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"Don't you feel like we don't quite have a leader right now? Don't you feel like our country is missing its voice?"
Asks Jac, adding: "It's not a very good feeling, is it?" ADDED: I just noticed that the quote I chose to excerpt is not ostensibly pro…
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Oh, Cécilia, I'm down on my knees, I'm begging you please....
... to go on a picnic -- a peekneek -- with George Bush. But she won't! She's a French-style political spouse. She Cécilia Sarkozy. She had …
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"A smooth-talking rookie senator with an exotic name passes himself off as the incumbent American president to credulous foreigners."
Barack Obama's overseas trip seems like the scenario for some Borat-style movie to Frank Rich. He never would have been treated as a president-i…
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"I admire him as a president and I regard him as a friend."
Bush and Blair in the Rose Garden. Poignant, almost tragic. I don't have a transcript yet, but I was listening to part of this on C-Span radio a…
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"What I've also said is: I will always listen to the commanders on the ground."
The Republican National Committee releases an effective video juxtaposing statements about Iraq by General Petraeus, Hillary Clinton, and Barack Obam…
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"'Now, where’s Mandela?' Well, Mandela’s dead because Saddam Hussein killed all the Mandelas."
We all know President Bush could speak more clearly, but, really, you have to will yourself into idiocy not to understand what he means here. MORE: …
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"I’m looking for the next commander-in-chief, to know who Hassan Nasrallah is, and Zawahiri, and al-Julani, and al-Baghdadi. Do you know the players without a scorecard, yet, Donald Trump?"
"No... You know, I’ll tell you honestly, I think by the time we get to office, they’ll all be changed. They’ll be all gone. I knew you were goin…
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George Bush takes questions from Matt Lauer.
Did you watch the big show on TV tonight? You can watch it here: And here 's the transcript. I thought Bush came off well, though I'm sure pe…
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"It's comforting that liberals now understand that there are worse things than having a divided Supreme Court disagree with your position."
"I understand that supporters of Judge Sotomayor are claiming that she has been 'vindicated' by the fact that four dissenting judges in …
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"The president’s eyes became fixed; his voice took on the agitated, rapid tone of someone neither accustomed to nor welcoming interruption..."
"... his easy affability was replaced by an almost messianic certainty. As I watched my mostly Republican Senate colleagues hang on his every wo…
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"How George W. Bush Evolved From the Uncoolest Person on the Planet to Bona Fide Hipster Icon."
A Vanity Fair article by Juli Weiner: But if you are younger than 24, you might not have attended anti-Bush rallies in high school and in college. Y…
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Adios to Johnny Ramone.
I have a little hearing loss in my right ear as a permanent memorial to you. Here's the NYT obit. Blog readers may enjoy this political part: Mr…
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Katrina political rhetoric.
Can you imagine what it would be like if the governor of Louisiana and the mayor of New Orleans were Republicans? Lots of tricky rhetorical twistines…
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"I wish they weren’t called the Bush tax cuts..."
"If they’re called some other body’s tax cuts, they’re probably less likely to be raised." Some other body's... Aw, don't you miss…
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Bush speaks.
At 9 ET. Comment here. UPDATE: I do wish he'd been able to sell us on the plan with an explanation of how we'd be taking advantage of the mar…
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15 years ago today I started a notebook...
The first page, breakfast at a café, knowing this is the day, March 19th, seems like a normal day, but do you remember knowing, this is it, this is t…
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ABC reveals that Bush approved plan to destabilize the Iranian government.
Here ... and note the extremely harsh comments. For more commentary, start here . From Captain Ed : ABC reports that Dick Cheney preferred the milita…
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"But He Gave Up Golf."
Remember how the press treated George Bush ? (Story at the link originally blogged here .)
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"I came with the idea of changing the tone in Washington, and frankly didn't do a very good job of it."
"You know, war brings out a lot of heated rhetoric and a lot of emotion. I fully understand that." "Reflections by a guy who’s headed …
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