George W Bush

Former Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush; Lt. Gen. Ken Keen, deputy commander of the U.S. Southern Command; Rajiv Shah, U.S. Agency for International Development administrator. 9 a.m.: WMDT (Channel 47) 10 a.m. WJLA (Channel 7) 10:30 a.m.: WMAR (Channel 2) Clinton, Bush, Keen, Shah. 10:30 a.m.: WUSA (Channel 9) and WJZ (Channel 13) Clinton, Bush, Keen, Shah. 10 a.m.: WGAL (Channel 8), WBAL (Channel 11)

Is former president George W. Bush ill? I was shocked when I heard that he declined president Obama's invitation to share the special moments at Ground Zero. I decided that he must be have some affliction that is keeping him out of the public eye. If true, he has my prayers. If it is not, I am very disappointed! There is no excuse, other than a serious illness, for a former president of the United States to turn his back on his supporters , the dignity of the office of president, and the victory we are now celebrating.

Dan Rodricks ' recent column ("Justice Breyer, the supreme explainer," Oct. 13) points to a historically important incident which exposes the real danger inherent in the Supreme Court's decision-making power, politically speaking. In the Bush v. Gore decision in 2000, the Supreme Court handed George W. Bush the presidential election on a 5-4, politically driven vote by the court to stop the recount in Florida. Today, all the Republican Party needs to do, it seems, is sweep in the money afforded them by the Supreme Court's Citizens United ruling to make good on Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell's promise "to make Obama a one-term president.

The presidential election will remain close until the "final decision window" because voters are dissatisfied with the economy, Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley predicted on Sunday. But, he said, voters will ultimately reelect President Barack Obama rather than return to Republican policies. "This is not the time to wave pompoms. It is the time to dig deep and move forward and not go back to those disastrous policies that landed us in this economic problem to begin with," O'Malley said in television appearance from Charlotte days before he will speak at this week's Democratic National Convention there.

I am a proud Democrat and have been for my entire adult life. So when the Supreme Court ruled that George W. Bush was the winner of the 2000 presidential election, I was deeply disappointed but consoled myself by thinking, "how much harm could one president do?" Well, I found out. In the eight disastrous years of the Bush presidency, our country went from prosperity - the budget surplus was a huge campaign issue! - to nearly complete economic collapse, and from a nation whose president helped to end long-standing international conflicts (remember President Clinton's actions in Bosnia and Ireland?

Republican former Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr.'s column ("Obama's foreign policy reset has little to show for it," Oct. 28) criticizes President Barack Obama's foreign policy. It focused much on the tour that the President Obama undertook early in his administration. Mr. Ehrlich rightly points out that Mr. Obama never used the word apology. The tour could have been criticized for focusing too much on the foreign policy mistakes that the U.S. has made in the past but that would not have gained headlines, so the president's opponents called it an apology tour.

The Bush tax cuts were a huge success, and failing to extend them for all Americans — not just families earning less than $250,000, as President Barack Obama proposes — would be a terrible mistake. Contrary to White House propaganda, George W. Bush achieved a lot of growth prior to the financial crisis, and lower taxes for all helped. The Bush prosperity was the byproduct of several multi-decade policy trends that freed markets and empowered individuals to innovate and create wealth.

What an amazing month it has been in key corners of the Muslim world. Accelerated by Twitter and Facebook, and broadcast to the world through television and YouTube, revolutionaries in Bahrain, Libya, Tunisia, Yemen and especially Egypt have agitated for freedom and demanded political reform. I wonder how the news is being received by former president George W. Bush. Some of his former deputies are claiming that the changes unfolding in the Middle East and North Africa validate Mr. Bush's foreign policy doctrines and his oft-repeated mantra that freedom isn't America's gift to the world but God's gift to humanity.

It is amazing how differently different people see things. I suspect much of these differences boil down to simply which news broadcasts and talk show hosts we tune to. If only we could have news stations like the BBC, which believe it or not, actually broadcasts news. We could then take the facts that are reported as the basis for making up our own minds. Instead, we have "facts" that are manufactured by people from either the extreme left or right, which are then played full strength over and over.

Your editorial was spot on regarding the current presidential campaign ("It's not over yet," Oct. 1). If one were to believe the current polls, President Barack Obama has already won the election and there's no need for anyone to vote. That obviously is far from the truth, because a poll is simply a snapshot in time and subject to daily change. I recall the historic presidential election of 1948, when the polls overwhelmingly favored a landslide victory for Gov. Thomas E. Dewey over incumbent president Harry S. Truman.