nytimes.com - 1/4/2009
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You start to pity George W. Bush until you remember the vast wreckage that stretches from the Middle East to Wall Street to Main Street. >
nytimes.com - 1/2/2009
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nytimes.com —
Forty years ago the G.O.P. decided, in effect,
to make itself the party of racial backlash. And
everything that has happened in recent years is a consequence of that decision. >
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Op-Ed Columnist: Bigger Than Bush
nytimes.com - 1/9/2009
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nytimes.com —
President-elect Barack Obama explained why the nation needs
aggressive action to deal with the economic crisis, and
he’s right. But his economic plan falls well short of what’s needed. >
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Op-Ed Columnist: The Obama Gap
nytimes.com - 12/30/2008
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Does anyone know where George W. Bush is?
You don’t hear much from him anymore. The last
image most of us remember is of the president ducking a pair of size 10s that were hurled at him in Baghdad. We’re still at war in Iraq and Afghanistan. Israel is ...
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Op-Ed Columnist - Add Up the Damage
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Your Abbreviated Pundit Round-up
Daily Kos —
Sunday punditry. Frank Rich: The one indisputable talent of his White House was its ability to create and sell propaganda both to the public and the press. Now that bag of tricks is empty as well. Bush’s first and last photo-ops in Iraq could serve as bookends to his entire tenure. On Thanksgiving weekend 2003, even as the Iraqi insurgency was spiraling, his secret trip to the war zone was a P.R. slam-dunk. The photo of the beaming commander in chief bearing a supersized decorative turkey for the troops was designed to make ...
Presidential personality
Political Animal —
... this weekend, noting that while George W. Bush will be "judged on what he did" as president, he'll also be "remembered for what he's like: a fast-moving, phrase-mangling Texan who stays upbeat even though his country is not." (thanks to reader J.M. for the tip) Lacking a record of accomplishment, success, or support, the Bush Legacy Project seems to have settled on presenting the president as a good guy. The failures notwithstanding, he's the Mensch in Chief. This week, for example, CoS Josh Bolten and NSA Stephen Hadley defended Bush's legacy by ...
The Toddler-in-Chief
Firedoglake —
... Frank Rich has a nice column in today’s NYT about how sick America is of Dubya, in which he also attempts to figure out how such a small, mediocre man could have caused such epic destruction here and overseas: ...
Frank Rich--Afghan War Hypocrite -- By: Rich Lowry
The Corner on National Review Online —
... (By the way, another changed circumstance Rich mentions today is the corruption of the Afghan government. But he was aware of that even as he sounded like Patton on the war. From January: “He [Bush] gave Afghanistan a thriving `market economy’ (if you count its skyrocketing opium trade) and a `democratically elected president’ (presiding over one of the world’s ...
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