washingtonmonthly.com - 12/30/2008
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THE WELL WAS FINE.... I find this very annoying. Former Bush media adviser Mark McKinnon said the administration was in trouble even before taking office in the aftermath of the 2000 recount in which the Supreme Court effectively ruled that...
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
thinkprogress.org - 12/29/2008
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thinkprogress.org —
In an effort to “ prevent Palestinians from
attacking towns in southern Israel with missiles,” Israel today...
undertook its third day of offensive military airstrikes in the Palestinian territory of Gaza, raising the death toll to more than ...
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Bush Refuses To Interrupt His Final Vacation As Middle ...
michellemalkin.com - 12/28/2008
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I Didn't See Him As Legitimate
Eschaton —
But I was sad to discover that opinion was mostly limited to the denizens of "crazy" corners of the internet. Bush began office with high approval and a media united around the idea that the country must be "healed" or whatever their usual nonsense is. ...
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