salon.com - 11/14/2008
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The international community now has a potent new motivating tool to dissuade world leaders from engaging in tyranny and aggression -- tell them they'll be like George Bush if they do it : Nicolas Sarkozy saved the President of Georgia from being hanged “by the balls” — a threat made last summer ...
salon.com - 11/12/2008
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salon.com —
(updated below) Though it hasn't happened yet, it
is appearing increasingly likely that Senate Democrats -- led
by Barack Obama (who seems to be playing a much more active role in all of this than his spokesperson yesterday suggested ) -- are going to ...
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The Democrats of 2002 and 2007 haven't gone anywhere - ...
the-reaction.blogspot.com - 11/10/2008
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the-reaction.blogspot.com —
By Michael J.W. Stickings At least according to
TNR's Jonathan Cohn. Cohn argues that has actually accomplished
a great deal as president, from overhauling the tax code to reforming education to gutting the regulatory state to rewriting ...
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Obama should be like Bush
swamppolitics.com - 11/10/2008
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swamppolitics.com —
by Mark Silva It's almost certain that the
handoff of the White House from President George W.
Bush to President-elect Barack Obama will pass more smoothly than the greeting that Bush's new crew faced in 2001. The Ws were removed from the ...
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Bush-Obama handoff: Legacy material
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Using Bush as a motivating tool
Political Animal —
... seemed unconcerned by international reaction. "I am going to hang Saakashvili by the balls," Mr Putin declared. Mr Sarkozy thought he had misheard. "Hang him?" -- he asked. "Why not?" Mr Putin replied. "The Americans hanged Saddam Hussein." Mr Sarkozy, using the familiar tu, tried to reason with him: "Yes but do you want to end up like [President] Bush?" Mr Putin was briefly lost for words, then said: "Ah -- you have scored a point there." Noting the report, Glenn Greenwald added an excellent suggestion : "Diplomats and human rights activists could use that tactic for all ...
Friday Bush Retrospective
Comments from Left Field —
... Glenn Greenwald sees a bright side to the Bush legacy: It can now be embraced by world leaders as a model of how not to behave. ...
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