Lee Iacocca on Bushco - schmucks and slime buckets

[TacticalPeek]

Q. “What sort of CEOs do you think George W. Bush and his administration make?”

Lee Iacocca: I make speeches for the Washington Speakers Bureau, get $75,000 for 30 minutes, and all I ever say is, “Here’s what management is about. Hire good people and set some basic priorities and objectives.” Well, let’s see how George Bush qualifies.

The people that surround him are just friends, and I think most of them just schmucks, because I know a lot of them. Who runs the country? Cheney, who’s getting old and sick and had this hunting accident. And “Rummy,” Rumsfeld, whom I know real well — they’ve been together forever, and they run the country. They had Condoleezza Rice for lunch. I don’t know what she’s got on Bush, but, boy, he believes in her. Other than those three, the mastermind of them all, the boy genius, is Karl Rove — slime bucket that he is. You’ve got to know him to see how slimy he is.”

http://susiemadrak.com/2006/06/15/15/28/reassuring-3


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[Tactical Progressive]

1. $75,000 for a speech?

That's what's typically referred to in conservative circles as "hard-earned money".

[orwell]

3. Bingo...

...Horatio Alger indeed...

[ShaneGR]

13. Considering how successful he was as CEO of Chrysler...

What he has to say is well worth 75k if it wears off on just one of your top executives. Just my opinion.

[Democrats_win]

2. At what point does this describe the average American?

"Some" stood by and allowed bush to get away with this. It clearly describes the MSM and every person who voted for bush, the DESTROYER of AMERICA: schmucks and slime buckets.

[Suich]

4. Hm-m-m-m....interesting.

I'd like a link to the actual interview.

:hi:

[Penndems]

5. Here ya go . . .

It's a .pdf file:

http://www.joinleenow.org/iacocca%20single%20page.pdf

Lee's Website:
http://www.joinleenow.org/

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[Synnical]

6. Wow, there's even more at that link than the OP

How would you rate the priorities Bush and his friends have set?

Forget the economy, global warming, our infrastructure of roads and bridges
that are rotting away. And forget health care, which is a scandal, and is our
Achilles heel. A civilization that doesn’t take care of its young people and their
young minds through education, and that doesn’t take care of its aging parents?
Do you think our priority was going to Iraq, really? They didn’t have
nuclear bombs that I knew of. We’re in a war we should never have gotten
into, and yet they haven’t resolved the nuclear powers like North Korea and
Iran, so the priorities are wrong. Meanwhile, it’s going to be a half-trillion-dollar
war in Iraq. And we brought what to them? Democracy? I think we brought
them civil war. We’re after oil. Hitler bombed the hell out of Romania because
he wanted the oil fields. Before Pearl Harbor, we forget how we were twisting
the Japanese in the wind and shutting off their oil supply. No matter what you
talk about, every real confrontation is based on fossil fuel because we’re just
hooked on it. Selling nukes to India? Common sense has gone out the window.
You can tap my phone without a warrant? Where is the media? I would
think they’d be outraged at the way they’ve been conned. And the Democratic
Party is sitting on its hands. What are they doing, worrying about running
Hillary? Where is our country headed?

We have plenty of opinions on that score, but we’d rather hear yours.

When I go to Europe, they love Americans but they hate Bush and think he’s
nuts. Through the debacle of Iraq, I would have first fired all his speechmakers.
“Shock and awe,” “axis of evil,” “dead or alive”? That’s old Europe, not new
Europe. How can you write s--- like that without insulting your friends? Those
are fighting words. had to call his nanny, Karen Hughes, back from Texas
because he needed her to write speeches for Iraq and she wrote most of that
s---. It’s time for the press and the loyal opposition, the Democrats, to be
enraged and obnoxious. I think the press should stop all this political correctness
and just tell it the way it is and not worry where the chips fall. I’m asked
to speak at a lot of college commencements, and you don’t want to scare these
kids, but we’re in debt for trillions and leaving them the mortgage, saying, in
effect, “You pay it back.” Instead of “shock and awe,” we ought to be saying
things like, “Cool the rhetoric” and asking, “Where have all the thinkers gone?”

[Raine]

7. WOW

that's pretty interesting, THANKS for posting that extra. :thumbsup:

[Penndems]

8. He's still talking straight!

Anyone who hasn't read his autobiography should. It may be over twenty years old, but it's still timely:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0553251473/ref=si3_rdr_bb_product/102-5819758-4608933?%5Fencoding=UTF8

[Suich]

10. Thanks for the link, Penndems!

Mr. Iococca is a very smart man and offers good advice.

:hi:

[Penndems]

12. I bought his autobiography back in 1988

The guy is funny as all get-out, and the advice to mid- and upper-level management he offers is worth its weight in gold. Lee Iacocca was a breath of fresh air from the false optimism of the Reagan Administration years.

There's a follow-up, "Talking Straight", that's every bit as good as the first book.

We need him now more than ever.

[Cha]

9. Cool! A CEO who thinks

kkkarl rove is a Slime Bucket..just another "Liar for hire".

[oasis]

11. "Slime bucket" Karl Rove.

He's so slimey that he was able to mesmerize Fitzgerald.

[earth mom]

14. Straight from the horse's mouth.

Not that we didn't know this already, but it's great to hear it from an insider.

[Synnical]

15. Kick n/t

:kick:

[TacticalPeek]

16. Kick night.

:kick:

[TacticalPeek]

17. Last kick.

:kick:

[Synnical]

18. Remember the anagram for Iacocca

Iacocca

I Am Chairman Of Chrysler Corporation of America

Not sayin' there's anything to it, just recalled that.

[Booster]

19. Wow. That's cool. I'd never heard that before.