Tag Archives: 'bush'

• McCain’s Iraq Problem

  John McCain is in a tough spot politically in the war on terror. With Bush announcing improvements in the security conditions in Iraq, this plays directly into Barack Obama’s hands. If conditions have improved, let’s bring the troops home. Counter to that, McCain has stated unequivocally that the U.S. should remain in Iraq for generations [...]

• 9/11 and 4.11

  “After 9/11, Mr. Bush had the chance to summon the country to a great nation-building project focused on breaking our addiction to oil. Instead, he told us to go shopping. After gasoline prices hit $4.11 last week, he had the chance to summon the country to a great nation-building project focused on clean energy. Instead, [...]

• W.

  The Oliver Stone biopic on our current embattled president looks promising… I just hope that Laura’s pot-dealing days at SMU are included… (via HuffPo)

• Folsom Nights

  I am at a two-day conference for the purpose of improving myself in regards to dialogue. A two-drink ticket was provided, but I was able to turn that into six, or was it seven (or eight). Anyway, conversations on nights like this between colleagues are priceless… – I talked to a veteran from the hey-day [...]

• Little Impact

  I think this news-story sums up the Bush administration… “By itself, the move [the lifting of a presidential moratorium on drilling for oil and natural gas on the Outer Continental Shelf] will have little impact, because Congress enacted a moratorium in 1982 that remains in place.” One might say that the Bush presidency has had, [...]

• Bush Tours America To Survey Damage…

  … Caused By His Disastrous Presidency… “The sheer destructive force of Bush.” (via Marco)

• Bush’s EPA

  This is an impeachable offense in my book… that is, when the EPA becomes an accessory to the oil cartel instead of working to protect the environment. Over the past five days, [senior E.P.A.] officials said, the White House successfully put pressure on the E.P.A. to eliminate large sections of the original analysis that supported [...]

• A Fitting Memorial

  Coming soon to San Francisco… “the George W. Bush Sewage Plant.“

• Former General: Bush A War Criminal

  Will Bush face trial at the Hague after his term ends? “After years of disclosures by government investigations, media accounts and reports from human rights organizations, there is no longer any doubt as to whether the current administration has committed war crimes,” [Maj. Gen. Antonio] Taguba [the Army general who led the investigation into prisoner [...]

• Legacy Padding

  With only months remaining in his disastrous reign as president, Bush is looking for anything to shore-up his potential legacy… “‘If [Bush] can say he has killed Saddam Hussein and captured Bin Laden, he can claim to have left the world a safer place,’ said a US intelligence source.“

• Bush’s Iran Rhetoric

  President Bush is an unusual man, and he certainly has been a disastrous executive in chief. However, he has always been what he was, and he has never regretted his words or actions, probably for fear that it would make him look weak. And then comes today. In an exclusive interview with the Times of [...]

• Obama Calls For Bush/McCain Accountability

  “If George Bush and John McCain want to have a debate about protecting the United States of America, that is a debate that I’m happy to have any time, any place and that is debate I will win because George Bush and John McCain have a lot to answer for.” — Barack Obama, earlier today. [...]

• Wingnut Hardball

  The great thing about being a republican is that it really doesn’t surprise anyone that you are an idiot. So like the sitting lame-duck president, one works from low expectations, which is sometimes a clear advantage. From last night’s Hardball on MSNBC, a right-wingnut swings and misses… a couple hundred times… (Warning: This is almost [...]

• Sense Of Patriotism

  My father — a recent commenter and frequent podcast guest — has stated, for the record, that “Bush and Cheney [have] won two elections by playing on the sense of patriotism that most Americans strongly believe in.” I am not suggesting that that analysis is not true, however, it is apparent that that “sense of [...]

• Bush Makes McCain Work Harder

  The entrance of Barack Obama’s pastor — the Reverend Jeremiah Wright — into the campaign may have been unwelcomed (from the Obama camp perspective), but it seems that — nationwide — the sitting president is much more polarizing than the African-American church leader. In fact, more people are suggesting that they would rather not vote [...]

• Stewart Asks What CNN, MSNBC Will Not

  It was the single best piece of journalism I have seen (outside of PBS) in weeks. Jon Stewart started off the second-half of his conversation with the GOP nominee for president, John McCain, on last night’s Daily Show… Will you take the opportunity right now to repudiate and denounce President Bush?

• In the News

  - Listening to Bush, McCain and the republican talk machine, the surge is “working,” however April has been “the deadliest month [for U.S. forces] since September.” – The president has received a stay-of-execution (of sorts) with the report that the economy grew at 0.6% in the first quarter, and did not contract. – And the [...]

• Liveblogging the Bush Press Conference

  8:08am Intents. 8:09am I thought this was supposed to be about the economy. Hamas? 8:11am Bush: “One hundred eight is one hundred eight.” Despite recession economics, Bush will not extend unemployment benefits. 8:12am Bush: “John McCain will not neglect the war on terror.” An endorsement the McCain campaign isn’t looking for. 8:16am Bush: “Looking good [...]

• Vietnam More Popular Than Iraq

  Just another notch in Bush’s belt… A new poll finds “63% of Americans saying the United States made a mistake in sending troops to Iraq… surpassing by two points the 61% who said the Vietnam War was a mistake in May 1971.” (via Dan Froomkin)

• Prefident Bush: Honesty

  Worrying about his tainted legacy, the president wonders if he should have campaigned differently…

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