Tag: George W. Bush
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A Clear Voice
The United States is not speaking with a forked tongue about Russian atrocities in Georgia before the United Nations Security Council. Russia and the U.S. traded hot accusations at the Security Council over Moscow’s aggressive handling of its military operation in Georgia’s breakaway province of South Ossetia and the bombing of Georgia proper. Georgian diplomats…
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Revolution, or an election?
Senators Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton debating in Texas on Thursday. (Photo by Deborah Cannon) Washington Post Columnist Robert J. Samuelson wrote a column on Wednesday questioning the Barack Obama phenomenon. We will see more pieces like this, especially if Sen. Obama, (D-IL), becomes the Democratic Party nominee. Let me attempt to refute some…
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Senator Turncoat
Some people are trying to stop Arizona Senator John McCain from continuing on a path that says there’s no principle he won’t turn his back on if it’ll help him reach the presidency. When the torture bill was going through Congress Mr. McCain spoke movingly about his experiences as a prisoner of war who endured…
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This Election Season . . .
We must not let Sen. John McCain, (R-AZ), pretend that a vote for him in November is not a vote for a third term for George W. Bush. We must not let him pretend that he is not Bush’s heir. He begged for this, groveled, and bargained away his integrity to have it. Everyone must…
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Gipper
joeyboy says: Huckabee is the scariest presidential candidate I’ve seen since Ronald Reagan. Like Huckabee would say, he’s not mad about being scary. Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee is scary because he masks his unreasonableness with a honeyed tongue. He’s managed to get the so-called liberal media to fall in love with him. Out of…
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The Other Party
This shows how little I know. I thought former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee as Republican vice-presidential nominee answers all the problems that Sen. John McCain is having reeling in his party’s base. Mr. Pat Toomey, a former Republican congressman from Pennsylvania who is now the president of the Club for Growth, thinks not. Some have…
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Justice System
I guess William Glaberson of the New York Times has this story exclusive, that the Bush administration is about to fire up the Kangaroo court it set in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba to finally try someone for the 9/11 attack. This court is, of course, about the only place you could ever try Khalid Shaikh Mohammed…
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‘Cheneying’
The Washington Post today has pieces today on torture and waterboarding or, as Vice President Dick Cheney would say, a “dunk in the water.” I have to say that I am past blaming George W. Bush or anyone in his administration for this. It is our fault, Americans, we made this happen. We cannot wash…
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War Hero
Marine Lance Cpl. James Jenkins is cornered in an apartment but, this not being Iraq, he could not shoot back. In intense, ferocious and some of the most intimate fighting of the Iraq War in 2004, Jenkins killed more than 200 enemy combatants. He was a war hero, with many commendations, including a Bronze Star…
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Bridget
I hope it’s her choice that she is not seen in these rapturous images of the victorious McCain clan. George Bush used her existence to smear McCain eight years ago and this was apparently a traumatic experience for young Bridget. But her invisibility in the current campaign is troubling. Love0 Share Tweet Share Pin