Cheney-Rumsfeld Replay by digby Edward Harrison at Naked Capitalism offers up a convincing look at the dynamics that led Obama to choose the path he's chosen in dealing with the financial sector. Here's the conclusion: When historians look back at the Bush 42 presidency, it will be defined by 9/11 and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. While George W. Bush was politically pre-disposed to the Neo-con...
[FHQ doubts think it can get anything but worse after a title like that.] The last two classes in POL 113 (American Government and Politics) here at Wake Forest have been devoted to a voting simulation I like to do in classes to attempt -- and I cannot emphasize that word enough -- to drive home the importance of the rules behind systems of voting. The main idea is that even when your preferences are...
The Top 10 " Big Tent " Moments: Number ten: Newt Gingrich does a PSA on global warming with Nancy Pelosi in 2008. Number nine moderate moment in GOP history: Bush-Quayle '92. The number eight moderate moment GOP history: Dole-Kemp '96. The number seven most moderate moment in Republican history: Ford-Dole '76. Do you see a pattern here? Top ten moderate moments in Republican history number...
It's odd that more people are talking about a special election to the House of Representatives in upstate New York than are talking about the governors' races in New Jersey and Virginia. I guess it is because the special election has become symbolic of the larger battle going on between Democrats and Republicans, and within the Republican Party itself. Even before the returns are in, we can see that...
This is a guest note by Lawrence Wilkerson, former Chief of Staff at the Department of State from 2001-2005 and a sixteen-year long aide to General Colin Powell. He now serves as Harriman Adjunct Professor of Government at the College...
This post from John Hannah at Irrational Spew Online points out the following… As a way of repudiating past U.S. policies toward Pakistan, (Secretary of State Hillary) Clinton told the students "there is a huge difference" between the Obama administration's approach and that of former President George W. Bush. "I spent my entire eight years in the Senate opposing him," she...
Emily Miller 's new gossip column, "Emily's Post" launched on PoliticsDaily.com today. Miller, who's held gigs with ABC, NBC, for Condoleeza Rice , Tom DeLay , Rick Lazio and Colin Powell addresses her past in the press as well as the ongoing drama surrounding her reputation as a "woman scorned" in the Jack Abramoff scandal in her debut column. "Having been fodder for every...
Last week George W. Bush headlined a motivational speaker seminar that also featured Rudy Giuliani, Colin Powell, and Terry Bradshaw: The all-day event next week will be held at the Fort Worth Convention Center Arena. Tickets are apparently $19. That’s not per person — that’s per office. The Get Motivated seminar is, according to its website, “world [...] Related posts: George...
Slyram, a moderate Democratic blogger in Atlanta metro, Georgia, writes about the heated special Congressional election in New York state. It involves a moderate Republican supported by the GOP establishment and a conservative insurgent running on the Conservative Party ticket : "At this point, we all know that the Dede Scozzafava v. Doug Hoffman race in New York’s 23rd congressional district...
Colin Powell, the former secretary of state under President George W. Bush, appears to have had a change of heart about his change of heart on the Iraq war. Powell, whose appearance at the UN in 2003 to sell the US's Iraq invasion to a skeptical global public is now the stuff of history books, famously [...]
(Photo credit- AP) Depending on which report you read, President George Bush spoke to anywhere from 11,000 to 15,000 people in a seminar called "Get Motivated", where he wasn't the most eloquent speaker, but the audience loved him and gave him a standing ovation at the end of his speech. Then former Secretary of State Colin Powell got up to speak and told the audience "We are safer than...
by Mark Silva In pursuit of the White House, we noted some time ago, George W. Bush first campaigned throughout Iowa with the same pledge that he voiced at the 2000 Republican National Convention: "I will swear to uphold the honor and dignity of the office to which I have been elected." In retirement from the White House, Bush says he tried. The former president, who has joined a popular...
Get ready for a major traffic headache in uptown Charlotte on Thursday morning when a motivational business seminar is expected to draw 15,000 people during rush hour. "Get Motivated" - featuring Colin Powell, Rudy Giuliani and former first lady Laura Bush as speakers - begins at 8 a.m. at Time Warner Cable Arena.
Former President George W. Bush, retired General Colin Powell and former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani will be among the speakers at the Get Motivated seminar that provides inspiration as well as business, leadership and financial advice.
We've had Driving While Ambien'ed , Eating While Ambien'ed (more here ) and now, there's Killing While Ambien'ed . Some stats here . Lots of people take Ambien . Colin Powell once responded to a reporter , "You don't use Ambien? Everybody here uses Ambien." Drinking and Ambien are known to cause problems. I wonder if anyone has studied whether Toking while Ambien'd also causes problems?...
Pitino scandal reveals couple's odd courtship Pitino will keep at least one high-profile speaking engagement next month during a motivational seminar in Louisville that is billed as including speeches from Laura Bush, Colin Powell, Rudy Giuliani and televangelist Dr. Robert Schuller. Hessert's advice to Pitino: keep the public events to a minimum and consider changing the message. Read More From Orginal
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