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Are You Joking, Jenkins?
Are You Joking, Jenkins?
As promised, here is a partial transcript of British journalist, Simon Jenkins making his anti-Bush case to Bill Kristol at the Intelligence Squared U.S. debate on Tuesday night. If you have a beverage, put it down: SIMON JENKINS What I think is extraordinary to people abroad, is that those of ...
Before He Goes
Before He Goes
weeklystandard.com — What President Bush could accomplish in his final days in office. by William Kristol 12/08/2008, Volume 014, Issue 12 (more) Before He Goes
The 10 Worst Predictions for 2008
foreignpolicy.com — If [Hillary Clinton] gets a race against John Edwards and Barack Obama, she s going to be the nominee. Gore is the only threat to her, then. Barack Obama is not going to beat Hillary Clinton in a single Democratic primary. I ll predict that right ... (more) The 10 Worst Predictions for 2008
Karl Rove orchestrating the ‘Bush Legacy project.’
Karl Rove orchestrating the ‘Bush Legacy project.’
thinkprogress.org — President Bush’s interview with ABC’s Charlie Gibson this week was the “ first of several planned ‘exit interviews.’” According to White House press secretary Dana Perino , Bush’s next interview will be with ... (more) Karl Rove orchestrating the ‘Bush Legacy project.’
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Rove, Kristol Laugh At Idea U.S. Arrested American Muslims Without Trial: ‘We Didn’t Do It!’
Think Progress — ... Posting the exchange — to highlight what he saw as Jenkins’ idiocy — on Contentions, Abe Greenwald dismissed Jenkins’ claims as “therapeutic mythologies” that were part of “Bush-villification.” “With their vanishing Muslims, torture chambers, and evil corporate overlords, Bush haters are better suited to the Dungeons and Dragons, sci-fi convention circuit than to the political sphere,” Greenwald wrote. ...

The huge problem of Islamophobia
Yourish.com — via Contentions: SIMON JENKINS What I think is extraordinary to people abroad, is that those of us who are enthusiasts for America and American liberties cannot see why you needed to do these things. You will never persuade the outside world that you have not restricted liberty in America. You will never persuade them that you have not taken out Muslims as a particular group, and you will never, and you never persuade them that you really needed to do these things. Yes I understand that Jenkins is accusing the government of ...

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