just thinking out loud
It took almost eight years, the Democrats, the media, an unpopular war, and poor fiscal performance for Bush to become as vilified as he eventually was. Obama is pushing seven months in office, has the media enthusiastically cheering and covering for him, and solely on the basis of his own performance his popularity is tanking.
I wrote earlier about Democratic panic over grassroot protests. Brian Faughnan has a great post over at TheConservatives.com contrasting establishment reaction to protesters under the evil Bushitler and under the One (h/t/ Hot Air Headlines). The verdict? The Democrats have definitely delivered on Change. Click through and read the whole article.
Moral ambiguity hates clarity. I have been trying to figure it out, and I think that is the answer.
Comparisons have been made between the vilification of Bush related to Hurricane Katrina and the silence on the federal response to last week’s devastating ice storm (see, e.g., Snapped Shot, Righteous Rantings; h/t Michelle Malkin) . I have always believed that the criticisms of Bush were unfair and childish, but hyperbolic comparisons of the situation [...]
Whoops. The bailout vote didn’t got as smoothly as some predicted. The ‘blame’ appears to be bipartisan, in the sense that significant numbers of both Democrats and Republicans voted the bill down, but Nancy Pelosi’s anti-administration, anti-Republican rant certainly did not win any votes on the Republican side of the aisle, and likely lost enough [...]
