Bob Novak's book looks more and more like it's a necessity rather than a luxury.
While these thoughts are abbreviations, delivered at a 'newsmaker breakfast,' they are also covered in his book--in much greater detail.
On presidents he has covered, he was mostly scathing, except for Reagan. Nixon "was a bad man and a poor president." Carter "was a liar." Ford "never understood the Cold War." Clinton "posed as a centrist...but he was a reflexibe liberal. A big-government liberal." Ike was "stodgy and fuddy-duddy." Three recessions in his eight years occurred largely because Ike refused to cut taxes.
Pithy. All true.
Another couple of neat lines:
"The founding fathers tried to devise a government that didn't work very well, and they damn well succeeded. [Which is a good thing because] governmental power is still the thing I worry about most."
"I think the American people are better than their leaders."
HT: AmSpecBlog
I saw his interview on The World Over Fri nite. Raymond Arroyo asked him the same question about the presidents. He went into a little more detail
ReplyDeleteI am looking forward to getting the book as it promises to be a real pleaser.