Former Speechwriter Says Bush Slammed Obama, Predicted Palin Debacle

by Tom Barnes, Staff Writer

Whoa! Talk about a reality check!  Wait until you read this.  Whether your a Republican or a Democrat is not going to matter.  This is going to sit you down.

Matt Latimer, a former Bush Administration speech writer has just written a book about his days of glory.  Here is a quote from Politics Daily blog on that book.

"Former president George W. Bush had a flair for insulting the people fighting to be his successor, former speechwriter Matt Latimer reveals in the October issue of GQ. The piece, an excerpt from Latimer’s forthcoming book, "Speech Less: Tales of a White House Survivor," gives a candid look at the final days of the Bush presidency."

You have got to read this blog!  The blog is here. 

Looks like Old Dubya was a little more keyed into reality than we thought.  He sure had his pulse directly on this one! 

Who would have known?

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SUMMARY OF THE BOOK: As a young political geek, Matt Latimer dreamed of one day heading to Washington to work for a conservative president and usher in another Reagan Revolution.

With the support of his slightly mortified liberal parents, he tried to do just that — but his youthful exuberance began to cool as he moved up the rungs of power. On Capitol Hill he worked for a Congressman who “misremembered” basic facts, assisted a U.S. Senator who hid from his own staff, and met another who cowed her male aides into carrying her purse. 

Finally ensconced in the White House as one of George W. Bush’s chief speechwriters, he soon realized that the post wasn’t at all what he’d envisioned. Less like Aaron Sorkin’s “The West Wing” and more like NBC’s “The Office,” D.C.’s most prestigious address turned out to be a bizarro world in which the major players were in some ways mirror opposites of their public images.