I Get Emails: Funny Graphic Of The Day + Bush Vs. Obama

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I Get Emails: Funny Graphic Of The Day + Bush Vs. Obama

Written By : John Hawkins

Miss me yet

Let me say the same thing today that I said about Bush when he was President: Although I think Bush did a much better job on national security issues and foreign policy than people give him credit for, he was a huge disappointment on the domestic front.

Yet, horrible approval rating and terrible messaging aside, Bush was a much better, more competent, and skilled President than Obama. That’s even the case if you set aside ideological issues.

Bush was more transparent, worked better with the other side, was a much more skilled diplomat, had a much better idea of what government could accomplish, and was several orders of magnitude more honest.

Bush was not a great President. On the domestic front, he wasn’t even a good one. He also did great damage to the Republican Party by being so stubborn, obtuse, and by making so little effort to get his message out.

But, all that said: When you get beyond the hyperbole and polling data, it’s Obama, not Bush, who suffers when the two men are compared.

Mike_M

Bush also didn't spend 90% of his Presidency jetting around the globe going to parties and giving speeches. Obama is planning yet another frivilous trip overseas to stump for the Olympics, and Michelle is already forward deployed at taxpayer expense.

The liberals seem keen on muting criticism of Obama by pointing out the US President is both Head of Government and Head of State, unlike Parlimentary countries where Prime Ministers get yelled at all the time. Maybe they ought to start telling him that he's expected to do both jobs as well instead of parading around and being doted over like the Queen of England while doing no actual work of governing.
whats_up

Posted by Mike_M

2009-09-30 14:44:25

And I am sure that you criticized Bush for taking a frivolous trip to the Olympics while we were invovled in two different wars and Russia was invading Georgia right Mike? Ya thats what I thought, your whinning just shows how childish you have become. This is exactly part of the Presidents job, why do you have a problem with the Olympics coming to America Mike?
aharris

We have a military emergency going on in Afghanistan where we're reaching the point of double down or fail, we have all sorts of sudden terror plots being foiled domestically, engineered by radical Islamists instead of those darn, lazy right wing terrorists (who aren't anywhere to be found), and an economy on life support … but BO's got all the time in the world to jet off and try to impose the Olympics on Chicago, a city that can't afford them.
aharris

Shaddup, w_u.
Bill_Dalasio

Posted by whats_up

2009-09-30 15:31:02

And I am sure that you criticized Bush for taking a frivolous trip to the Olympics while we were invovled in two different wars and Russia was invading Georgia right Mike?

But, as I seem to recall, you did. So, how are we to assume any less that your "whinning just shows how childish you have become"?
whats_up

But, as I seem to recall, you did. So, how are we to assume any less that your "whinning just shows how childish you have become"?

Posted by Bill_Dalasio

2009-09-30 15:50:15

Actually I did not, but thanks for showing your ignorance.
http://TheNixonTape.Com Dick_Nixon

whats_up, the gay nazi lover, is here to troll, nothing more. Nixon would advise not replying to him.
Bill_Dalasio

Posted by Dick_Nixon

2009-09-30 16:08:00

Point taken. Although I thought whats_up was crthn's sockpuppet, not fwankie-the-wankie's.
D-Vega

I'm sure then that Bush will be campaigning with Republicans next year across the country to win back the House.

After all, now that people have seen Obama in action, they should be lining up to support Bush once again.

Right?
http://www.thepiratescove.us William_Teach

The one big thing Bush was missing that really hurt him was that he did not defend his own policies. Why should anyone believe in them if he wouldn't back them?
Bill_Dalasio

Posted by D-Vega

2009-09-30 16:43:39

Sorry, but that does not follow. P*ss-poor-but-better-than-absolutely-atrocious is still p*ss-poor.
D-Vega

The question is whether we "miss" Bush. And the answer to that is "hell, no."
http://guardian.blogdrive.com/ CavalierX

This is exactly part of the Presidents job

I believe Obama is the first US president to ever personally go before the committe to beg for the Olympics. Part of his job? Point it out in the Constitution.
http://huckupchuck.blogspot.com huckupchuck1

Part of his job? Point it out in the Constitution.

It's called international relations. Very much a part of the President's constitutional duties.

What I don't get is why conservatives consider Obama going to bat for the U.S. in any context is such a bad thing.

Next thing you know, CavalierX, you'll be criticizing U.S. Presidents for throwing out the opening pitch at the first game of the World Series as not part of the President's "constitutional" duties.
http://TheNixonTape.Com Dick_Nixon

What I don't get is why conservatives consider Obama going to bat for the U.S. in any context is such a bad thing.

He is going to bat for Chicago. Where he has a lot pf political supporters. Lots of money flows around the Olympics.

Do the f'n math.
http://TheNixonTape.Com Dick_Nixon

Posted by Bill_Dalasio

2009-09-30 16:16:41

They are all tied into the same person.
http://www.superdickery.com mightysamurai

It's called international relations.

No, child, it's called "begging". International relations would be negotiating some sort of treaty. Obama just wants to increase Chicago tax revenues.
William Teach

Huck, the problem is that we have a lot of things going on that are a wee bit more important. Unemployment, the economy, Iran, Afghanistan (Obama has time to jet of to Europe but not spend time with the commander for the war Obama said was the important one?), Iraq. He's running around being the Rock Star In Chief, rather than the Chief Executive. All for the greater good of The One.

You think Bush is going to look bad in history? Heck, Obama will make Carter look like a piker. He outsources everything, makes empty promises which he reneges on, and, so far, has really achieved nothing. Except for voting Present on quite a few of the Bush policies, which he just allows to continue. Funny, they were bad under Bush, where is the liberal criticism?
http://TheNixonTape.Com Dick_Nixon

No Teach, you are incorrect. Barak Obama will make Jimmy Carter look like George Washington.
Mike_M

"This is exactly part of the Presidents job, why do you have a problem with the Olympics coming to America Mike?"

Maybe you're right. The IOC is a fabulously corrupt organization that operates entirely on bribes, quid pro quos, and the titanic egos of its members. It's the perfect milieu for Obama.

Oh, and maybe he should be addressing the fact that Chicago has changed its name to Murderland and people are being shot and beaten to death in its streets at an alarming rate. Baghdad would be a safer place to hold the Olympics. Seriously. Last year 314 US soldiers died in all of Iraq and 509 people were murdered in the city of Chicago. The numbers will be even more lopsided this year.

It certainly must be embarassing for Obama that his own hometown that he represented as State Senator, US Senator, and President is more dangerous than an entire country where Bush "lost" a war.

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