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Jon Stewart: Obama Is Channeling Bush (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Dan Abramson | Posted 12.03.2009 | Comedy

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The speech given by President Obama in which he ordered 30,000 troops to Afghanistan has faced much criticism from the media. What struck Jon Stewart ...

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Bush Speech Profit: Former President And First Lady Ramp Up Speech Schedule

ABC News | Posted 12.03.2009 | Politics

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After years of living on a paltry presidential salary, former President George W. Bush and wife Laura are finally getting paid market rates for their ...

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Obama's Afghanistan Strategy: Blogs From New York Review

The New York Review of Books | Posted 12.03.2009 | Books

Read More: Bill Clinton, Garry Wills, Mccrystal, Pakistan, George W. Bush, Barack Obama, Biden, Nyr, Afghan War Strategy, Mcchrystal, Taliban, Hillary Clinton, Afghanistan, Obama Disappointment, Books News

Pakistani author and journalist Ahmed Rashid writes in the New York Review of Books about Obama's "missing strategy" in Afghanistan. After all the ta...

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Rumsfeld Rebuffed By Admiral Mullen, Teased By Gibbs After Disputing Obama Speech (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Adam J. Rose | Posted 12.03.2009 | Politics

Read More: Rummy, Politico, Troops, Michael Mullen, Bush, Afghanistan, George W. Bush, Donald Rumsfeld, Obama, Barack Obama, Don Rumsfeld, Politics News

Former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's response to a line in President Obama's speech on Aghanistan is drawing a sharp response from both the Whit...

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Obama's Unavoidable Cure for the Afghanistan Cancer

Bob Cesca | Posted 12.03.2009 | World

Read More: Iraq War, Obama Afghanistan, War on Terror, Afghanistan, Pakistan Nuclear Weapons, Pakistan, Escalation, President Obama, George W. Bush, Vietnam, Barack Obama Afghanistan, Afghanistan War, Dick Cheney, World News
Bob Cesca

Are we willing to allow eight years of mistakes and mismanagement to go unmitigated, or do we risk more lives trying to at least clean up some of the mess before we bug out?

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Is Mike Huckabee Culpable?

Frank Schaeffer | Posted 12.02.2009 | Politics

Read More: Cop Killers, Religious Right, Mike Huckabee, George W. Bush, Politics News
Frank Schaeffer

Four police officers are dead because Huckabee (the not-so-covert Reconstructionist) takes every word of the Bible more seriously than the advice of prosecutors and victim rights groups.

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Echoes of Bush in Obama's Speech

Lincoln Mitchell | Posted 12.02.2009 | Politics

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Lincoln Mitchell

There were moments during the speech last night when if you closed your eyes, imagined the grammar a little mangled and a few words mispronounced, you could have easily been listening to President Bush.

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Time for Strategic Stamina

Will Marshall | Posted 12.01.2009 | Politics

Read More: Congressional Democrats, Michael Moore, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Af-Pak, Foreign Affairs, George W. Bush, War, Cold War, Democrats, Barack Obama, Al Qaeda, Osama Bin Laden, Dick Cheney, Afghanistan War, Politics News
Will Marshall

President Obama now has a difficult sales job to perform. In essence, his message will be: we need to get in deeper to get out of Afghanistan sooner. He's right.

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The NBC Strategy to Save America

David Kronke | Posted 12.01.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Idiocy, Politics, Nbc, Failure, Media, Barack Obama, George W. Bush, Comedy News
David Kronke

In the past decade, NBC has transformed from industry leader to laughingstock. Coincidentally, the US has followed a similar course. Has NBC informed governmental policy?

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Rep. Hinchey: Bush Administration 'Intentionally Let bin Laden Get Away' In Order To Justify Iraq War

Posted 11.30.2009 | New York

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On Monday afternoon, Rep. Maurice Hinchey (D-New York) told MSNBC host David Shuster that the Bush administration "intentionally let bin Laden get awa...

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What Was He Thinking?

James Zogby | Posted 11.30.2009 | World

Read More: Iran, Afghanistan, Asharq Al-Awsat, Barack Obama, North Korea, Dick Cheney, George W. Bush, World News
James Zogby

it is important to acknowledge that when Obama won the election last November he was not handed a magic wand. Instead, he was handed the shovel his predecessor had used to dig deep holes in many parts of the world.

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Liberalism Revived: Jacob Weisberg On "Obama's Brilliant First Year"

Michael J.W. Stickings | Posted 12.01.2009 | Media

Read More: Health Care Reform, U.S. Economy, u.s. Foreign Policy, Economic Stimulus, Barack Obama, George W. Bush, Media News
Michael J.W. Stickings

There is obviously a lot more Obama could have done, and perhaps should have done, but Jacob Weisberg is right that he has actually accomplished a great deal.

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An Open Letter To President Obama On Afghanistan

Michael Moore | Posted 11.30.2009 | World

Read More: William Westmoreland, War in Afghanistan, Afghanistan Surge, Afghanistan, Harry Truman, George W. Bush, Joint Chiefs of Staff, Stanley McChrystal, Vietnam, Election, Douglas MacArthur, Mikhail Gorbachev, Withdrawal, Barack Obama, Michael Moore, World News
Michael Moore

When we elected Obama we didn't expect miracles. We didn't even expect much change. But we expected some. We thought he would stop the madness -- the killing and the insanity.

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Senate Report: Bin Laden Was 'Within Our Grasp' In 2001

AP | CALVIN WOODWARD | Posted 11.29.2009 | World

Read More: Afghanistan War, Bush, Rumsfeld, US Military, Afghanistan, Troop Levels, Pakistan, 9/11, Obama, Osama Bin Laden, Afghan War, John Kerry, Military, George W. Bush, 2001, Donald Rumsfeld, Tora Bora, World News

WASHINGTON — Osama bin Laden was unquestionably within reach of U.S. troops in the mountains of Tora Bora when American military leaders made th...

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Is Obama About to Make a Huge Mistake Over Afghanistan Troop Surge?

Andy Ostroy | Posted 11.25.2009 | Politics

Read More: Gen. Stanley Mcchrystal, President Obama, Troop Surge, Nancy Pelosi, Joe Biden, George W. Bush, Afghanistan War, Politics News
Andy Ostroy

Instead of trying to play the "let's try to make everybody happy and ultimately make no one happy" game again, Obama could do what many believe he truly wants to, and end the war.

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Deficit & Debt: The Republican Legacy

Donnie Fowler | Posted 11.25.2009 | Politics

Read More: Debt, George H.W. Bush, Ronald Reagan, Federal Budget Deficit, Barack Obama, George W. Bush, Politics News
Donnie Fowler

The lies that we are getting from the Republicans, supported too often by the mainstream media, have put the entire federal deficit and debt onto Barack Obama's shoulders. Well, here's the truth about it.

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Tony Blair's Cautionary Tale For Obama

William Bradley | Posted 11.24.2009 | World

Read More: Bill Clinton, Tony Blair, George W. Bush, Iraq, Afghanistan, Barack Obama, Dick Cheney, Torture, Al Qaeda, Israel, Palestine, Cia, Pakistan, European Union, Cool Britannia, Britain, Robert Harris, Roman Polanski, World News
William Bradley

Under Blair, Britain "modernized" as "Cool Britannia," and indicators on the economy, the environment, and crime improved. Then came Iraq, the war too far.

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'Tis The Season To Replace Love With Material Possessions

Lee Camp | Posted 11.24.2009 | Comedy

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Lee Camp

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State Dinner Menus of Eras Past: Aspic, Hot Dogs, and Boiled Mutton

Lesley M. M. Blume | Posted 11.24.2009 | Style

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Lesley M. M. Blume

It's fascinating to see how presentation and palates have evolved over the years, and how historical context and presidential personality all influence this facet of American showmanship. The Kennedys tout the virtues of aspic, the Franklin Roosevelts scandalized the polite world with an entrée, and George Washington gave new meaning to the phrase "no frills."

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Iraq War Inquiry Begins In Britain: Tony Blair Will Be Witness

AP | PAISLEY DODDS | Posted 11.25.2009 | World

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LONDON — An inquiry into Britain's role in the Iraq war kicked off Tuesday with top government advisers testifying that some Bush administration...

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Washington: Totally Disconnected From Main Street

Don McNay | Posted 11.24.2009 | Business

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Don McNay

Operating a business on Main Street is a lot different than lecturing at the Harvard Economic Club. The team Obama surrounded himself with has spent way more time in a faculty lounge than in the corner barber shop.

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RIP Compassionate Conservatism

Will Marshall | Posted 11.23.2009 | Politics

Read More: Deficit, Senate, Federal Deficit, Federal Budget Deficit, George W. Bush, Gop Health Care, Gop, Medicare, Healthcare Reform, David Walker, Health Care, Republican Party, Joseph Cao, Healthcare, Republicans, Politics News
Will Marshall

In taking a purely obstructionist stance, the GOP has evinced scant empathy for tens of millions of fellow Americans who lack basic protection against illness or injury. So much for compassionate conservatism.

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Quakers and Shakers: Giuliani and Paterson Unlikely Bedfellows in the Axis of Anxiety

Adam Hanft | Posted 11.21.2009 | New York

Read More: Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Rudy Giuliani, David Paterson, Terrorism, George W. Bush, September 11th, New York City, Eric Holder, New York News
Adam Hanft

Tough-guy Rudy Giuliani and touchy-feely David Paterson are in unlikely and violent agreement: making Manhattan Ground Zero for the Khalid Sheik Mohammed trial is a very bad idea.

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Imagine if the Today's Right-Wing Were Around for Nuremberg

Cenk Uygur | Posted 11.17.2009 | Politics

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Cenk Uygur

The right-wing radicals, unanimous in their agreement that KSM should not be tried in the U.S. courts, aren't just crazy, they're un-American. We don't take people out and shoot them without trials.

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Mr. President, 'Change' Is Your 'New Frontier'

John R. Bohrer | Posted 11.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Restoration, Bush Doctrine, John F. Kennedy, John F Kennedy, Ronald Reagan, Public Policy Polling, 1961, Kennedy, Boston, 1960, Ted Widmer, The Death of Conservatism, Democratic Party, 2012, Change, 2010, 2008, New Frontier, George W. Bush, Jfk, Republican Party, William v. Shannon, 1984, Jack Kennedy, John Winthrop, Mario Cuomo, Massachusetts, Democrats, Charles Blow, Barack Obama, Tom Jensen, The New Frontier, Ark of the Liberties, Republicans, Sam Tanenhaus, Politics News
John R. Bohrer

The Republicans' strategy of slowing down change couldn't be more evident than in the perpetually extending health care debate. But they have been successful at promulgating the idea that they, too, are touting change.

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