Occupation: Journalist Birth: November 6, 1948
George W. Bush has deliberately polarized and divided America for political purposes, politicizing the most basic questions of war and peace for part….
It was an absurd theory that by cutting taxes you would increase government revenues, because the growth of the economy would create an overflow of t….
Who was it in Afghanistan who screwed up in Tora Bora and let bin Laden escape? It was the Bush Administration. Who leached all the resources, milita….
Clinton took very tough decisions on the economy..
When most people see the word "radical," they think that it must refer to something left wing. Some people also may think of it as referring to far r….
The Bush Administration, and particularly Bush's chief political strategist and Deputy Chief of Staff, Karl Rove, have been expert in both galvanizin….
Even on education, his one accomplishment, the Leave No Child Behind Act, and he has left it unfunded..
It was the biggest suppression of voting rights in our country's history since Jim Crow. And the thread of race runs from the beginning to the end of….
The incubator for terrorism, after the Middle East, is Europe, partly because of proximity, partly because of the existence of large Muslim communiti….
The attack on Clinton on terrorism is entirely politically inspired by the right-wing of the Republicans, and has no basis in fact whatsoever..
In a sense, George W. Bush has used the tragedy of the terrorist attacks of September 11th and the nightmarish expansion of his idea of a war on terr….
Clinton was very early on aware of the problem of international terrorism..
On the contrary, it might even be a projection of what the truth is of the Bush Administration's complacency and ineptitude on the terrorism in its f….
22 million new jobs under President Clinton. 3 million lost under Bush..
Bill Clinton was in the line of great progressive presidents who faced the realities in his own time and applied innovative solutions to problems..
It's absolutely crucial for the Democrats to have a sense of their history, of who they are, in order to be able to project their values and stand up….
But presidents matter. That's one of the biggest lessons I learned being in the White House..
George W. Bush has exhibited hostility to science that no other president has ever displayed..
The conservative argument is that the economy is like the weather, that it just operates automatically..
If there were any clear investigation of 9/11, they wouldn't let Louie Freeh off the hook..
We barely missed killing Bin Laden. There were numerous findings issued by the President to kill him. We rolled up terrorist cells. We stopped the mi….