George Bush and Ken Lay are Close and Personal Friends

A BUZZFLASH READER CONTRIBUTION
by Mike

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/bushlay1.html

Dear BuzzFlash:

I strongly encourage your readers, and everyone else, to review the archives at "The Smoking Gun" for a look at the personal and business relationship between President George W. Bush and indicted Enron exec Ken Lay. The memos go on and on.

The GOP will spin Lay's indictment as proof the Bush White House will not protect corporate criminals, but the Enron tapes and public disgust with Lay's company make it impossible not to do something before the election.

The larger story, the story that will be ignored, is the link between Bush and Lay. If President Clinton had built such a relationship with someone in Lay's position, the corporate media would have howled in outrage. But their idea of news was a $60 million Republican peep show starring the First Penis. When their own guy gets into bed with a company that jokes about ripping off "those poor grandmothers in California" it's not news.

From "The Smoking Gun" website:

"While the White House has repeatedly described former Enron chairman Kenneth Lay as simply a "supporter" of George W. Bush, extensive correspondence between the two men paints a far cozier picture of their relationship...The Bush-Lay material touches on both personal matters (birthday greetings and Bush's knee surgery) and public concerns of Lay and Enron, such as energy legislation and tort reform, and reflects the kind of jocular relationship that reportedly saw the nickname-happy Bush call the Enron boss "Kenny Boy."

- Mike in Fla.

A BUZZFLASH READER CONTRIBUTION