New White House website angers conservatives with dig at Bush

[babylonsister]

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New White House website angers conservatives with dig at Bush

President Barack Obama's new White House website has come under attack for publishing scathing criticism of his predecessor's response to Hurricane Katrina in 2006.


Famed for its fluency during the election campaign, Mr Obama's online communications team now appears to have committed an early faux pas.

"President Obama will keep the broken promises made by President Bush to rebuild New Orleans and the Gulf Coast," read a section on the "agenda" page of the website.

It went on to accuse the Bush administration of "unconscionable ineptitude" in responding to the hurricane, which devastated New Orleans.

Conservative commentators quickly responded to the item, accusing the new administration of using its website as a "permanent campaign tool", rather than as a neutral source of information.

"Presidents attacking presidents is not done," said one conservative website.

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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/barackobama/4305404/New-White-House-website-angers-conservatives-with-dig-at-Bush.html

[Adsos Letter]

1. The truth hurts, apparently...

[LiberalinNC]

16. Exactly...fuck 'em! Apparently they don't want to face reality!

[Adsos Letter]

2. *whoops*

[geckosfeet]

3. The neocons are in denial and want everyone else to join in.

Looking the other way only works for a little while. Pretty soon you come full circle.

[Cessna Invesco Palin]

4. Ya know...

They kinda blew that whole "Presidents don't attack Presidents" thing when Dubya's administration basically accused the entire Clinton administration of having sacked the White House after they took office.

[Jeanette in FL]

5. Screw them

I guess the truth hurts!

[KharmaTrain]

6. The Truth's A Bitch Ain't It...

So boooshie didn't attack Clinton when he said he was "restoring honor and dignity to the White House"...a bald-faced lie.

Maybe some of these asshats should take a trip to NOLA...not the French Quarter with the hurricane glasses, but take a ride about 10 minutes down river to the lower 9th and see how competent this regime has been over 3 years since disaster struck (not to mention being totally unprepared).

Most of us can look at our bank accounts or expenses and see how both our standards of living and the country's went to hell in the past 8 years. That isn't posturing, that's reality.

Yep...the GOOPer sure paid a lot of respect to past Democratic Presidents...just turn on hate radio or ask any Freeper what they think of Bill Clinton or Jimmy Carter. Our deserved anger at war criminal boooosh is not only justified, it's what drove many of us to work hard to take back our country.

If they don't like it...tough shit.

[drm604]

7. "Presidents attacking presidents is not done"

There were lots of things much worse than this done by the previous President which should not be done, but I didn't hear them attacking those things.

They're complaining about the use of government resources for political purposes and saying that they should be neutral sources of information. The gall and hypocrisy of this are breathtaking.

[arcadian]

8. You think Obama sat George down

and told him, "Now look George, You have done a lot of bad things, you are going to have to take your lickin's on some of this stuff and it's not going to be pretty."?

[Coexist]

9. bullshit. they've tried this before - Bush criticized Clinton for 'messing up' Somalia

On October 13, 1993, during a visit at a San Antonio grade school, Bush expressed concern that the humanitarian mission to Somalia that he had launched nearly a year earlier was being "messed up" by the Clinton administration. In the February 1994 edition of Washingtonian magazine, Bush criticized the Clinton administration's purported lack of a "general strategy" in the foreign policy arena and the "start-and-stop" failures it had exhibited, citing Clinton's handling of the volatile situation in Haiti as a prime example.

http://mediamatters.org/items/200511180002

[IDemo]

10. "faux pas": playing guitar and eating birthday cake while your countrymen drown

[DainBramaged]

11. "Presidents attacking presidents is not done,"

I guess Bush attacking Clinton through his surrogates was ok?

[ejpoeta]

12. they should quit their fucking bitching!!! there may be scathing words

but it doesn't appear there will be any prosecutions. so they should thank their lucky stars. I hope the UN tries bush and co for war crimes if WE won't.

[BR_Parkway]

13. Presidents telling the truth should have been done alot more

Besides, the election was about "change"

[malaise]

14. Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

So Bush blaming Clinton for all his problems is what again?

[AsahinaKimi]

15. Didn't they tell us to "get over it?"

Well now the shoe is on the other foot. Looks like they have to bite the bullet, and lets hope its for more then 8 years with a Democrat in the White house. IF they hate this..Wait till they see whats coming!! My advice to Republicans..Sit on it..and rotate!!

[Ian David]

17. Fuck 'em. n/t

[LiberalinNC]

18. "Presidents attacking presidents is not done," said one conservative website.

Well, when your entire presidency was a major fuck up, what the hell do you expect?

[tanyev]

19. When did stating an observable fact become a faux pas?

THIS is a faux pax:

[Sal Minella]

20. "unconscionable ineptitude" = "The Emperor has no clothes"

So sorry for those whose tender sensibilities are offended by a little truth.

If they think this is an "attack" they need to toughen up a bit.