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themoderatevoice.com - 1/10/2009
The Most Misunderestimated President
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With less than two weeks to go till TGIF (Thank God It’s Finished—Bush’s regime, that is), those nasty, disrespectful members of the MSM have been having a field day thrashing Bush’s eight years of wild success and lampooning the greatest Decider himself. Even the ...
Cheney On Whether Iraq War Was Worth The 4,500 Americans Killed: ‘I Think So’
thinkprogress.org - 1/14/2009
Cheney On Whether Iraq War Was Worth The 4,500 Americans Killed: ‘I Think So’
— thinkprogress.org — In an interview airing tonight on PBS’s Newshour, host Jim Lehrer asks Vice President Cheney about the... U.S. soldiers who have lost their lives in the war in Iraq. Cheney shows little remorse : Q: But Mr. Vice President, getting from there to ... (more) Cheney On Whether Iraq War Was Worth The 4,500 Americans ...

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swamppolitics.com - 1/14/2009
Cheney: War deaths worth it, 'I think so'
— swamppolitics.com — by Mark Silva President Bush has fessed up some of his mistakes, several in fact, in his... final press conference. But Vice President Dick Cheney is sticking to his story: The only mistake he can think of, in an interview airing on PBS this ... (more) Cheney: War deaths worth it, 'I think so'

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BBC NEWS | Americas | The 'misunderestimated' president?
news.bbc.co.uk - 1/10/2009
BBC NEWS | Americas | The 'misunderestimated' president?
— news.bbc.co.uk — All politicians are prone to make slips of the tongue in the heat of the moment -... and President George W Bush has made more than most. The word "Bushism" has been coined to label his occasional verbal lapses during eight years in office, which come to ... (more) BBC NEWS | Americas | The 'misunderestimated' president?

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PoliGazette:  Some Last Minute Bush-Laughs

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Some Last Minute Bush-Laughs
PoliGazette — Well, George W. Bush’s presidency is nearing its end. He will be succeeded by Barack Obama January 20, which is only 10 days from now. This means that we have only 10 days left to … laugh at some of his most notorious remarks. The BBC compiled a list of said remarks (via Dorian de Wind). My personal favorites: “There’s an old saying in Tennessee - I know it’s in Texas, probably in Tennessee - that says, fool me once, shame on… shame on you. Fool me - you can’t get fooled ...

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