On Plane to Texas, Critiques of the Speech - bu$h* & co. will NEVER get it

[spanone]

WASHINGTON — On the plane, no longer Air Force One but now Special Air Mission 28000, they talked about the speech. George W. Bush, the former president, was heading home to Texas with his inner circle, having just left the west front of the Capitol, where his successor first thanked him for his service and then proceeded to trash it.

The Bush team had worked assiduously to make the transition smooth for incoming President Obama and stayed out of the way as he used the post-election period to take leadership of the economy even before being sworn in. And now, as far as some of them were concerned, the new president had used his inaugural lectern to give the back of the hand to a predecessor who had been nothing but gracious to him.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/23/us/politics/22web-baker.html?_r=1&hp=&pagewanted=print

[tanyev]

1. "A predecessor who had been nothing but gracious to him"

Sure, if you don't count the 8 year mess he dumped in his lap. Jeez.

[spanone]

5. do they really think they can make nice and we'll forget the last eight years?

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[JuniperLea]

10. Exactly...

That, and that Blair House incident that caused the Obama family a lot of extra moving about for no good reason. Yeah, that's fucking gracious as hell, isn't it?

I guess this mess he's left Obama and the rest of us with is his being gracious as well.

[Lebam in LA]

2. Cry me a River

and go away for good:cry:

[RT Atlanta]

3. boo-fucking-hoo

n/t

[JuniperLea]

4. Fuck you George W. Bush and all the cronies you rode in and out with!

Just fuck you all to hell, you lying, treasonous bastard!

What was he saying just a couple of weeks ago? Something about how he isn't the kind of whiner who says poor me? Just one more fucking lie. Surprise, fucking surprise.

[aquart]

6. cough * Blair House * cough

[Merlot]

12. That was my first "cough" as well

And don't forget about that nice little trap that lies waiting in February, when the switch to digital doesn't work as planned. I've read somewhere that the timing was deliberate. Sorry no link to that.

[yy4me]

18. I believe the switch will be a mess but would you please

explain the reference to the "timing was deliberate"?

I would like to know if I missed something in regard to the digital switch, in addition to the money for converter boxes.

[Merlot]

7. Remember how nice bushco was to Clinton when they moved in?

They "restored dignity" to the white house - because somehow having Democrats in the whitehouse was undignified?

And they spread lies about the place being "trashed" which were proved by the GAO to not be true.

All Obama did was speak the truth!

[librechik]

17. NO.

he wasn't. And made it Job One to undo everything Clinton had done.

[malaise]

8. So his inner circle believe that facilitating a smooth transition was

enough to overlook the criminality of the Bush regime. They'll never get it.

[spanone]

9. that's the amazing part of this story...i think they really believed if they were nice.....dumbshits

[Faux pas]

11. LOL Like we care what they think. They should all be in prison

and should be grateful that they aren't. F 'em.

[gratuitous]

13. So what are you going to do about it, George?

You punk.

And, by the way, what did Obama say in his speech that wasn't true? Are there two foreign military quagmires that don't exist? Did you really leave office with the same budget surpluses that you took office with? Suck it, Bike Boy. We're going to start riding ahead of you and pronouncing "nuclear" correctly, too.

[Kerrytravelers]

14. This is typical spoiled brat behavior. I'm not a bit surprised at their reaction.

[bushmeister0]

15. Desperatly hoping for another terrorist attack, much?

"(Marc A. Thiessen, the former chief White House speechwriter), in The Washington Post, focused his argument on the fact that terrorists never struck American soil again after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, calling that Mr. Bush’s singular legacy. 'If Obama weakens any of the defenses Bush put in place and terrorists strike our country again, Americans will hold Obama responsible — and the Democratic Party could find itself unelectable for a generation,' he wrote."

Note the "after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001," part.

What was the name of that memo Condi? "I believe the title of the memo was 'Bin Laden Determined to strike inside the US.'"

Riiiight.

[RC]

19. I seem to remember Anthrax and the Pennsylvania sniper.

No turbans involved so they couldn't be real terrorists like interrogators we have at Git'mo. No wait, they don't wear turbans either.

[kenny blankenship]

16. It's largely true-that address was a SPANKIN. I cringed but I also welcomed it

(I welcome not spankings, for you panting disciplinarians out there.)

Inaugural addresses usually do not dwell on fault finding of the outgoing administration. (I think Reagan's included some na-na-na language towards Carter and the Democrats, but usually they tend toward the general and lofty and abstract.) Obama's address sounded much more like a stump speech than people were no doubt expecting from him.

I welcomed the cringe inducing finger pointing and repudiation of Bushlerism, not because I felt vindicated by it or avenged by it, but because it signaled to me that Obama had decided he had no time to delay doing what is NECESSARY.

"What is necessary" is a shorter way of saying, the unstinting harsh critique meant that Obama would be a left-of-center President --and would go left right out of the blocks. In less pressing circumstances he could easily have chosen to hew a cowardly but safer center line. But he has charted a bold course to left, because there is no substitute for truth in emergencies like this; and that also means he's going to need the support of all of us pretty much at all times. He has mine.

They will be gunning for him. As Limbaugh revealed, they are going to try to take him down.