- George W. Bush
George Walker Bush is the forty-third and current President of the United States of America. Originally inaugurated on January 20, 2001, Bush was elected president in the 2000 presidential election and re-elected in the 2004 presidential election. He previously served as the forty-sixth Governor of Texas from 1995 to 2000, and is the eldest son of former United States president George H. W. Bush. - Condoleezza Rice
Condoleezza Rice (born November 14 1954) is the 66th United States Secretary of State, and the second in the administration of President George W. Bush to hold the office. Rice is the first African American woman, second African American (after Colin Powell, who served before her from 2001 - 2005), and second woman (after Madeleine Albright who served from 1997 to 2001, before Colin Powell) to serve as Secretary of State. - Karl Rove
Karl Christian Rove (born December 25, 1950) is Deputy Chief of Staff to President George W. Bush. He has headed the Office of Political Affairs, the Office of Public Liaison, and the White House Office of Strategic Initiatives. For most of his career prior to his employment at the White House, Rove was a political consultant. Rove's election campaign clients have included George W. Bush (2000 and 2004 presidential elections, 1994 and 1998 Texas gubernatorial elections), … - Michael Moore
Michael Francis Moore (born April 23 1954) is an Academy Award-winning American director and producer of "Fahrenheit 9/11" and "Bowling for Columbine", two of the highest-grossing documentaries of all time. He is a vocal critic of globalization, large corporations, gun violence, the Iraq War, U.S. President George W. Bush and the American health care system. In 2005 Time magazine named him one of the world's 100 most influential people. - Dennis Kucinich
Dennis John Kucinich (born October 8, 1946) is an American politician of the Democratic party and a candidate for President of the United States in both 2004 and 2008. Kucinich currently represents the 10th District of Ohio in the United States House of Representatives. His district includes most of western Cleveland, as well as such suburbs as Parma and Cuyahoga Heights. - Jim Webb
James Henry "Jim" Webb, Jr. (born February 9, 1946) is the junior Senator from Virginia. He is also an author and a former Secretary of the Navy under President Ronald Reagan. He is a member of the Democratic Party. A 1968 graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy, Webb was a Marine Corps infantry officer until 1972, and is a highly decorated Vietnam War combat veteran. During his four years with the Reagan administration, … - Ned Lamont
Edward Miner Lamont, Jr. (born January 3, 1954) was the unsuccessful Democratic nominee for the United States Senate in the Connecticut United States Senate election held on on November 7 2006. He faced incumbent Senator Joe Lieberman, running as in independent, as well as Republican nominee Alan Schlesinger and Green Party candidate Ralph Ferrucci in a four-way general election in November, … - Karen Hughes
Karen Parfitt Hughes (born December 27, 1956) is a Republican politician from the state of Texas. She currently serves as the Under Secretary for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs in the U.S. Department of State with the rank of ambassador. She resides in Austin, Texas where she is an elder in her church, Westlake Hills Presbyterian. - Tammy Bruce
Tammy Bruce (born August 19, 1962) is a pro-choice lesbian feminist who hosts "The Tammy Bruce Show," a radio talk show broadcast on over 160 stations in the United States. Bruce describes herself as a classical liberal author and political commentator. "The Tammy Bruce Show" broadcasts three hours a day six days a week, including Saturdays. She is also a political contributor to Fox News Channel. She is described on her website as "an openly homosexual, … - Terry McAuliffe
Terence Richard "Terry" McAuliffe (born February 9, 1957) is an American businessman, political consultant, and a Democratic candidate for the 2009 gubernatorial election in Virginia. Previously, he served as chairman of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) from 2001 to 2005. He also served as chairman of the 2008 Hillary Clinton presidential campaign. - Ken Salazar
Senator Salazar, one of three Latino senators currently in office, is a fifth generation Colorado farmer and rancher. Despite pride in his Hispanic heritage, he is emphatic that he represents national interests in security, energy independence, agriculture, health care and the environment, and has often reached across the aisle to achieve his legislative goals. "I am a Senator for Mexican-Americans, for Latinos, for Afro-Americans, for White women, men. - Margaret Spellings
As the first mother of school-aged children to serve as Education Secretary, Spellings has a special appreciation for the hopes and concerns of American families. She has been a leader in reform to make education more innovative and responsive. Prior to her tenure as Education Secretary, Spellings served as Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy, where she helped create the No Child Left Behind Act. - Robert Zoellick
Robert Zoellick also serves or has served as a board member on a number of private and public organizations: Alliance Capital , Said Holdings , and the Precursor Group ; a member of the advisory boards of Enron and Viventures , a venture fund; as a Director of the Aspen Institute 's Strategy Group, Council on Foreign Relations , the German Marshall Fund of the United States , and the World Wildlife Advisory Council ; and a member of Secretary William Sebastian Cohen 's Defense Policy Board . - Omar Khadr
Omar Ahmed Khadr born September 19, 1986 in Ottawa, is a Canadian who was captured by American forces in Afghanistan when he was 15 years of age. His case has drawn considerable attention as a child soldier, and he is among the youngest prisoners held in extrajudicial detention in the Guantánamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba. - Eleanor Clift
ELEANOR CLIFT Washington power struggles can make for a confusing and opaque world. Eleanor Clift , a contributing editor at Newsweek and lucid writer on national politics and the influence of women in politics, penetrates this murky world to offer startling insights. As somebody who knows this world inside out, Eleanor Clift is often assigned to follow key stories is often assigned to follow key stories, such as presidential nomination and election campaigns. - David E. Sanger
David E. Sanger — born on July 5, 1960 in White Plains, New York — is White House correspondent for "The New York Times". A 1982 graduate of Harvard College, Sanger has been writing for "The New York Times" for over 24 years covering New York, Tokyo and, most recently, Washington, D.C.. He has reported on such issues as foreign policy, globalisation, nuclear proliferation, Asian affairs, and the revitalisation of Boston's Parker House Hotel. - Bob Corker
Robert Phillips "Bob" Corker, Jr. (born August 24, 1952) is the junior United States Senator from Tennessee. He was formerly the mayor of Chattanooga, Tennessee and a successful businessman. He is the only freshman Republican Senator in the 110th Congress. - Michael B. Mukasey
Michael Mukasey , who prepped for the job in the federal judiciary while Gonzales was the president's lapdog, is a rocket scientist by comparison. After hoodwinking the Senate into confirming him because he promised that he'd have to look into this torture stuff, Mukasey has gone to great lengths to defend its use while approving an "independent" investigation into the darkest of all the dark aspects of the Bush administration that is anything but. - William Bennett
William John Bennett (born July 31, 1943) is an American conservative pundit and politician. He served as United States Secretary of Education from 1985 to 1988. He also held the post of Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy (or "Drug Czar") under George H. W. Bush. Bennett was born in Brooklyn but later moved to Washington, D.C., where he attended Gonzaga College High School. - Richard Land
Richard D. Land (born 1947) is the president of The Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission (ERLC), the public policy entity of the Southern Baptist Convention, a post he has held since 1988. He is also the host of "For Faith & Family" and "For Faith & Family's Insight", two nationally syndicated radio programs. He was the primary author of the "Land letter", … - Bill White
Mayor Bill White was elected as Mayor of Houston in 2003, and has focused on the streamlining of city government as well as the improvement of neighborhoods, traffic, and air quality. Before serving as mayor, White was President and CEO of WEDGE Group, and served as Deputy Secretary of Energy of the United States. - Tom Toles
Thomas Gregory Toles (born October 22, 1951) is a United States political cartoonist. He is the winner of the 1990 Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning. Similar to Oliphant's use of his character Punk, Toles also tends to include a small doodle, usually a small caricature of himself at his desk, in the margin of his strip. Toles left "The Buffalo News" in 2002, accepting an offer from "The Washington Post" to replace Herblock, their late, … - Evan Thomas
Evan Thomas is an American journalist and author. A graduate of Phillips Andover, Harvard University and the University of Virginia School of Law, since 1991 he has been the Assistant Managing Editor at "Newsweek". From 1986-1996, he was Newsweek's Washington bureau chief. He has won numerous journalism awards, including a National Magazine Award in 1998 for NEWSWEEK’s coverage of the Monica Lewinsky scandal. - Andrew Natsios
Andrew S. Natsios served as Administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), the lead US government agency for international economic development and humanitarian assistance, from 2001 until 2006. During this period, Mr. Natsios managed the agency's reconstruction programs in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Sudan, which totaled more than $14 billion over four years. - Reggie Bush
Reginald Alfred “Reggie” Bush II, nicknamed 'The President', alluding to President Bush, is an American football player who plays for the New Orleans Saints of the NFL. He has played Running Back/Tailback, Wide Receiver, Kick Returner and Punt Returner. On December 8, 2005, Bush was awarded the Walter Camp Award and the Doak Walker Award. On December 10, Bush won the Heisman Trophy, beating finalists Vince Young and former Heisman winner and teammate Matt Leinart. - R. Nicholas Burns
R. Nicholas Burns, an American diplomat. Burns is the United States Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, the Department of State’s third ranking official. Appointed by President Bush, he was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on March 17 2005 and was sworn into office by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. As Under Secretary, he oversees U.S. policy in each region of the world and serves in the senior career Foreign Service position at the Department. - April Glaspie
April Catherine Glaspie (born April 26, 1942) is an American diplomat, best-known for her role in the events leading up to the Persian Gulf War of 1991. - Bill Moyer
Bill Moyer is an American veteran who served in the post World War II occupation of Germany. He would later go on to serve in both Korea and Vietnam. Moyer is perhaps best known for wearing a "Bullshit Protector" during President Bush's speech at the VFW national convention in Salt Lake City, Utah. During February 2006 emails began circulating around Bush/GOP supporters with the picture along with erroneous text, … - Vali Nasr
Vali Reza Nasr (b. 1960) is an Iranian-American academic and scholar, as well as Professor of International Politics at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy of Tufts University. An expert in contemporary Middle Eastern affairs and Islam and politics, in January, 2006, Nasr was named the Adjunct Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations, a nonpartisan think-tank focusing on foreign policy. - Reuel Marc Gerecht
Reuel Marc Gerecht is the director of the Project for the New American Century's Middle East Initiative. He is a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and a former Middle East specialist at the CIA. - Theodore Olson
Theodore Bevry Olson (born September 11, 1940) was the 42nd United States Solicitor General, serving from June 2001 to July 2004. Born in Chicago, Olson completed his undergraduate degree at the University of the Pacific. After earning his law degree from Boalt Hall at the University of California, Berkeley, he worked as an associate and a partner in the Los Angeles, CA office of the law firm Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP. - Jonathan Tasini
Jonathan Tasini (born 1956 in Houston, Texas), is the current president of the Economic Future Group, a national consulting group in the United States. He is a strategist, organizer, activist, commentator and writer, primarily focusing his energies on the topics of work, labor and the economy. He writes most frequently for the popular labor and economy blog Working Life. - Jendayi Frazer
Dr. Jendayi Frazer - Could you please explain President Bush's plans to deal with the wide spread poverty, hunger, warlords, and the growing AIDS epademic in Africa. - Leslie Gelb
Leslie (Les) Howard Gelb is a former correspondent for "The New York Times" and is currently President Emeritus of the Council on Foreign Relations. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and is a member of the editorial board of Encyclopædia Britannica that was re-established in 2005 after a 10-year hiatus. - Mary Ann Glendon
Mary Ann Glendon (born October 7, 1938 Pittsfield, Massachusetts) J.D., LL.M., is the Learned Hand Professor of Law, at Harvard University Law School. She teaches and writes on bioethics, comparative constitutional law and human rights in international law. She is a notable Pro-life feminist. She was appointed by President Bush to the President's Council on Bioethics, and is also the author of "Rights Talk; A Nation Under Lawyers", … - Hussein Kamel
Hussein Kamel Hassan al-Majid was the son-in-law and second cousin of Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein. He defected to Jordan and took to helping the United Nations Special Commission (UNSCOM) and the International Atomic Energy Agency IAEA inspection teams assigned to look for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. Kamel rose through the army ranks to become Iraq's minister of military industries, … - Doug Wead
Doug Wead, presidential historian, philanthropist and public speaker was a Special Assistant to former U.S. President George H. W. Bush, and is the author of over thirty books, including the "New York Times" best-seller "All the Presidents’ Children: Triumph and Tragedy in the Lives of the First Families". He has authored a sequel which examines the childhoods of U.S. Presidents, … - Anna Quindlen
Anna Quindlen hasn't been a New York Times columnist for more than a decade, but she'd still fit in quite well on her old paper's op-ed page. In her opinion piece for the October 31 Newsweek, Quindlen takes up the inclination to psychoanalyze President Bush from one current Times columnist, Maureen Dowd , and the Iraq-is-Vietnam argument from another, Frank Rich. - Kevin Brady
Kevin Patrick Brady (born April 11, 1955) is a Republican politician from the state of Texas. Brady was born in Vermillion, South Dakota, one of five children of William and Nancy Brady. His father, a lawyer, was killed in 1967 in a courtroom shooting in Rapid City, S.D.when Brady was 12 years old. Brady graduated from the University of South Dakota in Vermillion. A chamber of commerce executive who also served on the Rapid City Common Council, … - Tamar Jacoby
Tamar Jacoby (b. 1954) is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, known primarily for her writing on immigration-related issues. A native of New York City, Ms. Jacoby graduated from Yale University in 1976, after which she became a staffer on the New York Review of Books. From 1981 to 1987 she served as a deputy editor of the op-ed page of "The New York Times", and from 1987 to 1989 as a senior writer and justice editor at "Newsweek".
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