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June 2008
- Bush Running Out of Time to Catch Bin Laden
  
  newser | Times (UK) | Jun 15, 08 12:32 PM CDT
  
  President Bush has renewed the hunt for Osama bin Laden, enlisting the aid of British special forces to make the capture before he leaves the White House next year, the Times of London reports. Bush's European farewell tour moved today to England, which has participated in renewed raids in northern Pakistan. “Bush is swinging for the fences in the hope of scoring a home run,” said an intelligence source. More »
  
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  George W. Bush • Pakistan • Gordon Brown • War on Terror • England • Osama bin Laden • Queen Elizabeth II
- Bush Gushes About Carla
  
  newser | BBC | Jun 15, 08 7:25 AM CDT
  
  President Bush today complimented Nicolas Sarkozy on his wife, calling her “a really smart, capable woman,” the BBC reports. “I can see why you married her,” he added. In Paris as part of his European tour, Bush called the French president by his first name and noted that “America’s first friend was France” in a press conference that focused on warm relations between the countries. More »
  
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  George W. Bush • France • Nicolas Sarkozy • Paris • Carla Bruni
- Bush, Sarkozy Warn Iran Over Spurned Nuke Offer
  
  newser | Associated Press | Jun 14, 08 8:09 PM CDT
  
  Iran said no to an incentive offer today to stop making uranium, sparking a warning from President Bush and Nicolas Sarkozy not to build nuclear weapons, the AP reports. "Our allies understand that a nuclear-armed Iran is incredibly destabilizing," Bush said. Even before an EU official delivered the six-nation offer of economic, educational, and other rewards, Tehran had rejected it. More »
  
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  George W. Bush • Iran • Nicolas Sarkozy • nuclear weapons • Tehran • nuclear enrichment
- Rumors From Vatican: Bush May Convert
  
  newser | Daily Telegraph (UK) | Jun 14, 08 1:45 PM CDT
  
  President Bush visited Pope Benedict XVI at the Vatican yesterday, sparking rumors that the president may convert to Catholicism, the Telegraph reports. They spoke in a garden where the pontiff prays daily, not in the library where Benedict greets most world leaders. “What an honor!” said Bush, who has been called the most “Catholic-minded” president since JFK. More »
  
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  George W. Bush • Italy • Catholic Church • Pope Benedict XVI • Vatican • Catholicism • Jeb Bush
- Don't Be So Happy to See Bush Go, Europe
  
  newser | Times (UK) | Jun 13, 08 5:00 PM CDT
  
  President Bush might be touring Europe to yawns and boos, but its citizens and pundits alike will miss their favorite political punching bag when he’s gone, Gerard Baker writes in the Times of London. “They'll miss, first, having a villain in the White House,” Baker explains. “It's a really convenient excuse to avoid doing anything yourself on pressing global concerns.” More »
  
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  Barack Obama • John McCain • George W. Bush • Bush administration • global warming • European Union • Europe • scapegoat
- Senate Seats Most Likely to Flip (Only 1 to GOP)
  
  newser | Washington Post | Jun 13, 08 1:51 PM CDT
  
  The GOP's best case-scenario sees the party losing only three Senate seats this fall. Washington Post blogger Chris Cillizza runs down the races most likely to flip a vote: Mississippi: Trent Lott replacement Roger Wicker has never been elected statewide, and Barack Obama's coattails should draw in the large black population. Minnesota: Al Franken remains promising, but he's no sure thing, thanks to back taxes and Playboy bylines. More »
  
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  Barack Obama • George W. Bush • Senate • Trent Lott • Al Franken • Jeanne Shaheen • Mark Warner • Tom Udall • Mary Landrieu • Elizabeth Dole • Roger Wicker • Mark Udall • Jeff Merkley
- Bush Says Bye, Europe Says Good Riddance
  
  newser | New York Times | Jun 12, 08 11:16 AM CDT
  
  Earlier visits by George W. Bush to Europe have been greeted by massive protests, but the president's valedictory tour of the Old World barely inspired a shrug. "Bush-bashing has become a bore," writes Roger Cohen in his New York Times column. That doesn't mean he's any better liked, though, and the president's "farewell lap, or limp" stands as a reminder of how bad US-Europe relations have become. More »
  
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  George W. Bush • Europe • diplomacy • European allies
- Bush Loyalist Hits the Road to Save 'No Child'
  
  newser | New York Times | Jun 12, 08 6:35 AM CDT
  
  As George W. Bush has become less and less popular, so too has No Child Left Behind, his education initiative that one congressman calls "the most negative brand in the country." As the administration realizes that its principal domestic achievement is likely to be undone by the next president, Margaret Spellings, the education secretary, has hit the road to drum up support. More »
  
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  George W. Bush • Bush administration • education • No Child Left Behind • Margaret Spellings
- Albright: Burmese Paying for Bush's Failed Policies
  
  newser | New York Times | Jun 11, 08 7:53 PM CDT
  
  The Myanmar junta’s shameful cyclone response illustrates some global truths we must face, writes Madeleine Albright in the New York Times . Among them: President Bush's ill-advised attack of Iraq has made it all the more difficult for the international community to intervene in the world's trouble spots. Instead, the principle of national sovereignty now rules the day, even when people are suffering. More »
  
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  George W. Bush • Iraq war • Burma • Myanmar • Sudan • Darfur • Madeleine Albright
- War Spending Strategy: Soak the Grandkids
  
  newser | Washington Post | Jun 11, 08 11:47 AM CDT
  
  As Congress tackles the latest "emergency" spending bill for Iraq and Afghanistan, bringing the total to more than $860 billion, Ruth Marcus notes in the Washington Post: "For the first time in American history, every penny of that amount will have been borrowed. For the first time, billions more will have been borrowed to finance tax cuts in the midst of war. " More »
  
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  George W. Bush • Iraq war • Congress • taxes • Iraq war spending • war funding • war cost
- Bush Rues Gun-Slinger Image
  
  newser | Times (UK) | Jun 11, 08 8:22 AM CDT
  
  Looking back on his years in office, President Bush admitted yesterday he regrets using phrases like "bring 'em on,” and “dead or alive,” which “indicated to people that I was, you know, not a man of peace." In "retrospect I could have used a different tone, a different rhetoric," he tells the Times of London. More »
  
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  Iraq • George W. Bush • Iran • Afghanistan • war • rhetoric
- Rove Canned in Church: Book
  
  newser | Examiner | Jun 10, 08 1:44 PM CDT
  
  After riding to prominence on prophesies of a permanent Republican majority, Karl Rove ultimately learned of his White House excommunication in church, a new book reveals. President Bush gave his longtime adviser his pink slip in the pews, telling Rove last summer, “there’s too much heat on you. It’s time for you to go.” More »
  
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  George W. Bush • Karl Rove • church • firing • Ed Rollins
- US-EU Summit Eyes New Iran Sanctions
  
  newser | Washington Post | Jun 10, 08 9:12 AM CDT
  
  President Bush arrived today in Slovenia, which currently holds the EU's rotating presidency, on his last presidential visit to Europe. He met for 2 hours with European leaders at a US-EU summit, which then issued a statement that member nations would impose new financial sanctions against Iran unless it ends its uranium enrichment program. Bush will travel later to Berlin, followed by Rome, Paris, and London, reports the Washington Post . More »
  
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  George W. Bush • Iran • European Union • Europe • sanctions • economic sanctions • Slovenia
- Kucinich Moves to Impeach Bush
  
  newser | Politico | Jun 10, 08 6:00 AM CDT
  
  January 2009 can't come soon enough for Ohio Rep. Dennis Kucinich. The onetime presidential hopeful read 35 articles of impeachment against President Bush into the Congressional record last night, Politico reports, but House leaders say the idea is “off the table." Kucinich, who has previously sought to impeach Dick Cheney, accused Bush of war crimes, and other illegal acts. More »
  
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  George W. Bush • Congress • Dick Cheney • Dennis Kucinich • impeachment • Bush impeachment
- General Election Starts Coming Into Focus
  
  newser | Time | Jun 9, 08 2:20 PM CDT
  
  Barack Obama launched a 2-week economic tour today, prompting dueling press releases, Time reports. Obama kicked off the one-on-one stage of the election by vowing to “restore fairness and balance to our economy,” and John McCain's campaign countered by saying the Democratic nominee "doesn’t understand the American economy. " More »
  
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  Barack Obama • John McCain • George W. Bush • economy • taxes • national debt
- Oil Prices Threaten US-Saudi Relations
  
  newser | Los Angeles Times | Jun 8, 08 6:46 AM CDT
  
  The weakening dollar and rising oil prices are marring more than just the American economy: It’s also eroding the long-standing friendly relationship between the US and Saudi Arabia, the Los Angeles Times reports. A bleak economic outlook has cost the US clout with its oil-producing ally. “There’s certainly a perception that the power equation has changed,” said an oil analyst. More »
  
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  George W. Bush • China • oil price • United States • Saudi Arabia • OPEC • Asia • oil production
- What Mac Doesn't Get About Obama
  
  newser | Time | Jun 5, 08 12:46 PM CDT
  
  Mark Halperin writes in Time that John McCain is underestimating several challenges ahead of him: The “astonishing enthusiasm” Obama inspires, compared to the respect McCain enjoys How “major league” Obama’s infrastructure is compared to his own The difficulty of running against Bush and Barack at once. He’ll have to knock the president in front of Republicans More »
  
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  Barack Obama • John McCain • George W. Bush • debates
- Dems' Prints All Over McClellan's 'Bitter Retort'
  
  newser | Chicago Sun-Times | Jun 2, 08 1:51 PM CDT
  
  Scott McClellan's treatment of the Valerie Plame leak case has a key player wondering who really guided the former press secretary’s pen. "His robotic performances from the White House podium seemed only to disgorge what he had been told, and What Happened has the similar feel of someone else's hand," Robert Novak, to whom Plame's CIA role was leaked, writes in the Chicago Sun-Times . More »
  
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  George W. Bush • Karl Rove • Valerie Plame • Scott McClellan • Robert Novak • Joseph Wilson • Richard Armitage
- Ex-US Commander in Iraq Bashes Bush in Memoir
  
  newser | Washington Post | Jun 2, 08 12:11 PM CDT
  
  Retired Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez, who led US forces in Iraq for a year after Saddam’s ouster, says George W. Bush “led America into a strategic blunder of historic proportions” in a memoir the Washington Post deems “lost in the media furor” over Scott McClellan's. Sanchez recounts a presidential video-conference pep talk in 2004: “Kick ass! If somebody tries to stop the march to democracy, we will seek them out and kill them! More »
  
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  George W. Bush • Scott McClellan • Iraq mess • Ricardo Sanchez
- McClellan Blasts Bush for Not Firing Rove
  
  newser | Associated Press | Jun 1, 08 4:35 PM CDT
  
  President Bush should have fired aide Karl Rove over the Plamegate affair, Scott McClellan said today. Publicizing his Washington tell-all book, McClellan also blasted Rove and Lewis "Scooter" Libby, Dick Cheney's ex-chief of staff, for denying they had leaked CIA agent Valerie Plame's name, the AP reports. "We had higher standards at the White House." More »
  
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  George W. Bush • Bush administration • Karl Rove • Lewis Scooter Libby • Valerie Plame • Scott McClellan • press secretary

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