guardian.co.uk - 12/16/2008
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George Bush President Bush delivers remarks at the Pentagon. Photograph: Gerald Herbert/AP
yglesias.thinkprogress.org - 12/23/2008
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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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The Bush Legacy
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Bush library foundation president already spinning Katrina response.
Think Progress —
... In an article today on the George W. Bush presidential library, McClatchy notes that “[t]he present hasn’t worked out so well” for Bush. “So now he’s banking on a kinder and gentler future.” Bush library foundation president Mark Langdale says he is “confident that people will come to change their mind about the president and some of the decisions he made.” How will the Bush library accomplish this task? Spin. And Langdale ...
Can we start forgetting about him yet?
pandagon.net - we are the public option —
... The good news about Bush’s planned presidential library is that it’s going to be polluting Dallas and not Austin. For awhile there, I was positively obsessed with the idea that Bush was going to going to set up here as a form of counter-programming to the Most Awesome Presidential Library* in the world, the LBJ Library at UT Austin. Luckily, he didn’t, and we can still hold our heads high. No, he’s setting his library down ...
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