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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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The Right Man: An Inside Account of the Bush White House, by David Frum
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Abortion
Dick Cheney: Supports stem-cell research.
George W. Bush: Supports adult stem-cell research but limits on embryos.
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Budget & Economy
George W. Bush: Reframed Clinton from economic prosperity to moral failing.
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Civil Rights
George W. Bush: Instinct on gay issues: do not touch them.
George W. Bush: On Patriot Act, willing to defy ethnic lobbies.
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Corporations
George W. Bush: Enron news hit White House like a death in the family.
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Drugs
George W. Bush: Turned from alcoholism by power of prayer.
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Education
George W. Bush: Favors rigorous testing over school choice.
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Energy & Oil
Dick Cheney: Energy use outstrips growth-so conserve AND drill.
George W. Bush: Energy plan is about reducing oil imports, not cheap energy.
George W. Bush: Rejected CO2 trading permits as solution to global warming.
George W. Bush: Solution to global warming is safe & clean nuclear power.
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Foreign Policy
George W. Bush: Abandoned ambiguity with China to horror of own diplomats.
George W. Bush: Focus on Russia as part of Europe.
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Homeland Security
George W. Bush: Pro-Muslim post-9-11 message failed.
George W. Bush: "Axis of Evil" means US uses strength without remorse.
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Immigration
George W. Bush: Mexico: immigration reform in exchange for oil development.
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Principles & Values
Dick Cheney: Gave up any independent political existence from Bush.
George W. Bush: "Compassionate conservatism" disliked by conservatives.
George W. Bush: Bush elected as the un-Clinton.
George W. Bush: Glad to sign a law "love thy neighbor".
George W. Bush: Conspicuous intelligence unwelcome in Bush White House.
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Tax Reform
George W. Bush: Not too big, not too small, tax cut was just the right size.
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War & Peace
Condoleezza Rice: Supported large-scale war on terror over limited war.
George W. Bush: Bush to Arab World: terrorism must stop, or else.
George W. Bush: "Axis of Evil" links Saddam with 9/11.
Ted Kennedy: Bush squandered world goodwill in rush to Iraq war.
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The above quotations are from The Right Man: An Inside Account of the Bush White House, by David Frum.
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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