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How to avoid the GOP's mistakes during the Bush years?

"The left has held Obama's feet to the fire way more than the right ever did to Bush": is that a good thing?
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  • Wednesday, October 14, 2009 06:14 AM

    RANT

    What frustrates me endlessly is that we have to apply pressure to our own candidate because he wants to keep torturing, escalating wars, trashing our rights.

    WTF. At least Bush stayed on script - throwing money at churches, destroying environmental protections, cutting taxes on the rich, launching wars and trying to privatize social security. The right didn't really have much to criticize.

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