If George W. Bush had been the first President to need a teleprompter installed to be able to get through a press conference, would you have laughed and said this is more proof of how he inept he is on his own and is really controlled by smarter men behind the scenes?
George W. Bush had a teleprompter, a phonetic one, even: http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/wacky/jorj-booshs-fo-ne-tik-promt/story-e6frev20-1111114505516 However, given the lack of details, his gaffes and his inability to string two sentences together, he obviously never used it.If George W. Bush had spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to take Laura Bush to a play in NYC, would you have approved?
Probably not, but, then again, I didn't approve of all the time he spent at his "ranch" in Texas while ignoring important memos about future terrorism, either.If George W. Bush had reduced your retirement plan's holdings of GM stock by 90% and given the unions a majority stake in GM, would you have approved?
Yes. Unions help people. They brought you vacation time, sick leave, 40-hour work weeks and banned child labor. Retirement plans were a brainchild of the very rich to get more average people to dabble in the stock market so that these rich, Wall-Street-savvy folks could bilk the less-than-informed middle class people.If George W. Bush had made a joke at the expense of the Special Olympics, would you have approved?
No, but, then again, I didn't approve of Bush's joke about looking for WMDs under his desk while thousands of our military men and women have died in a war that never should have begun.If George W. Bush had given Gordon Brown a set of inexpensive and incorrectly formatted DVDs, when Gordon Brown had given him a thoughtful and historically significant gift, would you have approved?
Yes. It would have proven to me that Bush even knew what technology was - even if the attempt was incorrect.If George W. Bush had given the Queen of England an iPod containing videos of his speeches, would you have thought this embarrassingly narcissistic and tacky?
Bush gave speeches? I thought those were Rosetta Stone's "Learn to Speak English" exercises.If George W. Bush had bowed to the King of Saudi Arabia, would you have approved?
I'd rather him bow than kiss him! If George W. Bush had visited Austria and made reference to the non-existent "Austrian language," would you have brushed it off as a minor slip?
Trust me. If that were his only foreign relations misstep, I would have been happy.If George W. Bush had filled his cabinet and circle of advisers with people who cannot seem to keep current in their income taxes, would you have approved?
I guess people who cannot keep current on their income taxes are a far cry better than vice presidents who push to start wars and kill our military men and women and innocent Arab civilians so they can better their Halliburton stock.If George W. Bush had been so Spanish illiterate as to refer to "Cinco de Cuatro" in front of the Mexican ambassador when it was the 5th of May (Cinco de Mayo), and continued to flub it when he tried again, would you have winced in embarrassment?
Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice...uh....uh... You can't get fooled again.If George W. Bush had mis-spelled the word "advice" would you have hammered him for it for years like Dan Quayle and potato as proof of what a dunce he is?
No, but at least Dub can spell bathroom while sitting in the middle of international meetings. If George W. Bush had burned 9,000 gallons of jet fuel to go plant a single tree on Earth Day, would you have concluded he's a hypocrite?
No. I would have been more concerned about the fuel he was using flying around on 9/11, to secret Thanksgiving dinners with Styrofoam turkeys in Iraq and circling New Orleans after Katrina so he wouldn't have to get his shoes wet.If George W. Bush's administration had okayed Air Force One flying low over millions of people followed by a jet fighter in downtown Manhattan causing widespread panic, would you have wondered whether they actually get what happened on 9-11?
If he'd actually OKed it, I probably would have been upset. But, given the fact that Obama (nor his vice president) do NOT micromanage adults who should know better, then I'm OK with it. Especially considering Obama launched an investigation into the matter.If George W. Bush had failed to send relief aid to flood victims throughout the Midwest with more people killed or made homeless than in New Orleans, would you want it made into a major ongoing political issue with claims of racism and incompetence?
Dude... FEMA was in the midwest. The people are happy with FEMA's efforts. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25334982/ns/us_news-midwest_flooding/ Try reading.If George W. Bush had created the position of 32 Czars who report directly to him, bypassing the House and Senate on much of what is happening in America, would you have approved?
He did. And he had more. Stop getting information from Glen Beck. You know he's insane, don't you?If George W. Bush had ordered the firing of the CEO of a major corporation, even though he had no constitutional authority to do so, would you have approved?
Yep. We need more of that. Corporations are ruining this country. I'd rather they all be fired and skilled managers, as opposed to skilled thieves, take their places.If George W Bush had proposed to double the national debt, which had taken more than two centuries to accumulate, in one year, would you have approved?
Try reading again. Bush (and Reagan, for that matter) managed to both increase the national debt by $5 trillion while simultaneously failing to help average citizens. Obama may be adding to the national debt, but he's somewhat attempting to help the working class (jobs are a lagging indicator). If George W. Bush had then proposed to double the debt again within 10 years, would you have approved?
If it meant getting a single-payer health care insurance system, oh, hell yes! The average family of four pays $5,000 to $8,000 annually in premiums, deductibles, co-pays and in services and medication not covered by most insurance companies. If my taxes went up at much as $1,000 a year to fund single-payer, I'd still be putting $4,000 to $7,000 in my pocketbook, which I could then take to a store or a car lot to add back into the economy to bring jobs back and wages up.So, tell me again, what is it about Obama that makes him so brilliant and impressive? Can't think of anything? Don't worry. He's done all this in 5 months -- so you'll have three years and seven months to come up with an answer.
What's impressive? He's not George Bush.