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Super Bowl XLV: Is Everything Bigger and Better in Dallas?
By Luisita Lopez Torregrosa - Politics DailyIf there's a point at which sports and money, politics and high living intersect, it is the Super Bowl. Presidents, governors, mayors, glad-handers and boosters -- all get drawn into the whirlwind of the Super Bowl circus. This year is no different. And if there's one place where sports and politics, money and high living mix and match, it is Dallas, which for the first time ever is hosting the big game. For one thing, there's George W. Bush, the former president and Texas Rangers owner who makes his home in Dallas. Bush is building a presidential library on the campus of Southern Methodist ...
Donald Rumsfeld's New Memoir Trashed by Critics, John McCain and the ACLU
By David Knowles - AOL NewsYou go to press with the book you have. Coming in at just over 800 pages, former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld's new book, "Known and Unknown," was an ambitious undertaking. Given the harsh early reviews that have come in so far, however, one wonders if all that effort might have been better spent on a golf course. Surge Desk surveys the critical response to the book so far. Writing at The New York Times, veteran reviewer Michiko Kakutani lays into Rumsfeld's tome with marked vigor: The tedious, self-serving volume is filled with efforts to blame others -- most notably the C.I.A., ...
Rumsfeld Says He Should Have Quit Defense Post After Abu Ghraib Scandal
By Politics Daily Staff - Politics DailyDonald Rumsfeld, known for his tart one-liners as well as his hawkish foreign policy stands, says in a new memoir that he regrets that he did not step down as defense secretary after reports of abuse at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. In "Known and Unknown," Rumsfeld says he wishes he had insisted that President George W. Bush accept his offer to resign after news broke in 2004 of the rough and humiliating treatment of detainees by American jailers. In an account of the book by the New York Times, Rumsfeld blamed the abuses on rogue soldiers -- not any approved policies. But he says that "more ...
Condi Rice: Pro-Choice, Libertarian . . . and Evangelical
By David Gibson - Politics DailyFormer Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice declared in a recent interview that she is proudly evangelical but also distanced herself from many of her fellow believers by saying that she tends to support abortion rights and civil unions for gay couples, and she feels evangelicals too often alienate others with in-your-face rhetoric. "It's extremely important not to assault people," Rice told Christianity Today, the flagship evangelical magazine, in a Dec. 20 interview. "Sometimes I think evangelicals come at people so hard and so fast and don't take time to listen to where somebody is," she ...
Bush, in Reunion With Cheney, Breaks Ground on Presidential Library in Dallas
By Tom Diemer - Politics DailyJust like old times? Not really. Former President George W. Bush got a hand from Dick Cheney Tuesday as he broke ground in Dallas on the planned George W. Bush Presidential Center, a library and policy institute. But the flat Texas landscape was far-removed from the ongoing political combat in Washington where they once engaged their Democratic foes. Bush told the several thousand who gathered for the ceremony "there is no doubt in my mind" that Cheney was the right pick for his national ticket in 2000 and 2004, the Washington Post said. "He was a a great vice president of the United States, ...
Condoleezza Rice Talks Race, Relationships in Book
By Andrea Stone - AOL News
WASHINGTON (Oct. 16) -- Partisans on both the left and the right are "too easily driven to calling each other racists," says Condoleezza Rice, the highest-ranking black woman in U.S. history. "There is nothing that is a bigger hot button than to question somebody's motives and to call it racist, and unfortunately people do it on both sides," she says. In a wide-ranging interview with AOL News on a day filled with speeches and TV appearances to promote her new book, Rice spoke candidly about the misconceptions and assumptions about herself and the black community. Crown ...
Barack O'Clock: Fundraising with Biden in Delaware, Meeting with Condoleezza Rice
By Alex Wagner - Politics DailyIt's three for the money on Friday, Oct. 15. The prez will be tag-teaming a Delaware fundraiser with the veep, then jetting back to 1600 Pennsylvania Ave for a meeting with former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. Here's what's on tap: 9:30 a.m. -- The president receives the Presidential Daily Briefing in the Oval Office. 11:30 a.m. -- Departs the White House en route to Philadelphia. Deputy Press Secretary Bill Burton will gaggle aboard Air Force One. 12:30 p.m. -- Arrives in Philadelphia. 1:30 p.m. -- The president and vice president deliver remarks at an event for Senate candidate ...
Is the GOP in the Closet About Backing Gay Rights?
By Andrea Stone - AOL News
WASHINGTON (Oct. 13) -- A federal judge's order to halt enforcement of the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy was hailed by gay activists as a landmark ruling in their struggle to expand their rights. But something else made the case significant: The group that filed the lawsuit was the Log Cabin Republicans, a gay advocacy organization. And the policy U.S. District Judge Virginia Phillips ruled unconstitutional? It was the brainchild of the Democratic president, Bill Clinton, who nominated her. Seventeen years after Clinton hashed out a compromise with conservatives that has led to ...
Singles Survey: Palin Is 'Most Datable' Female Politician
By Mara Gay - AOL News(Oct. 13) -- Sarah Palin isn't running for office this November, but she's apparently won over the hearts of single men in America. In a recent Love and Politics survey by Zoosk, a popular online dating site, the former Alaska governor pulled in the highest percentage of votes for "most datable" female politician, at 32 percent. That's not to say, though, that most singles on the site are conservative. With 33 percent of the vote, Democratic San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom earned the title of "most datable" male politician. After a nonscientific survey of 1,000 of members -- most of whom ...
Opinion: White House Exits Normal? Not By a Long Shot
By Richard Benedetto - AOL News(Oct. 13) -- It has become a mantra in the news media these days to include in every story about the departure of another high-level Obama White House official the cautionary declaration that "it is normal for appointees to leave after a president's first two years." The unspoken message here is that this is not a case of rats deserting a sinking ship, it's just routine housecleaning. But just how "normal" is it for a slew of high-ranking White House appointees to leave in the first two years? You don't have to look back too far to discover that, in fact, it's not so "normal" after ...
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