Ally's Timing Is Awkward for Bush
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As the British announced the beginning of their departure from Iraq yesterday, President Bush's top foreign policy aide proclaimed it "basically a good-news story." Yet for an already besieged White House, the decision was doing a good job masquerading as a bad-news story.
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Opinion polls show support for President Bush and his Democratic rival as almost dead even, but as the Republican convention began on Monday investors trading presidential futures did not believe the race would be nearly so close.
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First the good: The rather extraordinary bump President Bush received after the Republican convention appears to have been just that, a bump.
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The collapse of Bernard Kerik's nomination has strained a relationship that has long been more complicated than mere friendship.
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Prime Minister Tony Blair has admitted it can be hard to be the strongest ally of US President George W. Bush, with whom he went to war in Iraq, as well as being a player in Europe.
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President Bush faces some unusually early foreign-policy decisions that will signal whether he&#39;ll stick with the aggressive, go-it-alone approach that dominated his first term or soften its edges with diplomacy.
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From his domestic policy platter, President Bush chose to serve dessert before the main course. Having now won a second term, he may find it increasingly difficult to deliver on the meatier stuff, even with the political capital he is claiming and larger GOP majorities in the House and Senate.
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A new TIME poll finds President Bush heading into next week&#39;s Republican National Convention amid signs that his opponent&#39;s advantage is softening.
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An important ally when George W. Bush first won the presidency, the Christian Coalition of America says it's poised again to help a conservative win the White House. Whether it can back up that pledge is an open question.
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For all the slashing rhetoric between the two presidential candidates over Iraq, whoever wins the White House Nov. 2 comes to a difficult situation with roughly the same set of options, few of them good.
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In a scramble for late-breaking votes, Bush and Kerry each highlight risks of putting the other at the nation's helm.
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President Bush had planned to push during the current lame-duck session of Congress for the confirmation of John R. Bolton. But todayÂs announcement suggests that the White House realized it was not going to receive the votes.
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President overshadowed by race to chose successor attempts to reassert his primacy
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Once written off as an &quot;accidental president&quot; lacking statesmanship and political gravitas, George W. Bush confounded critics with a powerful showing in his bid for a second White House term.
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If the prime targets of President Bush's appeal for patience last night were moderates in his own party, his speech may have fallen flat.
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Political loyalties are split in Jeb Bush's family.
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Democrats' plans to limit President Bush's war authority, forcing a change of course in Iraq are faltering amid party divisions over how quickly and aggressively they should act