Posted on 10/20/2009 2:24:55 PM PDT by Steelfish
October 20, 2009
Obama the Graceless Bush Will Be Obama’s Eternal Foil
Rich Lowry.
Republicans needn’t trouble themselves to nominate a presidential candidate in 2012. No matter what, Pres. Barack Obama will be running against George W. Bush.
Bush will be Obama’s eternal foil. At this rate, when Obama writes his post-presidential memoir, it will be titled: An Audacious Presidency, or How I Saved America from That Bastard Bush. His presidential library will have a special fright-house wing devoted to Bush’s misrule. He will mutter in his senescence about 43, like the Ancient Mariner about his albatross.
Obama clearly wants Bush to be the Hoover to his FDR. Since his predecessor left office with 34 percent job approval, Obama understandably feels moved to scorn and berate him. But Obama’s perpetual campaign against Bush is graceless, whiny, and tin-eared. Must the leader of the free world — if Obama still accepts that quaint formulation — always reach for the convenient excuse?
No doubt, Obama inherited formidable challenges, but it’s usually thus. The presidency is a miserable job. During our first inaugural marking a presidential transition, John Adams thought he could almost hear George Washington thinking: “I am fairly out and you fairly in! See which of us will be happiest.”
Obama complains of having to clean up what he charmingly calls “somebody else’s mess.” Obama took office during a stomach-churning financial crisis, and he now brags, “We’ve rescued our economy from catastrophe.” Who’s “we”? When then‑Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke confronted Bush with the magnitude of the crisis last fall, he told them to do anything necessary to fight it.
Bush’s support of the ideologically uncongenial TARP legislation, together with Bernanke’s expansive actions at the Fed, rescued the system. But Obama takes the credit,...
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When he knows that what he is doing is destroying the US, then he MUST try to blame it on someone else.
The Soviets blamed the Czarists for 70 years. This Bolshevik is no different.
Obama is waaaaay overplaying his hand.
IF Obama takes credit for TARP saving the economy, then he should take credit for the DEFICIT as the result of TARP
One thing we should not do for the 2012 election is do what Kerry did with Bush. Kerry tried to attack Bush’s past instead of Bush’s 4 years record. It may make sense for the 2000 election to attack Bush’s past as he’s relative new, but it does not for the 2004 election.
The 2012 election should be focused on Obama’s 4 years record, not his past and the voters obviously do not care anymore since they took into account that and still vote him in for 2008
Every night Bammy probably looks under his bed to see if Bush is there.
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