Do any of you miss President Bush, yet?
Either Dubya, or Poppy Bush, it doesn’t really matter at this point. Obama has a way of making us miss Nixon.
For all of his faults — which, we note, the man always admitted and took personal ownership of — George W. Bush never allowed anyone in his Cabinet to lie as shamelessly and poorly as Tim Geithner has been doing all week.
In 8 years, we cannot honestly recall a single instance of anyone claiming they were personally mistreated by Bush or offended by something he said. We also don’t remember him having to apologize for making fun of the mentally and physically disabled by telling insensitive jokes about the Special Olympics (or anything similar).
Can you remember Bush ever doing anything like that?
Yes, Bush did some bizarre, jokey things in office, especially at the beginning of his first term (like nicknaming everyone who came in contact with him, frat house style, and often jumbling his own nicknames so few in a room, including himself, knew who he was talking about after awhile).
But, he never made jokes about the disabled. He didn’t tolerate talentless liars in his administration.
And the man, for better or worse, could in fact interact well with people when TelePrompTers were nowhere in sight.
A flawed man, to be sure.
A complicated and controversial presidency, definitely.
But, a good man, who spoke in his own words, from his heart, who believed in and loved America and truly seemed to make everyone in a room with him feel relaxed and at ease — by poking fun at himself, and never at others, if he wanted to get a laugh.
We, as moderate Democrats, might have disagreed with 70-80% of what Bush did while in office, but Obama certainly makes us miss Dubya on days like yesterday.
