Bush administration whiners commenting on how Obama was "less than gracious" in speech

zulchzulu

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Fri Jan-23-09 10:19 AM
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Bush administration whiners commenting on how Obama was "less than gracious" in speech

Edited on Fri Jan-23-09 10:42 AM by zulchzulu

I read this article in the New York Times this morning and just had to laugh and perhaps offer some suggested lines that Obama could have said to make asshats like Karen Hughes, Karl Rove, Dan Bartlett and others "feel better".

Some snips:

�There were a few sharp elbows that really rankled and I felt were not as magnanimous as the occasion called for,� Karen Hughes, a longtime Bush confidante, said in an interview. �He really missed an opportunity to be as big as the occasion was and, frankly, as gracious as President Bush was as he left office.�

Dan Bartlett, another top adviser, used similar language. �It was a missed opportunity to bring some of the president�s loyal supporters into the fold,� he said. Marc A. Thiessen, the chief White House speechwriter until this week, added: �It was an ungracious inaugural. It was pretty clear he was taking shots.�

(snip)

Karl Rove wrote in The Wall Street Journal that as his former boss departed, �in a last angry frenzy his critics again distorted his record, maligned his character and repeated untruths about his years in the Oval Office.� Mr. Rove said Mr. Bush had cut taxes, expanded Medicare, improved schools, liberated Iraq and protected the country.

�He didn�t get everything right � no president does � but he got the most important things right,� Mr. Rove wrote.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/23/us/politics/22web-baker.html

It's absolutely laughable that they would be "offended". So I have some suggested lines that Obama could have used in speech to make them feel better:

I'd like to thank the Bush administration for all their hard work with having a huge amount of money when they came into power and leaving me with a huge tab that will be nearly impossible to pay back anytime soon.

We should look with admiration to the Bush administration for not being prepared to deal with the warnings that occurred before 9/11 and how they got us involved in two wars that are both making us look like warmongers and enabling Al Qaeda to be successful.

If Karl Rove is in this wonderful crowd, I want to personally thank him for exposing a CIA agent for political gain and getting away with it. Nice job, Karl! That's treason and you slipped from the noose!

Our heartfelt thanks go to Dick Cheney for all of his secret energy meetings and his war profiteering with his links to KBR and Halliburton, who are responsible for some deaths of our troops as they outsourced our military for financial gain.

Mostly, as we look at the severe state of our economy, we should all bow our head in utter awe for how a President like George Bush could create so many problems that my administration now inherits. We should find a little place in our heart for sympathy and feel blessed that we have witnessed the working of what history will determine as the worst president this country has ever had. We can recall the hell we went through with our grandchildren, who will be so grateful we survived.

A main job as President is to uphold and protect the Constitution. As we have seen, that challenge was not met but what do you expect from a man who would have been better suited as the Baseball Commissioner, for baseball is considered America's favorite sport.

I couldn't HAPPIER that Barlett, Rove and Hughes feel smitten by Obama's speech. That is icing on the cake!