reuters.com - 1/19/2009
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BERLIN (Reuters) - Editorial writers around the world have been taking their final printed whacks at George W. Bush, accusing the president of tarnishing America's standing with what many saw as arrogant and incompetent leadership. Some newspaper editorials, for all their criticism, suggested ...
news.yahoo.com - 1/20/2009
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BERLIN (Reuters) Editorial writers around the world have
been taking their final printed whacks at George W....
Bush , accusing the president of tarnishing America's standing with what many saw as arrogant and incompetent leadership. Some newspaper ...
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Editorials worldwide pillory Bush one final time - ...
tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com - 1/23/2009
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If there's one corporate honcho who's emerging as
the poster boy for all the varied Wall Street...
sins that the financial crisis has exposed -- not just greed, but callousness, obliviousness and general incompetence -- its Merrill Lynch's former CEO ...
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John Thain's Top Ten Greatest Moments
patterico.com - 1/19/2009
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patterico.com —
[Guest post by DRJ] Martin Luther King may
have had a dream but Barack Obama has a...
theme: He wants to make America a more perfect union. He’s mentioned it twice in two days, and I think it will reappear in the coming days and in his Inaugural ...
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A More Perfect Union
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Editorials worldwide pillory Bush one final time
Democratic Underground Latest Breaking News —
... A success often cited by those seeking a silver lining was the United States' freedom from further homeland attacks following Sept.11. Bush's successor, Barack Obama, will be sworn in as the 44th U.S. president Tuesday. "A weak leader, Bush was just overwhelmed in the job," said Germany's Sueddeutsche Zeitung under a headline: "The Failure." "He confused stubbornness with principles. America has become intolerant and it will take a long time to repair that damage." Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSTRE50I2OV200... I'm so sick of hearing how Bush kept us ...
It’s Report Card Day for George Bush — and Mrs. Bush is NOT Going to be Happy This Term
Firedoglake —
If, as they say, the world is a classroom, and today is the ‘end of term’, then Barbara Bush is going to be receiving a report card, helped along with the courtesy of the world’s daily newspapers, that looks something like this:
World Newspapers Savage Bush Record
Language Arts: D+ Refuses to speak clearly or use English properly. Poor vocabulary development; does not appear to understand the meanings of certain words.
George appears to have two major problems in his communication skills. First, he makes up words ...
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