When All Else Fails: Beat A Dead Horse

Posted by: Tristan

One can almost imagine a brainstorming session at the White House last week as Obama realized that he was struggled to sell his health care reform plan to the nation…

“Well, we should go with what works, right?  Have the President give a speech or a press conference.  That’s always works for him in the past.”

“Well, duh!  But we’re going to need something more…”

“We could always blame Bush.”

“Of course.  Blame Bush.  It never fails!”

Why Obama thought he could find a way to blame his floundering effort to socialize health care on former President Bush we don’t know, but the Washington Times has documented his efforts.

With the former president lying low in Dallas, largely focused on crafting his memoirs, Mr. Obama has increasingly attempted to exploit Mr. Bush when discussing the weak economy, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and the difficulty closing the military prison at U.S. Naval Base Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

What is interesting is that Obama apparently realizes the shallowness of putting the nation’s current problems on George W. Bush personally.

Mr. Obama hardly ever refers to Mr. Bush by name. In fact, his Web site, whitehouse.gov, recently scrubbed the name of the former president out of a reference to Hurricane Katrina, which once read: “President Obama will keep the broken promises made by President Bush to rebuild New Orleans and the Gulf Coast.”

Now, the “President Bush” is gone.

Although Mr. Obama’s effort is subtle, his rhetoric is clear. On his first trip overseas, Mr. Obama referred to Mr. Bush’s foreign policy and said the United States has “shown arrogance” and been “dismissive, even derisive.” He said decisions of the past had “lowered our standing in the world.”

In fact, given Obama’s resentment of his “inheritance”, one may wonder why he’d want to take the job at all.

Democratic Party strategist and irony-oblivious douchebag Liz Chadderdon supports the White House effort.

“I think Bush-bashing has been alive and well since ’07 and, since it keeps working, why not use it?” she said. “Voters have short memories. The administration needs to remind people that things were way worse over the last four years than in the last six months.”

The last four years were worse than the last six months?  In the last six months, the American economy has lost 2.5 million jobs and Obama’s $787 billion stimulus/recovery/”massive handout to Democrat interests”/”whatever it’s being called these days” bill has done nothing to improve things.  Given the choice of living in 2007 or 2009, what would most Americans pick, Liz?  How long is your memory?