Wednesday, October 22, 2008
The McCain camp is understood to be making tough decisions on where to campaign in the dying days of the race, now regarding Colorado, New Mexico and Iowa as falling out of Senator McCain’s reach. All three states voted for George W.Bush in 2004.
Australian News
McCain is concentrating all his efforts on a last-ditch attempt to [...]
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Wednesday, October 15, 2008
So, once again we degenerate into political silly season, it isn’t enough that GWB has recently announced plans to nationalize banks in the name of preserving the free market, but his erstwhile successors are now swinging around aimlessly announcing and then cancelling new financial bailout plans timed by the news cycle rather than timed to [...]
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from Slacktivist, here:
Seven years ago on August 6, 2001, President George W. Bush received a presidential daily briefing entitled, “Bin Ladin Determined to Strike in U.S.” The memorandum noted that al-Qaida intended “to follow the example of World Trade Center bomber Ramzi Youssef and ‘bring the lightning to America.’” The memo also noted “some of [...]
George Bush seems determined to stay clever and relevant:
US President George W Bush has explained the credit crunch savaging US financial markets by saying “Wall Street got drunk”.
“It got drunk and now it’s got a hangover,” Mr Bush said at a private political fundraiser in Houston, Texas.
Good that he’s going with what he knows metaphor-wise.
“The [...]