Hi Kevin ~
Kevin Phillips is the subject of the piece it is written by Eric Bates. I have posted below his qualifications to speak on the matter.
Kevin I too am glad that GW has religion. True religion is not a bad thing. What does concern me is the fact that I feel this president has different reasons than the ones he stating. I don't trust him. In my mind he has been bred and trained to be put in the position he is in now (by the Supreme Court no less). The closest to being a real person he has ever been in my eyes was when he was running for the office and they spent time trying to get him to answer questions about his drug use. For better or worse that’s at least something real I can gleam about who he is. I think he's probably a good person and one I could spend time talking to about many things. As an adult, he got himself cleaned up and then went on to a series of jobs, by exploiting his family connections. That in and of itself is not bad, but that’s not the kind of grooming I look for in a representative of the people
It’s a feeling that comes from my heart/gut.
Where are the WMD’s?
What is our exit strategy??
Why were we in such a hurry to push out the inspectors only to turn around and ask for more and more time to find the WMD’s once we got in there??
It’s a boondoggle.
I find GW to be arrogant in his actions. This article/book we're discussing here makes the same arguments.
As far as the dynasty assertion, what if Jeb wants to be president in a few years? Does that idea sit well with you?? It does not sit well with me.
You have your beliefs, I have mine. I have questions and concerns and you have faith. We differ and that’s OK. I am not against republicans. I just have grave concerns about choices that our elected leader and his staff are making.
Hope that was civil enough.
Roger
From the Rolling Stone piece:
But Phillips is no left-wing demagogue. He's not only a lifelong Republican, he's also the guy who literally wrote the book that became the blueprint for the party's dominance of presidential politics. Phillips served as the chief political strategist for Richard Nixon in 1968, and, in The Emerging Republican Majority, he formulated the "Southern Strategy" that helped hand the White House to the GOP for a generation.
In his new book American Dynasty, Phillips lays out his almost visceral distaste for what he calls "the politics of deceit in the House of Bush," accusing the administration of dishonesty and secrecy that would make Tricky Dick blush. He traces the course of Bush's family over the past 100 years, detailing how they sought influence "in the back corridors" of the oil and defense industries, investment banking and the intelligence establishment. Elites, not elections, put Bush in power. "I'm not talking about ordinary lack of business ethics or financial corruption," says Phillips, who recently registered as an Independent for the first time. "Four generations of building toward dynasty have infused the Bush family's hunger for power and practices of crony capitalism with a moral arrogance and backstage disregard of the democratic and republican traditions of the U.S. government." As a result, he says, "deceit and disinformation have become Bush political hallmarks."
