President works to defend his legacy

Sydney Morning Herald by Sheryl Stolberg | Jan. 11, 2009 (News Report)

The countdown clocks that George Bush's chief of staff distributed 990 days ago are still ticking. His advisers tallied their remaining time last week and calculated fewer than 300 hours to go.

Cardboard cartons are stacked in the West Wing as files are carefully catalogued for the archives. By Friday, the last official work day of the Bush White House, all but the most senior officials will have turned in their government-issued BlackBerrys and ... Full Story »

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by Tony Litwinko - Jan. 12, 2009

It reports the facts of the Presidential project nicely and for outside perspective it takes a very well respected academic, Dallek, who creates a context that shows the unusual truth of this campaign.

This is a perfect example of how mere statement of facts, to a reader who remembers context, provides the most damning irony of all. Do any more words need to be said when you see the list of the three foreign dignitaries receiving the presidential medal? The irony forces itself upon me. Medals for sycophants.