washingtonpost.com - 11/10/2008
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President Uses His Oval Office Floor Covering as a Metaphor for Optimism and Leadership By Peter Baker Washington Post Staff Writer Tuesday, March 7, 2006; A15 Nothing says power like the Oval Office. The paintings of George Washington and Abraham Lincoln. The bust of Dwight D. Eisenhower. The ...
washingtonmonthly.com - 11/6/2008
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washingtonmonthly.com —
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...
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We let Bush down
chicagoboyz.net - 11/11/2008
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chicagoboyz.net —
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 ...
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Rehabilitating Bush
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
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A meeting of the minds
Political Animal —
... It's unlikely, for example, that either will bring up the often sharp criticism each directed at the other during the campaign. (Remember when Bush traveled to Israel's Knesset to condemn Obama's foreign policy as "appeasement" along the lines of Chamberlain? Good times, good times.) And while everyone would no doubt love to be a fly on the wall for the Oval Office chat, I'm going to guess that Bush is going to spend quite a bit of time talking about the floor, or more accurately, what's covering the floor . Nothing says power like the Oval Office. The paintings of George ...
Rug Story
Firedoglake —
... I. Meeting with the President Elect, November 10, 2008:
A. Noon - 12:05 p.m. Photographs Between Emperor & Hopey McSmilesalot
B. 12:05 p.m. to 1 p.m. The President and President-Elect in Oval Office
i. 12:05 p.m. to 12:58 p.m. President tells story of Oval Office Rug
ii. 12:59 p.m. President tells President Elect how much Barney loves strangers who reach out and try to grab him.
iii. 12:59 to 1 p.m. President discusses magic ...
The Ex-Presidents
BAGnewsNotes —
... 7. I heard Bush had to tell the rug story again... how Laura picked it out; how it's all about sunshiny optimism; yadda, yadda. The guy destroyed absolutely everything he touched -- and he's still telling that story. ...
Michael Shaw: Reading The Pictures: The Ex-(And Soon To Be Ex-)Presidents
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... 7. I heard Bush had to tell the rug story still again, by the way... how Laura picked it out; how it's all about sunshiny optimism; yadda, yadda. Aren't you feelin' it? ...
Decor You Can Believe In?
Politics Daily —
... Designed by Laura Bush prior to the start of Bush's first term. the former president was fond of bragging about it to everyone from school kids to heads-of-state. Hell, at one point he even used it as metaphor for what he was trying to do while in office. ...
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theanchoressonline.com 11/9/2008 — It is the same with you: you see your enemy who opposes you, who overwhelms you with scathing words, who is harsh in his insults, who pursues you with his hatred. But you are attentive to the fact that he is a human being. You see everything that ...
Bush and Obama: Their First Meeting
blogs.abcnews.com 11/10/2008 — In anticipation of the White House meeting tomorrow afternoon between President Bush and President-elect Obama, here's an excerpt from "The Audacity of Hope," where then-Sen.. Obama wrote of his first meeting with the president about four years ago: ...
Unbuilding the election: Flippin' counties —
First Read 11/10/2008
Below is a county-by-county look at Obama’s improvement over Kerry in key battleground states: COLORADO: Obama flipped three swing counties Bush won in 2004 -- Arapahoe, Jefferson and Larimer -- and overperformed Kerry in every county in the ...
The transition: The Bush-Obama meeting —
First Read 11/10/2008
The New York Times raises the curtain on today’s Bush-Obama meeting. “In a time-honored tradition of American democracy, Mr. Obama and his wife, Michelle, will receive a tour of their new home from Mr. Bush and the first lady, Laura Bush. Then ...
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