A Few Great Moments
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December 2002 -- four months before George W. Bush ordered the American Invasion of Iraq, we "said it all"...
July 2003 -- four years before the U.S. sub-prime mortgage meltdown, we called the global descent into The Great George W. Bush Depression...
September 2003 -- the year before 2004 Presidential campaign, we accurately predicted the outcome of a second Bush term...
 
February 2004 -- eight months before "this man died because George W. Bush lied" became a rallying cry of protesters at the 2004 Republican National Convention, we chose the line for the most iterated Iraq War memorial in the world...
March 2004 -- two years before the Bush Administration's own National Intelligence Estimate concluded that "the Iraq war has made the overall terrorism problem worse," we discussed this stupendous miscalculation in "Osama/Bush"...
January 2005 -- two years before former President Jimmy Carter called George W. Bush's Administration the "worst ever," we formally recognized Bush's achievement as part of the festivities surrounding his second inauguration...
September 2008 -- when Sarah Palin was selected as Republican Vice Presidential nominee in 2008, we recognized that the Age of Reality TV Politics in American had begun...
January 2009 -- when Barack Obama was getting ready to give bankers and insurance companies staggering, unprecedented access to the public trough AND block desperately needed reform of these parasitic sources of corporate wealth, we tied them together, and contrasted the care lavished on corporations compared to individual human beings...
November 2009 -- the month before Barack Obama -- who lacked any real jobs creation program to combat soaring unemployment in America -- used thousands of previously unemployed/underemployed young Americans to invade Afghanistan, we took this view of the move, a decision which has subsequently proven as destructive to American interests as George W. Bush's idiotic, hideously destructive invasion of Iraq seven years before...
January 2010 -- when it became apparent that Obama was actually a worse President than George W. Bush in all the same ways, PLUS Obama neutralized any vestigial Democratic objections to illegal invasions, war crimes, torture, astounding expansions of executive power, and federal giveaways to the wealthy and private corporations that make the Teapot Dome Scandal look like chump change...
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