I never post a response to posts like this, I just couldn't help myself.
What is frustrating about this post is the vehemence with which conservatives attack Obama. They feel it is justified because of the vehemence that Bush was attacked with for so many years. The problem is it is not just: "you hate our guy we'll hate your guy" for a myriad of reasons, none the least of them is that the U.S.A.and it's people are the losers.
No the real problem with this is that in September of 2001 while standing on top of the rubble that was 9/11 George W. Bush had a 93% approval rating. He then orchestrated the single worst presidency since.........well ever......and it was only after a long slow slide of fuck ups and poor management that the press, the people, his own party, really got on him and decided that he was the worst President in history. That is a fact.
Now, the party out of power, this time republicans, are treating Obama as if he has ALSO had dozens of fuck ups and deserves to be excoriated for every move he makes just like Bush was. It took folks a long time after the salad days of Clinton to turn on George Bush; 93% were on his side for a good while...me too. However as he slipped into tragedy after management tragedy he was criticized by the press, foreign and domestic and became literally the worst President we've ever had. Now the republican party is trying to make up a list: "Birthers" racism whatever they can find to make Obamas list look like a Bush list.
Your video tried to show Bush in a good light. I'll say it again: HE was the single worst President our country has ever had, including Nixon who I was around to see "resign". He was not a smart Man, he was not concerned with our country, he was and is an idiot, who rode Daddy s coat tails through college to Texas to the white house and tried to help his buddies anyway he could. He was a disaster.
His party however continues to keep our country behind and has done more to keep this country from moving forward out of this recession than anything Obama has "done" or not done. Keep saying "no" and nothing will happen, you'll prove Obama anemic and then you can reclaim the white house in 2012. The American people will lose, but more importantly our country looks moronic overseas. You will get the white house back, where you can place Sarah Palin....I'm not even going there.
The real tragedy is we finally have a smart guy, a true thinker in the white house and the republicans want him out because.....just because. The Republicans are not trying to help me. They are not trying to help you. We could lead this world, and instead the republicans tie the hands of a smart Man and then blame him for not pulling harder.
Just as an FYI, the reason Bush was so scorned by the press, and Obama seems to be getting a pass, is because this is Bush's list: (in no particular order)
Outing Valerie Plame (treason)
Abu Ghraib
Denying Global warming
Invading Iraq
Selling the Ports to Saudia Arabia
Harriet Meyers
NOT catching Osama Bin Laden
No bid government contracts
Hurricane Katrina (4 day wait to act)
Mis-use of the Patriot Act
Spying on Americans
Illegal Wire Taps
Guantanamo Bay
Cutting Gov. Regulations = destroying the economy
NOT supplying body armor to the troops he put in harms way
Going AWOL from The National Guard
Conservatives will love this one: Approving 787 Billion dollar stimulus plan for the destruction of the economy that he orchestrated over 8 years and then leaving the mess / blame and problems to Obama. Conservatives love to blame Obama for the stimulus and say he is a tax and spend liberal spending.....whatever they call him. (it was Bush)
I'm sure there are many many more, these are what coms to mind as I sit here. Again, my point is that before we retire Obama to history, while we have him in the white house, and he hasn't proven himself to be a disaster (like G.W.B. proved) lets give him a chance to get us out of this mess. Lets vote with him once or twice (even once) to see if this very smart guy, has it in him to move us forward.
Or...I guess we could sit around and just bitch about it some more.
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