President Barack Obama has much more in common with George W. Bush than his ardent supporters on the left would care to admit in polite company.
Like Bush, Obama is willing to go to war to protect the rights and lives of oppressed people in certain parts of the world where America has strategic interest.
He even started the Libya bombardment on the exact same day that W. unleashed “Shock and Awe” on Iraq.
Obama extended the Bush tax cuts so that they are now the Obama tax cuts for the wealthy.
In 2002 President Bush secretly authorized the National Security Agency to spy on Americans and others in the U.S. making contact with persons in other nations.
President Obama, in a stunning defense of Bush’s warrantless wiretapping program, has not only broadened the government’s legal argument for immunizing his administration and government from lawsuits surrounding the NSA’s eavesdropping efforts but has even gone beyond any previous legal claims put forth by President Bush.
Now, President Obama, when asked, can’t seem to think of any mistakes he’s made during his tenure so far.
Didn’t President Bush get lambasted for the exact same thing a few years ago? Why yes, dear reader, he did.
Obama: Mistakes? Can't think of any.
Seven years ago, in April 2004, President George W. Bush held a formal news conference in which he was asked, "What would your biggest mistake be…and what lessons have you learned from it?" Bush's hemming and hawing answer -- in several minutes of flailing about, he never managed to come up with a single mistake to cite -- was widely criticized in the days that followed.
On Wednesday, President Obama held a town hall at the headquarters of Facebook in Palo Alto, California, during which he was asked, "If you had to do anything differently during your first four years, what would it be?" Obama, it turns out, is no better at analyzing his own missteps than Bush.
The president began his response haltingly, pointing out that he has actually been in office just two and a half years, and "I'm sure I'll make more mistakes in the next year and a half." But what mistakes has he already made? "There are all sorts of day-to-day issues where I say to myself, oh, I didn't say that right, or I didn't explain this clearly enough," Obama said, "or maybe if I had sequenced this plan first as opposed to that one, maybe it would have gotten done quicker."
But the president mentioned no actual mistakes. Next, he brought up the health care battle, not to admit error but to praise the work of former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi in pushing the national health care bill through Congress.
Read more at the Washington Examiner: http://washingtonexaminer.com/blogs/beltway-confidential/2011/04/obama-mistakes-cant-think-any#ixzz1KRAWOcJT
See more Obama & Bush similarities here
My conclusion dear reader is that the Liberals, Lefties and Socialists are becoming increasingly distressed to find that the biggest difference between Barack Obama and George W. Bush is a darker skin tone.
That alone is enough to make a Conservative Capitalist smile.
Happy Easter, Jesus is alive.
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