thedemocraticstrategist.org - 1/19/2009
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As the George W. Bush Era comes to a merciful close, and we bid farewell to his many appointees, there are plenty of retrospectives being written and published, mostly negative, a few more mixed or even hilariously positive. But one...
whitehouse.gov - 1/16/2009
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whitehouse.gov —
For Immediate Release Office of the Press Secretary
January 15, 2009 President Bush Makes Farewell Address to
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latimesblogs.latimes.com - 1/16/2009
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Here's the prepared text of the Farewell Address
to the nation by the 44th president to be
given in a few minutes from the White House. His audience in the East Room includes family, friends, Cabinet and some selected Americans the President has ...
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Full Text of President George W. Bush's Farewell Address
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Eternal Recurrence
Political Animal —
... after them. The coming years will see the struggle to purge America, to reassert the promise of American life, to validate, in consonance with the changed times and conditions, the high aspirations of the founders of the nation. Mr. Roosevelt has the opportunity to be the leader of this renaissance, but he will have to forge as his instrument a wholly different Democratic Party from that which so long has been indistinguishable from the Republican." Plus ca change... (Though, like Ed Kilgore , I don't think we'll have too much trouble telling Democrats apart from Republicans ...
Eternal Recurrence
Obsidian Wings —
... from just before the inauguration of FDR in 1933, called 'A Farewell To Republicans' (h/t). Except for the absence of any mention of Iraq or global warming, it's downright scary how apt it is today: ...
Republican Governance: Tragedy and Farce
Lawyers, Guns and Money —
In fairness, I think the comparison is unfair to Hoover...
Mike's Blog Roundup
Crooks and Liars —
... Democratic Strategist: Over 75 tears ago as the Hoover administration prepared to slink out of Washington, The Nation published a "Farewell to Republicans" which reads like it was written yesterday. ...
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