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the value of endorsements .....

the value of endorsements .....

US President George Bush endorsed Republican nominee-in-waiting John McCain, two bitter rivals from the 2000 presidential race joining together now in hopes of preventing Democrats from winning the White House in November. 

'John showed incredible courage, strength of character and perseverance in order to get to this moment and that's exactly what we need in a president - somebody who can handle the tough decisions, somebody who won't flinch in the face of danger,' Bush said, appearing with McCain in the White House Rose Garden. 

Bush's embrace of the Arizona senator as the party's next standard-bearer comes a day after McCain clinched the Republican nomination by getting the requisite 1,191 convention delegates.

Bush dances...

bush also approves of John McCain doing it again...

inheritance..

John McCain's sudden intervention in Washington's deliberations over the Wall Street bailout could not have been more out of sync with what was actually happening.

He lamented that "partisan divisions in Washington have prevented us from addressing our national challenges." But for days, bipartisanship has been the rule on both sides of this argument. Republicans and Democrats alike were highly critical of President Bush's proposal to inject $700 billion into the financial system. Yet leaders of both parties were trying hard to negotiate an agreement with Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson. That's why they were close to an agreement in principle even before the two presidential nominees arrived for yesterday's White House meeting that McCain thought was so important.

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 see toon at top... Bush is definitely leaving a big mess behind....