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While "painting" a verbal caricature might often be a theme here, why bother when one does it on their own.  A mother-lode of this style was lost when Paul O'Neill, treasury secrerary abruptly resigned last week.
"The president enjoys his blunt, plain-spoken approach," White House press secretary Ari Fleischer said in a vote of confidence for the embattled treasury secretary last year.  So do I, To wit:
O'Neill on nuclear power: "If you set aside Three Mile Island and Chernobyl, the safety record of nuclear is really very good."
On currency traders: People who "sit in front of a flickering green screen" all day, are "not the sort of people you would want to help you think about complex questions."
On currency trading: Something he "probably could learn about in a couple of weeks."
On the attention he's received: "I'm constantly amazed that anyone cares what I do."
On the criticism he's received: "If people don't like what I'm doing, I don't give a damn. I could be sailing around on a yacht or driving around the country."
On the House Republican economic stimulus package: "Show business."
On the Enron mess: "Companies come and go. It's . . . part of the genius of capitalism."

O'Neill......
On the federal bureaucracy: A place where the world is run "in stupid ways defined by stupid rules."
Perhaps O'Neill's finest hour occurred in a Senate Budget Committee hearing during a 15-minute exchange with Sen. Robert Byrd (D-W.Va.) over who had endured the poorer childhood. Byrd suggested that O'Neill's status as a Cabinet secretary and former corporate chief put him out of touch with the struggles of average Americans. An abridged version:
"Senator, I started my life in a house without water or electricity," said O'Neill. "So, I don't cede to you the high moral ground of not knowing what life is like in a ditch."
"Well, Mr. Secretary," Byrd responded, "I lived in a house without electricity too. No running water, no telephone, a little wooden outhouse."
"I had the same," said O'Neill.
"I started out in life without any rungs in the bottom ladder," Byrd said. "I grew up in a coal miner's home. I married a coal miner's daughter. So I hope you don't want to start down this road on talking about our backgrounds and how -- how far back we came from."
At one point, it appeared that O'Neill had tears in his eyes.
"No," he said, when asked about it, "that was fire."

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Kirsten Clark makes a "Ski Dog" patented "High Banked" turn during the super G race at the 2002 Chevy Truck Aspen Winternational. Clark placed fourth.
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