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Rove: Bush Hardly Worst President
The Page by Mark Halperin —
... The former Bush adviser argues in favor of his old boss at a NYC debate on the notoriously liberal Upper West Side Tuesday night.
Adds he thinks Bush will be vindicated "over the long scope of history." ...
Early Morning Swim
Firedoglake —
... Look out Obama, the GOP is back!!!
Except for Mel Martinez retiring.
And Al Franken's lawyers claiming victory.
Obama meets with governors on WPA public works projects.
Richardson in at Commerce.
GM and Chrysler ask for help.
Rover defends W. in NYC debate.
Tucker Calson, still a huge asshole.
The Bushes have absolutely no sense of humor.
Kristol: ‘We won the war’ in Iraq.
Think Progress —
... Last night in New York, ABC News correspondent John Donovan moderated a debate between the Weekly Standard’s Bill Kristol, former Bush aide Karl Rove, Slate editor Jacob Weisberg and Guardian columnist Sir Simon Jenkins. The most contentious part of the debate came during discussion over the invasion of Iraq, in which Kristol ...
Open Thread
NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias —
For general discussion and debate. Possible talking point: Is Bush the worst president in 50 years?
Mr. Rove and Mr. Kristol were paired against Jacob Weisberg, editor in chief of the Slate Group, and British columnist Sir Simon Jenkins, of the Guardian....The most heated moments came during the debate over Mr. Bush's biggest decision - the 2003 invasion of Iraq. The president himself said in an interview this week that his "biggest regret" is that the intelligence upon which the invasion was based wrongly concluded that Iraq had ...
Rove’s Bush-Burnishing Thwarted By Reality
Wonk Room —
... Offering a preview of what he’ll be spending the rest of his career doing, Karl Rove appeared before an audience last night to “argue that his former boss is not the worst president of the past 50 years.” ...
Bush The Worst President In 50 Years?
Say Anything —
I certainly don’t think President Bush has been a great President, and I think it would be more fair to judge him from the perspective of history instead of now when emotions about his leadership still run high, but those things aside I can certainly say that he hasn’t been the worst President in 50 years.
But Bill Kristol, Karl Rove, Joe Weisberg (editor of Slate) and Sir Simon Jenkins (The Guardian) got together to debate that very topic.
Mr. Rove and Mr. Kristol were paired against Jacob Weisberg, editor in chief of the Slate Group, and British columnist Sir Simon Jenkins, of the Guardian....The most heated ...
"We've Won The War"
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan —
Of all the idiotic things that Bill Kristol has said, this has to be one of the dumbest. We currently have around 150,000 troops occupying Iraq. By coopting the Sunni tribes, engaging in serious counter-insurgency, dividing Baghdad into walled sectarian enclaves, and exploiting exhaustion, we are no longer hosting a murderous civil war. But we have not left; there is no stable state to fill the security vacuum that will be created by our departure, and violence remains a daily occurrence. Read Totten yesterday to get a glimpse of the eerie lull that we are now in. There is no stable national political settlement, no real integration
of the Sunni forces ...
The Buck Stops There: Bush Blames Iraq Mess on Bad Intelligence
Crooks and Liars —
December 02, 2008 ABC News The Preznit, out working on that Legacy Thing, was on ABC with Charles Gibson last night, and had this revealing exchange: Gibson: You've always said there's no do-overs as president. If you had one -- Bush: The biggest regret of all the presidency has to have been the intelligence failure in Iraq. A lot of people put their reputations on the line and said, you know ... the weapons of mass destruction is a reason to remove Saddam Hussein. It wasn't just people in my administration, and um ... You know, that's not a do-over, but I wish the intelligence had been different, I guess. Gibson: If the intelligence had been right, would there have been an Iraq war? Bush: If ...
Kristol: ?We?ve won the war? in Iraq.
The Hollywood Liberal —
... Last night in New York, ABC News correspondent John Donovan moderated a debate between the Weekly Standard’s Bill Kristol, former Bush aide Karl Rove, Slate editor Jacob Weisberg and Guardian columnist Sir Simon Jenkins. The most contentious part of the debate came during discussion over the invasion of Iraq, in which Kristol proclaimed outright that […] kristol2web.jpg Last night in New York, ABC News correspondent John Donovan moderated a debate between the Weekly Standard’s Bill Kristol, former Bush aide Karl Rove, Slate editor Jacob Weisberg and Guardian columnist Sir ...
Lickspittle for a Pig
The Poor Man Institute —
For how can we condemn something that is ephemeral, in transit? In the sunset of dissolution, everything is illuminated by the aura of nostalgia, even the guillotine.
-Milan Kundera discussing the French Revolution
Now, there are some who would like to rewrite history - revisionist historians is what I like to call them.
-George W. Bush ...
