pajamasmedia.com - 12/29/2008
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“FOR NOW?” ER, MAYBE BECAUSE BUSH IS ACTUALLY PRESIDENT NOW? Obama Defers to Bush, for Now, on Gaza Crisis. But here’s the real news: “When President-elect Barack Obama went to Israel in July — to the very town, in fact, whose repeated shelling culminated in this ...
nytimes.com - 12/29/2008
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The attack presents the president-elect with yet another
foreign crisis to deal with when he enters the...
White House, even as he has struggled to focus on the country’s economic problems. >
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Obama Defers to Bush, for Now, on Gaza Crisis
krugman.blogs.nytimes.com - 1/1/2009
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Presidential Not presidential 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 ...
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Katrina and Bush
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The Morni…er, Afternoon Scramble - 12/29/2008
No Runny Eggs —
... Glenn Reynolds reminds us that Obama once called for just the Israeli response to Hamas that’s being delivered now. If memory serves, that statement already passed its expiration date, the day after Obama made it. ...
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Gaza complicates Obama's policy in Mideast —
msnbc.com: Politics 12/29/2008
The deaths of hundreds of Palestinians in Israel's deadliest-ever air assault on the militant Hamas further complicates President-elect Barack Obama's challenge to achieve a Middle East peace — something that eluded both the Bush and Clinton ...
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From NBC's Libby Leist Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has spoken to 12 foreign officials about the crisis in Gaza since Friday and has briefed President-elect Obama regularly, the State Department said today. The Bush Administration has ...