EFL & hat tip to DailyPundit.com
Secretary of State Colin Powell is exhausted, frustrated, and bitter, uncomfortable with President George W. Bush’s agenda, and fatigued from his battles with the Pentagon, reports GQ magazine writer-at-large Wil S. Hylton in the June 2004 issue of GQ magazine.
Why GQ? Come on, cowboy it up, just a little.
Powell’s mentor from the National War College, Harlan Ullman on Powell’s discomfort with the Bush team: "This is, in many ways, the most ideological administration Powell’s ever had to work for. Not only is it very ideological, but they have a vision. And I think Powell is inherently uncomfortable with grand visions like that ... There’s an ideological core to Bush, and I think it’s hard for Powell to penetrate that."
What’s wrong with a vision. I have them all the time.
Ullman on Powell’s relationship with Vice President Dick Cheney: "I can tell you firsthand that there is a tremendous barrier between Cheney and Powell, and there has been for a long time ... It’s like McCain saying that his relations with the president are ’congenial,’ meaning McCain doesn’t tell the president to go f*ck himself every time."
That’s not very collegial.
Ullman on National Security Advisor’s Condoleeza Rice’s comments that Powell and Cheney are "on more than speaking terms," and that they’re "very friendly": "Condi’s a jerk."
Let’s see where this goes... |