Obama Administration covers for Bush
From Andrew Sullivan’s The Binyam Mohamed Case: “The Obama administration will continue the cover-up of the alleged torture of the British resident. The argument is that revealing the extent of the man’s torture and abuse would reveal state secrets. No shit. This is a depressing sign that the Obama administration will protect the Bush-Cheney torture [...]
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From Thing Progress’ Obama’s First 100 Hours: A Clean Break From Bush: “As President Obama indicated in his inauguration speech, he is seeking to chart a new way forward in domestic and foreign policy. Obama has made a clean break from the Bush legacy in his early going, undertaking a number of actions that the [...]
“One beer for Smitty, and I’ll have a non-beer.”
From Vanity Fair’s My Dinners with Dubya: “When a college drinking buddy invited C. Brian Smith to hang out with her parents, he tried not to sweat the fact that they lived in the White House. He even had fun -— until 9/11 made watching bad movies with the president feel like a guilty pleasure [...]
Day One…and yet
This blog has never known a Democratic president. Created in the summer of 2004, Fluid Imagination has alway looked at the man inside the White House with complete distrust. That skepticism turns up in the thousands and thousands and thousands of words we’ve written about President George W. Bush these past five years, and it [...]
The Bush Administration’s B-Sides
From the Daily Beast’s 20 Forgotten Bush Scandals: “The Bush administration will leave the annals of presidential disrepute several times thicker than it found them. There’s Iraq, the hospital visit to John Ashcroft, the US attorney firings. But historians will note that those are only the beginning of the Bush administration scandals. Does the name [...]
Lazy Democrats Broke The Curse, Not Bush
From Slate’s Bush’s Legacy: He Survived!: “Historians will be debating George Bush’s presidency for decades to com but in one area, at least, he leaves an unambiguous legacy: He will break, once and for all, Tecumseh’s Curse. The curse — also known as the Curse of Tippecanoe, the Zero-Year Curse and the 20-Year Curse — [...]
Quick and Easy Decisions to Effect Incredible Change
From the Telegraph’s Barack Obama to end US army’s ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ policy towards gays: “The change of policy on homosexuality will allow gays to serve openly in all branches of the armed forces. The move is expected to be among a series of symbolic changes he will push through quickly to stamp his [...]
The War President Who Couldn’t Be
From Joan Walsh’s The buck stops where?: “I haven’t written about President Bush for quite a while. I prefer to look toward the future. But his delusional exit interview with ABC’s Charles Gibson made me pay attention again. When Gibson asked Bush what he was ‘unprepared for’ when he became president, Bush gave this rather [...]
This Needs To Be A Priority for Obama
From Alternet’s How to Find out the Hidden Secrets of the Bush Administration: “Treat Cheney’s offices like a crime scene, create a 9/12 Commission, and declassify the Bush papers — the public deserves to know. “
The First Inkling of a Legacy
From the London Times’ Vladimir Putin ‘wanted to hang Georgian President Saakashvili by the balls’: “Nicolas Sarkozy saved the President of Georgia from being hanged ‘by the balls’ — a threat made last summer by Vladimir Putin, according to an account that emerged yesterday from the Élysée Palace. “I am going to hang Saakashvili [...]
