Even with the best of intentions, even when they’re very smart and knowledgeable – as opposed to George W., who is neither – it doesn’t seem to matter. Robert Scheer Read Quote
For instance, Clinton who was unquestionably the smartest of the bunch I talked to – both the ones who made it and didn’t. He had a great interest in policy. Robert Scheer Read Quote
I talked to Reagan for about six hours all told. and Reagan was willing to go along with it. He didn’t look at his watch, and he didn’t allow his campaign aides to cut it off. Robert Scheer Read Quote
I was able to do something that people can’t do these days, which is to have quality time with the guys who were trying to be president and a number of them who got the job. Robert Scheer Read Quote
It had run as a column – I had worked at the paper since 1976, but the column had been running for 13 years, and I think it was a strong column, criticizing the war when the paper was supporting it. Robert Scheer Read Quote
Much of what candidates have to do is raise money and appeal to constituencies or interest groups that can provide that money. Robert Scheer Read Quote
So this guy, Jeff Johnson, who is an accountant who cares nothing at all about a free press and cares nothing about journalism, he’s a right winger who supported the war, you know, who two years ago told people he couldn’t stand a word that I wrote. Robert Scheer Read Quote
