Maddow blasts Obama for praising Bush, letting WMD liars ‘get off easy’

[babsbunny]

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2010/0901/maddow-outraged-obamas-kind-words-bush-iraq-speech/

By David Edwards
Wednesday, September 1st, 2010 -- 11:16 am

In an Oval Office speech to the nation, President Barack Obama officially declared an end to US combat operations in Iraq Tuesday. The speech's praise for President George W. Bush quickly drew outrage from MSNBC host Rachel Maddow.

In 2002 while Obama was an Illinois state senator, he was one of the few elected officials to attend an anti-war rally in Federal Plaza. "An anti-war, anti-Bush speech would make him even more appealing to Democrats who were feeling distraught and powerless over the country’s race to war and were still angry about the 2000 presidential election," wrote NBC Chicago's Edward McClelland.

But eight years later, Obama found himself praising the president that started the war in his Oval Office speech.

[babsbunny]

1. this was a wake up call for me

I am done with this man.

[slay]

6. I told my parents today

that i could not in good conscience vote for Obama in 2012. Both are Dems. Both understood.

All we can hope for at this point is a primary challenger I guess cause the Republicans are certainly no alternative. :shrug:

[Carolina]

11. me, too

[fascisthunter]

2. absolutely disgusting

this lowers the bar.... laws mean nothing and war crimes and their criminals are now praised. It's embarrassing and pathetic...

[Inuca]

3. I watched it last. She was NOT blasting

anybody, she was just setting the record straight. The title of that article is pure BS. The outrage was directed at the Bush/Cheney/Wolfowitz crowd, not at all at Obama.

[DJ13]

4. "An anti-war, anti-Bush speech would make him even more appealing to Democrats"

Once he won the Presidency he now mistakenly believes he should appeal only to the plain vanilla, middle of the road voters.

Its too bad there is no such thing, so he ends up appealing to an even smaller number than if he stayed true to the base of his party.

[Monique1]

10. and tell me

where is the base of the party? I thought I was part of the base of the party, guess not and guess you don't want me.

[benlurkin]

15. Don't worry, he'll be back . He needs us to vote him back in.

[NC_Nurse]

5. Meanwhile, on Fox they complained that he didn't thank Bush enough. What has

our country become? Or was it always this disingenuous and corrupt? Maybe I was as much a fool as the Teabag assholes still are today?

How depressing.

[Monique1]

7. A future reading in 2012 on DU!

We have a republican president, we have a republican congress and have a republican senate. We are doomed! The Dems didn't bother to vote, the Dems were in such a mess - they no longer exist. The apathy of the Dem party voters left the lowest number of Dems in the house and senate in history. The republicans are dancing in the street.

I should have supported the Dems.......... too bad. Guess maybe someday we will have a come back but I don't think so.

[NC_Nurse]

9. Meh. I have always supported the Dems. The country still has gone downhill.

Sorry if I'm not going to be scared by the alternative. I'll still vote for them in Nov. I just don't think it will change anything.

[Winterblues]

13. And nothing changed.

:shrug: Big Banks still paid huge bonuses, Unemployment stayed high, War continues, Off shore Drilling continues, Still No real Health Care Reform, Social Security still got cut, Rich still getting richer while poor get poorer. Yep something to really worry about all right. Just a new Republican President

[UpInArms]

8. as soon as he said that, I turned of the television

and know with all certainty, that Obama does not speak for me.

[Monique1]

12. I'm still trying to understand

what Obama said wrong - yes he said Bush loved the troops and his country, that is all he said. I don't think that is anything other Presidents wouldn't say about an ex president. Obama said he disagreed with Bush -------- I just don't understand why people are upset with Obama.

It might be time to take a deep breath and read his speech.

And to those who Obama does not speak for me, he speaks for me.

[UpInArms]

14. glad he's still working for you.

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