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Bush 43

Future generations will judge George W's presidency...assuming his contemporaries don't get to him first

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July 2008
- Bush, in Unguarded Moment: 'Wall Street Got Drunk'
  
  newser | Associated Press | Jul 22, 08 6:45 PM CDT
  
  President Bush has a new analogy about the nation's financial meltdown. "There is no question about it. Wall Street got drunk," the president said at a Houston fundraiser after asking audience members to turn off their video cameras. "That's one reason I asked you to turn off your TV cameras. It got drunk and now it's got a hangover. The question is, How long will it [take to] sober up and not try to do all these fancy financial instruments?" More »
- Requests for Pardons Flood White House
  
  newser | New York Times | Jul 19, 08 11:33 AM CDT
  
  President Bush is nearing the end of his term, and felons are coming out of the woodwork in historic numbers to ask for pardons and reduced sentences, the New York Times reports. It is not unusual for there to be a spike in pardons granted by a president in his final months in office: Half of Bill Clinton’s 459 pardons happened in his last three months. More »
- No Kidding: Bush Sewage Plant Makes Nov. Ballot
  
  newser | San Francisco Chronicle | Jul 18, 08 2:38 PM CDT
  
  San Francisco voters will decide in November not only who will succeed President Bush but also how they will remember him. A group calling itself the Presidential Memorial Commission has pushed through a ballot initiative to rename an area sewage plant after the outgoing president, the Chronicle reports. A White House spokesman told the LA Times the measure "doesn't dignify a response." More »
- Pelosi: Bush Is a 'Total Failure'
  
  newser | Associated Press | Jul 17, 08 8:15 PM CDT
  
  House Speaker Nancy Pelosi lashed out at President Bush in unusually personal terms today, calling him a "total failure" as president. "You know, God bless him, bless his heart, president of the United States, a total failure, losing all credibility with the American people on the economy, on the war, on energy, you name the subject," the California Democrat said on CNN. More »
- Hard-Core Supply-Sider: I'm Voting for the Democrat
  
  newser | New York Daily News | Jul 17, 08 7:45 PM CDT
  
  Being a Reagan, Gingrich and Dole soldier won’t stop former Chamber of Commerce honcho Larry Hunter from voting for Barack Obama this fall, he writes in the New York Daily News . It doesn’t matter that he wholly disagrees with the Dem on every point of domestic policy; the chance to close the book on “unjustified war and unconstitutional abridgment of individual rights” is worth the price of “unreconstructed, dyed-in-the-wool, big-government” liberalism. More »
- EPA Forecasts Longer, Smoggier Summers for US
  
  newser | Washington Post | Jul 17, 08 4:46 PM CDT
  
  Climate change will bring longer, hotter, smoggier summers in the coming decades across the US, a new EPA reports says. Expect more wildfires and hurricanes, too, along with water problems in the West, the Washington Post reports. The federal report is noteworthy because it refutes the Bush administration's rosier outlook on global warming, the Post notes. More »
- Lefty Kinda Still Likes This Guy
  
  newser | New Republic | Jul 17, 08 2:23 PM CDT
  
  “What can I say?” writes left-leaning Jonathan Chait in revealing his continued affection for John McCain. “Bush has lowered my standards.” Remember, McCain was once “the country’s foremost progressive champion”—battling the religious right and tax cuts while pushing immigration and anti-global warming advances. And while the old McCain is gone—having tacked hard to the right—Chait clings to an “affinity for the old codger.” More »
- Trial of Bin Laden's Driver Can Begin, Judge Rules
  
  newser | Associated Press | Jul 17, 08 1:37 PM CDT
  
  The first war crimes trial at Guantanamo Bay can begin Monday, a federal judge ruled today, saying civilian courts should let the military process play out as Congress intended. A US District judge rejected an effort by Osama bin Laden's former driver, Salim Hamdan, to postpone his trial. More »
- US Closer to Establishing Diplomatic Outpost in Iran
  
  newser | Guardian (UK) | Jul 17, 08 1:10 PM CDT
  
  The Bush administration is moving forward with plans to establish a US interest section—precursor to a formal embassy—in Iran, the Guardian reports. An announcement will come in the next month about the office, which will put US diplomats in Iran for the first time since the hostage crisis in 1979. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad voiced his support for the project earlier this week. More »
- Bush and McCain: A Rocky Road, With Switchbacks
  
  newser | Time | Jul 17, 08 12:40 PM CDT
  
  When George Bush denied involvement in infamous smears that ended John McCain's 2000 presidential bid, the feisty senator barked, “Don’t give me that shit. And take your hands off me.” But just 4 years later he gave the somber president a pre-debate pep talk: “You’re gonna be great.” The relationship between the two men has been a rollercoaster of bitter fighting and support, David Carney writes, detailing some of the unknown episodes in Time . More »
- Bush Pays Respects to Snow
  
  newser | Associated Press | Jul 17, 08 12:05 PM CDT
  
  President Bush fondly remembered Tony Snow today, telling mourners at his funeral that the conservative commentator-turned-White House press secretary "amassed a rare record of accomplishment." "He knew the job of a reporter was vigorous. He understood the profession and always treated it with respect," Bush said during a service at Washington's Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception. More »
- As Rome Burns, Bush Plays T-Ball
  
  newser | Washington Post | Jul 17, 08 9:51 AM CDT
  
  With Washington roiled yesterday by economic woes and bad news from Afghanistan, George W. Bush spent an hour watching 6- and 7-year-olds play T-ball, Dana Milbank notes in the Washington Post —the 95th sports-related event he's hosted as president, to 45 cabinet meetings. "For a president facing little good news at the office," Milbank writes, "sport is pleasure." More »
- Iraq Backs Barack, Despite Pullout Fears
  
  newser | New York Times | Jul 17, 08 3:41 AM CDT
  
  Barack Obama is widely popular in Iraq, despite deep concerns about his plans to withdraw American troops, reports the New York Times . Iraqis around the country expressed admiration for Obama and believe he would be a major improvement over President Bush—but also worry that his proposed 16-month withdrawal timetable could reverse hard-fought security gains. More »
- 'Creative' Bush Order Shields Cheney from Plame Probe
  
  newser | Newsweek | Jul 17, 08 3:07 AM CDT
  
  President Bush has invoked an unprecedented executive privilege claim to bar FBI interviews with Dick Cheney from a congressional committee probing the leak that exposed Valerie Plame as a CIA agent, Newsweek reports. The Bush order argues that turning over the records of Cheney's grilling concerning the scandal would violate the president's right to confidential communication with his advisers. More »
- No More Navel-Gazing; Go After McCain
  
  newser | Guardian (UK) | Jul 16, 08 8:00 PM CDT
  
  There are two races for president this year, Michael Tomasky writes in the Guardian , “a race about Barack Obama and a race about what the GOP has done to the country.” And Obama would be well served to turn the focus to John McCain, whose recent gaffes have gone unanswered as the Democrat tries to make people vote for him—and not against his opponent. More »
- McCain Camp Likens Obama —to Bush?
  
  newser | Huffington Post | Jul 16, 08 6:22 PM CDT
  
  The McCain camp borrowed a page from its rivals today with a new tack on Barack Obama: He looks a whole lot like George W. Bush. McCain's national security adviser took Obama to task for the rigidity of his Iraq strategy, the Huffington Post reports. "I think the American people have had enough of stubbornness and inflexibility in national security policy,” said Randy Scheunemann. More »
- Obama to Take Diplomatic Ace to Israel
  
  newser | Time | Jul 16, 08 12:13 PM CDT
  
  In a move that should put voters at ease who are skeptical of his stance on Israel and Iran, Barack Obama has added Dennis Ross to his Middle East entourage, Massimo Calabresi writes in Time . The well-known diplomat was lead Israeli-Palestinian negotiator under Clinton and the first Bush, and his presence on the trip will be “reassuring” to Israelis and American Jews who have been skeptical of the Dem. More »
- So-Called 'New Powers' Are Acting Spineless
  
  newser | New York Times | Jul 16, 08 10:03 AM CDT
  
  Critics of unchecked and amoral American power should be wary of prospective new world hegemons—especially China, Russia, and South Africa, Thomas Friedman warns in the New York Times . America's international popularity has plummeted under President Bush, but it's the more popular countries that have been acting unconscionably on the world stage. More »
- Ex-Fannie Mae Chief: Don't Bail 'Em Out
  
  newser | Washington Post | Jul 16, 08 8:53 AM CDT
  
  Coherent policy from Washington—not a financial bailout—is what mortgage titans Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are most in need of, writes former Fannie chief Franklin Raines in the Washington Post . “They have more than enough capital to meet their cash obligations,” he writes, as well as billions in assets. He accuses the White House of a "multiyear effort to eliminate the companies by talking them down to the financial markets," and says they'll do fine, without subsidies, if they are given "unfettered access to the private markets." More »
- Oval Office Handover Opens Critical Security Gap
  
  newser | New York Times | Jul 16, 08 8:28 AM CDT
  
  January's transition in Oval Office occupants opens up a national security gap for America's enemies to exploit, Jamie Gorelick and Slade Gorton write in the New York Times . The handover from Clinton to Bush was deeply flawed, the 9/11 Commission members note, with "no effective dialog" between the two. To avoid a repeat, the current nominees should get much more information that they're not being given. More »

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President Bush and outgoing White House Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove, right, walk to Air Force One at Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland, Monday, Aug. 13, 2007. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) (Associated Press)

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President Bush, right, meets with Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, June 19, 2007. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert) (Associated Press)

Vice President Dick Cheney, left, listens while President Bush makes remarks during a meeting with Lt. Gen. Martin E. Dempsey, Commanding General of Multi-National Security and Transition Command in Iraq,... (Associated Press)

Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Peter Pace, right, looks on as President Bush, left, speaks to reporters about Iraq, at the Pentagon in this May 10, 2007 file photo. ( AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File) (Associated Press)

U.S. President George Bush, left, Britain's Prime minister Tony Blair, center and Russian President Vladimir Putin, right talk during a photo call at the G8 summit in Heiligendamm, Friday, June 8, 2007.... (Associated Press)

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George W(alker) Bush
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(born July 6, 1946, New Haven, Conn., U.S.) Governor of Texas (1995–2000) and 43rd president of the U.S. (from 2001). The eldest child of George Bush, the 41st president of the U.S. (1989–93), George W. Bush attended Yale University and Harvard Business School. After spending a decade in ...

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