- exposee of Bushco by a former paid biographer "Dan Qayle in cowboy boots"

[The Count]

"For all the Rove-built facade of his being a 'strong' chief executive, George W. Bush has been, by comparison to even hapless Jimmy Carter, the weakest, most out of touch president in modern times," Gold writes. "Think Dan Quayle in cowboy boots."

Gold is even more withering in his observations of Cheney. "A vice president in control is bad enough. Worse yet is a vice president out of control."

For Gold, Cheney brings to mind the adage of Swiss writer Madame de Stael, who wrote, "Men do not change, they unmask themselves." Cheney has a deep streak of paranoia and megalomania, Gold suggests -- but he says he did not see it at first.

"He was hiding who he really was," Gold says. "He was waiting for an opportunity."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/01/AR2007040101211_pf.html

[shain from kane]

1. Gold's comments are priceless.

[indepat]

2. Like DC has always been a wolf if sheep's clothing, just laying in wait

to spring on the American prey.

[ChickMagic]

3. I always kind of figured

that Poppy picked Quayle because he reminded him of Georgie,
except he wasn't a drunken cokehead.

[AnneD]

5. That thought struck me

about a year or two ago when I saw some quotes from Dan Quayle. You could just imagine Dubya saying them.

[lyonn]

4. Those are some harsh and accurate words from one that was loyal

to the Party. May even buy the book if I thought there were more great descriptive words about bush/cheney.

[WI_DEM]

6. Carter's overall record is looking better all the time as his his historical

reputation. Bush will have no such luck.

[blm]

7. When will one of these guys admit wiring the Bushboy for the debates?

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