bloomberg.com - 12/23/2008
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Commentary by Kevin Hassett Dec. 22 (Bloomberg) -- The George W. Bush farewell tour took off in earnest last week, with the president granting interviews left and right. The image that emerged was surprisingly upbeat. His party is in tatters, the economy is the bleakest in a generation, and yet ...
telegraph.co.uk - 12/27/2008
michellemalkin.com - 12/28/2008
breitbart.com - 12/17/2008
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breitbart.com —
US President George W. Bush said in an
interview Tuesday he was forced to sacrifice free market
principles to save the economy from "collapse." "I've abandoned free-market principles to save the free-market system," Bush told CNN television, saying ...
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Bush Legacy: A Liberator of 50,000,000-- A President Who Kept US Safe
Gateway Pundit —
... photo-- Click to Enlarge) In the years ahead historians will look back at the Bush years and see a leader who kept America safe, a warrior who went on the offensive against Islamic terrorism, a Christian who liberated 50,000,000 Muslims from two of the most brutal regimes in modern history, a hero who would not leave the battlefront in defeat, a visionary who brought democracy to the Middle East. Kevin Hassett at Bloomberg reported today: ...Might history judge him favorably? The ...
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NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias —
For general discussion and debate. Possible talking point: Bush’s Legacy May End Up Better Than You Think.
On foreign policy, Bush emphasizes that he pursued a “freedom agenda” and spread freedom to Iraq. While the Iraqi future is far from clear, it is possible that the country becomes a democracy and a reliable ally of the U.S. If that transformation is completed, then it could well be viewed as a turning point in the war on terror. On the home front, to virtually everyone’s surprise, we’ve avoided a terrorist attack since Sept. 11...We are in the midst of the worst recession of our generation, yet it is hard to attribute this ...
President Bush's Legacy: One of Our Greatest Presidents
Jon Swift —
As I recently predicted, in few months, with the benefit of hindsight, historians will look back on the Bush presidency as an unalloyed success and consider President Bush to be one of our greatest presidents. Although the White House has sent around its own talking points highlighting the President's accomplishments, I don't think they go far enough. So I have put together my own list of talking points, which should convince anyone why George W. Bush belongs on Mount Rushmore, along with Washington, Lincoln, Jefferson and the other guy. After Hurricane Katrina President Bush kept our cities safe. In the ...
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boomantribune.com 12/20/2008 — Dan Eggen reports: It was bad enough for President Bush to have shoes tossed at his head during his farewell journey to Baghdad. Now comes a new poll in which Americans call Bush all sorts of names -- some of them a lot worse than "dog." In a poll ...
Obama should be like Bush
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yglesias.thinkprogress.org 12/23/2008 — Ed Gillespie’s RealClearPolitics article on “Myths and Facts About the Real Bush Record” is about as stupid and dishonest as you’d expect. But after “debunking” five perfectly accurate alleged myths, Gillespie gets ...
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chicagoboyz.net 11/11/2008 — Let the rehabilitation of Bush begin! For the past 8 years, the most strident and hysterical leftist criticism of Bush has centered on his intelligence policies which leftist assured us arose purely out of a callous disregard for civil liberties and ...
Halperin Hearts Bush
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We let Bush down
washingtonmonthly.com 11/6/2008 — WE LET BUSH DOWN.... A friend emailed me last night, telling me that this op-ed from the Wall Street Journal may very well be the single most foolish op-ed ever published in a major American newspaper. That's obviously a difficult...
Katrina and Bush
krugman.blogs.nytimes.com 1/1/2009 — Presidential
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So everyone is talking about the Vanity Fair article in which Bush aides say that Katrina is what did him in. I don't think that's entirely true, but what I'd like to focus on is why Katrina was such a problem for ...
Bush and Public Opinion
pewresearch.org 12/18/2008 — Just 11% say Bush will be remembered as an outstanding or above average president -- by far the lowest positive end-of-term rating for any of the past four presidents. Yet Bush's impact on public opinion over the past eight years is seen in ways that ...
Farewell to George Bush: The President and the Man
pundits.thehill.com 1/12/2009 — The headline of this column bidding George W. Bush farewell as our 43rd president refers to President Bush as president and as a man. And that is my central point: I have strong disagreements with President Bush on policies and politics; but I have ...
York: Bush Loyalty Test
article.nationalreview.com 1/4/2009 — The people who have worked with George W. Bush in the White House for many of these past eight years have seen a different man from the one reflected in so much negative press coverage.
Bush's last Christmas as president —
First Read 12/23/2008
From NBC's John YangPresident Bush heads to the presidential retreat Camp David for his last Christmas this afternoon. It will be the 12th Christmas he's spent there -- four when his father was president and eight during his own presidency. The ...
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