Lloyd Wright without screaming too often, which is why I read it. |
ligeti
Citizen
Username: Ligeti
Post Number: 70
Registered: 7-2002
| | Posted on Friday, February 6, 2004 - 4:06 pm: | |
Funny how the conservative talk show hosts like Sean "Stupid" Hannity, Steve "Stupid" Malzberg and Bill "Stupid" O'Reilly are trashing O'Neill for his sour-grapes, traiterous tell-all, but sucking up to Dick Morris at every opportunity. Weasel Morris wrote his own slimey book and has been relentlessly dumping on his former employer at every opportunity. And he got blowjobs from his mistress while talking on the White House hotline, too! I don't think that is O'Neil's style. |
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