thinkprogress.org - 1/13/2009
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The Washington Post reports on its recent interview with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice:
In a conversation that stretched to 75 minutes — and which Rice seemed reluctant to end — the secretary of state said she was counting the hours until Jan. 20. But she yielded little ...
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washingtonpost.com - 1/15/2009
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washingtonpost.com —
Sunday, January 18, 2009; B01 Coming Sunday in
Outlook There's actually a lot that President-elect Barack Obama
can learn from the troubled presidency of George W. Bush . Over the past eight years, I have interviewed President Bush for nearly 11 ...
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10 Take Aways From the Bush Years
washingtonpost.com - 1/13/2009
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washingtonpost.com —
Washington Post Staff Writer Tuesday, January 13, 2009;
A06 Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice didn't blink. Told
that Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad Siniora recently said the United States simply can't deliver on its promises because of deference to ...
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Rice, Eager to Depart, Heartily Defends Record
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Rice Slams Non-Inclusive United States
Matthew Yglesias —
... My colleague Amanda Terkel observes that here in the US we don’t meet Rice’s standard of inclusiveness. Christmas is a national holiday, of course, but this is a majority Christian country. Religious minority groups get no federal holidays for our key religious observances. Nevertheless, one suspects that in the ways that matter the US is still a more inclusive country than Rice’s Mesopotamian paradise. ...
Tuesday's Mini-Report
Political Animal —
... knew that. * The Internet "may not be such a dangerous place for children after all." * Suddenly, the NRA isn't conservative enough for some far-right bloggers who want the gun group to help defeat Eric Holder's nomination. * The National Portrait Gallery was going to feature a caption under George W. Bush's portrait noting that the attacks of Sept. 11 "led to" the war in Iraq. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) made them fix it . * Oddly enough, Condoleezza Rice indirectly argued that the United States is not a democratic, multiethnic state. * And one ...
At her request she asks for nothing, you get nothing in return
The Sideshow —
... . I think that there's a lot that remains to look at, and I appreciate that President Obama doesn't want to make it his purpose as a new president, with America in real distress in many directions, to go back and look at all this, but I think we in Congress have an independent responsibility, and I fully intend to discharge that responsibility." (And here's some irony for ya - Condi says it's a sign of success that Iraq has declared Christmas a holiday. Because that means it's really diverse. Like us. 'Cause, you know, we have all these non-Christian national ...
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