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Matt Latimer's Memoirs as a Bush Speechwriter

post #1 of 11
9/15/09 at 3:30pm
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Former speechwriter for the Bush Whitehouse in its final 22 months, Matt Latimer is about to publish his memoirs and it doesn't sound flattering.
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we wrote speeches nearly every time the stock market flipped. Meanwhile, the White House seemed to have ceded all of its authority on economic matters to the secretive secretary of the treasury. The president was clearly frustrated with this. I was told that at one Oval Office meeting, he got very animated and exclaimed to Paulson, “You’ve got to tell me what you’re doing!”
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post #2 of 11
9/15/09 at 3:48pm
It sounds awesome. This book will be bought by me.
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post #3 of 11
9/15/09 at 4:46pm
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Originally Posted by HBarr View Post
It sounds awesome. This book will be bought by me.
Cosigns.

Just preordered via Amazon. Thanks for bringing it to our attention.
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post #4 of 11
9/15/09 at 5:04pm
Bush on Palin:

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"I'm trying to remember if I've met her before. I'm sure I must have." His eyes twinkled, then he asked, "What is she, the governor of Guam?" [...]

"This woman is being put into a position she is not even remotely prepared for," he said. "She hasn't spent one day on the national level. Neither has her family. Let's wait and see how she looks five days out."
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post #5 of 11
9/15/09 at 5:13pm
Everyone should go read that lengthy excerpt linked in the first post. Terrifying, hilarious, and sad.
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post #6 of 11
9/15/09 at 5:16pm
And reading Bush on Palin gives the same cognitive dissonance as reading the Raiders story conference notes and finding out that Lucas was the level-headed one. Still, broken clocks, etc.
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post #7 of 11
9/15/09 at 5:16pm
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Originally Posted by Matt Latimer
"The president was clearly frustrated with what was going on, but there was little he could do at this late hour. He went up to take a nap, saying he was beat. He looked it. I’d never seen him more exhausted. His hair was out of place and shaggy. His face looked drained and pale. Even more distressing, he was wearing Crocs."
I don't know whether to laugh or cry.
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post #8 of 11
9/15/09 at 5:19pm
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Originally Posted by Alan "Nordling" Cerny View Post
Bush on Palin:
I like THIS Bush!
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post #9 of 11
9/15/09 at 5:27pm
Him calling out to noone in particluar "I was qualfied..." in regards to Obama left me in hysterics.


Elitist motherfucker. I hate to defend Palin but it wasn't her inexperience on the "national level" that was the problem. It was her being an intellectual black hole and an ideological hack that did her in.
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post #10 of 11
9/15/09 at 6:09pm
It's almost enough to make you sympathetic for Bush. Then I remember that he got hundreds of thousands of Iraqis killed and had people tortured and I say 'fuck him in the ear'.
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post #11 of 11
10/13/09 at 8:56pm
Ok I'm reading this now and I have to say, Latimer comes across as a really shallow, snarky and ignorant guy. Every single reference (so far) is to a TV show or a movie. Everyone is an idiot except Donald Rumsfeld, Anne Coulter (!) and Senator John Kyl of AZ.

Which I guess is why Bush hired him
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