George W. Bush

"Obama is average" "Obama is average"

In an interview, a leading voice of America's conservative intellectuals discusses Barack Obama's failures
  • Public still blames Bush for recession

    President Obama nicely positioned to take credit for recovery
  • A Nobel prize for a Bush critic

    Never mind Elizabeth Blackburn's contribution to cancer research. In 2004, she shined a light on even nastier stuff
  • The end of the Pax Americana?

    Obama has the chance to end our Cold War hangover, and start an era where the U.S. is not the sole global policeman
  • The end of an era

    They don't make families -- or politicians, or liberals -- like Teddy and the Kennedys anymore
  • Quote of the day

    A State Department spokeswoman gets at the real difference between Bush and Obama
  • Tell us what you really think, President Bush

    A one-time speech writer for the former president pens a book revealing some of his boss' private thoughts
  • John Brennan's dangerous national security advice

    Under Bush he pushed domestic wiretapping. Now he's advocating expansion of abusive spying on Americans
  • Cheney to take his disagreements with Bush public

    The former vice president will reportedly discuss his arguments with President Bush in his memoir
  • Is Obama really that unpopular?

    A pollster applies some historical context and gives three reasons why things aren't bleak for the president
  • Let the military commissions die

    A lawyer for Guantanamo detainees explains why Obama and Congress shouldn't try to revive the failed system
  • Great moments in political race-baiting

    Willie Horton hears a who: Beck, Limbaugh are the latest in a long and undistinguished American tradition
  • The Bush vs. Cheney battle over Libby

    The relationship between the two men became strained as they left office, and there's still some tension
  • Bush officials: Where are they now?

    The unemployment rate is high around the country -- but not for former Bush officials. A guide to who's cashing in
  • Night of the living neocons

    The shameless fools whose Iraq folly empowered Iran's hard-liners are back, smearing Obama as an appeaser
  • Gibbs responds to Bush: "we won"

    The press secretary hits back at the former president's criticism of the Obama administration
  • Bush criticizes Obama

    The former president said he wasn't going to speak ill of his successor -- and then did
  • Obama's Cairo mission: Don't be Bush

    Five disastrous Middle East policies that the president must show he's rejected.
  • This president does not chop brush

    Unlike all his predecessors since Kennedy, Obama is an engaged city dweller -- just like the majority of Americans.
  • Republicans lose their national security edge

    A new poll finds that Americans no longer favor Republicans on national security issues.
  • "The world has ignored our warnings"

    Nuclear watchdog Mohamed ElBaradei talks about being wiretapped by the Bush administration, whose "arrogance and ignorance" turned the Middle East into "a giant mess."
  • Our unending war of terror

    Bush's embrace of torture was horrific, but it was hardly the first time Americans have acted like terrorists.
  • The 13 people who made torture possible

    The Bush administration's Torture 13. They authorized it, they decided how to implement it, and they crafted the legal fig leaf to justify it.
  • We tortured to justify war

    Dick Cheney keeps saying "enhanced interrogation" was used to stop imminent attacks, but evidence is mounting that the real reason was to invent evidence linking Saddam Hussein to al-Qaida.
  • Soufan: CIA torture actually hindered our intelligence gathering

    An FBI agent testifies that an al-Qaida prisoner provided useful intelligence until the CIA got rough -- and casts doubt on Bush's statements about the effectiveness of harsh interrogations.
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