How about Guantanamo or Kwajalein.

. . . he's going to exile himself to Paraguay (the Bush family may or may not have bought land there), a state that coincidentally doesn't have an extradition treaty with us. . .

...to his own sub-country chunk of Paraguay. Good riddance.

...in the summer and Kennebunkport in winter? Midway is perfect temperature all of the time with great snorkeling, fishing and sunbathing. Too good.

No, not exile--- 'rendition'!

I'd like him to experience waterboarding, then maybe he'll have a properly informed opinion as to whether it constitutes torture...

which, btw, is still the law in Louisiana. No way anything Bush does is going to last that long, or do that much good. Napoleon was a great man, he just got too full of himself. But his accomplishments are still in force in many parts of the US and Europe.

For instance, Napoleon was the one who said that Jews would henceforth have last names like everyone else. If a family didn't have a name in mind, one was assigned them based on their geographic location. So you find a lot European Jews with names of cities and towns with "er" added on, and many with the suffixes of "berg", "stein" and "mont". Before that, European Jews were known by their given names and their father's name as a surname. This is a Jewish tradition, in Israel, but in Europe it was codified to make assimilation was almost impossible. After Napoleon, European Jews assimilated quite easily into all levels of society. Not that there wasn't anti-Semitism, mind you, but Napoleon removed most of the laws that codified it.

So, Napoleon did a lot more than run around conquering countries. He was a thinking, enlightened statesman who left behind a legacy of equality and law that hasn't been matched since. History would have been a lot different if his ego hadn't over-reached his talents.

napoleon was fine putting those uppity hatians down when they took the revolutionary rhetoric seriously.

I finished a big research project last summer on Heinrich Heine, the German liberal pseudo-Romantic poet (and Jewish, which is relevant to him and his identity as a poet and thinker).

Heine was a huge supporter of Napoleon as were a surprising number of Germans in the Rhineland (one of their reasons for Prussian invasion and rule of the Rhineland, the Rhinelanders were just too uppity).  He was a large critic of other German Romantics who glorified Germanic medieval myth, the aristocracy, and the authority of the Catholic Church into a "pan-Germaness" that had never before existed and finally died in the Berlin rubble of April, 1945.

The German Romantics (for perspective, Wagner was one of the in the field of music) mainly wrote to garner "patriotic" support for the despotic and increasingly powerless aristocrats struggling to hold on to power against the tide of Republicanism sweeping Europe.  It swept Europe at the end of Napoleon's bayonet (eerily familiar to Bush's excuse, but like another poster pointed out, Bush is no Napoleon.)

So, yea, I agree Napoleon gets a bad rap, he certainly is a mixed bag and very complicated figure (just one more way he is differentiated from the current pres.)

This is just fucking incredible.

Nearly three years after Paul Wolfowitz resigned as deputy Defense secretary and six months after his stormy departure as president of the World Bank--amid allegations that he improperly awarded a raise to his girlfriend--he's in line to return to public service. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has offered Wolfowitz, a prime architect of the Iraq War, a position as chairman of the International Security Advisory Board, a prestigious State Department panel, according to two department sources who declined to be identified discussing personnel matters. The 18-member panel, which has access to highly classified intelligence, advises Rice on disarmament, nuclear proliferation, WMD issues and other matters. "We think he is well suited and will do an excellent job," said one senior official.

that was the Nixon administration.  I mean these f*ckers are bad bad bad to the bone.  And not in a good way like the song implies.  These guys are 100% pure distilled evil.  Ccncentrated goofiness. High octane insanity.  Plain old batshit crazy.

Democrats felt it made sense to bargain away a few seemingly unimportant historical facts for a chance at better cooperation with Republicans on domestic issues that Clinton held dear, like the budget and health care.

seems to still be the CW in DC.  Problem is, it's not working because the Republicans have no desire to work with us.

took over after Chelsea.

When we are looking back, with a hint of longing, at the presidency of Richard M. Nixon.

I detested Nixon, but despite his enormous character flaws he was a bright, tough SOB and had some small core of genuine patriotism.

And, yes, on occasion he even adopted decent policy positions.  Although anyone who elevated Henry A. Kissinger to a position of great influence and did what he did in Vietnam cannot be said to have been a good president.

Bush, no brains, no guts that don't come out of a whiskey bottle or coke spoon, and not one ounce of patriotism.  Complete buffoon and scumbag.

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I didn't vote for him, and wouldn't, but he is sooo much better than JEB!

I'm not sure this is true, at least, of republicans in the state. All the ones I know love Jeb and don't like Crist.

with a name like Christ ... errr, I mean Crist.  Especially running as a Republican.

Still, I'm not big on political dynasties disguised as democracy. This whole Bush-Clinton-Bush-Clinton-Bush... thing is disgusting. None of them are the monarchy they'd like to be. Time for new blood.

for President in 2000.  Perhaps he would have considered a Senate run in 2000, (interesting thought considering that Hillary got that seat) and run in 2004 or 2008 against Jeb, if things had gone better for the Bushies.

Jeb will have to sit out until at least 2016 to run for President, when he will be in his late 60's.  He won't run in 2012 against either an incumbent Rep-not likely, or an incumbent Dem.  The disastrous Presidency of his brother will be too fresh in the public's memory in 2012 for Jeb to run then.

If Jeb plans to run for President, he will need some sort of political platform.  Former governors of Florida don't generate a lot of publicity on their own.  The Repubs may try to ease Mel Martinez out of his Senate seat in 2010 to let Jeb run, but that would be difficult to explain to the Cuban-American voters.  Or, Jeb could run against Bill Nelson in 2012.