The public is conditioned to take knee jerk reactions to Obama and Bush. If Obama says something American will automatically approve of it. If Bush says something, America will disapprove of it without thinking about it.
To be fair GWB brought on much of his troubles and Obama being not president yet should get a bit of optimism and good will (it’s his reward for winning.)
That being said I see what you see, meaningless feel good crap. What we really need is for Pelosi to take over from BoB, get rid of tax cuts, and piss off republicans so even McCain votes against it. We need Pelosi to go Chavis, the worst thing is what BoB wants, a few crumbs and republicans sell us out.