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A question of competence: George W. Bush has failed in some basics.
POLITICAL commentators are scrambling to explain the extraordinary rise of former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani in the 2008 GOP nomination contest. The conventional explanation is that, buoyed by his 9/11 heroism and accomplishments as mayor, he is riding a wave among Republican voters relatively unburdened by knowledge of his chaotic personal life and liberal social views. This is certainly true. But the Giuliani wave has been lent extra force by another factor shaping the political environment: the Bush administration's increasing association with executive dysfunction.
The administration's stumbles have created an implicit "competence primary" in the ...
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- Newspaper article from: The Christian Science Monitor March 15, 2006 700+ words
...for the start of the Iraq war coming this Sunday, Mr. Bush has launched another...out opposed to the Iraq war paying attention to Bush's arguments anymore...series of speeches on Iraq war strategy, Bush succeeded in halting...
- Bush acts to rally public on Iraq war; In statements from the White House, he...
- Newspaper article from: The Christian Science Monitor December 20, 2005 700+ words
...American opinion on the Iraq war back to his side...powers - President Bush has just completed...the start of the Iraq war in March 2003. From the start, the Iraq war has been a high...decision to go in, Bush has ratcheted up...
- Bush tells UN Iraq war was justified, legal.
- Newspaper article from: Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL) September 22, 2004 700+ words
...increasingly focuses on the Iraq war. He spoke after one of...American hostage. But Bush offered a generally upbeat...also has maintained, as Bush did Tuesday, that it...international law in launching the Iraq war because the UN had left...Other leaders who followed Bush to ...
- The Bush plunge.(Comment)(George W. Bush, Iraq War)
- Magazine article from: The Progressive August 1, 2005 700+ words
...apply its brake on the President, Bush is pretty much free to do what he...of the U.S. Treasury to do so. Bush's Iraq War raises the fundamental question...objections of a majority of Americans, Bush is acting more like emperor every...
- A nonexistent nexus.(Editorials)(Bush still falsely linking Iraq war and Sept....
- Newspaper article from: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR) August 29, 2005 700+ words
...valor of U.S. troops, Bush declared that the Iraq war was a "central front...invaded Iraq. President Bush will intensify his efforts...Iraq. By linking the Iraq war to Sept. 11, the president...exclu- sively on Iraq, Bush mentioned Sept. 11 eight...
- Ted K praises O'Neill, blasts Bush over `misguided' Iraq war.(News)
- Newspaper article from: The Boston Herald Miga, Andrew January 15, 2004 700+ words
...attack yet on President Bush, accusing the White House of plotting the Iraq war as a "political product...American people," said Bush spokesman Scott McClellan...Kennedy also said the Iraq war was an elaborate smokescreen employed by Bush to divert attention...
- Bush hits call for pullout; Defends Iraq war opponents' patriotism.(PAGE ONE)
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Times November 21, 2005 700+ words
...TIMES BEIJING - President Bush yesterday weighed in from...Congress' debate over the Iraq war, calling Rep. John P...not make sense." Mr. Bush rejected the notion that...debating the merits of the Iraq war - in which more than 2...Saddam Hussein, Mr. Bush said Democrats have ...
- Bush rips Iraq war critics; Says Democrats' 'false charges' hurt troop...
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Times November 12, 2005 700+ words
...WASHINGTON TIMES President Bush yesterday lashed out at...intelligence to justify the Iraq war, saying such "false...Democrat. He called Mr. Bush's speech an "attempt...in the run-up to the Iraq war." White House spokesman...things about President Bush then he ever did about...