Karen Hughes

Obama and the Kevin Bacon Game of Persecuting Muslims

Omid Safi | Posted 08.18.2008 | Politics

Read More: Council on American Islamic Relations, Islamic Society of North America, Muslim Student Association, John Hagee, Muslim Outreach, Condoleezza Rice, Karen Hughes, Mazen Asbahi, Rod Parsley, Barack Obama, Politics News
Omid Safi

By the logic of the "Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon" game, every Muslim can be tied to another Muslim who can be tied to another Muslim who can be tied to... someone found not guilty of a crime.

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Paying Off Clinton's Debt: Not A Dime For Mark Penn

Jonathan Tasini | Posted 07.09.2008 | Politics

Read More: Colombia, Hillary Clinton, Karen Hughes, Corporate Power, Class Warfare, Mark Penn, Politics News
Jonathan Tasini

Penn has hated everything about the movement for change long before he helped pilot the Clinton presidential campaign to disaster. Now he's teaming up with Karen Hughes in a "bi-partisan" effort.

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Mark Penn, Karen Hughes Team Up On Corporate Crisis Group

WSJ | Posted 07.09.2008 | Politics

Read More: Mark Penn Burson-Marstellar, Mark Penn Karen Hughes, Burson-Marsteller, Clinton Strategist, Bush Adviser Karen Hughes, Bush Advisers, Hillary Clinton, Karen Hughes, Mark Penn, Clinton Campaign, Politics News

The Wall Street Journal reports (password req.): Two hard-charging political operatives are teaming up to create a bipartisan consulting organization...

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Why We Said No: Three Diplomats' Duty

John Brady Kiesling | Posted 03.20.2008 | Politics

Read More: Colin Powell, Terrorism, Diplomats, Ann Wright, Afghanistan, Iraq, Karen Hughes, Diplomacy, Brady Kiesling, Resignation, Public Diplomacy, John Brown, Politics News
John Brady Kiesling

Five years ago this month, three of us left the US Foreign Service in opposition to the war on Iraq. We were not pacifists. We were professional, non-partisan diplomats.

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Another Brilliant Bush Appointment: But Does it Really Matter?

William Fisher | Posted 12.15.2007 | Politics

Read More: 9/11, Pervez Musharraf, Hosni Mubarak, Saddam Hussein, Karen Hughes, Cia, Jim Glassman, Politics News
William Fisher

Like Karen Hughes, who played a major role in crafting the Administration's pre-Iraq-invasion sales campaign to our citizens, Jim Glassman brings a lot of baggage to his new job.

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Sending Comedy to the Muslim World: the Karen Hughes Quiz

Paul Slansky | Posted 11.03.2007 | Politics

Read More: Middle East Diplomacy, Karen Hughes, Middle East, George W. Bush, Politics News
Paul Slansky

What was the nickname bestowed on Karen Hughes by reporters? a) Mama Bear b) Nurse Ratched c) Livia Soprano.

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Karen Hughes Joins List Of Resigning Bush Admin Loyalists

AP | ANNE GEARAN | Posted 10.31.2007 | Politics

Read More: Karen Hughes, Bush Administration, Bush Loyalist, Politics News

Karen Hughes, who led efforts to improve the U.S. image abroad and was one of President Bush's last remaining advisers from the close circle of Texas ...

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Sinking in the Polls: Karen Hughes' Public Diplomacy Moment

John Brown | Posted 09.23.2007 | Politics

Read More: Middle East, Karen Hughes, View of the United States, War on Terror, George W. Bush, White House Communications Efforts, Politics News
John Brown

Karen Hughes' public diplomacy is indeed marked by a basic ineptitude: its failure to change (or even explain) policies that mock and disregard the rest of the world.

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Fewer Enemies, More (Potential) Allies

Amitai Etzioni | Posted 09.21.2007 | Politics

Read More: Karen Hughes, Karen Hughes Op-Ed, Rejecting Terrorism, Terrorism, Democracy Mideast, Democracy, Promoting Democracy in the Mideast, Politics News
Amitai Etzioni

If one makes support for democracy the litmus test for those Muslims we can work with, then we shall find most Muslims on the wrong side of the fence.

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