Weekend Open Thread
Feb 17, 05:18 AM CST
“The problem is that his gut-level bond with the American public has been seriously damaged and may be lost.”
– Bush strategist Matthew Dodd, in a piece for Texas Monthly, on President Bush’s legacy.– by eric | Send this to a friend
— Brian T. Osborn Feb 17, 07:57 AM CST #
— Steve Hollister Feb 17, 09:32 AM CST #
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/photo/galleries/070216/walterreedday1/
— vince powers Feb 17, 05:46 PM CST #
By E&P Staff
Published: February 16, 2007 1:55 PM ET
NEW YORK Al Neuharth, the former Gannett chief, USA Today founder and currently weekly columnist for that newspaper, has had a change of heart.
A year ago, in honor of President’s Day, he stated that while he was often critical of George W. Bush, he did not, and probably would not ever, crack his list of the five worst presidents we’ve ever had.
A year later he admits he was wrong. In his USA Today column today he announces that Bush has not only cracked the bottom five, he’s now at the very bottom.
Last year, Neuharth, a World War II hero who has met every president since Eisenhower, listed his five worst as Andrew Jackson, James Buchanan, Ulysses Grant, Herbert Hoover and Richard Nixon. “It’s very unlikely Bush can crack that list,” Neuharth wrote.
Now he admits: “I was wrong. This is my mea culpa. Not only has Bush cracked that list, but he is planted firmly at the top.” By top, of course, he means bottom.
Neuharth, after calling the Iraq war Bush’s “albatross,” concludes: “Is he just a self-touted decider doing what he thinks right? Or is he an arrogant ruler who doesn’t care or consider what the public or Congress believes best for the country?
“Despite his play on words and slogans, Bush didn’t learn the value or meaning of mea culpa (acknowledgement of an error) during his years at Yale.
“Bush admitting his many mistakes on Iraq and ending that fiasco might make many of us forgive, even though we can never forget the terrible toll in lives and dollars.”
Neuharth, always considered a political moderate, made waves more than two years ago when he called for a phased U.S. pullout from Iraq. He still has not been joined in this by many mainstream pundits or editorial pages.
Striking a different pose, David Broder in The Washington Post today writes: “It may seem perverse to suggest that, at the very moment the House of Representatives is repudiating his policy in Iraq, President Bush is poised for a political comeback. But don’t be astonished if that is the case.”
— vince powers Feb 17, 07:36 PM CST #
Tomorrow Feb. 18 At 1:00pm
Location: Dubuque Iowa
Grand River Center
500 Bell Street
This event is free and open to the public for more information call 515-333-2729.
Also here is some video of Edwards on Real Time with Bill Maher
link texthttp://www.jwharrison.com/blog/2007/02/17/bill-maher-interviews-john-edwards/
— Robin Feb 17, 08:01 PM CST #
— Robin Feb 17, 08:06 PM CST #
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fkoV-4uX5M
— Steve Hollister Feb 17, 09:53 PM CST #
thanks for the link. I have been a J.E. supporter from day one. I signed up to coordiante in Nebraska.
I think as a candidate he is coming into his own and I appreciate the straight talk.
What really impresses me is that he the only candidate talking about Poverty.
That topic has died two deaths already once after MLK’s assisnation and a second time after Katrina.
We should be pointing out to Nebraskans that the Republican party and its’ administration is neither compassinate nor Conservative every chance we get.
— Robin Feb 18, 04:46 PM CST #
And, by Nebraska, I naturally mean more than just Lincoln and Omaha. They should get off the tarmac and into the cafes early in the morning when the farmers are enjoying their #6 breakfast special and a cuppa Joe. They should stop in Grand Island, Norfolk, Beatrice, and Imperial. They should stop in Kearney, Valentine, McCook, Brownville and South Sioux City, – yes – even in Holdrege.
I still have an 8mm film of Robert Kennedy stopping in front of the U.P. depot in Kearney back in 1968 and addressing the crowd from the back of a train. I got to shake his hand only about a week or so before he met his way-too-early demise. It was a pivotal moment in my budding political awareness as I was only sixteen at the time. Imagine how many sixteen year-old kids we’d have growing up to vote as Democrats in 2010, 2012, 2014 . . . ! Imagine how many of them might grow up to be candidates for our party.
We need to impress upon these paladins their duty to come out and talk to ALL Americans, not just those they believe will line their pockets, grease their palms, fill their coffers, . . . We need to turn things around so that our elections are about ideas and no longer about money. Have we forgotten the old phrase, “The love of money is the root of all evil.”?
The Republicans brought Cheney, Hastert, and even “THE DECIDER” hisself to the 3rd District because Scott Kleeb was scaring the bejesus out of them. Let’s really give ‘em something that’ll make their knees knock. We could turn one of the most conservative states in the nation into a stronghold of Democrats. It’ll take time, and most importantly, a party that knows what principles it wants to stand for.
— Brian T. Osborn Feb 19, 10:15 PM CST #
What Would You Do If Bush Declared Martial Law?
— Brian T. Osborn Feb 21, 07:47 AM CST #
Washington Post, 110th Congress
— Brian T. Osborn Feb 21, 01:59 PM CST #
Another great source to track votes would be at congress.org and their mega vote site.
They will send you updates on pending legislation and will let you know how your members of congress voted.
— Robin Feb 21, 04:29 PM CST #
That’s a good one.
— Brian T. Osborn Feb 21, 08:31 PM CST #