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Thursday, January 8, 2009 12:00 AM

W. and the damage done

President Bush inherited a peaceful, prosperous America. As he exits, Salon consults experts in seven fields to try to assess the devastation.

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  • Thursday, January 8, 2009 05:08 AM

    Let's not forget the media role in all this. MSNBC, who talks such

    a good game now, helped elect Bush twice. That goes for the entire commercial news establishment. The only reason they're supporting Obama is that the powers that be know they went too far. They still are giving unlimited face time to free market fantasists without competent rebuttal.

    The moral is, don't trust commercial news. And for goodness sake, when will liberals start up their own news outlets, starting on public access and moving onto commercial bandwidth? NBC may have softened their tone for the moment, but they could start character attacks on the Obamatron at any second.

    When will liberals toughen up and go strategic? It's like they only like to talk but don't really care.

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