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What if George W. Bush had done that?
politico.com ^ | October 27, 2009 | OSH GERSTEIN | 10/27/09 5:02 AM EDT

Posted on 10/27/2009 5:53:33 AM PDT by Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!

A four-hour stop in New Orleans, on his way to a $3 million fundraiser.

Snubbing the Dalai Lama.

Signing off on a secret deal with drug makers.

Freezing out a TV network.

Doing more fundraisers than the last president. More golf, too.

President Barack Obama has done all of those things — and more.What’s remarkable is what hasn’t happened. These episodes haven’t become metaphors for Obama’s personal and political character — or consuming controversies that sidetracked the rest of his agenda.

It’s a sign that the media’s echo chamber can be a funny thing, prone to the vagaries of news judgment, and an illustration that, in politics, context is everything.

Conservatives look on with a mix of indignation and amazement and ask: Imagine the fuss if George W. Bush had done these things?

And quickly add, with a hint of jealousy: How does Obama get away with it?

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To: meandog

You’ve got to be kidding. You’re trashing Bush because he refuses to behave like a Democrat? At least try to get a clue.


41 posted on 10/27/2009 8:01:56 AM PDT by Deb (Beat him, strip him and bring him to my tent!)
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To: bray
I remember the press and the democrats ripping him day after day for years and years about 5% unemployment and Obama campaigning about the budget deficit being $450 Billion.

It is now (IN NINE MONTHS) 1.4 Trillion and 10% unemployment, Where is the press? Where are the Republicans?

42 posted on 10/27/2009 8:03:53 AM PDT by thirst4truth (www.Believer.com)
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To: PhiKapMom

Well said!!!!


43 posted on 10/27/2009 8:10:36 AM PDT by Valin
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To: meandog

The aircraft carrier’s mission was accomplished. That was not a statement saying the mission in Iraq was accomplished, but that the mission at hand, for the carrier, was over.

Context is everything.


44 posted on 10/27/2009 8:32:09 AM PDT by Ro_Thunder ("Other than ending SLAVERY, FASCISM, NAZISM and COMMUNISM, war has never solved anything")
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To: JaneNC
Obama's accomplishments

swatted a fly on camera

bought a puppy

clash for clunkers

gave terrorists miranda rights

campaigned scream preached

voted 'present'

dissed the freedom of the press

put doctors in lab coats he gave them in a backdrop for FailedObamaCare

had a telepromter break-down and ahhhhhh ummed only twice

45 posted on 10/27/2009 8:40:33 AM PDT by Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!
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To: NoObamaFightForConservatives; Owl_Eagle; Sam's Army; Darksheare; pissant; najida; r-q-tek86; ...

SHOCKING...YAHOO HAS THIS IN THEIR TOP NEWS STORIES....ping!!!


46 posted on 10/27/2009 8:41:52 AM PDT by Jersey Republican Biker Chick (Cleverly disguised as a responsible adult.)
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To: NoObamaFightForConservatives
Obama’s story line was more positive from the start: historic newcomer coming to shake up Washington.

Rewrite: Zero's lack of experience and left-winged background needed to be covered-up, so the media focused on his "HOPE and CHANGE" slogan, which allowed anyone/voter to fill-in-the-blanks on what "HOPE and CHANGE" means. Shaking up Washington by making it more like Beijing is what we get.

47 posted on 10/27/2009 8:42:17 AM PDT by BeAllYouCanBe (Until Americans love their own children more than they love Nancy Pelosi this suicide will continue.)
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To: Nachum; 444Flyer; hoosiermama; joygrace; mojitojoe; backhoe

ping


48 posted on 10/27/2009 8:45:04 AM PDT by Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!
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To: Jersey Republican Biker Chick

Many of us understand this because we have witnessed it for decades - It is the job of the media to attack the right and cover for the left.


49 posted on 10/27/2009 8:45:05 AM PDT by Enterprise (When they come for your guns and ammo, give them the ammo first.)
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To: Jersey Republican Biker Chick

Color me truly shocked.

See my first post in this thread as to why the MSM are doing this.


50 posted on 10/27/2009 8:45:47 AM PDT by Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!
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To: thirst4truth
democrats ripping him day after day for years and years about 5% unemployment

I have always believed that the media did major damage to the country by sounding the bad economy alarm when it really wasn't. This low consumer confidence can be a self fulfilling prophesy.

51 posted on 10/27/2009 8:53:31 AM PDT by BeAllYouCanBe (Until Americans love their own children more than they love Nancy Pelosi this suicide will continue.)
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To: PORD

The point about the MSM is that, yes, they really do need to ask that question. They really do not see how biased they are (most of them don’t see that anyway).

Darn right “context is important”! The media approve of 0bama, they didnt approve of Bush. Simple as that.


52 posted on 10/27/2009 9:07:39 AM PDT by Vanders9
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To: Scotswife

[[what if GW had buzzed NYC w/ Air Force One?]]

What if Bush had told the American people to ‘just shut up, and grab a mop to help clean up the mess they had made’? Or had constantly whined about the MSM the way Obama is whining about Fox? Ot had obsessed over personalities like olberman or matthews like Obama is obsessing over Rush, Hannity, Beck and tohers?


53 posted on 10/27/2009 9:21:14 AM PDT by CottShop (Scientific belief does not constitute scientific evidence, nor does it convey scientific knowledge)
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To: penelopesire; seekthetruth; television is just wrong; jcsjcm; BP2; Pablo Mac; April Lexington; ...
~~PING!

Video on left

Good idea, Ed ...

“We have a joke about it. We’re going to start a website: IfBushHadDoneThat.com,” former Bush counselor Ed Gillespie said. “The watchdogs are curled up around his feet, sleeping soundly. ... There are countless examples: some silly, some serious.” Two words: unmitigated hubris

54 posted on 10/27/2009 9:21:46 AM PDT by STARWISE (The Art & Science Institute of Chicago Politics NE Div: now open at the White House)
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To: Jackknife
Y E S!!!
55 posted on 10/27/2009 9:24:42 AM PDT by luvie (2010 is Conservatives' to win....or lose. So....LET'S WIN!!)
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To: Ro_Thunder
The aircraft carrier’s mission was accomplished. That was not a statement saying the mission in Iraq was accomplished, but that the mission at hand, for the carrier, was over. Context is everything.

Uh huh...that's why the banner WAS MADE by the White House when the aircraft carrier, essentially a small city of about 4500 people, had everything at its disposal to make the banner?

56 posted on 10/27/2009 10:05:37 AM PDT by meandog (Is OWEbummer the antichrist?)
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To: Little Ray

Hell. These days I miss Bill Clinton.
______________
Me too. I never thought that would happen.


57 posted on 10/27/2009 10:18:26 AM PDT by mojitojoe (“Medicine is the keystone of the arch of socialism.” - Vladimir Lenin)
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To: Verginius Rufus

What if Bush took over the auto industry and proceeded to shut down dealerships owned by democrat donors and kept republican donors open?
What if the wife of his car czar had all the donor info on her laptop?


58 posted on 10/27/2009 5:21:01 PM PDT by Scotswife
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To: AdmSmith; Berosus; bigheadfred; Convert from ECUSA; dervish; Ernest_at_the_Beach; Fred Nerks; ...
Snubbing the Dalai Lama. Signing off on a secret deal with drug makers. Freezing out a TV network. Doing more fundraisers than the last president. More golf, too.
...also, he's destroyed any chance of an economic recovery, embraced every dictator and enemy of the United States he can find, bowed to the King of Saudi Arabia, undercut,undermined, and backstabbed various allies all over the world, and most importantly of all, he has BUSTED THE FEDERAL BUDGET AND TRIPLED THE CURRENT ANNUAL DEFICIT, all in less than a year. The drive-by partisan media shills? They continue to be his cheerleaders.
59 posted on 10/27/2009 5:47:34 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/__Since Jan 3, 2004__Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
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To: Scotswife

See post # 40 for my thoughts. Bush was Alinskied like Palin was.


60 posted on 10/27/2009 5:47:39 PM PDT by Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!
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