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 thrashing the Palestinians in Gaza. And the ...
nytimes.com - 1/2/2009
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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 - 1/5/2009
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Let’s not mince words: This looks an awful
lot like the beginning of a second Great Depression.
Will we “act swiftly and boldly” enough to stop that from happening? >
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Op-Ed Columnist: Fighting Off Depression
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Daily Kos —
... isn't impressed with George Bush's alleged reading list: As might be expected, most of Bush's books have been biographies and histories. Biographies are usually about great men who often did the unpopular thing and were later vindicated...They are not the reading of a widely read man, but instead the books of a man who seeks -- and sees -- vindication in every page. Bush has always been the captive of fixed ideas. His books just support that. Bob Herbert wonders where George Bush is hiding out and says that: ...
A Going Away Present For the President
TalkLeft —
... Bob Herbert would like President Bush's departure from Washington to be accompanied by "a great hue and cry — a loud, collective angry howl, demonstrations with signs and bullhorns and fiery speeches — over the damage he’s done to this country." ...
Farewell to All That—Bob Herbert Joins In
The Moderate Voice —
An awful lot has been said and written lately about the failed Bush Presidency and about his upcoming good riddance and good comeuppance.
I have tried my hand at it.
But today, New York Times columnist Bob Herbert truly says it all and says it best in his “Add Up the Damage.”
Of course, Bush defenders, if there are any left out there, will bristle because Herbert doesn’t mince his words—because he tells it like it is, and like it has been for the past eight miserable years.
Perhaps the most telling aspect of the Bush ...
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Pro-Gaza War Media Blitz In Overdrive
tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com 1/1/2009 — James Besser, a veteran (and outstanding) reporter for the New York Jewish Week looks at the lobby's unprecedented media blitz supporting the Gaza war. It's not enough to sell the war as a defensive reaction by Israel to years of incessant shelling, ...
Add up the damage —
WTF Is It Now?!?
Never forget the true Bush legacy, says a righteously pissed off Bob Herbert in this doozy of a NY Times op-ed : When Mr. Bush officially takes his leave in three weeks (in reality, he checked out long ago), most Americans will be content to sigh good riddance. I disagree. I don’t think he ...
Hamas' War on Schools —
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It is easy to feel horrifed at the images of Israeli planes hitting Gaza. But the context behind the attacks is that Gaza has been attacking Israeli civillians almost constantly since Israel withdrew from Gaza.
(House in Sderot hit by Qassem rocket, image from Bokertov.com )
(Injured ...
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