Archive for the 'Bush 41' Category

Working the crowd…

Saturday, July 12th, 2008

via politicalticker.blogs. cnn
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Image: (Angelina Jolie lips) via bellabeauty.files.wordpress.com

History is replete with tyrants who have done without candy for Lent.

Saturday, May 17th, 2008

Bush: I quit golf over Iraq war
Tue May 13, 10:01 PM ET
WASHINGTON (AFP) - US President George W. Bush said in an interview out Tuesday that he quit playing golf in 2003 out of respect for the families of US soldiers killed in the conflict in Iraq, now in its sixth year.
“I think playing golf […]

Doug Thomspson synthesizes Senator Obama’s magnetism.

Friday, February 15th, 2008

The Rant
Time for a real leader

Capitol Hill Blue

February 15, 2008 - 8:10am

By DOUG THOMPSON

Hillary Rodham Clinton claims she has “solutions” while Barack Obama only has “speeches.” Obama, she says borrowing an old Texas cliché, is “all hat and no cattle.”
From this vantage point, we’ll take Obama’s words over Clinton’s solutions. Given her performance in the […]

In a word–YES!

Tuesday, October 2nd, 2007

Too much of the same old pols?
September 29, 2007 - 8:08am.
Bush, Clinton, Bush…Clinton? Been there, done that
By NANCY BENAC
Forty percent of Americans have never lived when there wasn’t a Bush or a Clinton in the White House. Anyone got a problem with that?
With Hillary Rodham Clinton hoping to tack another four or eight “Clinton” years […]

‘Bucking convention, French first lady snubs Bush invite’–AFP headline

Wednesday, August 15th, 2007

by Emma Charlton
Sun Aug 12, 4:27 PM ET
Cecilia Sarkozy’s decision to bow out of a picnic with the president of the United States this weekend is the latest proof of the French first lady’s unpredictable, even rebellious take on her new role.
President Nicolas Sarkozy travelled alone to meet George W. Bush and his family at […]

Despite the River Demon’s lineup…

Saturday, April 28th, 2007

the Cairo Papyrus Pushers still have the league’s best pitching.
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April 29, 2007
A Saudi Prince Tied to Bush Is Sounding Off-Key
By HELENE COOPER and JIM RUTENBERG
WASHINGTON, April 28 — No foreign diplomat has been closer or had more access to President Bush, his family, and his administration than the magnetic and fabulously wealthy Prince Bandar […]

This piece is a throwback to the NEW YORK MIRROR…

Saturday, April 28th, 2007

Give the Medal Back George
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Overheard while George Bush awarded George Tenet the Medal of Freedom
posted on February 13, 2007
(Doug Mills for The New York Times)

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By Larry Johnson

(excerpts)

Like the Titanic the Bush Administration is foundering. The latest rat heading overboard is former CIA chief George Tenet, who abandons for good the Bush Administration’s Ship of Fools […]

Forty-one forgets reality.

Tuesday, December 5th, 2006

 I found it very touching to see Bush 41 become
emotional speaking of his son, but…
“(AP) Former President George H.W. Bush broke down in tears as he cited his son, Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, as an example of leadership.
Mr. Bush was addressing lawmakers, his son Gov. Jeb Bush’s top administrators, and Florida state workers gathered in […]

Tomorrow’s poll question: Fried or cake doughnuts.

Tuesday, November 21st, 2006

CNN reports that an OPINION RESEARCH CORPORATION poll has found that about 25% of the American people feel W is a better president than his father, while about 6o% believe the opposite and 12% say it’s a toss up.
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The 25% who said W is the better president qualified their statement by ranking his presidency against […]

What about the time Dick ‘n W took that M1A1 Abrams battle tank and used it to crash the Yale Homecoming dance in ‘05.

Friday, November 10th, 2006

That dose of Strontium-90 has morphed W’s 54-year Pop’s Midas Complex.

Saturday, October 28th, 2006

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Has W invented a Tito? We should be so lucky.
‘Not America’s man in Iraq,’ Premier says
Aides say Maliki warns U.S. to respect nation’s sovereignty.
By Borzou Daragahi
Times Staff Writer
October 28, 2006
Iraq’s prime minister sharply criticized U.S. policy Friday during a private meeting with the American ambassador, pointing to the United States’ failure to either reduce violence […]