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Why Didn’t Google Go Back in Time to Protect President Bush’s Feelings?

By L. Russell Allen - Jan 30th, 2009 at 1:40 pm

You remember back in The Dark Ages when George W. Bush was president? You Googled “miserable failure” and President Bush’s White House biography was the…

Terrorism in the Obama Age

By Jesse Singal - Jan 26th, 2009 at 11:22 am

The Washington Post ran an interesting article yesterday about Al Qaeda’s attempts to incite jihad in a post-Bush world. The group is having some trouble:…

Pre-recorded Encouragement

By Jesse Singal - Jan 23rd, 2009 at 1:00 pm

I think former President Bush may be ordering this in the near future:

(via FAIL Blog)

In Defense of the Boo-birds

By Jesse Singal - Jan 21st, 2009 at 4:08 pm

I definitely get what Jessica is saying in her argument that folks on the Mall shouldn’t have booed former President Bush (that was the first…

Booing Was Bad Form, America

By Jessica Hillyard - Jan 21st, 2009 at 2:06 pm

Whether you watched yesterday’s 56th Presidential Inauguration on TV or on the Jumbotrons placed on the National Mall, there is no doubt about what you…

Damning with Faint Praise

By L. Russell Allen - Jan 21st, 2009 at 10:38 am

Right now a lot of people are looking back on George Bush’s presidency and debating whether it was the worst presidency in American history (it…

It is Time to Leave

By Diana Jou - Jan 21st, 2009 at 12:03 am

Image found here.

Were You Aware that “History May See Lincoln-Like Greatness in George W. Bush”?

By Jesse Singal - Jan 16th, 2009 at 9:27 am

I wasn’t either, at least not until I read this Richard Connor masterpiece. After a long stream of plaudits–Bush rid us of Saddam, Bush acted…

Bush’s Approval Rating Increases! (You Read That Right)

By Daniel Strauss - Jan 15th, 2009 at 10:28 am

Via Josh Micah Marshall, Bush has seen an uptick in approval ratings according to a Gallup poll. I’m speechless:
I noticed that today’s Gallup numbers…

Bush: You Haven’t Heard the Last of Me

By Jesse Singal - Jan 14th, 2009 at 4:24 pm

Mike Allen:
President Bush is naming a high-powered staff to launch him on a productive post-presidency that, at least at first, will be busy behind…

A Long Tradition of Non-oversight

By Jamelle Bouie - Jan 13th, 2009 at 4:28 pm

It’s perfectly natural to want to place all of the blame for the country’s woes on President Bush, given that the “Decider” stumbled from one…

See: U.S. Presidents

By Diana Jou - Jan 9th, 2009 at 10:10 am

From left to right, former President George H.W. Bush, President-elect Barack Obama, President George W. Bush, and former Presidents Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter were…

Soft Bigotry of Low Expectations

By Ned Resnikoff - Dec 23rd, 2008 at 12:36 pm

Look, even if congressional leaders did express “strong concerns” when first brief about the Bush wiretapping program, so what? What do you guys want, a…

Hot Potato

By Ned Resnikoff - Dec 17th, 2008 at 3:30 pm

I know, I know–Bush has been doing the whole whitewashing-his-legacy thing ever since Nov. 5. Still, just when you think he’s come up with the…

Inevitable

By Jesse Singal - Dec 16th, 2008 at 1:44 pm

Via reddit, I simply can’t resist posting this:

(Originally from here.)