...to teoretycznie oznacza, że masz duży problem. Według słów Matta Latimera, George Bush uważał, że Sarah Palin nie ma wystarczającego doświadczenia, by kandydować na stanowisko wiceprezydenta. Ale uważał się za członka drużyny (team player) i siedział cicho.
W nowym numerze miesięcznika GQ można przeczytać fragmenty "Speech-less: Tales of a White House Survivor",książki napisanej przez Matta Latimera, speechwritera prezydenta George'a W. Busha, który pracował w Białym Domu podczas ostatnich 22 miesięcy urzędowania republikańskiego prezydenta, a wcześniej głównego speechwritera Donalda Rumsfelda w Pentagonie.
Przyznaję się - uwielbiam takie książki, a ta zapowiada się bardzo smacznie, bo wydaje się być pełna anegdot, zakulisowych rozgrywek i szczegółów dotyczących funkcjonowania Białego Domu za rządów Dubyi:
1. It was less like Aaron Sorkin’s The West Wing and more like The Office.
2. Everyone in Bush White House liked to believe
every decision was great, every Republican was a genius, and McCain was
the hope of the world because, well, because he chose to be a member of GOP.
3. Gdy zaczęła walić się gospodarka, a pundits on TV started asking why the president wasn’t saying more and
what he was going to do. The answers were: We had nothing to say and no
one had any idea.
4. Bush uwielbiał czuć się ważnym i podejmować decyzje -He felt he’d made the major decision that everyone had been asking for.
That always seemed to relax him. He liked being decisive. Excuse me, boldly decisive. The president seemed to be thinking of his memoirs. “This might go in as a big decision,” he mused.
5. When White House press secretary Dana Perino was told that 77 percent
of the country thought we were on the wrong track, she said what I was
thinking: “Who on earth is in the other 23 percent?” I knew who they
were—the same people supporting the John McCain campaign.
6. Dana Perino was so sensitive to criticism of Bush that she once said
she couldn’t watch the Democratic convention because it would be “too
mean” to the president.
7. Bush wierzył, że nominację demokratów uzyska Hillary Clinton: “Wait till her fat keister is sitting at this desk,” he once said
(except he didn’t say “keister”). He didn’t think much of Barack Obama.
After one of Obama’s blistering speeches against the administration,
the president had a very human reaction: He was ticked off. He came in
one day to rehearse a speech, fuming. “This is a dangerous world,” he
said for no apparent reason, “and this cat isn’t remotely qualified to
handle it. This guy has no clue, I promise you.” He wound himself up
even more. “You think I wasn’t qualified?” he said to no one in
particular. “I was qualified.”
8. Zdaje się, że nikt nie wierzył w szanse McCaina na zwycięstwo: "We’d written a version if the victor was Obama and another if the
victor was McCain. But I think only the Obama one ever went for vetting."
