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Originally posted by Gattigap
Bad week for the Bushies.
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Let me get straight exactly what you're saying here (with a little assist from what I know about this episode):
Bush was going to nominate a guy who is roundly and
bipartisanly respected as being an excellent candidate for this position. The Dems who knew him thought he was great. They knew that his workforce got cut because of a drop in sales of a certain item, and, in an unrelated situation, he had opened a China factory that manufactured
only for the Chinese market, and which actually boosted jobs here because it was buying some components from his US plant.
Bush failed to tell someone ahead of time about the nomination.
Kerry found out, and, in order to be able to take a jab at Bush, he lied and misrepresented the guy's story, effectively killing him off. The cost of this small advantage to Kerry was the loss of someone who would have been very good at this slot, in the eyes of his Dem friends, and everyone else who knew him.
And you present this as a measure of
Bush's error?
Screwed up priorities.
