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Don't 'misunderestimate' George W. Bush © Getty Images Americans typically support newly elected presidents and those who have left office. It’s incumbents they often dislike. George W. Bush is no exception. Although he lost the popular vote in 2000 by a half-million ballots but achieved an Electoral College victory over Vice President Al Gore by the barest of margins (after a Supreme Court decision in Bush’s favor), his initial approval rating was 57 percent, 10 points above the percentage of votes he garnered from the electorate. His support would soar over 90 percent after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, as Americans...

I am thoroughly taken with Sarah Palin’s neologism. People often incorrectly use the word “refute” to mean something like “deny” or “reject”, only stronger. We could do with a new word to fill this gap and, since both “refute” and “repudiate” are already occupied with their actual meanings, neither can be pressed into service. “Refudiate” occupies the space perfectly, and deserves to become part of every politician’s vocabulary. The handsome Alaskan politician is quite right to say that Shakespeare came up with countless new-fangled words – including “countless” and “new-fangled”. Among his coinages, as far as we can tell, are...

The President just pulled one of the best maneuvers of his entire presidency. By transferring most major Al Qaeda terrorists to Guantanamo, and simultaneously sending Congress a bill to rescue the Military Commissions from the Supreme Court's ruling Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, the President spectacularly ambushed the Democrats on terrain they fondly thought their own. Now Democrats who oppose (and who have vociferously opposed) the Military Commissions will in effect be opposing the prosecution of the terrorists who planned and launched the attacks of September 11 for war crimes. And if that were not enough, the President also frontally attacked the...

What a firestorm has erupted over President Bush’s nomination of Harriet Miers to be the next Supreme Court justice. And on both sides, too. Back during the summer when it was noised about that Sandra Day O’Connor was first going to retire, would anyone have predicted the following? --Harry Reid of Nevada photographed with the candidate, and it being known that the selection was made in consultation with him? --DiFi being quoted as saying the candidate“is clearly a bright, intelligent woman” (and being echoed by Ted Kennedy) without any hint of sarcasm? --White House advisors borrowing a page from the...

MIDI - JUST WHEN I NEEDED YOU MOST We came to your office for some judge advising and We thought you'd listen to us But you used your poker face on us again It's like we're hit by a bus We thought you were listening...your eyes were glistening When this was over, surely we'd boast But you have won again just when our side thought that you were toast You won again when we had thought you were toast We're calling you stupid and calling you Nazi, and We hope some traction we'll gain We think we're the ones...

News item: President Bush taps John Bolton for U.N. Ambassador.   Dear John, Congratulations on the new gig as the president's top dog (Rottweiler?) at the United Nations. Given the way the liberals have reacted to your appointment, your confirmation hearings are likely to generate more adrenalin than a gunfight in Fallujah. The thought of you representing us at the United Nations is driving the Bush-bashing, French-kissing, Blame-America-First crowd that savaged Condi Rice and Alberto Gonzales into a frenzy. John "Sore Loser" Kerry described your nomination as "just about the most inexplicable appointment the president could make." Your appointment confirms...

Cal Thomas met with President Bush on Tuesday afternoon in the Oval Office. After discussing the upcoming State of the Union address, Bush and Thomas covered a wide range of subjects. Following is an edited transcript of their interview.Q: Iraq's interim President said today he doesn't foresee American troops leaving until the country's security forces are built up and pockets of resistance are destroyed. He said, by the end of year we could see the number of foreign troops decreasing. But you seem to have a goal in mind of when the - you're turning it around - when the...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President George W. Bush says he regrets sending the wrong impression of the United States by using phrases like "Bring 'em on" and "dead or alive" in his first term and has pledged to be more diplomatic. In an interview with ABC's Barbara Walters to be broadcast on Friday, Bush said some of his past remarks were too blunt. "'Bring it on,' was a little blunt," the president said in a transcript of the interview released on Thursday. "I remember when I talked about Osama bin Laden, I said we're going to get him dead or alive....

Thousands of Americans die on September 11, 2001. President Bush responds with a military offensive that is presently stalled. Al Quieda remains and continues to grow. Five Americans die in a suicide bomber attack in Israel. President Bush responds with an offensive of words expressing “anger” and that Arafat must be removed, and yet the little rag-head remains. Is President Bush nothing more than a re-warmed version of Jimmy Carter? I hope not, but I really don’t see much of a difference.

DERRY — Answering the latest criticism on Iraq from Democratic challenger Sen. John Kerry, President George W. Bush again turned Kerry’s own words against him during a re-election campaign forum here. “Today my opponent continued his pattern of twisting in the wind, with new contradictions of his old positions on Iraq,” Bush said to a friendly crowd of about 2,000 at the SportsZone. “He apparently woke up this morning and has now decided, no, we should not have invaded Iraq, after just last month saying he still would have voted for force even knowing everything we know today.” At a...

Note: Image source is from a Bush-bashing website called myDD.com, run by a couple of democrap blogging flunkies. If it doesn't post, it means they moved it.

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (Reuters) - President Bush on Wednesday attacked John Kerry's pledge to bring large numbers of troops home from Iraq within a year, saying it would embolden the Iraqi insurgency and jeopardize the mission. For a second day in a row, Bush sought to undercut Kerry's war-leadership credentials, accusing the Democratic presidential candidate of sending mixed signals over Iraq. "We all want the mission to be completed as quickly as possible, but we want the mission to be complete," Bush told an "Ask President Bush" event here. "The mission is not going to be completed as quickly as possible...

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - The trail began with a hunt for the people who ambushed a Pakistani commander as his motorcade tried to cross Karachi's Clifton Bridge in June. It led to a torrent of intelligence and ended with dozens of arrests in Pakistan and Britain and a terror warning in the United States. Along the way, investigators passed through Karachi's teeming streets, to the dusty tribal village of Shakai along the Pakistan-Afghan border, to seemingly placid suburban London, to the world's financial headquarters in New York and to Washington, D.C. The arrests of several senior al-Qaida figures in Pakistan and...

French President Jacques Chirac (search) said Monday that President Bush went "too far" by saying the European Union should admit Turkey, and he added that Bush commenting on Turkish-EU relations was like a French leader commenting on U.S.-Mexican ties. "If President Bush really said that in the way that I read, then not only did he go too far, but he went into territory that isn't his," Chirac said. "It's a bit like if I told the United States how they should manage their relations with Mexico." Bush met with Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan (search) in Ankara before...

June 12, 2004 INSURGENCY In Shift, Rebel Iraqi Cleric Backs New Government He Had Once Mocked By EDWARD WONG BAGHDAD, Iraq, June 11 - The anti-American Shiite cleric Moktada al-Sadr on Friday endorsed the new interim Iraqi government and appeared to urge his followers to honor a week-old cease-fire that has been frayed by continuing violence. A senior aide to Mr. Sadr, Sheik Jabir al-Khafaji, used a sermon during Friday Prayers in the Sadr stronghold of Kufa, 120 miles south of here, to announce that Mr. Sadr now approved of the interim government he had previously mocked and that he...

  UN, in 15-to-0 vote, backs U.S. on Iraq Warren Hoge/NYT NYT Wednesday, June 09, 2004 Plan calls for 'full sovereignty' transfer; Bush seen as getting a big diplomatic lift  UNITED NATIONS, New York The Security Council voted unanimously late Tuesday in favor of an American-British resolution to end the formal occupation of Iraq on June 30 and transfer "full sovereignty" to an Iraqi interim government. In addition to giving international legitimacy to the new caretaker government, the resolution authorizes an American-led multinational force, now at 160,000 troops, to use "all necessary measures" in "partnership" with Iraqi forces to...

MISUNDERESTIMATING THE STRATEGERY Ever since George W. Bush campaigned in 2000, he has been dismissed by the liberal elitists as a daddy's boy, an idiot and a dolt, someone who wouldn't know how to pour piss out of a boot with the instructions written on the heel. They call him names, they scorn him. They pick out every mispronounced word he utters and they run with it, writing 1,000 word articles on his ignorance and his lack of "gravitas." Political cartoonists have a heyday with his face, and invariably portray him as a fool. After the election debacle in Florida,...

US President George W Bush had been seriously misread in Australia, former Ambassador to Washington Andrew Peacock said today. Mr Peacock, now president of Boeing Australia, said the Bush administration was leading the free world in the post September 11 environment through dramatic change "like no other in our lifetime". But he told a Brisbane business luncheon there was a "serious misreading" of Mr Bush in Australia. "I do find it a little remarkable that I continue to read and hear what I regard as a serious misreading of the current president," he told the QUT leaders' forum. "You don't...

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Don't "misunderestimate" Dubya. Those verbal Bushisms are beginning to "resignate" with the American people. Maybe they'll even "embetter" the English language.