george w. bush

George W Bush was the 43rd President of The United States, taking office on January 20th 2001 and leaving office January 20th 2009. He is the son of George H W Bush, 41st President of the United States.

Eight months into his presidency, on September 11th 2001, the World Trade Center towers were destroyed by terrorists. The subsequent "War On Terror" was a defining element of George W Bush's presidency. On the back of this struggle and a new doctrine of "pre-emption," the United States was lead into seperate wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.

The existence of the Guantanamo Bay detention center and the use of torture and questionable intelligence gathering practices provided for considerable controversy during George W Bush's presidency. The economic crisis that emerged in the latter part of his second term further cast a shadow on his presidential legacy.

Often the butt of political humor, George W Bush's colorful political quotes and unique predicaments, like the notorious shoe throwing incident, made for spirited discussion in the blogosphere during much of his Presidency.

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Latest blogosphere posts tagged “george w. bush”

• A Classic Moment In GOP National Security History

  
  Taylor Marsh — Authority: 588
  It comes from the Republican gaffe machine, Rep. Peter King, proving yet again that my plea to disband and defund the Homeland Security apparatus is a good one. Via Ben Smith : “I think one main thing would be to — just himself to use the word terrorism more often,” said King, the ranking Republican on ...
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• Blame the guy who drive the bus off the cliff

  
  Letters to the Editor — Authority: 138
   Mr. Stoeffler - I believe your comparison of  Obama as a bus driver driving a bus full of people over a cliff  Is more like the bus going over the cliff and complaining about the way he is saving the bus. Fair comparison?????   It was the previous bus driver’s fault for…
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• Boomer Blues: ‘We don’t learn from the past, and we don’t plan for the future.’

  
  God's Politics Blog — Authority: 611
  In this morning’s New York Times, columnist Bob Herbert confesses to “An Uneasy Feeling,” apparently his understated way of saying “panic.” Herbert lists his concerns: unemployment, worthless mortgages, a decade with no job creation (previous decades since 1940 have all had at…
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• Hubble Finds Most Primordial Galaxies Yet

  
  Irregular Times: News Unfit for Print — Authority: 498
  Click on the thumbnail below to see a full-screen image of the early universe taken by the Hubble Space Telescope’s Wide Field Camera 3. There are a whole lot of galaxies in this image. Among them you can see the earliest galaxies ever spotted by humans : ones from way back when the universe was just ...
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• Ten Worst Things About The Bush Decade

  
  Disinformation — Authority: 532
  Via his blog Informed Comment , historian and Middle East expert Juan Cole lists the ten worst things about the Bush Decade. He begins with: 10. Stagnating worker wages and the emergence of a new monied aristocracy. Of all the income growth of the entire country of the United States in the Bush years, the richest ...
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• Democrats are Dropping Like Flies

  
  Joejolly's Weblog — Authority: 134
  abc NEWS The Note January 05, 2010 ABC News’ David Chalian Reports: Democratic Gov. Bill Ritter of Colorado, who was in for a tough reelection fight this year, canceled a scheduled fundraiser this evening and has decided not to seek reelection, according to Democratic sources familiar with the governor’s plans. ...
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• Peter King, Anti-Terrorism Guru

  
  The New Republic - The Plank Feed — Authority: 142
  The funny thing about the recent GOP attack on the administrations handling of the Detroit attempted plane bomber is that the ratio of political spin to actual policy content is close to infinity. Ben Smith flags this exchange on Good Morning America with Republican terrorism point man Peter King: "You are saying ...
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• Obama’s World Peace Offensive Yields Few Peace Dividends

  
  Big Government — Authority: 823
  On the foreign policy front, the Democrats for years have blamed America for the actions of rogue nations and dictators.  Indeed, as Mona Charen pointed out at length, in her book Useful Idiots , the Democrats have been all too willing to Blame America First for the actions of others.  So the storyline goes, when ...
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• Barack Obama’s favorite four-letter word: “Bush”

  
  RedState — Authority: 777
  “Blame Bush” has been Obama’s favorite strategy for trying to deflect blame for his mishandling of virtually every challenge he’s faced since ascending to his throne almost one year ago.  But is this approach still resonating?  I think not.  Obama refuses to stop blaming his predecessor for his own ...
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• It’s All About Access (Guest Voice)

  
  The Moderate Voice — Authority: 646
  It’s All About Access by David Goodloe In general, Americans seem to have the attention span of gypsy moths. Lately, that attention has been focused on the attempted Christmas Day bombing and Janet Napolitano’s mishandling of it. Don’t get me wrong. Security is extremely important. But, like most things, I ...
  13 hours ago

• Too Revealing

  
  The Moderate Voice — Authority: 646
  Cam Cardow, The Ottawa Citizen This cartoon is copyrighted and licensed to run on TMV. Unauthorized reproduction prohibited. All rights reserved.
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• Another Home With Bush Connections on the Darias?

  
  Dallas Blog, Daily News, Dallas Politics, Opinion, and Commentary FrontBurner Blog D Magazine — Authority: 527
  We now know the former president and first lady have joined the tear-down club , but could they be connected to yet a third place on Daria Place?
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• Iraq Inquiry Rebuttal Service: ‘Lincoln, Attlee, Major – war criminals’

  
  Tony Blair — Authority: 439
  Original Home Page All Contents of Site – Index All Links to ‘The Trial of Tony Blair’ posts Sign the Ban Blair-baiting petition here . Most recent sig comment: “The Best PM this Country had. Shame on the media.” Comment at end 6th January, 2010 At his Iraq Inquiry Rebuttal Service ...
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• Political Parties Switchers

  
  Socyberty — Authority: 604
  Recently, we have seen politicians Democrats and Republicans play the switching party game because the either disagree with whoever the president was at the time but what they fell to understand is who they are representing, while in Washington. Sure, if you have total support of your state citizens to switch go for ...
  17 hours ago

• Bushism on steroids?

  
  Cranach: The Blog of Veith — Authority: 537
  The Washington Times may be fading away, but here is a parting shot from columnist Jeffrey T. Kuhner : The past decade will be remembered as the pivotal tipping point where the United States ceased to be a superpower. Like the Roman Empire in its later stages, America’s imperial grandeur masked moral rot and ...
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• OReilly Chides CBS Commentary of Certified Intellectual Obama

  
  NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias — Authority: 809
  On Monday’s The O’Reilly Factor, FNC host Bill O’Reilly seemed to pick up on a NewsBusters posting by the MRC’s Brent Baker which highlighted New Yorker magazine writer Rebecca Mead’s commentary from the January 3 CBS Sunday Morning in which Mead touted President Obama as a "certified intellectual," while ...
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• Obama Security Review - Video and Transcript

  
  FREEDOM EDEN — Authority: 144
  Transcript Remarks by the President on Security Reviews Grand Foyer THE PRESIDENT: Good afternoon, everybody. I just concluded a meeting with members of my national security team, including those from our intelligence, homeland security and law enforcement agencies involved in the security reviews that I ordered ...
  21 hours ago

• A Silly Argument: Obama Was "Distracted," So Flight 253 Almost Blew Up

  
  Politics Daily — Authority: 780
  Filed under: Barack Obama , Terror , Obama Administration , Deep Background , Afghanistan Flight 253 was a big deal. One lone underwear-bomber nearly killed hundreds and devastated a critical industry. Citizens and their elected representatives are right to demand answers and accountability from the government ...
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• Can’t blame Bush for all of America’s problems

  
  Letters to the Editor — Authority: 138
    First of all the Post-Dispatch is carrying water for Obama citing an intelligence report to President Bush about a Bin Laden threat to the US. I guess to blame Bush for the 9/11 attack. So far Obama continuously blames President Bush…
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• Obama imperils secret briefings that could prevent the next jihad attack

  
  Muslims Against Sharia — Authority: 512
  "The Presidents Daily Brief...is shared with such an extraordinarily small number of people who are in a need-to-know situation, a need-to-know position, so they can use that information to protect the country, to prevent the next possible attack." Not anymore. Yet another Which-Side-Is-Obama-On Alert: "Obama ...
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