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MN Senate debate
Klobuchar v. Kennedy, Oct. 2006
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MI Senate debate
Stabenow v. Bouchard, Oct. 2006
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MO Senate debate
Talent v. McCaskill, Oct. 2006
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TN Senate debate
Corker v. Ford, Oct. 2006
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OH Senate debate
DeWine v. Brown, Oct. 2006
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MA Governor
Patrick v. Healey v. Mihos, Sept. 2006
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VA Senate
Allen v. Webb, Sept. 2006
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MA Dem. Governor primary
Patrick v. Reilly v. Gabrieli, Sept. 2006
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PA Senate
Santorum v. Casey, Sept. 2006
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RI GOP Senate primary
Laffey v. Chafee, Aug. 2006
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CT Dem. Senate primary
Lieberman v. Lamont, July. 2006
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MN Senate primaries
Klobuchar v. Bell v. Kennedy v. Cavlan, March. 2006
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Book Reviews |
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(click a book cover for a review or other books by or about the presidency from Amazon.com)
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A Matter of Character: Inside the White House of George W. Bush, by Ronald Kessler
(Click for Amazon book review)
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Corporations
Dick Cheney: Donates $100,000s from Halliburton, so not compensation.
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Drugs
George W. Bush: Arrested for drunk driving, plead guilty, paid fine.
George W. Bush: A "carefree lad" who drank but never did drugs.
George W. Bush: Spiritual reawakening ended beer and bourbon consumption.
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Education
George W. Bush: Required Texas schools to teach phonics over whole language.
George W. Bush: Pushed standardized testing as a top legislative priority.
George W. Bush: No Child Left Behind Act implements phonics nationally.
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Energy & Oil
George W. Bush: Kyoto Treaty is the "emperor with no clothes".
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Foreign Policy
Colin Powell: Powell's job: diplomatic solutions & disagree with Rumsfeld.
Donald Rumsfeld: Rumsfeld's job: military solutions & disagree with Powell.
George W. Bush: Foreign affairs is interpersonal leadership, not knowledge.
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Health Care
George W. Bush: Medicare bill uses market-based solutions to reduce costs.
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Homeland Security
Dick Cheney: Urged shooting down hijacked planes on 9/11.
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Principles & Values
George W. Bush: Comforted mother Barbara at age 7 when his sister died.
George W. Bush: Cheerleader at Andover & Yale; as full of energy now.
George W. Bush: IQ of 120 puts him above 90% of the population.
George W. Bush: Member of secret society Skull and Bones & a fraternity guy.
George W. Bush: Bush's smirk shows he's perturbed, not that he's arrogant.
George W. Bush: Character determines your path; we are not the author.
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War & Peace
Colin Powell: Arafat must end terrorism to get to two-state solution.
Colin Powell: Bush & whole Cabinet agreed on multilateral approach on Iraq.
Dick Cheney: US beat communism because of leadership & military force.
George W. Bush: During Vietnam, did not protest, & counseled supporting war.
George W. Bush: Bush Doctrine: harboring terrorists treated as terrorism.
George W. Bush: First president to use the term "Palestine".
George W. Bush: CIA argued against "16 words" but took responsibility.
George W. Bush: Majority misunderstood that Bush connected Saddam with 9/11.
Paul O'Neill: Contrary to O'Neill's claim, planning for Iraq began in 2002.
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Welfare & Poverty
George W. Bush: Compassionate conservatism means self-help over gov't help.
George W. Bush: Faith-based charity doesn't violate church-state separation.
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The above quotations are from A Matter of Character: Inside the White House of George W. Bush, by Ronald Kessler.
Related books, debates, and candidates:
- Shrub, by Molly Ivins
- Worse Than Watergate, by John Dean
- State of Denial: Bush at War, Part III, by Bob Woodward
- The Right Man: An Inside Account of the Bush White House, by David Frum
- The Price of Loyalty: The Education of Paul O'Neill, by Ron Suskind
- State of Denial: Bush at War, Part III, by Bob Woodward
- A Matter of Character: Inside the White House of George W. Bush, by Ronald Kessler
- Lessons From a Father to His Son, by John Ashcroft
- Winning Modern Wars
- Hegemony or Survival, by Noam Chomsky
- 2006 State of the Union speech, plus response by Gov. Tim Kaine (D, VA)
- Bush At War, by Bob Woodward (2002)
- A Charge To Keep, by George W. Bush
- The Assault on Reason, by Al Gore
- Against All Enemies:Inside America's War on Terror, by Richard A. Clarke
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