Shapiro's Law: Obamaites must cite Bush

"Why do Obama supporters believe that President Bush's weaknesses excuse President Obama's total incompetence? When you mention that President Obama has driven the national debt to unprecedented levels, they mention that the Bush administration spent too much, too. When you mention that President Obama has nationalized industries and seeks to subvert private health care, they mention that President Bush passed an expansion of drug benefits and sponsored bailouts of the financial firms.

"This is utterly illogical."

Obama Claims Bush Policies In Iraq As His Own

"President Obama is making liberals wonder why they voted for him today if his plan in Iraq all along was to continue the Bush Administration’s policies with regards to bringing the troops home when the nation was safe from becoming a state sponsor of terrorism again and stand on its own. Yes, that is exactly the same policy that Bush had and that Obama derided repeatedly calling for a hasty retreat from Iraq during the campaign and then later refining his position from all troops to only 'combat' troops coming home."

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"So now Obama, has become Bush? The liberal, anti-war, screw the brown people left cannot be at all pleased.

"Oh wait … that’s right! How silly of me to forget! Their opposition was never real! They just hated Bush! Now that it is Obama in charge he can do anything he wants even if that anything is copying exactly the policy they hated Bush for. That’s liberalism for ya!"

They were not against killing people and breaking things. They were against someone other than themselves in charge of killing people and breaking things.

If Bush Had Done What Obama Is Doing..

"Would they be lamenting a flawed vetting process related to the embarrassing tax problems and quirky (dis)qualifications -- and withdrawals from consideration -- of nominees to top administration posts?

"How would they react to polls giving the president a 60 percent job-approval rating, yet finding 44 percent groaning that the nation is 'off on the wrong track'?

"Speaking of polls, would they be responding sarcastically to a president named Bush -- as Obama has -- talking up price-earnings ratios and ruminating that the stock market 'is sort of like a tracking poll in politics. It bobs up and down every day. . . . If you spend your time worrying abut that, you're probably going to get the long-term strategy wrong.'?

"Would they ridicule the president for urging Americans to go out and buy stocks, just as they ridiculed his predecessor following 9/11 (and properly so), for urging Americans to conduct their lives as though nothing had happened -- and to go out and shop?

"If Obama were Bush, what would they be saying about how his ascendancy has affected a Dow Jones Industrial Average that has declined more than 30 percent since Election Day?

"Would they be arguing -- shouting? -- about the implicit lessons of, e.g., Citibank at $1.03 per share, of General Motors at $1.45, of General Electric at $7.06?

"Would there be outrage when the new attorney general termed this a 'nation of cowards' on the subject of race?

"Would there be anything positive cited about a secretary of state who journeyed to China -- a country still overseen by Communists and building its military at light-speed -- where she (a) declined even to mention China's human rights abuses while (b) begging it to buy greatly more American debt?

"Oh, and on the subject of debt, how would they react to an incumbent president named Bush, suddenly positioned insistently before star-spangled backdrops, mimicking failed New Deal policies wherein FDR warred on the corporate class and sought to spend the nation out of the Depression? (Consider this, from FDR's Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau in 1939, a decade after the crash: 'We are spending more than we have ever spent before and it does not work. We have just as much unemployment as when we started . . . and an enormous debt to boot!')"

Obama Foreign Policy May Keep Some Bush Initiatives

"In a number of areas, there is likely to be continuity with the policies of President George W. Bush."

A critique of President George W. Bush

"In my opinion, the entire Bush presidency was a colossal sham. Bush's rhetoric was as Ronald Reagan; however, his reality was as Savage characterized him, a 'fiscal socialist' who favors open borders, exploding debt and anti-American, globalist policies that economically, morally, socially, culturally, legally has plunged America into a paroxysm that we may never recover from once the Marxist Obama assumes the presidency."