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ENTIRE ARTICLE G.I. George: Bush stars as action figure The Washington Post Blue Box Toys In September, KB Toys will begin selling an action figure depicting President Bush when he landed on the USS Abraham Lincoln. Holy photo op, Batman! The president of the United States has become a military action figure. When President Bush landed on the USS Abraham Lincoln three months ago in a naval flight suit, many commentators believed that the image of the vigorous president on the aircraft carrier would figure prominently in his reelection campaign. What the commentators did not predict is that Bush...

In a move aimed at blunting President Bush’s appeal to Hispanic voters, the New Democrat Network (NDN) today will launch two commercials on Spanish-language television stations questioning his commitment to the Latino community. The message of the 30-second commercials, which will run in Orlando, Florida and Las Vegas, Nevada for two and half weeks, is that Bush has not kept the promise he made during the 2000 campaign to be a friend of the Hispanic community. “Historically, the Latino community has prospered by embracing the Democrat’s opportunity agenda,” said NDN President Simon Rosenberg. “In the 90s, Latinos thrived. In this...

They're trying to portray George W. Bush as a corrupt corporate CEO. Despite intense efforts, Democrats in recent weeks have had little success in their effort to inflict political damage on George W. Bush by tying him to corrupt corporate CEOs. Now they're trying another approach, accusing Bush of being a corrupt corporate CEO. On Tuesday, New York Times columnist Paul Krugman discussed Bush's 1989 sale of stock in Harken Energy, a company which had bought Bush's oil and gas company and placed Bush on the Harken board of directors. In 1989, Harken was struggling financially. "Only a few weeks...