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Now the video over at Slate speaks for itself. And Bushisms author Jacob Weisberg has also ranked the outgoing prez’s top 25 quotes from the past eight years. Yes, The Buzz is ready to help Bush pack on Jan. 20, but won’t you miss his not-supposed-to-be-funny, misunderestimated utterances? Well, maybe in his retirement we’ll start…

Eric Holder has a family—and an all-American one, at that. That’s the first thing Democrats wanted everyone to know about Barack Obama’s attorney general nominee this morning. Before we got to Marc Rich and Puerto Rican nationalists and gun rights, Democrats wanted everyone to see the man who would be the first black AG as…

The Buzz can only hope that at age 71, we’ll look as good as Roland Burris, who is actually the third African American U.S. Senator from Illinois in the last 11 years. But we’re also hoping that we pick up a little more humility along life’s journey. We’d like to avoid erecting a mausoleum for ourselves,…

Oh, dear.  It looks like President-elect Obama may be starting off on the wrong foot with the New York Times.  How dare he not make time in his schedule to grant The Times’ White House correspondents their customary pre-inauguration interview? Even President Bush sat down with the “liberal media elite” days before he took his…

Blackness is fast moving to the center of the world’s psyche. For proof, look no further than last month’s crowning of a binational and biracial Miss France 2009. Chloe Mortaud’s selection as the face of French beauty and elegance has so few precedents that the French media have named her, perhaps cheaply, “Miss Obama.” In…

TODAY, 12pm:  Join the washingtonpost.com Live Online discussion on GOING GREEN FOR THE INAUGURATION with The Root’s associate editor Natalie Hopkinson and Washington Parks & People founder Steve Coleman. In the days leading up to the inauguration of Barack Obama, Washington, D.C. will be transformed into one big, jubilant street festival. We at The Root have nothing…

Clinton is used to being a star on Capitol Hill, as yesterday was no exception and she began to lay out her vision and that of her president. She talked about engaging Iran, and not dealing with Hamas. She even, according to the New York Times, “struck a sharper tone toward Israel on violence in…

Ann Coulter is still Ann Coulter—the same love-to-hate-her far right wing demagogue that she always was. But she’s enjoying something of a renaissance in the black community. First she was oh-so-tenderly depicted in season two of The Boondocks (“I fucks with these crab cakes”) and now she’s getting at least a modicum of traction for…

The local highways will morph into parking lots, crammed with cars bumper to bumper.  Bridges in Virginia will be blocked off.  So, those Virginia drivers refuse to fight for air on a crowded Metro train, and decide to wait until the day of the inauguration to drive into D.C. will have to look on from…

Banks have quite a while before their wounded lending sectors have fully healed, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said Tuesday.  He added that taxpayers will aid in banks’ recovery by continuing to graciously hand over their tax dollars. When will the economy’s suffering end, and why won’t it end in a week when President-elect Barack…