The people at the Cato Institute are not usually defenders of Democrats, and, in this case, Obama is not being defended. It just appears that way. Apparently, most of the blame for the horrendous deficit of the last year is more the responsibility of W than Obama.
The $3.5 trillion federal budget is mainly the work of [...]

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The New York Daily News has an inside scoop on a soon-to-be-released book by former Bush White House speechwriter Matt Latimer. “Speech Less: Tales of a White House Survivor” is reportedly making some Republicans a little nervous.
Part of the book contains random thoughts from George W. Bush on other politicians.
“This is a dangerous world and this [...]

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“I no longer feel that great sense of responsibility that I had when I was in the Oval Office. And frankly, it’s a liberating feeling,” said former President George Bush at a high school graduation in New Mexico.
Bush referred to an incident that highlighted his return to a “normal” life.
He was walking former First Dog [...]

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The controversy over the handshake and smile between Barack Obama and Hugo Chavez just seems to go on. This is style, pure and simple. And that seems what all the criticism is about. Obama is not the first President to greet a dictator. Here is President Bush with President Islam Karimov of Uzbekistan in 2005. [...]

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Now that the International Criminal Court (ICC) at The Hague has issued a warrant for Sudan’s President Omar al-Bashir, some international law experts are arguing that George Bush should be next.
As reported from the New Zealand Herald:
David Crane, an international law professor at Syracuse University, said the principle of law used to issue an arrest [...]

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The Obama administration released a Bush administration memo’s from 2001 determinin that the First and Fourth Amendment protections for speech and unwarranted search did not apply in the war against terrorism.
“First Amendment speech and press rights may also be subordinated to the overriding need to wage war successfully…The current campaign against terrorism may require even [...]

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Forget the economy, Katrina or the excesses during the war on terror, George Bush’s legacy rests with Iraq. If Iraq becomes a stable, democratic country, historians may reassess Bush’s Presidency.
As it stands now, there is widespread agreement that Bush’s Presidency is tarnished with failures.  In an article in The Globe and Mail, that point is [...]

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It is appropriate that during his last press conference on Monday, George Bush ended up…well, talking like George Bush.
He left us with this fine specimen of public speaking:
“I’m telling you there’s an enemy that would like to attack America, Americans, again. There just is. That’s the reality of the world. And I wish him all [...]

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With only days left in the Bush Presidency, the entire world is ready to give a sigh of relief, right?
Not exactly.
In some places of the world, George Bush is well-liked.
Israel is an obvious example.
Less obvious is Lebanon. Bush backed the pre-Western factions that won legislative victory in 2005 and formed a government. Lingering goodwill towards [...]

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George Bush has had his share of problems in his two terms. There are many decisions that have not turned out the way Bush intended. That would make one think Bush would have a few “do overs” in mind. There are a lot of things to ponder over those years, but one in particular stands [...]

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