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Conservative Blog Post for December 2, 2009

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Obama to the Rescue – of the Bush Legacy!

Always endeavoring to show the nation the grave error made in 2000 and 2004, President Barack Obama took it upon himself Tuesday evening to cast more aspersions upon the record of President George W. Bush.  In doing so, though, the current President only highlighted some of the key strengths of the previous President. In doing so, Obama drew some interesting and sharply defined contrasts between Himself and President George W. Bush.  Among these:

1. Bush wasn’t a great politician and despite his mangling of common English syntax and usage, Americans understood him.  After listening to Barack Obama, the only thing clear is that the current President doesn’t really care about winning victory on the battlefield; he only cares about extricating himself from all blame should another terrorist attack occur.  Obama is a fabulous politician and the best slick talker of our generation – meaning that under no circumstances should He be trusted at his word.  Bush was frequently so ineloquent that he always kept the message simple and to the point – in the case of battlefield decisions, the points were victory and freedom. Obama’s points were… well… delivered in teleprompter-aided flawlessness.  It takes review of the transcript to remember exactly what those points were.
2. Bush led the nation to victory in Iraq.  This is particularly aggravating to the Chosen One as the typical liberal philosophy holds that victory can only be won in peaceful ways.  Bush chose a war in Iraq to attract a sizeable number of the world’s terrorists to a battlefield where US forces could kill them.  As an added bonus, one whole lot of Iraqis decided they wanted to help.  In the end, George W. Bush got it right in the nation building game with a two-fold strategy -   a. kill the bad guys and b. show the good guys what life is like with a little glimmer of freedom.  Obama showed that he doesn’t understand either of these points or simply doesn’t care.  Without so much as mentioning the concept of personal freedom or victory, the President treated the speech as if he was announcing a business decision to change the formula for Ben and Jerry’s Coffee Heath Bar Crunch.   He left America wondering if the entire Afghan venture was just to deny the Taliban a stronghold or if there was a much more meaningful objective worth sacrificing our best and most courageous young people for – like American safety and world peace through victory.   A mangled Bush speech –for its clarity if not delivery- was never missed more.
3. The military under Bush’s leadership overran Afghanistan in 50 days.  It took Obama 80 days just to think about it.  The President’s decision was so simplistic that it certainly didn’t take 80 days to concoct.  Bush would have made a decision to send all the troops needed within a matter of hours.  This choice just isn’t that complicated.  Obama needed the 80 days to concoct the speech.
4. In attempting to deride failures of the previous administration, the mere fact that Obama brought up the subject of GW Bush reminded the nation that Bush – despite several failures and obstacles – delivered victory in Iraq and kept the country safe from another terrorist attack.  By bringing up the tactics of the Bush administration, Obama only reiterated that Bush was victorious and Obama, well, hasn’t lost yet, but is looking for a way to extricate himself without calling it failure.  And for the record, should another mass terror attack occur on American soil, voters will hold President Obama to account. 
5. Democrats loved to lampoon the “Mission Accomplished” banner displayed when George Bush declared an end to offensive operations.  The Mission Accomplished speech was delivered to an adoring throng of Navy service people who fully understood that Bush had their best interests at the forefront of all decisions and wouldn’t risk their lives without damned good reasons.  By failing to even define what ‘victory’ or even ‘success’ looked like to Him, President Obama again highlighted the main differences between Himself and His predecessor.  Obama failed to provide a good reason why these young people should risk their lives for the mission – aside from the fact that it is their job. He needed a banner behind him that read “Mission Something”

So it appears that the job of reconstructing the legacy of George W. Bush is well underway.  And the contractor for the job doesn’t understand that he is doing the work.