digbysblog.blogspot.com - 12/29/2008
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Sunday, December 28, 2008 Long Run Fantasy by digby Condi Rice and Laura Bush are insisting that the administration will be vindicated by history for all the wonderful work it has done around the world. Rice, especially, is intent upon making the case that if the world gets better some time in ...
thinkprogress.org - 12/29/2008
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thinkprogress.org —
In an effort to “ prevent Palestinians from
attacking towns in southern Israel with missiles,” Israel today
undertook its third day of offensive military airstrikes in the Palestinian territory of Gaza, raising the death toll to more than ...
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Bush Refuses To Interrupt His Final Vacation As Middle ...
cbsnews.com - 12/28/2008
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(CBS) Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is a
key member of the administration that leaves office 23
days from now. She's been America's top diplomat at a time of enormous challenges in foreign policy. This past week she shared some of her thoughts ...
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Condoleezza Rice: "I'm Not A Type A", Outgoing Secretary ...
cbsnews.com - 12/29/2008
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cbsnews.com —
(AP) The two most influential women in President
George W. Bush's White House - first lady Laura
Bush and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice - are strongly defending the president's legacy against critics who are calling his administration one of the ...
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First Lady, Rice, Defend Bush's Legacy, "History Will ...
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Letting history be the judge
Political Animal —
... every morning, and go to work knowing that you're reviled by most of public, here and around the world. If you can convince yourself that you'll be appreciated years from now, it probably takes the edge off. But that doesn't make it true. Indeed, wishful thinking about history's judgment, in the midst of widespread failures in every aspect of government -- foreign policy, economic policy, constitutional policy, domestic policy, environmental policy -- borders on delusional. As Digby concluded , Bush and his team "need accept that the best they can hope for is to end up among ...
Midday Open Thread
Daily Kos —
... shocker: a new study from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health finds that "teenagers who pledge to remain virgins until marriage are just as likely to have premarital sex as those who do not promise abstinence and are significantly less likely to use condoms and other forms of birth control when they do." At least a small sliver of the economy is booming. Another edition of "what digby said" regarding the Bush legacy tour: In fact, in the short ...
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