Editorials throughout the years
By PHOENIX STAFF | December 18, 2008
We've spent eight long years with Dubya and they haven't been pretty or pleasant. From the Iraq War and infringement on civil liberties to the financial crisis he’s helped dive the country into, W is hands down the worst president this country has ever seen. But we finally get to say goodbye and as a send-off gift we compiled our favorite editorial pieces on our favorite politician.
Click through to see highlights from our editorials on Bush.
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- On the national affront
Where does one begin to recap 12 months of such willful self-parody?
- Jim nauseam
In the early days of the Obama administration, one politically perilous warning keeps resurfacing for the man in the Oval Office: "Don't turn into another Jimmy Carter."
- Dog daze
Letters to the Boston editors, March 9, 2012.
- Road Trippin’: 25 shows across New England you need to see before Labor Day
While we agree that kicking back in a shady backyard with a plate of barbecue, a cooler of cold brews, and some good tunes spinning on the iPod deck is one hell of a way to while away a lazy summer afternoon, we'd like to suggest that you get a bit more ambitious this year.
- Romney’s Shadow Years
With just six weeks to go before the Republican National Convention, Mitt Romney's campaign has bogged down over the seemingly insignificant minutia of how to precisely define the leave of absence he took from Bain Capital, while he ran the Winter Olympics from 1999 to 2002.
- Will race tip the balance?
Any hope that Barack Obama's election would usher in a "post-racial" politics was, of course, naïve. Race is the great American problem. The great American obsession.
- Trash tongue talker
In an amazing development, experts at the University of No Place In Particular But Possibly Fort Kent have discovered that statements made in political advertisements are almost always bald-faced lies.
- The Obama imperative
Two things stand between almost certain economic and social catastrophe: the prospect of the Democrats maintaining — or expanding — their majority in the Senate, and the reelection of President Barack Obama.
- Stein or Supreme: What kind of voter am I?
I'm an Italian Bostonian from Korean Queens who's embarrassed by Caucasian corniness and loves soul food. Race isn't my big issue, though; I despise Glenn Beck and Tyler Perry equally, adore Chris Rock and Jerry Seinfeld, and loathe both Mitt Romney and Barack Obama.
- The Big Hurt: One week ago in brief
Due to my strange publishing schedule, I'm writing this on November 5, the day before Mitt Romney will be elected to our highest office. I'm not at all worried about jinxing him, since he's a total lock and absolutely nothing could go wrong.
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