When justifying his use of drone strikes — in countries we're not at war with, in a war against "networks" with a not-yet-clear end, in a major speech on a limitless war — it helps for President Obama to use the rhetoric of George W. Bush as a foil. At least he's not as bad as that guy, right?
Dan Rather still thinks he will be vindicated for his infamous story on President George W. Bush's Air National Guard Service but after reading a new epic re-investigation into the matter by Texas Monthly, it's difficult to see how that will ever happen.
Remember George W. Bush? No? Well, on Tuesday he appeared the New York Historical Society and said he wished the tax cuts he presided over were less associated with him, not because he'd had a change of heart about them but because he feared his moniker would be their death knell.
In some flea markets and T-shirt stores you occasionally see the image of George W. Bush above a caption that reads, "Miss me yet?"
On Wednesday, political reporters jumped on Mitt Romney's statement that it was George W. Bush, not Barack Obama, who saved the economy in 2008. Why? Because Republican candidates usually do their best to avoid talk of the most recent two-term Republican president altogether.
Rick Santorum is the latest politician to promise to ban online porn, but is it possible?
When you have two members of the Bush family publicly wringing their hands over the current Republican race, it's not the best sign that things are going as well as the GOP establishment would like.
Ken Mehlman, who managed George W. Bush's 2004 reelection campaign, is explicitly apologizing to the people hurt by the anti-gay marriage tone of the campaign. It's not the first time he's walked back his party's rhetoric.
Mitt Romney is tearing into Rick Santorum for voting with Republican President George W. Bush on spending increases and new government programs, while Santorum is trying to prove he was mostly independent from Bush. But there was a time, not too long ago, when both Romney and Santorum were absolutely delighted to be seen with Bush.
Mitt Romney is attacking Rick Santorum for supporting George W. Bush's spending increases even as Romney relies on Bush economic adviser who are telling him to spend more money.
The president has granted 408 media interviews with journalists in his first three years in office, exactly three times as many as his predecesor, according to a study cited by The New York Times.
Laura Bush revealed Wednesday that she and her husband George W. Bush wanted the president's brother, former governor of Florida Jeb Bush, to run for president in 2012.
President Obama won the other primary in New Hampshire last night with 82 percent of the 47,000 votes -- a far lower percentage and turnout than Bill Clinton got in 1996. Does it spell doom -- a lack of Democratic enthusiasm, or support in the state?
The Republican presidential primary has had plenty of discussion of the 1990s, but very little of the 2000s.
President Obama destroyed two decades of tradition this weekend by refusing to wear funny clothes in the "family photo" taken every year with other world leaders at the Asian Pacific Economic Cooperation forum.
Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is making the talk show rounds this week to promote the realease of her new memoir, No Higher Honor.
Mitt Romney wants to be the John Kerry of this year's Iowa caucuses, while President Obama wants to be the George W. Bush of the general election.
Plus: Susan Sarandon is briefly occupied, Jamie Rubin out at Bloomberg View
After falling in the polls, she's showing a little schadenfreude at Perry's problems
Plus: Michael Moore wants his book removed from Georgia bookstores
Perry hopes there's at least one way he's like George W. Bush
But Solyndra is threatening Obama's chances at being the most scandal-free president
Obama has a 75 percent approval rating on foreign affairs in Europe
Presidents Barack Obama and George W. Bush stood together at Sunday morning's 9/11 memorial
He cites special training to keep his tear ducts sealed
His letter of regret draws ire from across the political spectrum
But he does think later generations will judge
Former vice president's memoir alleges she misled Bush
Their catfight reminds voters of President Bush
New book reveals how Bush leaned on him for decision to bomb Saddam Hussein
They might look like clones, but Bush and Perry don't like each other at all
A bit of a letdown after speculation that Jeb Bush Sr. would be giving him the thumbs up
Why it became the day's most popular oxymoron
Plus: Nancy Pelosi has flowers--and a message--for George W. Bush
The group calls on foreign governments to "reaffirm the primacy of the rule of law"
The bronze statue was revealed today in the same town of the watch disappearance
Republican candidates barely mention their most recent two-term president
The Ohio Democrat says at least Bush consulted Congress before going to war
Did the Bush White House go after a blogger critical of the Iraq War
Wife of potential 2012 candidate Mitch Daniels gave her first political speech Thursday
Plus: Will Ferrell will receive Mark Twain prize, promises complicated facial hair
Who invented Facebook? Who killed bin Laden? Many, many people think they did
Ferrell's Dubya has also made a strategic kill
The notorious private contractor is still in the market for government contracts
Approval of his job handling terrorism soars to all-time high of 69 percent
The controversial case against Thomas Tamm ends with a whimper
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev is not the first world leader to get caught in the act
An op-ed from the NATO leaders reads like a multi-year contract
The gap between candidate and president Obama on war powers touches a liberal nerve
Huckabee is following McCain's path toward being the one Republican liberals like
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