George Bush

(CNSNews.com) – As President Obama prepares to address the United Nations for the first time on Wednesday, the tone has been set by top administration officials who are blaming a disengaged Bush administration for cool relations between the U.S. and the international community.

In a speech previewing this week’s U.N. General Assembly sessions last Friday, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton did not once cite the U.N.’s failings or its need for reform as factors in the strained relationship...

WASHINGTON – Citing danger to the national economy, President Bush approved an emergency bailout of the U.S. auto industry Friday, offering $17.4 billion in rescue loans in exchange for tough concessions from the deeply troubled carmakers and their workers.

The government will have the option of becoming a stockholder in the companies, much as it has with major banks, in effect partially nationalizing the industry...

A House Republican leader is urging the Bush administration not to use the remainder of the Wall Street bailout fund for emergency aid to the Big Three automakers.

The White House has said repeatedly that the Wall Street bailout fund should not be used to rescue the automakers because it was designed -- and approved by Congress -- to stabilize the financial sector. However, the White House is considering a change of heart. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says action by President Bush is the "only viable option"...

President George W. Bush got a firsthand look Monday at the situation in the seven-year-old Afghanistan war, as his administration prepares to hand over a strategy overhaul to his successor including significantly increasing the U.S. troop presence.

Bush spoke to U.S. soldiers and Marines stationed in Afghanistan at a hangar on the tarmac at Bagram Air Base. The rally for over a thousand military personnel took place in the dark, cold pre-dawn hours -- it was about 5:30 a.m. local time when the president strode into the hangar to loud cheers...

President George W. Bush said Friday that U.S. government intervention in
financial markets is not only warranted but "it is essential" to calm nervous
consumers and to halt the worst financial crisis in decades...

President Bush led a moment of silence Thursday morning at the White House to
mark the seventh anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, then went across the
Potomac River to dedicate a memorial at the Pentagon, where 184 people were
killed...

Republicans swung their convention back on a political track Tuesday after a pause for Hurricane Gustav, giving President Bush an abbreviated slot for a televised address promoting John McCain's candidacy for the White House. Former Democrat Joe Lieberman and TV star and former Sen. Fred Thompson got prominent roles...

President Bush says the War on
Terror cannot be treated primarily as a matter of law enforcement — a remark
seemingly at odds with an approach taken by Democratic presidential candidate
Barack Obama...

President Bush has directed the U.S. military to lead a humanitarian mission to help displaced citizens of Georgia, who've been forced out of their homes following a Russian invasion last week in the northern portion of the country.

The president said U.S.-17 aircraft with humanitarian supplies are already on its way and U.S. aircraft and naval forces will deliver humanitarian and medical supplies

"The mission will be vigorous and ongoing," Bush said from the White House Rose Garden with Defense Secretary Bob Gates and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice by his side...

Not content with having run Attorney General Alberto Gonzales out of town, the Democratic posse on Capitol Hill is already gunning for his replacement--even before he's nominated. More preposterous still, they're disguising this pre-emptive borking as a plea for a "consensus" choice.