Posted by
Sanity 102 on Friday, April 03, 2009 3:53:52 AM
"The Teflon President"..."Slick Willie"..."Lincoln" and "Jackie"...how the world loved these great communicators! Compare them to GWB who didn't take time off from fighting two wars, getting this nation pass two recessions, trying to use his political capital in 2004 to fix Fannie Mae and Freddie Max (and avoid what happened in Oct. of 2008) and Social Security (which will eventually come to bite us in the rear with a vengence), to convince his own party to support him or to sell his policies and decisions in the public arena.
Think of all the great blogs that could have been written, the talk shows that could been broadcast, if only GWB had allowed the Left and the Right media to pick him apart publicly...
Think of the ratings of Ingraham...Hewitt...Rush or Fox???
He could have, as this president is doing now, go on Jay Leno's show and 60 minutes. Of couse they wouldn't have given him half a chance to explain his decisions and they certainly wouldn't have given him the respect they are giving Obama. But surely he could have taken a few days out of his leading this nation to entertain us...like bait among blood sport dogs.
The fact is that nothing GWB could have done would have ever stopped the bloggers, columnists, talk show hosts, pundits on both sides from attacking and blaming Bush.
The proof is in the fact that GWB has been out of office 2 months and they are STILL attacking him.
It is also a fact that unless the Right stops joining the Left in this obsessive need to blame Bush, Independents will go on voting for the party that at least has their own members supporting them.