Interesting Comparisons Bush/Obama

United States
June 10, 2010 5:07pm CST
Media Covering Up for Obama The media widely portrayed President Bush and his key appointees as a bunch of dummies. Yet reviewing the Obama administration’s record, you have to wonder who is the dummy. Since Obama took office: * Eric Holder Jr., his attorney general, said he opposes Arizona’s illegal immigration legislation but has not read the new law. * Janet Napolitano, his secretary of Homeland Security, said she also opposes the immigration law but has not read it. * Holder said he decided to reopen the question of prosecuting CIA interrogators without having read the memos by Justice Department career prosecutors who analyzed the cases and concluded that no criminal violations occurred. * Obama decided to close the prison camp at Guantánamo Bay without having any idea where the prisoners would go. * Holder decided to try Khalid Sheik Mohammed in U.S. District Court in New York without asking the police or the FBI whether that would jeopardize the safety of New Yorkers. * While admitting he did not know “all the facts,” Obama said Cambridge police acted “stupidly” when Sgt. James Crowley, a white police officer, arrested Henry Louis Gates, a black Harvard professor who was being obstreperous when Crowley was investigating a report of a possible break-in. * Holder testified that he believes the CIA’s enhanced interrogation methods such as waterboarding constitute “torture,” but he said he had not read classified reports that describe what those techniques entail. Neither Obama nor his cabinet officers are dummies, but if Bush or one of his appointees had been involved in any of these decisions without knowing the facts, the press would have pursued the story as relentlessly as Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein pursued the Watergate scandal. From the way he walked to the way he talked, Bush was the butt of constant derision by the press. Every action he took to protect America was portrayed as a sinister plot. Bush’s pronunciation of “nuclear” was cause for constant tittering in the media. In fact, pronouncing the word NOO-kyoo-ler is a Southern rendering similar to Jimmy Carter’s NOOK-ee-yuh. The Merriam-Webster Dictionary lists the way Bush pronounced nuclear as an alternate, even including that version in an audio clip on its website. But the media were instrumental in getting Obama elected, and when he and his appointees seem to have no idea what they are talking about, they give them a pass http://www.newsmax.com/RonaldKessler/Kessler-Obama-media-Holder/2010/06/03/id/360991 Any rebuttals or comments? Puleez anything but the usual leftie comment you can't believe anything from Newsmax.
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@dboman (457)
• United States
10 Jun 10
They forgot the "corpseman" comment, and the 51 states comment...both by Obama. Holder and Napolitano are incompetent and were appointed solely on their far left political beliefs. Say what you want about Bush, but he did have some pretty intelligent cabinet members. Of course, we all know why you don't hear much about this in the mainstream media...
• United States
11 Jun 10
You are so correct they sure did forget these two and they were Obama's personal bloopers/faux pas!
@Lakota12 (42600)
• United States
11 Jun 10
I think that they should read every thing and the media should pick up on all wrong ways that they are doing just like every other prez went tho. The media seem to be giving these people a free pass to do whatt hey want!
@Lakota12 (42600)
• United States
12 Jun 10
They sure are!
• United States
11 Jun 10
The certainly are handling Obummer with kid gloves.
@laglen (19759)
• United States
10 Jun 10
a rebuttal heck no! Bush inserted his foot in his mouth repeatedly but these guys are dangerous!
@dragon54u (31636)
• United States
11 Jun 10
Everyone is covering Obama's azz. Have you noticed that the big "stars" of Hollywood that flocked to Katrina are noticably absent from the oil spill? They don't want to draw attention to it but wanted to make Bush look bad for Katrina. Some of the media appears to be awakening from their stupor. There are some rumblings of criticism beginning to be heard.
• United States
11 Jun 10
It is about time!