Tag: George W. Bush

From the Dept. of Better Know Your Cultural References: The good folks at Boing Boing are having a field day with a photo of President Bush and the champion 2008 Arizona State University track teams flashing a three-fingered "W" sign for the camera. Unfortunately, that digit display has some other interpretations, some a bit, er, unsavory.

If it walks like a turkey and talks like a turkey, it must be almost Thanksgiving. Which means one thing among many: expect the activists from the pretty radical People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals to show up with some horror stories about the widespread cruelty to turkeys in factory farms and slaughterhouses. This year’s PETA’s publicity stunt involves “the Decider” himself, outgoing President George W. Bush, talking about how he’s going to pardon all turkeys. At least it’s someone who sorta looks, and sorta sounds, like W.

Folks concerned about the Bush Administration burning the midnight oil to push through corporate-friendly regulations may have an unlikely hero to thank: federal bureaucracy nerds.

It’s something of a tradition — administrations using their final weeks in power to ram through a slew of federal regulations. With the election grabbing the headlines, outgoing federal bureaucrats quietly propose and finalize rules that can affect the health and safety of millions.

President George W. Bush may be entering his last 10 weeks in office with a 68 percent disapproval rating, but not everyone is unhappy — indeed some are downright pleased — by the president’s performance. Take the conservative Colorado Springs Focus on the Family ministry and media empire for example, which is reminding supporters it’s not too late to thank Bush for “defending the preborn” – and for his legacy of hard-right Supreme Court justices. You too can take advantage of sending Bush a message of your own via Focus’ auto-generated customizable letter-sending software.

A USA Today/Gallup pollreleased Monday shows President-elect Barack Obama with the highest favorability rating of any presidential candidate since Gallup started asking the question in 1992.

Hours after Vice President Dick Cheney said he was “delighted to support John McCain" while campaigning in Wyoming on Saturday, Barack Obama congratulated McCain for the endorsement at a rally in Pueblo, "because he really earned it." The Obama campaign released an ad Sunday morning mocking the endorsement, comparing the vice president's backing of McCain to Warren Buffett and Colin Powell's support for Obama.

It’s hard to tell if this video by Blip.tv user “George McCain” is for or against John McCain. At the Republican National Convention this week, campaigners passed out stickers that read “Proud Bush-McCain Republican” to delegates — including an apparently flummoxed Sen. Norm Coleman (R-MN) — on why they’re proud to wear it. Is it campaigning or culture-jamming?

The ideals of "country first," and "service" won lavish praise at the Republican National Convention last night. The realities of the Republican party and President George W. Bush got rather less respect.

The federal Labor Department is using taxpayer funds to target and investigate labor unions under the Bush administration, while operations to enforce minimum wage...