Karen Hughes

Another Bush advisor has provided a gift.

Karen Hughes, the female side of the Karl Rove coin, reveals a different side of George Bush in her new book.

This is a more deliberate, braver side than most of us have seen.

ABC News has an excerpt from her new book, Ten Minutes from Normal.  Check this out:

By choosing a different course, Governor Bush was doing a rare thing in politics: letting people know something that might not serve his own best interests. Our staff in the Texas governor's office had seen him do it many times: when he spoke out against California's proposition 187 and said Texas would educate children whether their parents were here legally or not; when he took on a massive tax restructuring that one of our savviest friends described as politically suicidal but otherwise exactly the right thing to do; when he commuted the death penalty to a life prison sentence for a despicable murderer who had killed many women but probably had not killed the one for which he had been sentenced to death.

I find it somewhat hard to believe that GWB ever lets his best interests fall below #1 in priorty.  

Could the publication of Mrs. Hughes' book be politically motivated, like another former aide's recent publication?  Will O'Reilly and Insanity question its credibility, since after all, it is plainly politically motivated.  I hope Mrs. Hughes doesn't plan to make any money on it either, as profit would further damage the credibility of her statements.  The timing of its publication is suspect as well, being released so close to the presidential election.  Is that harmful to credibility, the obviously calculated timing?

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