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Audio: New radio ad casts Bush, Coleman as ‘peas in a pod’

By Paul Schmelzer | 04.17.08 | 10:40 am

As we’ve said before, McCain = Bush is sure to be a recurring equation used by Democrats and their supporters in the run-up to November, but a new radio campaign by Americans…

Media Monitor: Bush on torture, Barack on Bush, the Voice on local rightwing bloggers

By Paul Schmelzer | 04.16.08 | 8:42 am

Bush approved interrogation techniques, media yawns: On Friday, ABC News reported that George W. Bush knew of detailed discussions with top brass about the use of “enhanced interrogation techniques,” including waterboarding, on al-Qaeda detainees and…

Video: MoveOn’s 100 years of war ad

By Steve Perry | 04.10.08 | 5:58 pm

MoveOn has produced an Iraq War campaign spot that uses John McCain’s 100-years-in-Iraq pledges to tie his pronouncements on the war to those of the Bush crew. Here’s CBS’s note on the web-only ad.

Iraq: Six Months

Video: McCain Girls answer their critics, president does not

By Steve Perry | 04.01.08 | 11:36 am

McCain Girl: I have suffered for my art, now it’s your turn (:30)

Play booooo!: GWB’s less than warm reception at Washington Nationals home opener (1:32)

Bush ‘envious’ of troops in Afghanistan, calls their work ‘romantic’

By Jeff Fecke | 03.14.08 | 12:05 pm

George W. Bush videoconferenced with military and civilian personnel in Afghanistan Thursday morning. “I must say, I’m a little envious,” he said. “If I were slightly younger and not employed here, I think it would…

State of the Union Live Blog

By Jeff Fecke | 01.28.08 | 6:31 pm

bush.jpg6:20 I will be live blogging tonight’s State of the Union address. The event begins at 8 p.m. Central Standard Time, live blogging will begin about a half hour earlier.

7:32 CNN, which is far more impressed with…

A New Year brings a light at the end of the tunnel

By Jeff Fecke | 01.01.08 | 9:10 pm

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Today is the first day of 2008, and I’m sure you can feel it in the air.  It feels like hope, like joy, like the end of a long nightmare.  And it…

Bush Address Liveblog

By Jeff Fecke | 09.13.07 | 7:33 pm

Jeff Fecke will be liveblogging the televised address tonight by George W. Bush, as well as the responses from the Democrats and from former Sen. John Edwards, starting at 8 p.m. Central Time.

bush27:49 The big question…

Protest Planned Saturday for Bush Visit

By Jeff Fecke | 08.03.07 | 1:01 pm

A protest is being organized to coincide with the visit of President George W. Bush on Saturday.

The protest, scheduled to occur from noon to 1:30 p.m. at the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, will focus on criticism of the president…

Walz, Vets Attack Bush Over Threatened Defense Veto

By Jeff Fecke | 05.18.07 | 1:08 pm

walzU.S. Rep. Tim Walz, D-Minn., blasted President Bush over a threatened veto of the National Defense Authorization Act.

“The outrage in Congress is continuing to grow over this,” said Walz in a conference call.  “It once again…