Looks spot on to me.
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Bush Come Back, Bush, Come Back
September 2, 2010 - by Victor Davis Hanson
Why We Suddenly Miss Bush
Various polls report that George W. Bush in some states is now better liked than President Obama. Even some liberal pundits call for Bush, the now long-missed moderate, to draw on his recognized tolerance and weigh in on the Ground Zero mosque or the Arizona anti-immigration legislation. Apparently the erstwhile divider is now the healer that the healer Obama is not.
As President Obamas polls dip, as Congress is widely disdained, and as the economy slumps, suddenly George Bush is missed. Why so? Let me list ten likely reasons.
1) The Obama record. We naturally compare Bush to his chief critic and successor Barack Obama and find the latter increasingly wanting as time goes by. Obama turned Bushs misdemeanor deficits into felonious trillion-dollar annual shortfalls. He will pile up more debt than any other prior president.
Indeed, if reelected, Obama will borrow more than all previous administrations combined. Bush was tarred in 2004 for a jobless recovery when unemployment hovered near 6%. It is now almost 10% and Obama still harps about jobs saved. Scott McClellan may have been singularly inept; we are not so sure after Robert Gibbs. For every Brownie there is a worse Van Jones or Anita Dunn. For Katrina we have BP. Bushs NASA did space; Obamas seems to prefer Muslim outreach. Bushs prescription drug benefit was an unfunded liability; ObamaCare is a trillion-dollar financial black-hole. I could go on, but Obamas lackluster record is improving Bushs legacy every day.
4) Who is the real yuppie? The media tried to paint Bush as the privileged yuppie, masquerading as the Texas rancher, idly chain-sawing on his spread. But at least Bush went to the Texas outback for vacation and got his hands dirty. Obamas problem is that Axelrod and Emanuel could not stage a chain-sawing task for Obama if they tried severe injury would surely follow. The bowling moment in the campaign was as disastrous as the later Obama girlish first pitch. From 2001-3, presidential golf was proof of aristocratic disdain and laziness. Suddenly from 2009-2010 given that Obama has hit the greens more in 20 months than Bush did in eight years the Ministry of Truth redefined the game as necessary egalitarian relaxation. Given the choice, the public would probably prefer a little overdone Texas smoke em out braggadocio to worries over the price of arugula.
Works and Days ‘Bush … Come Back, Bush, Come Back’
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Bush Come Back, Bush, Come Back
September 2, 2010 - by Victor Davis Hanson
Why We Suddenly Miss Bush
Various polls report that George W. Bush in some states is now better liked than President Obama. Even some liberal pundits call for Bush, the now long-missed moderate, to draw on his recognized tolerance and weigh in on the Ground Zero mosque or the Arizona anti-immigration legislation. Apparently the erstwhile divider is now the healer that the healer Obama is not.
As President Obamas polls dip, as Congress is widely disdained, and as the economy slumps, suddenly George Bush is missed. Why so? Let me list ten likely reasons.
1) The Obama record. We naturally compare Bush to his chief critic and successor Barack Obama and find the latter increasingly wanting as time goes by. Obama turned Bushs misdemeanor deficits into felonious trillion-dollar annual shortfalls. He will pile up more debt than any other prior president.
Indeed, if reelected, Obama will borrow more than all previous administrations combined. Bush was tarred in 2004 for a jobless recovery when unemployment hovered near 6%. It is now almost 10% and Obama still harps about jobs saved. Scott McClellan may have been singularly inept; we are not so sure after Robert Gibbs. For every Brownie there is a worse Van Jones or Anita Dunn. For Katrina we have BP. Bushs NASA did space; Obamas seems to prefer Muslim outreach. Bushs prescription drug benefit was an unfunded liability; ObamaCare is a trillion-dollar financial black-hole. I could go on, but Obamas lackluster record is improving Bushs legacy every day.
4) Who is the real yuppie? The media tried to paint Bush as the privileged yuppie, masquerading as the Texas rancher, idly chain-sawing on his spread. But at least Bush went to the Texas outback for vacation and got his hands dirty. Obamas problem is that Axelrod and Emanuel could not stage a chain-sawing task for Obama if they tried severe injury would surely follow. The bowling moment in the campaign was as disastrous as the later Obama girlish first pitch. From 2001-3, presidential golf was proof of aristocratic disdain and laziness. Suddenly from 2009-2010 given that Obama has hit the greens more in 20 months than Bush did in eight years the Ministry of Truth redefined the game as necessary egalitarian relaxation. Given the choice, the public would probably prefer a little overdone Texas smoke em out braggadocio to worries over the price of arugula.
Works and Days ‘Bush … Come Back, Bush, Come Back’
