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Bush Legacy

The Dog Ate My Presidency

Stu Kreisman | Posted 01.03.2009 | Media

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Stu Kreisman

Wow. I just watched GW's first "exit interview" with Charles Gibson on ABC. Was this man actually elected President of the United States twice? (Okay ...

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Bush Uses Final 50 Days In Office To Tout Legacy

AP | BEN FELLER | Posted 01.01.2009 | Home

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WASHINGTON — President George W. Bush says history will judge him, but he is getting his own crack first. Bush is using his final 50 days in off...

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Bush: I "Liberated" The Iraqis

ABC News | Posted 12.29.2008 | Politics

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In a personal and wide-ranging interview conducted by his sister about his legacy, his faith and the influence of his father, President George W. Bush...

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Why Not Have a Truth and Reconciliation Commission?

Byron Williams | Posted 12.27.2008 | Politics

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Byron Williams

Without an honest assessment of how we got to this current state, we will be unable to hold our political leadership to a standard that is much above the lack of accountability we bequeathed this administration.

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William Kristol: Future Imperfect

Gerald Bracey | Posted 12.25.2008 | Media

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Gerald Bracey

According to Bill Kristol, Bush has to win in Iraq to have any hopes of being judged successful. That gives him 38 days to become successful.

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The Neo-Cons Are Not Gone, Nor Forgotten

Brian Ross | Posted 12.22.2008 | Politics

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Brian Ross

Much of the economic crisis is also being engineered by our sweet neo-cons to create an untenable situation for the Dems coming into power.

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Bush Legacy

Loretta Napoleoni | Posted 12.20.2008 | Politics

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Loretta Napoleoni

The financial debt may be too great to be repaid without a drastic departure from what America has stood for since the dissolution of communism: the centre of the post Cold War empire.

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The Bush Legacy: Haunted By Mistakes

Markus Ziener | Posted 12.14.2008 | Politics

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Markus Ziener

Bush's presidency may someday be seen in a milder light, because in the last two years of his administration, he was able to pull off an inconspicuous, but in many ways fundamental, change of course.

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A Geeky Side of Bush's Legacy that Must Be Overcome

Jaron Lanier | Posted 12.09.2008 | Politics

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Jaron Lanier

Part of the project of climbing out of the deep, deep pit George W. Bush tossed our nation into has a geeky quality. We need to learn to stop using computers to lie to ourselves.

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Bush Loyalists Throw Pity Party

Washington Monthly | Posted 12.03.2008 | Politics

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After failing in every imaginable way, with the worst approval ratings since the dawn of modern polling, and with a party that wants the president to ...

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W. Makes the Grade

Alec Baldwin | Posted 11.27.2008 | Entertainment

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Alec Baldwin

Brolin hits every note beautifully and only grows stronger as the film goes on. His only problem is that people simply want Bush to go. They are too exhausted to discuss his legacy now.

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A Stamp for Disapproval

Nancy Chuda | Posted 11.20.2008 | Politics

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Nancy Chuda

But what I can't buy into is: why would Americans spend their hard earned cents on purchasing the George W. Bush stamp? It will never stick!

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Bush Moves to Plan B

Laura Carlsen | Posted 11.03.2008 | Politics

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Laura Carlsen

Plan B was the legacy plan, designed to lock in as many Bush policies as possible before losing the presidency to the Democrats.

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With Just Four Months To Go, Bush Has His Legacy To Think About

New York Times | JACKIE CALMES | Posted 10.21.2008 | Politics

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The huge bailout of the financial system that the Bush administration and Congress are rushing to draft will leave taxpayers with at least part of the...

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Bush's Legacy: A New Mess

Amitai Etzioni | Posted 10.11.2008 | Politics

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Amitai Etzioni

Bush is reported to be in the legacy building phase -- and he has generated a new, major mess in Georgia that he will leave on the doorstep of the next administration.

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McCain is Running on the Amnesia Platform, But It's Democrats Who Need to Forget Sarah Palin

Arianna Huffington | Posted 10.05.2008 | Politics

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Arianna Huffington

Listening to the speech, you'd think it was the Democrats who occupied the White House the last seven-plus years and it was time to throw the bastards out.

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Jason Linkins

George W. Bush: Civics Teacher?

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 07.14.2008 | Politics

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Have you been wondering what George W. Bush might, or should do, with his life after he leaves office to the sounds of the human race rejoicing? You'...

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Bush's Other Legacy: Deepening Cycle of Job Loss

NY Times | PETER S. GOODMAN | Posted 07.10.2008 | Politics

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As automakers dropped their latest batch of awful sales numbers on the market on Tuesday, reinforcing the gloom spreading across the economy, the trou...

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Liberal Principles II: People Are Political Animals

Linda Hirshman | Posted 07.09.2008 | Politics

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Linda Hirshman

Like the centrism that fueled the Clinton years, minimalism is a philosophy for losers. Democrats were sure losers in those years, so they were probably well-served by a philosophy for losers.

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Liberal Principles

Linda Hirshman | Posted 07.08.2008 | Politics

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Linda Hirshman

Liberals have a path out of Egypt. But if our principles are still unbaked or minimalized, it will be another long trip. As the warthog said in The Lion King, "Put your behind in the past."

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Sorry, Mr. President, But Your Legacy Is More Awful Than You Think

Bob Cesca | Posted 06.19.2008 | Politics

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Bob Cesca

If you and McCain are lucky, the corporate media will crack open its Election Year Mad Libs script and paint Sen. Obama as somehow more dangerous to the future of America than you ever were.

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The Bipartisanship Scam

Arianna Huffington | Posted 05.20.2008 | Politics

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Arianna Huffington

The public's "hunger for change" is not caused by a lack of bipartisanship. It might have something to do with the Iraq war, the sputtering economy, the price of gas, and the way the Bush administration has systematically abandoned the moral high ground.

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George W. Bush LegacyWatch

236.com | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

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Ever-lamer lame duck George W. Bush attempted to spit-shine his tarnished legacy on race relations at a White House celebration of Black History Month...

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The Great Repression: Civil Liberties, the Economy, and a House Mismanaged

Randall Amster | Posted 01.07.2009 | Politics

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Randall Amster

The foundational bedrock once known as the Constitution seems to have been consigned for lavatory use. The windows are so caked with mud and dirt that they're completely opaque.

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