Tag Archives: 'bush'

• Political Stars

  This is a post a long time in the making.1 The content of this post has been on my mind for quite some time. I have thought long and hard on this topic — too hard for too long. This is my culminating effort. This is the post that will make me famous. No pressure. [...]

• Reflections On Bush

  I miss George W. Bush. To be completely honest, I have a lot less to write/blog about since he’s left… Oh, I love Obama’s idea on [fill in the blank]. It is such a terrific idea. He is the greatest president ever. I am so proud to be an American right now. It just doesn’t [...]

• Uninsured

  There will always remain a portion of the U.S. population that is uninsured. There is no way around it. Any purported efforts to completely cover the uninsured are disingenuous because it is impossible to do so. When Hillary Clinton argued that her health care plan was better than Barack Obama’s during the 2008 primary because [...]

• Currently Reading

  Former CIA operative Robert Baer feels that the real terrorism threat lies in Iran, and that the unwillingness and political weakness in Washington and the impotence at the CIA are the reasons that America remains unsafe; after reading his story, it is hard not to see that Baer makes a strong argument. On to my [...]

• Media Is Blind To Obama’s Mandate

  In 2000, Texas Governor George W. Bush received less votes than Vice-President Al Gore. After a lengthy legal battle over the contested results from the tie-breaking state of Florida in the historically close election, a legal process that found itself in the Supreme Court, Bush was decreed the victor. Two months later, the president was [...]

• Prefident Bush: Farewell

  An historic inauguration sends George W. Bush back to Texas, only for the nation to wonder what we had just endured, and what is to come… I will note that I did not draw the Obama character. That was a stock character that was available that I used in the interest of time. The other [...]

• A New Day

  I survived the Bush administration and all I got was this lousy blog post.

• Democrats

  There is a saying, and if there isn’t one, there should be. The republicans act like criminals; the democrats act like family. A dysfunctional one. This is why all democratic administrations end up being chaotic. They are filled with internal struggles, policy debates, and debilitating in-fighting. Could you imagine an instance where Dick Cheney would [...]

• Fallibility

  Culpability of the horrific events of nine-eleven squarely land at the feet of Osama bin Laden and his al Qaeda terrorist network. However, fallibility in the U.S. government to prevent the events, according to Richard Clarke, is as follows: – Condoleeza Rice, then National Security Advisor, for failing to understand the urgency to deal with [...]

• Currently Reading

  Now do not get me wrong. I believe the vice-president when he said Richard Clarke “wasn’t in the loop” on terrorism issues. I mean, Dick Cheney is a pretty reliable source. But still, I’d like to hear what Clarke has to say in his destined-for-textbook-status Against All Enemies… Image: Amazon.com And so far — through [...]

• Free Markets In Question

  So this is what it has come to for President George W. Bush. In the waning days of his two-term administration, following a resounding defeat of his policies at the ballot box, the following headline on MSNBC… “Bush to defend ‘free market’ system.” Well done, sir. How bad do you have to be as president [...]

• Campaign Thoughts

  - I wonder how Joseph Lieberman’s feeling about his big gamble. He certainly should be removed from the Democratic caucus, especially if the dems can reach 60 votes without him. Lieberman not only stepped across the fine line this election season, he pole vaulted over it. – Driving through Berkeley last week, I noticed some [...]

• One Positive From Bush’s Legacy

  Al Gore lost in 2000 and John Kerry lost in 2004 partly because the youth did not get out to vote. “Youth” is typically prescribed to those between 18 and 24 years of age. If you do not fall in that range, I’m sorry, but you are old. Obama’s current “lead” and his ability to [...]

• Election Ramblings

  With my work schedule ramping up, and all of the other bullshit* that life entails, I haven’t been able to blog as much about the election as I have wanted to. So here goes… – Two issues that should have been discussed at the debates, or at least mentioned once somewhere, anywhere during this election [...]

• Iraq 2.0 (or 3.0, if you include the 1991 dust-up)

  After spending nearly a decade creating the problem, the president has now found it convenient to come out of his hole and demand changes, demand fast action from Congress (including unprecedented power handed to the Executive branch), and to continue to lay out the potential threat that the financial crisis poses on the American people. [...]

• Investment(s)

  Markos picked up on another good one from last night… John McCain’s sympathy for those who lost money in real estate investments, and not those struggling to stay in their home, as a result of the Bush economy. From McCain’s speech… “I fight for Americans. I fight for you. I fight for Bill and Sue [...]

• Straight Talk

  I’ll make these comments before McCain accepts his party’s nomination this evening… John McCain deserved his party’s nomination in 2000. He was the better man; and he would have been the better leader. In all likelihood, if McCain would have defeated Al Gore (which was likely as well, maybe even without a recount), the horrific [...]

• Biden Redux

  Now that I’ve got some time for myself, this is what I think of the Biden selection for VP. The choice for Joe Biden as Barack Obama’s running mate nets almost every possible positive except one: easy electoral votes. And if Biden’s Scranton roots puts Pennsylvania in Obama’s corner, that trumps that angle as well. [...]

• John W. Bush McCain III

  “[George W. Bush] will leave office with the country $10 trillion in debt, fighting two wars, our international reputation in shambles, our government cloaked in secrecy and suspicion that his entire presidency has been a litany of broken laws and promises, our citizens’ faith in our own country ripped to shreds. Yet Bush goes bumbling [...]

• Colbert on McCain (circa 2006)

  Stephen Colbert took on McCain’s “maverick” status during his roast of Bush at the now-infamous White House Correspondent’s Dinner two years ago… John McCain is here. John McCain, John McCain, what a maverick! Somebody find out what fork he used on his salad, because I guarantee you it wasn’t a salad fork. This guy could [...]

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