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GOP support may be vital to Obama on Afghan war

by Paul Woodward 09.03.2009

GOP support may be vital to Obama on Afghan war By Helene Cooper, New York Times, September 3, 2009 As President Obama prepares to decide whether to send additional troops to Afghanistan, the political climate appears increasingly challenging for him, leaving him in the awkward position of relying on the Republican Party, and not his [...]

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OPINION: Die-hard Bush supporters have a death grip on their party

by Paul Woodward 11.19.2007

Fighting words By George Packer, The New Yorker, November 26, 2007 As the tide goes out on President Bush’s foreign policy, the mass of flotsam left behind includes a Republican Party that no longer knows how to be reasonable. Whenever its leading Presidential candidates appear before partisan audiences, they try to outdo one another in [...]

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FEATURE: Dowd’s split with Bush

by Paul Woodward 11.15.2007

Bush strategist looks back in sadness By Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, November 14, 2007 Matthew Dowd knows sorrow and loss. He has been divorced twice. A daughter died two months after she was born. And then there is the added heartbreak — a word he uses — of his split with President Bush. [...]

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REVIEW: The Second Civil War

by Paul Woodward 11.13.2007

Division of the U.S. didn’t occur overnight By Michiko Kakutani, New York Times, November 13, 2007 During President George W. Bush’s first term, one of his senior political advisers summed up the prevailing philosophy at the White House like this: “This is not designed to be a 55 percent presidency,” he said. “This is designed [...]

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FEATURE & OPINION: End of times for the Christian right

by Paul Woodward 10.28.2007

The evangelical crackup By David D. Kirkpatrick, New York Times, October 28, 2007 Just three years ago, the leaders of the conservative Christian political movement could almost see the Promised Land. White evangelical Protestants looked like perhaps the most potent voting bloc in America. They turned out for President George W. Bush in record numbers, [...]

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ANALYSIS: How the Christian right could defeat Giuliani

by Paul Woodward 10.20.2007

How the Christian right could defeat Rudy — and make Hillary president By Alex Koppelman, Salon, October 19, 2007 One of Rudy Giuliani’s chief attractions to Republican primary voters is supposed to be electability. “We’re going to need the strongest possible Republican who can win in every state,” the former New York City mayor said [...]

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NEWS & OPINION: Putin, Clinton, and the GOP buffoons on Iran and the end of the world

by Paul Woodward 10.10.2007

Putin: no proof Iran is trying to make nuclear weapons By Mark Tran, The Guardian, October 10, 2007 There is no proof Iran is pursuing a nuclear weapons programme, the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, said today. But he said Tehran should make its atomic activity “as transparent as possible”. “We do not have data that [...]

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OPINION: The GOP’s betrayal of conservatism

by Paul Woodward 10.05.2007

The Republican collapse By David Brooks, New York Times, October 5, 2007 Modern conservatism begins with Edmund Burke. What Burke articulated was not an ideology or a creed, but a disposition, a reverence for tradition, a suspicion of radical change. When conservatism came to America, it became creedal. Free market conservatives built a creed around [...]

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NEWS: GOP turns Gitmo into political asset; court jumps over legal hurdles

by Paul Woodward 09.25.2007

Closing Guantanamo lockup looks increasingly unlikely By Noam N. Levey, Los Angeles Times, September 24, 2007 A lightning rod for international criticism, the U.S. detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, not long ago appeared headed for closure. President Bush and his top advisors said they wanted to shutter the controversial lockup. But the latest attempt [...]

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EDITORIAL: ‘There is always something to be afraid of, because the threat is an ongoing threat’

by Paul Woodward 08.11.2007

‘There is always something to be afraid of, because the threat is an ongoing threat’ By Paul Woodward, War in Context, August 11, 2007 “Vague Threat Prompts Steps by the Police,” says the small headline in the New York Times‘ NY/Region section. The mayor’s office issues a statement saying that the city’s threat level has [...]

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