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> All the accusations Bush 43 made against the democrats for being Russian-leaning communists

I don't recall Bush 43 accusing Democrats of being "Russian-leaning communists" even one single time, let alone so often you could talk about "all" the times he did it. I loathed nearly everything about Bush 43 and his administration, but can you cite an example or two (more would be better) where this actually happened?

I don't know if it's my memory that's faulty or yours, but you're the one lamenting our poor memory of recent events and I don't believe these particular recent events even happened.

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I think it was during press briefings. Particularly when he would discuss the previous administration or working “across the isle.”

how about linking to a cspan recording, or an archived news article, or perhaps even the presidential archives and actually providing evidence instead of just more anecdotes that you "think" happened.

Here is an NPR article [1] summarizing US-Russia relations during the GWB era, and describing GWB's attacks during his first campaign, on Bill Clinton for being too chummy with Russia... I think it would be fair to say this represented a general feeling on the right (around the early 2000s), that Democrats under Clinton had been too friendly with Russia (since GWB was able to make this into a campaign issue):

> At the time, George W. Bush was campaigning for the presidency, lambasting President Clinton's chummy relationship with Russian President Boris Yeltsin. Bush promised to end personal favoritism and protect American national security. Taking office the following year, he began by expelling 50 Russian diplomats from Washington for alleged spying. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld snubbed the Russian defense minister soon after by refusing to meet him on the sidelines of a NATO conference.

[1] https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=114736...

With all due respect, that just sounds like more fuzzy memories of things that may or may not have actually happened (which I believe did not). What I remember about Bush 43 was him hosting Putin at his ranch in Texas in the first year of his administration, talking about how he'd looked into Putin's soul, hosting Putin at least once more at his family compound in Maine, and generally not acting like someone who would ever lambaste his opponents for having too favorable an opinion of Russia.

At any rate, I'm not trying to lambaste you, but it does seem ironic that you're criticizing people in general for having poor memories about the recent past when your own memories seem fairly hazy and inaccurate.

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