washingtonmonthly.com - 11/11/2008
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HIGH PRAISE, LOW STANDARDS.... Just one year ago, at this very blog, Kevin Drum hosted the Golden Wingnut Award, honoring the very worst from far-right blogs. Power Line's John Hinderaker ran away with the top prize, after writing a post...
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
pajamasmedia.com - 11/11/2008
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pajamasmedia.com —
November 11, 2008 NO SURPRISE: "President-elect Barack Obama
is unlikely to radically overhaul controversial Bush administration intelligence...
policies, advisers say, an approach that is almost certain to create tension within the Democratic Party. ...
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lefarkins.blogspot.com - 11/18/2008
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lefarkins.blogspot.com —
This story , indicating that the Obama administration
is bailing on the idea even investigating whether criminal...
charges ought to be brought against Bush administration officials who committed war crimes such as torture, is very discouraging. From the ...
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No we can't
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Shorter John Hindraker
Some Guy With a Website by August J. Pollak - xoverboard.com —
I simply don't believe that YouTube or The Daily Show actually exist, and also I smoke ludicrous amounts of marijuana.
Obama Should Talk Like Bush
Outside The Beltway | OTB —
... impact whether he intends it or not. In this regard, President Bush is an excellent model; Obama should take a lesson from his example. Bush never gets sloppy when he is speaking publicly. He chooses his words with care and precision, which is why his style sometimes seems halting. In the eight years he has been President, it is remarkable how few gaffes or verbal blunders he has committed. If Obama doesn’t raise his standards, he will exceed Bush’s total before he is inaugurated. Steve Benen and ...
How we remember
The Sideshow —
... I really thought old Hindraker had already reached the depths of stupidity when he wrote that adoring post about Bush's wonderfulness, but he seems to have surpassed himself with his advice to Obama to be a better speaker by following Bush's example. ...
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Department of low standards
balloon-juice.com 2/5/2009 — Anne Kornblut today:
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Pulitzers for everyone! ...
Obama should be like Bush
the-reaction.blogspot.com 11/10/2008 — 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 ...
AP Standards
julescrittenden.com 11/23/2008 — Glad to hear they have some. AP's unhappy because the Army photoshopped in an American flag in that headshot of Gen. Dunwoody. Which was kind of dumb of someone in the Army, because it looks hokey and contrived. The AP, on the otherhand, is hardly in ...
What's Wrong with Beltway Journalism
boomantribune.com 11/11/2008 — Dan Eggen of the Washington Post got the assignment to do a set-piece pre-post-mortem on the Bush administration. You know the drill. You interview a few Bush staffers (current and retired), you get some quotes on how sad everyone is about how things ...
No More Double Standards
washingtonmonthly.com 12/22/2008 — No More Double Standards I've been wondering why such different standards are applied to financial executives and Detroit's auto workers. Consider: * The financial executives helped cause the present meltdown. Auto workers did not. * The financial ...
Around the world, praise for Obama
maruthecrankpot.blogspot.com 11/5/2008 — Wow. Just ... wow: LONDON, Nov. 5 -- Through tears and whoops of joy, in celebrations that spilled onto streets on distant continents, people around the globe called Barack Obama's election a victory for the world and a renewal of America's ability to inspire. "This means that America is again ...
Bush-Obama handoff: Legacy material
swamppolitics.com 11/10/2008 — by Mark Silva
It's almost certain that the handoff of the White House from President George W. Bush to President-elect Barack Obama will pass more smoothly than the greeting that Bush's new crew faced in 2001.
The Ws were removed from the ...
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...
Bush's Memoir: Publishers Say No Thanks
huffingtonpost.com 11/6/2008 — NEW YORK — In less than three months, President-elect Barack Obama will take office and the Bush administration will belong to history. With the president reportedly interested in writing about his White House years, publishers have a ...
Transition: Bailing out the auto industry —
First Read 11/11/2008
Per Obama’s transition office, the president-elect will lay a wreath in Chicago this morning to honor the nation’s fallen veterans. In addition, in DC, John Podesta, co-chair of the Obama-Biden transition team, will hold a pen and pad ...
Obama asked Bush for help for auto industry —
Reuters: Politics 11/11/2008
CHICAGO (Reuters) - U.S. President-elect Barack Obama urged President George W. Bush to pass a second stimulus package to help the U.S. economy and asked him to use existing bailout measures to help the ailing auto industry, an aide said on Tuesday. ...
Obama Urges Bush to Help Auto Industry —
FOXNews.com 11/11/2008
President Bush said he would sign a second economic stimulus bill if congressional Democrats pass the Colombia Free Trade deal, according to sources familiar with Bush's Monday meeting with President-elect Barack Obama.
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