Former Treasury Sec. Paints Bush as 'Blind Man'

Ouch:

Former U.S. Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill likened
President Bush at Cabinet meetings to "a blind man in a room full of
deaf people," according to excerpts on Friday from a CBS interview.
O'Neill, who was fired by Bush in December 2002, also said the
president did not ask him a single question during their first
one-on-one meeting, which lasted an hour.
"As I recall it was just a monologue," he told CBS' "60 Minutes," which
will broadcast the entire interview on Sunday.
In making the blind man analogy, O'Neill told CBS his ex-boss did not
encourage a free flow of ideas or open debate.
"There is no discernible connection," CBS quoted O'Neill as saying. The
president's lack of engagement left his advisers with "little more than
hunches about what the president might think," O'Neill said, according
to the program.
CBS said much of O'Neill's criticisms of Bush are included in "The
Price of Loyalty," an upcoming book by former Wall Street Journal
reporter Ron Suskind.

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