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Bush Legacy

Eight Weeks of America's War, Not Eight Years of "Obama's War"

Jonathan Morgenstein | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: George Bush, Obama Afghanistan, Al-Qaeda, Afghanistan Surge, War in Afghanistan, Afghan War, President Obama, George W. Bush, 9/11, Admiral Mike Mullen, Obama, Taliban, Obama National Security, Obama's War, September 11, Obama's Vietnam, National Security, Bush Legacy, 9-11, President Bush, September 11th, Us Troops Afghanistan, Bush, Afghanistan, Sept. 11, Barack Obama, Afghanistan War, Al Qaeda, Bush Administration, Al Qaida, Admiral Mullen Joint Chiefs, Taliban Afghanistan, Surge in Afghanistan, Afghan Taliban, Politics News
Jonathan Morgenstein

The Obama administration is trying to salvage the situation in Afghanistan after the Bush Administration lost the war over eight years.

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Pat Buchanan Attacks Affirmative Action And Sonia Sotomayor

Guy T. Saperstein | Posted 08.17.2009 | Media

Read More: Pat Buchanan, Discrimination, Bush Legacy, Legacy, Affirmative Action, Sotomayor, Media News
Guy T. Saperstein

The white-male affirmative action which bozos like George Bush benefited from undermine healthy competition and produce bad results.

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Obama's Weak Congress

Andrew Sargus Klein | Posted 08.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: House of Representatives, White House, Politics, Intelligence, Bush Administration, Senate, Congress, Central Intelligence Agency, National Security, President Obama, Bush Legacy, Leon Panetta, Legislation, Barack Obama, Dick Cheney, The New Republic, Walter Lippmann, Politics News
Andrew Sargus Klein

I fear a Congress that, while not so much parasitic, is so fearful of being attached to any of Obama's failures that it misses every opportunity to be a part of his successes.

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History Has Not Yet Judged Bush

James Denselow | Posted 08.07.2009 | Politics

Read More: Bush Legacy, Robert McNamara, Iraq, War in Iraq, George W. Bush, Kurds, George Piro, General David Petraeus, Fbi, Paul Bremer, Osama Bin Laden, Dick Cheney, Defense Secretary Robert Gates, Saddam Hussein, Robert Gates, Ryan Crocker, Politics News
James Denselow

Certainly Bush's rewriting of his Iraq legacy will be helped by his decision to reverse his earlier policies, abandoning the idealism of the top-down reinvention of Iraq, for reality-based pragmatism.

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Republicanism: Is There a Cure?

Steven Weber | Posted 05.25.2009 | Politics

Read More: Gop, Bush Administration, Bush Legacy, Michele Bachmann, Bush Policies, Bill Kristol, Sean Hannity, Republicans, Politics News
Steven Weber

It's the failed policies which were given full reign during the Bush plague that just won't die, that in fact continue to percolate in the words of persistent know-nothings on the Right.

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Caught in the Act: The Washington Post Swallows Bush's Latest Spin

Jackson Williams | Posted 05.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Bush Legacy, George Bush, Washington Post, George Bush Legacy, Bush Library, The Washington Post, Southern Methodist University, Commander Guy, Politics News
Jackson Williams

The Washington Post is helping George Bush polish his flaccid legacy. Let's hope it's just a sympathetic one-off between two ex-lovers.

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Legacy My Ass

Norman Horowitz | Posted 03.09.2009 | Media

Read More: Abc, Nbc, Cbs, George Bush, Columbia Pictures, Fox News, Iraq Casualties, ABC News, Keith Olbermann, Bush Legacy, Iraq, Fox, George Bush Legacy, Movies, Dick Cheney, Media News
Norman Horowitz

I have not given up my desire for NBC, CBS, ABC, or Fox to present a documentary about the Bush transgressions during his eight triumphant year Presidency.

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You Got Your Parting Shots -- Now Leave Bush Alone

Phil Bronstein | Posted 02.23.2009 | Politics

Read More: Politics, Phil Bronstein, Inauguration, Barack Obama, George W. Bush, Bush Legacy, George Bush Legacy, Politics News
Phil Bronstein

The bone of Bush's legacy will be gnawed over by the dogs of history and eventually there'll be a judgment. Until then, the new adminstration should just let the contrails of the plane ride to Texas dissipate.

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Keeping Anderson Cooper Honest: How CNN and the Media Flubbed Obama's 2nd Swearing In

Ronald B. Robinson | Posted 02.23.2009 | Media

Read More: Pat Buchanan, Rush Limbaugh, Social Responsibility, Lobbyists, Morning Joe, Cheney, Media, Anderson Cooper, Fox, Anderson Cooper 360, Fourth Estate, Missing White House Emails, Blogs, Obama Swearing In, Bush Legacy, Cnn, Constitution, Chris Wallace, Journalists, Obama Innauguration, Reporters, Breaking Politics News, Oath of Office, Ed Henry, Obama Transparency, John Roberts Flub, Bill Plante, Cbs, Journalism, Television, CBS News, Media News
Ronald B. Robinson

The same media that is creating a negative impression of President Obama is saying little about the outgoing administration's widespread destruction of official government records.

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George W. Is No Martyr

Thomas Frank | Posted 02.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: George Bush, Conservatives, Harry Truman, Government Waste, Bush Legacy, Corporate Power, Presidential Campaign, Politics News
Thomas Frank

Let me be blunt. Let me be blunt like Harry Truman was blunt: Comparisons between Truman and Bush are nonsense.

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Burst of Durst: Worst President Ever?

Will Durst | Posted 02.20.2009 | Politics

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Will Durst

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Move Bush, Get Out the Way!

Randall Amster | Posted 02.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: George Bush, Bush Legacy, President Bush, Barack Obama, Obama Inauguration, George W. Bush, Inauguration Day 2009, Barack Obama Inauguration, January 20th, Obama Inauguration Day, Politics News
Randall Amster

Obama likely will be no more a savior or messiah than we actively demand him to be, but at this point a former community organizer who grew up sans silver spoon sounds pretty darn good.

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Bush Hangs on to False Images in Farewell

Jonathan Diamond | Posted 02.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Politics, Obama, Bush Legacy, Bush Farewell, George W. Bush, Bush, George Bush, Bush Last Press Conference, Bush Administration Torture, Bush Administration, Bush Administration Waterboarding, George Bush Speech, Bush Administration Iraq, Bush Administration Plans for Iraq, Bush Administration and Corporate Cronyism, Bush Speech, Bush Adminstration, Politics News
Jonathan Diamond

When my country is threatened and someone tells me we can stop the threat by torturing people, maybe we ought to think a little bit before acting on our conscience's call to "protect the homeland!"

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Sunday Roundup

Arianna Huffington | Posted 02.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: George Bush, Obama Cabinet, Warrantless Wiretapping, Tim Geithner, Erich Segal, New York Times, Geithner Taxes, Hurricane Katrina, Hillary Clinton, Bush Legacy, Justin Timberlake, Clinton Confirmation Hearing, David Vitter, Dick Cheney, Politics News
Arianna Huffington

This week's confirmation hearing of Hillary Clinton was a promising sign that Team Obama will mean a return to prepared, knowledgeable, fact-based leadership. Maybe Justin Timberlake can do a remix for the Inauguration: Bringing CompetenceBack! The one glitch belonged to Timothy Geithner. Four words, Tim: H & R Block. Elsewhere, David Vitter's lone anti-Hillary vote appeared to be a desperate ploy to gain notoriety for something other than his history with hookers. And George Bush and Dick Cheney smirked and snarled their way through their final days, rewriting the history of Katrina (W), and expressing long-held aggravation that the New York Times won a Pulitzer for exposing the administration's warrantless wiretapping program (Dick). They clearly are devotees of the Erich Segal school of leadership: running the country into the ground means never having to say you're sorry.

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PEPFAR's Shortcomings: What is to Be Done?

Josh Ruxin | Posted 02.17.2009 | World

Read More: HIV/AIDS, Abstinence Only, Pepfar, Millennium Development Goals, Health, President Obama, Africa, HIV in Africa, Abstinence Education, Bush Legacy, HIV/AIDS Africa, Development, Foreign Policy, World News
Josh Ruxin

While it is beginning to look old and creaky, PEPFAR is a progressive and productive program that provides an excellent base of experience on which the Obama administration can build.

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Change, Hope and Recovery

Steven Weber | Posted 02.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Bushco, Bush Administration, Bush Legacy, Obama Inauguration, Economic Crisis, George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Politics News
Steven Weber

There must be some reckoning, some payback, some coda which will bring real finality to the abuse the American people have suffered. Let it begin Tuesday.

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Farewell, O Decider

John McQuaid | Posted 02.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Bush Farewell Address, George W. Bush, George Bush Approval Rating, Bush Administration, Bush Legacy, Tough Decisions, Barack Obama, Politics News
John McQuaid

Bush's decisions were "tough" not because he carefully weighed difficult issues and possible outcomes, but tough in hindsight because many of those decisions had disastrous results.

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Bush: Delusional and Maddening to the End

James Zogby | Posted 02.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Politics, Foreign Policy, George W. Bush, Obama, Bush Legacy, Iraq, Afghanistan, Obama Inauguration, Politics News
James Zogby

In the end, it is Bush's rejection of reality, and adherence to absolutist ideology, that has created the chaos he will hand off to Obama.

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You're No Harry Truman

Joe Peyronnin | Posted 02.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: President Bush, Barack Obama, History, Bush Administration, Bush Legacy, Afghanistan, War in Iraq, Economic Crisis, Harry Truman, Politics News
Joe Peyronnin

President Bush apparently wants to be compared to President Harry Truman, who was also very unpopular when he left office. But Mr. Bush, you are no Harry Truman.

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Blaxploitation, GOP Style

Russ Baker | Posted 02.16.2009 | Politics

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Russ Baker

Tthe GOP is stepping up efforts to stress diversity, but is resorting to a tried-and-true W. tactic: the promotion of compromised, disreputable individuals -- a kind of lemon diversity that only highlights their cynicism and contempt for the public.

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Bush and Future Historians

Joseph Nye | Posted 02.16.2009 | Politics

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Joseph Nye

Will the enduring icons of the 43rd presidency be Iraq, Guantanamo and Katrina? Or will they be 9/11 and his "freedom agenda?"

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Jason Linkins

Liveblogging Your Prime-Time Presidential Message To America

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 02.15.2009 | Media

Read More: Bush Farewell Speech, 30 Rock, George W. Bush, Bush Address, Bush Legacy, Media News

Greetings, America, and welcome to your Bush Has A Few Last Things To Tell America Tonight, For Some Reason, Farewell Address liveblog. Sorry Kath an...

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Who Was President on 9/11?

Taylor Marsh | Posted 02.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: 9/11, National Security, Osama Bin Laden, George W. Bush, Bush Legacy Project, Bush Legacy, Politics News
Taylor Marsh

To Republicans, everything for George W. Bush begins on 9/12. It's really the most glaring insult of Bush's rehabilitation tour.

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What Bush Forgot About the Katrina Event

Harry Shearer | Posted 02.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: New Orleans, Bush, Hurricane Katrina, Bush Legacy, Bush Final Press Conference, Politics News
Harry Shearer

Even while the rest of the country may have not noticed Bush's parting insult, New Orleans sure got the message.

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Jason Linkins

Woodward Offers Obama Superficial Takeaways From The Bush Administration

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 02.15.2009 | Media

Read More: Bob Woodward, Bush Legacy, George W. Bush, Media News

Bob Woodward has spent eight years chronicling the quotidian details of the Bush White House, amassing a vast collection of minutiae like bottlecaps, ...

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