ChasingBlueSky 0 #1 September 9, 2004 Anyone else hear about the new book from Kitty Kelly that claims GW did coke at Camp David? Here is the blurb Amazon.com has about The Family : The Real Story of the Bush Dynasty: They have wielded enormous financial power and dominated world politics for more than half a century. They have been appointed to positions of great power and have been elected as governors, congressmen, senators and presidents. They have shaped our past and, with our country at war under the leadership of their number one son, they are, more critically than ever, shaping our future. As the Bush family has risen to dominance, so too they have been master orchestrators of their own public image, acting and operating under the shield of privacy their money and status have always afforded them. Until now. Number One bestselling author and investigative biographer Kitty Kelley has closely examined the lives of Jacqueline Onassis, Nancy Reagan, Frank Sinatra, and the British Royal family. Now the First Lady of unauthorized biography reckons with the first family of the United States--and the result is at once a rich and shocking history and a very human portrait of the world's most powerful dynasty. An important polemic on wealth, power, and class in America, The Family is rich in texture, probing in its psychological insight, revealing in its political and financial detail, and stunning in the patterns that emerge and expose the Bush dynasty as it has never before been exposed. Ms. Kelley takes us back to the origins of the family fortune in the Ohio steel industry at the turn of the last century, through the oil deals and international business associations that have maintained and increased their wealth over the past hundred years. The book leads us through Prescott Bush's first entrée into government at the state level in 1950s' Connecticut, to George Herbert Walker Bush's long and winding road to the White House, to his son's quick sweep into the same office. Along the way, we see the complex relationships the Bushes have had with the giants of the century--Eisenhower, Nixon, Joseph McCarthy, Kissinger, Reagan, Clinton--as well as the often ruthless methods used to realize their goals. Perhaps most impressive--and surprising--is the way the book delves behind the obsessively protected public image into the family's intimate private lives: the matriarchs, the mistresses, the marriages, the divorces, the jealousies, the hypocrisies, the golden children, and the black sheep. At a crucial point in American history, Kitty Kelley is the one person to finally tell all about the family that has, perhaps more than any other, defined our role in the modern world. This is the book the Bushes don't want you to read. This is The Family. Kitty Kelley is the internationally acclaimed bestselling author of Jackie Oh!; Elizabeth Taylor: The Last Star; His Way: The Unauthorized Biography of Frank Sinatra; Nancy Reagan: The Unauthorized Biography; and The Royals. The last three titles were all #1 on the New York Times bestseller list. Ms. Kelley has been honored by her peers with such awards as the Outstanding Author Award from the American Society of Jouranlists and Authors, the Philip M. Stern Award, and the Medal of Merit from the Lotos Club of New York City. Her articles have appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, People, Ladies Home Journal, McCall's, the Los Angeles Times, and the Chicago Tribune. She lives in Washington, D.C., with her physician husband, Jonathan Zucker._________________________________________ you can burn the land and boil the sea, but you can't take the sky from me.... I WILL fly again..... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
narcimund 0 #2 September 9, 2004 George Bush doesn't sign his checks when he pays the bills. He thinks when the electric company tries to cash the check but the bank will reject it. Then he'll have another billing cycle to pay his bill before they shut off service. It's just a way to extend payment, but he pretends it was an honest mistake. First Class Citizen Twice Over Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Frenchy68 0 #3 September 9, 2004 And Bush doesn't tip his packer... "For once you have tasted Absinthe you will walk the earth with your eyes turned towards the gutter, for there you have been and there you will long to return." Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
peacefuljeffrey 0 #4 September 9, 2004 You can go ahead and believe what a person who's called "Kitty" claims. I myself choose not to. --Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!" Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
peacefuljeffrey 0 #5 September 9, 2004 QuoteHe thinks when the electric company tries to cash the check but the bank will reject it. Weren't you just in another thread claiming that Bush supporters can't put a sentence together to go to hell? What the fuck does THIS one mean? --Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!" Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Zenister 0 #6 September 9, 2004 QuoteYou can go ahead and believe what a person who's called "Kitty" claims. I myself choose not to. - oh now there is a simply lovely reason to disregard any and all conflicting opinions or evidence ... can you get any shallower?____________________________________ Those who fail to learn from the past are simply Doomed. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
TheAnvil 0 #7 September 9, 2004 I disregard most things Ms. Kelly says until fact checked by someone credible. Notice that Ms. Kelly will appear on the TODAY show. Mr. Bernard Goldberg and Mr. O'Neill of the SwiftVets - I think not. Vinny the Anvil Post Traumatic Didn't Make The Lakers Syndrome is REAL JACKASS POWER!!!!!! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
rushmc 23 #8 September 9, 2004 QuoteQuoteYou can go ahead and believe what a person who's called "Kitty" claims. I myself choose not to. - oh now there is a simply lovely reason to disregard any and all conflicting opinions or evidence ... can you get any shallower? All but one major news source ran away from this one because it could not be substantiated. The other crap she has written was just as bad or worse. Go ahead......be a lemming"America will never be destroyed from the outside, if we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves." Abraham Lincoln Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
miked10270 0 #9 September 9, 2004 "...new book from Kitty Kelly that claims GW did Coke at Camp David?" Who does this actually affect?.. Apart from, possibly, Pepsi? Of course GW would do Coke - He's no cheapskate, he want's the original and best American cola! Mike. Taking the piss out of the FrenchAmericans since before it was fashionable. Prenait la pisse hors du FrançaisCanadiens méridionaux puisqu'avant lui à la mode. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jazzjumper 0 #10 September 9, 2004 Sharon Bush has stated on the record that she said no such thing... yet all the new Try this. You'll have to find the link on Drudge's page, but it's not his story, it's a Washington Post story. It's a smear attempt that Kitty has NO basis for. Another assault from the left. No matter how good she looks, someone, somewhere is sick of her shit! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Zenister 0 #11 September 9, 2004 QuoteQuoteQuoteYou can go ahead and believe what a person who's called "Kitty" claims. I myself choose not to. - oh now there is a simply lovely reason to disregard any and all conflicting opinions or evidence ... can you get any shallower? All but one major news source ran away from this one because it could not be substantiated. see now there might be a reason to disregard an opinion... objecting on the basis of someone's name however, is simply ignorant and uninformed...____________________________________ Those who fail to learn from the past are simply Doomed. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
rushmc 23 #12 September 9, 2004 QuoteQuoteQuoteQuoteYou can go ahead and believe what a person who's called "Kitty" claims. I myself choose not to. - oh now there is a simply lovely reason to disregard any and all conflicting opinions or evidence ... can you get any shallower? All but one major news source ran away from this one because it could not be substantiated. see now there might be a reason to disregard an opinion... objecting on the basis of someone's name however, is simply ignorant and uninformed... Resorting to insults now???"America will never be destroyed from the outside, if we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves." Abraham Lincoln Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Zenister 0 #13 September 9, 2004 no insult at all, it is an accurate description. Judging the veracity of anyone's opinion solely on the basis of his or her first name (or nick name) is ignorant, uninformed behavior...____________________________________ Those who fail to learn from the past are simply Doomed. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
rushmc 23 #14 September 9, 2004 Quoteno insult at all, it is an accurate description. Judging the veracity of anyone's opinion solely on the basis of his or her first name (or nick name) is ignorant, uninformed behavior... You don't get it. My opinion is based on past work. (garbage) This person has presented as fact claims that can't be backed up so now I pay no attention. Most of the major media chose to do the same too. You are out there on this one"America will never be destroyed from the outside, if we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves." Abraham Lincoln Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Zenister 0 #15 September 9, 2004 not your opinion... ... you I agreed with, you actually have a factual basis...follow the thread back and look to see who i quoted reading IS fundamental ____________________________________ Those who fail to learn from the past are simply Doomed. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
kallend 2,146 #16 September 9, 2004 QuoteQuoteno insult at all, it is an accurate description. Judging the veracity of anyone's opinion solely on the basis of his or her first name (or nick name) is ignorant, uninformed behavior... You don't get it. My opinion is based on past work. (garbage) This person has presented as fact claims that can't be backed up so now I pay no attention. Most of the major media chose to do the same too. You are out there on this one No he's not. You jumped into the middle of it and missed the boat. He was commenting on THIS... The only sure way to survive a canopy collision is not to have one. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
kallend 2,146 #17 September 9, 2004 QuoteYou can go ahead and believe what a person who's called "Kitty" claims. I myself choose not to. - My daughter in law is called "Kitty" and I find your statement offensive.... The only sure way to survive a canopy collision is not to have one. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
kelel01 1 #18 September 9, 2004 Zenister . . . for once I agree with you. People need to learn to read. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
