Cliff Schecter, Guardian
Posted Sunday January 4, 2009 8:32 AM | Bush | 135
Time
Posted Saturday January 3, 2009 8:09 AM | Bush | 86
BOB HERBERT, New York Times
Posted Wednesday December 31, 2008 6:29 AM | Bush | 220
Paul Harris, Guardian
Posted Sunday December 14, 2008 3:48 PM | Bush | 331
Editorial, New York Times
Posted Sunday December 7, 2008 8:23 AM | Bush | 865
Editorial, New York Times
Posted Wednesday November 5, 2008 6:36 AM | Election 2008 | 1,435
Pottersville
Posted Wednesday November 5, 2008 8:24 AM | Election 2008 | 507
BOB HERBERT, New York Times
Posted Tuesday November 4, 2008 5:30 AM | Election 2008 | 1,092
Steve Chapman, Baltimore Sun
Posted Tuesday November 4, 2008 6:12 AM | Election 2008 | 738
Eugene Robinson, Washington Post
Posted Tuesday November 4, 2008 6:06 AM | Election 2008 | 569
Daniel Wallis, Reuters
Posted Tuesday November 4, 2008 6:26 AM | Election 2008 | 531
GLENN ADAMS , AP
Posted Tuesday November 4, 2008 6:16 AM | Election 2008 | 217
Editorial, San Francisco Chronicle
Posted Monday November 3, 2008 6:56 AM | Election 2008 | 1,086
Harry Hanbury and Patricia Foulkrod, AlterNet
Posted Monday November 3, 2008 6:57 AM | Election 2008 | 746
Bob Drogin and Robin Abcarian, Los Angeles Times
Posted Monday November 3, 2008 6:55 AM | Election 2008 | 585
With only days left until his term expires, it appears that the Bush legacy project, an attempt by the usual corps of serial sycophants to rehabilitate the lame-duck generalissimo's image, is falling upon the deaf ears and self-gouged eyes of an American public sickened by the last eight years. more. . .
Posted Sunday January 4, 2009 8:32 AM | Bush | 135
Time
"We will reopen Pennsylvania Avenue in front of the White House." —the 2000 Republican platform
But they never did. Eight years later, the barricades remain. It was a phony issue, of course — just another stick with which to beat Bill Clinton, who closed the road at the insistence of the Secret Service. In an interview with PBS a month after Sept. 11, 2001, Vice President Dick Cheney stated the obvious: "Pennsylvania Avenue ought to stay closed because, as a fact, if somebody were to detonate a truck bomb in front of the White House, it would probably level the White House, and that is unacceptable." more. . .
But they never did. Eight years later, the barricades remain. It was a phony issue, of course — just another stick with which to beat Bill Clinton, who closed the road at the insistence of the Secret Service. In an interview with PBS a month after Sept. 11, 2001, Vice President Dick Cheney stated the obvious: "Pennsylvania Avenue ought to stay closed because, as a fact, if somebody were to detonate a truck bomb in front of the White House, it would probably level the White House, and that is unacceptable." more. . .
Posted Saturday January 3, 2009 8:09 AM | Bush | 86
BOB HERBERT, New York Times
Does anyone know where George W. Bush is?
You don’t hear much from him anymore. The last image most of us remember is of the president ducking a pair of size 10s that were hurled at him in Baghdad.
We’re still at war in Iraq and Afghanistan. Israel is thrashing the Palestinians in Gaza. And the U.S. economy is about as vibrant as the 0-16 Detroit Lions.
But hardly a peep have we heard from George, the 43rd.
When Mr. Bush officially takes his leave in three weeks (in reality, he checked out long ago), most Americans will be content to sigh good riddance. I disagree. I don’t think he should be allowed to slip quietly out of town. There should be a great hue and cry — a loud, collective angry howl, demonstrations with signs and bullhorns and fiery speeches — over the damage he’s done to this country. more. . .
You don’t hear much from him anymore. The last image most of us remember is of the president ducking a pair of size 10s that were hurled at him in Baghdad.
We’re still at war in Iraq and Afghanistan. Israel is thrashing the Palestinians in Gaza. And the U.S. economy is about as vibrant as the 0-16 Detroit Lions.
But hardly a peep have we heard from George, the 43rd.
When Mr. Bush officially takes his leave in three weeks (in reality, he checked out long ago), most Americans will be content to sigh good riddance. I disagree. I don’t think he should be allowed to slip quietly out of town. There should be a great hue and cry — a loud, collective angry howl, demonstrations with signs and bullhorns and fiery speeches — over the damage he’s done to this country. more. . .
Posted Wednesday December 31, 2008 6:29 AM | Bush | 220
Paul Harris, Guardian
After spending eight years at the helm of one of the most ideologically driven administrations in American history, George W. Bush is ending his presidency in characteristically aggressive fashion, with a swath of controversial measures designed to reward supporters and enrage opponents.
By the time he vacates the White House, he will have issued a record number of so-called 'midnight regulations' - so called because of the stealthy way they appear on the rule books - to undermine the administration of Barack Obama, many of which could take years to undo. more. . .
By the time he vacates the White House, he will have issued a record number of so-called 'midnight regulations' - so called because of the stealthy way they appear on the rule books - to undermine the administration of Barack Obama, many of which could take years to undo. more. . .
Posted Sunday December 14, 2008 3:48 PM | Bush | 331
Editorial, New York Times
We long ago gave up hope that President Bush would acknowledge his many mistakes, or show he had learned anything from them. Even then we were unprepared for the epic denial that Mr. Bush displayed in his interview with ABC News’s Charles Gibson the other day, which he presumably considered an important valedictory chat with the American public as well. more. . .
Posted Sunday December 7, 2008 8:23 AM | Bush | 865
Editorial, New York Times
This is one of those moments in history when it is worth pausing to reflect on the basic facts:
An American with the name Barack Hussein Obama, the son of a white woman and a black man he barely knew, raised by his grandparents far outside the stream of American power and wealth, has been elected the 44th president of the United States. more. . .
An American with the name Barack Hussein Obama, the son of a white woman and a black man he barely knew, raised by his grandparents far outside the stream of American power and wealth, has been elected the 44th president of the United States. more. . .
Posted Wednesday November 5, 2008 6:36 AM | Election 2008 | 1,435
Pottersville
Maybe Barry Goldwater's seat is just cursed. Maybe the biggest voter turnout since 1908 was too much for Diebold, ES&S and Republican Secretaries of State to absorb to give us another November surprise. Maybe the Bradley Effect needs to be resurrected in a future Southern Strategy. Or maybe Americans were just too plain scared to not take a chance on Obama, the intelligent, articulate young candidate who by far represented change to over 62,000,000 Americans. more. . .
Posted Wednesday November 5, 2008 8:24 AM | Election 2008 | 507
BOB HERBERT, New York Times
Conservative commentators had a lot of fun mocking Barack Obama’s use of the phrase, “the fierce urgency of now.”
Noting that it had originated with the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Senator Obama made it a cornerstone of his early campaign speeches. more. . .
Noting that it had originated with the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Senator Obama made it a cornerstone of his early campaign speeches. more. . .
Posted Tuesday November 4, 2008 5:30 AM | Election 2008 | 1,092
Steve Chapman, Baltimore Sun
Regardless of what the polls say, it's not clear who is going to win the presidential race. But it is clear who is going to lose: George W. Bush. If this contest proves anything, it's that the electorate is sick of him and eager for someone very different. more. . .
Posted Tuesday November 4, 2008 6:12 AM | Election 2008 | 738
Eugene Robinson, Washington Post
Whoever wins this election, I understand what Barack Obama meant when he said his faith in the American people had been "vindicated" by his campaign's success. I understand what Michelle Obama meant, months ago, when she said she was "proud of my country" for the first time in her adult life. Why should they be immune to the astonishment and vertigo that so many other African Americans are experiencing? Why shouldn't they have to pinch themselves to make sure they aren't dreaming, the way that I do? more. . .
Posted Tuesday November 4, 2008 6:06 AM | Election 2008 | 569
Daniel Wallis, Reuters
KISUMU, Kenya (Reuters) - Kenyans in Barack Obama's ancestral homeland prayed for victory Tuesday and relatives prepared to roast a bull in celebration if he becomes the first African-American president of the United States. more. . .
Posted Tuesday November 4, 2008 6:26 AM | Election 2008 | 531
GLENN ADAMS , AP
DIXVILLE NOTCH, N.H. (AP) -- Barack Obama came up a big winner in the presidential race in Dixville Notch and Hart's Location, N.H., where tradition of having the first Election Day ballots tallied lives on. more. . .
Posted Tuesday November 4, 2008 6:16 AM | Election 2008 | 217
Editorial, San Francisco Chronicle
Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, campaigning in Marietta, Ohio, on Sunday, tried to scare coal-state voters by suggesting the San Francisco Chronicle had concealed an audiotape of Sen. Barack Obama explaining "his plan" to bankrupt the industry. more. . .
Posted Monday November 3, 2008 6:56 AM | Election 2008 | 1,086
Harry Hanbury and Patricia Foulkrod, AlterNet
At a recent rally for John McCain in Columbus, Ohio, ANP asked McCain supporters a simple question: If Barack Obama is elected president, what will it say about America? One woman, who claims that Obama wants to change the flag and the national anthem, demonstrates the lasting power of a debunked anti-Obama chain e-mail.
more. . .
more. . .
Posted Monday November 3, 2008 6:57 AM | Election 2008 | 746
Bob Drogin and Robin Abcarian, Los Angeles Times
Reporting from Delaware, Ohio -- John McCain has targeted this wealthy area just north of Columbus as one of 15 counties in Ohio where he needs to drive up his vote tally if he is to beat Barack Obama on Tuesday in this must-win state.
But on Friday night, only nine volunteers manned the 24 phones in the McCain campaign office. The phone bank began operating on a daily basis just two weeks ago. And since then, only five people have shown up on most weekdays to canvass local neighborhoods. more. . .
But on Friday night, only nine volunteers manned the 24 phones in the McCain campaign office. The phone bank began operating on a daily basis just two weeks ago. And since then, only five people have shown up on most weekdays to canvass local neighborhoods. more. . .
Posted Monday November 3, 2008 6:55 AM | Election 2008 | 585
Editorial, New York Times
Posted Saturday January 3, 2009 11:18 PM | Government | 94
PAUL KRUGMAN, New York Times
Posted Friday January 2, 2009 6:35 AM | Politics | 115
Editorial, New York Times
Posted Tuesday December 23, 2008 6:14 AM | Government | 435
Dan Froomkin, Washington Post
Posted Friday December 12, 2008 7:41 PM | Torture | 271
JONATHAN MAHLER, New York Times
Posted Sunday November 9, 2008 2:22 PM | Bush | 1,941
New York Times
Posted Wednesday November 5, 2008 6:34 AM | Election 2008 | 1,316
EDITORIAL, New York Times
Posted Tuesday November 4, 2008 5:30 AM | Bush | 1,724
MICHAEL GRUNWALD, Time
Posted Tuesday November 4, 2008 3:57 PM | Election 2008 | 1,046
Pottersville
Posted Tuesday November 4, 2008 5:44 AM | Election 2008 | 699
Richard Cohen, Washington Post
Posted Tuesday November 4, 2008 6:08 AM | Race | 569
Alexis Madrigal, Wired
Posted Tuesday November 4, 2008 6:05 AM | Election 2008 | 505
PAUL KRUGMAN, New York Times
Posted Monday November 3, 2008 6:25 AM | Election 2008 | 1,236
MARK HALPERIN, Time
Posted Monday November 3, 2008 6:30 AM | Election 2008 | 1,002
Dan Froomkin, Washington Post
Posted Monday November 3, 2008 4:59 PM | Election 2008 | 649
Kim Zetter, Wired
Posted Monday November 3, 2008 4:51 PM | Election 2008 | 551
True to its mania for secrecy, the Bush administration is leaving behind vast gaps in the most sensitive White House e-mail records, and with lawyers and public interest groups in hot pursuit of information that deserves to be part of the permanent historical record. more. . .
Posted Saturday January 3, 2009 11:18 PM | Government | 94
PAUL KRUGMAN, New York Times
As the new Democratic majority prepares to take power, Republicans have become, as Phil Gramm might put it, a party of whiners.
Some of the whining almost defies belief. Did Alberto Gonzales, the former attorney general, really say, “I consider myself a casualty, one of the many casualties of the war on terror”? Did Rush Limbaugh really suggest that the financial crisis was the result of a conspiracy, masterminded by that evil genius Chuck Schumer?
But most of the whining takes the form of claims that the Bush administration’s failure was simply a matter of bad luck — either the bad luck of President Bush himself, who just happened to have disasters happen on his watch, or the bad luck of the G.O.P., which just happened to send the wrong man to the White House.
The fault, however, lies not in Republicans’ stars but in themselves. Forty years ago the G.O.P. decided, in effect, to make itself the party of racial backlash. And everything that has happened in recent years, from the choice of Mr. Bush as the party’s champion, to the Bush administration’s pervasive incompetence, to the party’s shrinking base, is a consequence of that decision. more. . .
Some of the whining almost defies belief. Did Alberto Gonzales, the former attorney general, really say, “I consider myself a casualty, one of the many casualties of the war on terror”? Did Rush Limbaugh really suggest that the financial crisis was the result of a conspiracy, masterminded by that evil genius Chuck Schumer?
But most of the whining takes the form of claims that the Bush administration’s failure was simply a matter of bad luck — either the bad luck of President Bush himself, who just happened to have disasters happen on his watch, or the bad luck of the G.O.P., which just happened to send the wrong man to the White House.
The fault, however, lies not in Republicans’ stars but in themselves. Forty years ago the G.O.P. decided, in effect, to make itself the party of racial backlash. And everything that has happened in recent years, from the choice of Mr. Bush as the party’s champion, to the Bush administration’s pervasive incompetence, to the party’s shrinking base, is a consequence of that decision. more. . .
Posted Friday January 2, 2009 6:35 AM | Politics | 115
Editorial, New York Times
Vice President Dick Cheney has a parting message for Americans: They should quit whining about all the things he and President Bush did to undermine the rule of law, erode the balance of powers between the White House and Congress, abuse prisoners and spy illegally on Americans. After all, he said, Franklin Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln did worse than that. more. . .
Posted Tuesday December 23, 2008 6:14 AM | Government | 435
Dan Froomkin, Washington Post
Yesterday's bipartisan Senate report on the abuse of detainees in U.S. custody at Guantanamo, Abu Ghraib and elsewhere doesn't just lay out a clear line of responsibility starting with President Bush, it also exposes the administration's repeated explanation for what happened as a pack of lies. more. . .
Posted Friday December 12, 2008 7:41 PM | Torture | 271
JONATHAN MAHLER, New York Times
Ask a long-serving member of the United States Senate — like, say, Patrick Leahy of Vermont — to reflect on the Senate’s role in our constitutional government, and he will almost invariably tell you a story from our nation’s founding that may or may not be apocryphal. It concerns an exchange that supposedly took place between Thomas Jefferson and George Washington in 1787, the year of the constitutional convention in Philadelphia. Jefferson, who had been serving as America’s ambassador to France during the convention, asked Washington over breakfast upon his return why he and the other framers created a Senate — in addition to the previously planned House of Representatives and presidency — in his absence. more. . .
Posted Sunday November 9, 2008 2:22 PM | Bush | 1,941
New York Times
Posted Wednesday November 5, 2008 6:34 AM | Election 2008 | 1,316
EDITORIAL, New York Times
While Americans eagerly vote for the next president, here’s a sobering reminder: As of Tuesday, George W. Bush still has 77 days left in the White House — and he’s not wasting a minute. more. . .
Posted Tuesday November 4, 2008 5:30 AM | Bush | 1,724
MICHAEL GRUNWALD, Time
Tonight's presidential election returns will be memorable, historic ... and a bit anticlimactic. When the two-term Republican President has a 20% approval rating and Americans prefer the Democrats' solution to just about every national problem, Americans just aren't going to elect another Republican President — especially when the Democratic nominee has raised the most money in the history of money. The pundits will spend the night debating whether John McCain's campaign should have been cleaner or nastier, more disciplined or more freewheeling, more conservative or more centrist, and whether he should have picked a different running mate or let Sarah Palin be Sarah Palin. But some of us thought this race was over in July, when McCain was still tied in the polls. There was only one way McCain could have made tonight suspenseful: he could have beaten George W. Bush in 2000. more. . .
Posted Tuesday November 4, 2008 3:57 PM | Election 2008 | 1,046
Pottersville
Forget 2009. Remember the Alamo. Remember the Maine. Remember the lessons of September 11th. But whatever you do, remember, also, 2006. more. . .
Posted Tuesday November 4, 2008 5:44 AM | Election 2008 | 699
Richard Cohen, Washington Post
If the polls are right, if it don't rain and the creek don't rise, the winner of the presidential election is sure to be . . . Lyndon Baines Johnson. When he signed the epochal Civil Rights Act of 1964, Johnson knew he was also signing away the South and, with it, much of the white vote elsewhere as well. "We have lost the South for a generation," he supposedly said back then. For that generation, time's up. more. . .
Posted Tuesday November 4, 2008 6:08 AM | Race | 569
Alexis Madrigal, Wired
On election night in 2000, Adina Matisoff went out early to celebrate with a game of pool after hearing Al Gore declared the next President of the United States. When Gore eventually lost the election, Matisoff decided that her lack of focus had contributed to the defeat.
This election season, she, like countless others, including Obama's non-shaving Ohio campaign manager, are resorting to superstition to improve their candidates' chances. more. . .
This election season, she, like countless others, including Obama's non-shaving Ohio campaign manager, are resorting to superstition to improve their candidates' chances. more. . .
Posted Tuesday November 4, 2008 6:05 AM | Election 2008 | 505
PAUL KRUGMAN, New York Times
Maybe the polls are wrong, and John McCain is about to pull off the biggest election upset in American history. But right now the Democrats seem poised both to win the White House and to greatly expand their majorities in both houses of Congress.
Most of the post-election discussion will presumably be about what the Democrats should and will do with their mandate. But let me ask a different question that will also be important for the nation’s future: What will defeat do to the Republicans? more. . .
Most of the post-election discussion will presumably be about what the Democrats should and will do with their mandate. But let me ask a different question that will also be important for the nation’s future: What will defeat do to the Republicans? more. . .
Posted Monday November 3, 2008 6:25 AM | Election 2008 | 1,236
MARK HALPERIN, Time
Barring an extraordinary shock, Barack Obama will win more than 270 electoral votes on Tuesday, giving him the White House. Hours before voting starts, John McCain has no clear path to reaching that same goal. more. . .
Posted Monday November 3, 2008 6:30 AM | Election 2008 | 1,002
Dan Froomkin, Washington Post
President Bush is hiding from public view until the election is over -- and for good reason. But Vice President Cheney briefly emerged from the shadows on Saturday to praise the McCain-Palin ticket. And Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama quickly brandished Cheney's appearance like a cudgel. more. . .
Posted Monday November 3, 2008 4:59 PM | Election 2008 | 649
Kim Zetter, Wired
Touchscreen voting machines at the center of recent vote-flipping reports can be easily and maliciously recalibrated in the field to favor one candidate in a race, according to a report prepared by computer scientists for the state of Ohio. more. . .
Posted Monday November 3, 2008 4:51 PM | Election 2008 | 551
FRANK RICH, New York Times
Posted Saturday January 3, 2009 11:16 PM | Bush | 90
Mark Morford, San Francisco Chronicle
Posted Friday January 2, 2009 1:18 PM | Bush | 91
Editorial, New York Times
Posted Thursday December 18, 2008 4:04 PM | Torture | 341
SCOTT SHANE and MARK MAZZETTI, New York Times
Posted Thursday December 11, 2008 6:51 PM | Torture | 619
One Thousand Reasons
Posted Wednesday November 5, 2008 4:39 PM | OTR Site | 1,889
Robert Barnes and Michael D. Shear, Washington Post
Posted Wednesday November 5, 2008 6:39 AM | Election 2008 | 514
Matthew Yglesias, Think Progress
Posted Tuesday November 4, 2008 4:01 PM | Bush | 1,663
Sidney Blumenthal, Guardian
Posted Tuesday November 4, 2008 6:04 AM | Election 2008 | 885
New York Times
Posted Tuesday November 4, 2008 6:42 AM | Election 2008 | 579
New York Times
Posted Tuesday November 4, 2008 6:14 AM | Election 2008 | 567
Mary Dejevsky, Independent
Posted Tuesday November 4, 2008 5:52 AM | International | 449
Editorial, New York Times
Posted Monday November 3, 2008 6:23 AM | Election 2008 | 1,161
Mike Madden, Salon
Posted Monday November 3, 2008 7:06 AM | Religion | 748
MICHAEL DUFFY, Time
Posted Monday November 3, 2008 6:43 AM | Government | 587
WE like our failed presidents to be Shakespearean, or at least large enough to inspire Oscar-worthy performances from magnificent tragedians like Frank Langella. So here, too, George W. Bush has let us down. Even the banality of evil is too grandiose a concept for 43. He is not a memorable villain so much as a sometimes affable second banana whom Josh Brolin and Will Ferrell can nail without breaking a sweat. He’s the reckless Yalie Tom Buchanan, not Gatsby. He is smaller than life. more. . .
Posted Saturday January 3, 2009 11:16 PM | Bush | 90
Mark Morford, San Francisco Chronicle
You have to go deep. You have to scrape and dig and plow, hunt and dive and sigh and even then it might take so long and cost so much invaluable energy and ultimately prove to be so damn near impossible, you will wonder if it's even worth it and why the hell I am even trying because, well, sweet Jesus knows he doesn't deserve it in the first place.
But if you're so inclined, if the temperature of your temperament is just so, if that fourth glass of $10 recession-defying wine is making you feel unusually generous, maybe, just maybe you can muster a bit of sympathy for George W. Bush.
Possible? Insane? Blasphemous? Damn straight. more. . .
But if you're so inclined, if the temperature of your temperament is just so, if that fourth glass of $10 recession-defying wine is making you feel unusually generous, maybe, just maybe you can muster a bit of sympathy for George W. Bush.
Possible? Insane? Blasphemous? Damn straight. more. . .
Posted Friday January 2, 2009 1:18 PM | Bush | 91
Editorial, New York Times
Most Americans have long known that the horrors of Abu Ghraib were not the work of a few low-ranking sociopaths. All but President Bush’s most unquestioning supporters recognized the chain of unprincipled decisions that led to the abuse, torture and death in prisons run by the American military and intelligence services.
Now, a bipartisan report by the Senate Armed Services Committee has made what amounts to a strong case for bringing criminal charges against former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld; his legal counsel, William J. Haynes; and potentially other top officials, including the former White House counsel Alberto Gonzales and David Addington, Vice President Dick Cheney’s former chief of staff. more. . .
Now, a bipartisan report by the Senate Armed Services Committee has made what amounts to a strong case for bringing criminal charges against former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld; his legal counsel, William J. Haynes; and potentially other top officials, including the former White House counsel Alberto Gonzales and David Addington, Vice President Dick Cheney’s former chief of staff. more. . .
Posted Thursday December 18, 2008 4:04 PM | Torture | 341
SCOTT SHANE and MARK MAZZETTI, New York Times
WASHINGTON — A report released Thursday by leaders of the Senate Armed Services committee said that top Bush administration officials, including Donald H. Rumsfeld, the former defense secretary, bear major responsibility for the abuses committed by American troops in interrogations at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and other military detention centers. more. . .
Posted Thursday December 11, 2008 6:51 PM | Torture | 619
One Thousand Reasons
This site will no longer be updated. Perhaps it's crass to claim "mission accomplished" but at least George Bush will soon be gone. And it only took eight years to get rid of him.
Dogging Bush since 2001, One Thousand Reasons has cataloged some 1,500 reasons to throw him out, while posting about 45,000 articles. I can't say it's been fun, but it kept me off the streets.
Here's hoping that Obama is all that he appears, and that America is wise enough to follow him.
Phil more. . .
Dogging Bush since 2001, One Thousand Reasons has cataloged some 1,500 reasons to throw him out, while posting about 45,000 articles. I can't say it's been fun, but it kept me off the streets.
Here's hoping that Obama is all that he appears, and that America is wise enough to follow him.
Phil more. . .
Posted Wednesday November 5, 2008 4:39 PM | OTR Site | 1,889
Robert Barnes and Michael D. Shear, Washington Post
Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois was elected the nation's 44th president yesterday, riding a reformist message of change and an inspirational exhortation of hope to become the first African American to ascend to the White House. more. . .
Posted Wednesday November 5, 2008 6:39 AM | Election 2008 | 514
Matthew Yglesias, Think Progress
Today being the day America chooses a successor, it’s worth reflecting for a moment on the abysmal leader we have right now. I think an issue like asking whether or not George W. Bush is the worst president we’ve ever had gets a little too imponderable considering the historical issues. I mean, say what you will about Bush, but unlike many American presidents he didn’t believe in slavery. That said, by any kind of absolute standard the man is an appalling moral leper. He’s not a good man outmatched by circumstances. And he’s not a bad man getting through by cunning and pragmatism. more. . .
Posted Tuesday November 4, 2008 4:01 PM | Bush | 1,663
Sidney Blumenthal, Guardian
Today's election is poised to end the Republican era in American politics - an era that began in reaction to Lyndon Johnson's Great Society, the Vietnam war and the civil rights revolution, was pioneered by Richard Nixon, consolidated by Ronald Reagan, and wrecked by George W Bush. more. . .
Posted Tuesday November 4, 2008 6:04 AM | Election 2008 | 885
New York Times
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Some of the earliest returns in Tuesday's U.S. presidential election could provide big clues about the outcome. more. . .
Posted Tuesday November 4, 2008 6:42 AM | Election 2008 | 579
New York Times
Posted Tuesday November 4, 2008 6:14 AM | Election 2008 | 567
Mary Dejevsky, Independent
We are dreaming, we Europeans, of Obamaland: a temperate land of sunshine and showers, of soft music and plenitude, of conciliation and concord. We think we caught glimpses of it in July, just fleetingly, behind the garden wall at Number 10; on the steps of the Elysée Palace, and beneath the Victory monument in Berlin, where the would-be US President finally spoke to us, before being whisked away again. more. . .
Posted Tuesday November 4, 2008 5:52 AM | International | 449
Editorial, New York Times
There are no awards for the season’s slimiest political messages (Swift Boat statuettes?), but two deserve consideration in the character assassination category.
In the first, Republicans in Pennsylvania flooded 75,000 Jewish voters with an e-mail alarum from a retired Jewish judge equating a vote for Barack Obama with the “tragic mistake” of Jews who ignored the warning signs of the Holocaust. Quick apologies and retractions were offered once this surfaced in the press, but too late for the unspeakable to be spiked. more. . .
In the first, Republicans in Pennsylvania flooded 75,000 Jewish voters with an e-mail alarum from a retired Jewish judge equating a vote for Barack Obama with the “tragic mistake” of Jews who ignored the warning signs of the Holocaust. Quick apologies and retractions were offered once this surfaced in the press, but too late for the unspeakable to be spiked. more. . .
Posted Monday November 3, 2008 6:23 AM | Election 2008 | 1,161
Mike Madden, Salon
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. -- The only real sign that this wasn't just any other Sunday at New Life Church was the pickup truck perched just off church property, on the shoulder of the road between the highway and the parking lot. Enormous pictures of smiling babies covered the truck and the extra-large camper attached to its bed. "Let me live!" the photos implored. The truck -- and a group of demonstrators waving and greeting worshipers as they arrived at the corner -- was part of a get-out-the-vote effort for Colorado's Amendment 48, a ballot initiative that would amend the state Constitution to say that life begins at conception. more. . .
Posted Monday November 3, 2008 7:06 AM | Religion | 748
MICHAEL DUFFY, Time
Whatever else waits inside the protective cocoon that the Secret Service will erect quickly around the 44th president on Tuesday night, there isn't much to read on the topic of How To Lead The Country Now. Nor is there any crystal case on the hall table at Blair House which reads, "Break Glass In Event of Collecting 270 Electoral Votes." And despite what you might imagine after seeing those Nicholas Cage National Treasure movies, there is no secret binder of special instructions awaiting the president-elect in the National Archives. more. . .
Posted Monday November 3, 2008 6:43 AM | Government | 587