01-20-2009 – the end

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“I’ll be long gone before some smart person ever figures out what happened inside this Oval Office.“ George W. Bush, Washington DC, 12 May, 2008 * So I did some checking to get a source for this, and as I expected, it’s slightly taken out of context (Bush was trying to infer that someone would… Read more »

McCain's acceptance speech echos Bush's

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This is glorious, The Daily Show obliterates McCain’s acceptance speech by interspersing clips of Dubya’s acceptance speech. It’s funny that much of it is the same – WORD FOR WORD! So I guess that’s the change they keep talking about. Damn McCain, you crazy Mavrick! (sic) search

John McSame – why M.c.Cain would be 4 more years of the same

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UPDATE: months after confusing Iran and Iraq, (multiple – times), M.c.Cain continues to try to upstage Bush’s famous canon of mis-spoken quotes by stating that Putin is President of Germany. Say what you want about Barack Obama’s ‘change’ message, just know if you go with J.o.hn M.c.Cain you’re saying yes to four more years of… Read more »

Olbermann chronicles Bush's nexus of politics and terror

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Watching the “coincidences” between political decisions and terror alerts since 2001 (we’re currently at Bert!) has been a favorite spectator sport of mine, but of course it takes Keith Olbermann to fully chronicle the ongoing Bush legacy.  Called “The Nexus of Politics and Terror” it provides “…the Bush administration’s exploitation of terror threats for political… Read more »