But love for Mr Bush has not blotted out their hatred for his predecessor.
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Yves Klein smeared blue paint on nude women and then blotted them on paper and canvas.
On the human-rights front, a string of new horrors has blotted a record that had been improving, albeit patchily.
The illustrations are revealing enough that librarians across the country once drew underwear and blotted out the offending genitalia.
In a semifinal battle between two women who had enjoyed perfect starts to 2013, Radwanska blotted Li's record with a 6-3 6-4 victory on Thursday.
Gary Hart was no prize, but should his 12 years as a Senator and 39-year marriage be blotted out by his dalliance with Donna Rice?
At the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, war-crimes trials are screened in full, usually with a 30-minute buffer so that sensitive statements can be blotted out.
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Some think that the ten-kilometre meteorite that created it threw so much dust into the atmosphere that it blotted out the sun and led to the extinction of the dinosaurs.
The youngest of seven children, he was born, in 1911, in Gamaliya, a 1, 000-year-old quarter whose densely packed and labyrinthine lanes were overhung by balconies that blotted out the daylight.
Against the run of play, the Republic pulled a goal back on 72 as Keane slotted a penalty after Shirokov had blotted his copybook with a needless challenge on the Republic skipper.
Aengus O'Snodaigh may have - pardon the pun - blotted his copy book as a result of the bizarre "Inkgate" affair, but the Taoiseach has inadvertently assisted Sinn Fein in diverting attention elsewhere.
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Michael Meehan's point cut Donegal's lead to one after the outstanding Karl Lacey had blotted his copybook by conceding a hop ball for retaliation after Nicky Joyce's dreadful neck-high challenge on Barry Dunnion.
But the England fly-half blotted his copybook moments later when his kick from hand rolled through the in-goal area, handing Blues their best field position of the match back from where the kick was taken.
When painting the start of the stripe at Checkpoint Charlie, a former east- west border-crossing where new building has almost entirely blotted out the past, Eberhard Diepgen, Berlin's mayor, felt obliged to calm unease by declaring that there was no intention to split the city again.
At home, too, Chavez's scorecard remained blotted by the chronic failure to tackle the violent crime that make Caracas one of the world's most dangerous cities, by complaints about press freedom and economic mismanagement, and by the gradual blurring of elements of grassroots participatory democracy with a less savory streak of populist authoritarianism.
Since no dinosaur fossils have ever been found in sediments dating from after this point, conventional wisdom has it that the largest creatures ever to roam the earth must have been cut down in their prime - victims of an asteroid impact that sparked firestorms, acid rain and a nuclear winter that blotted out the sun.
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