David Corn: “Watching President Barack Obama at the White House health care summit last week, it was hard not to have an obvious thought:: Could George W. Bush have done this? It is tough to imagine Bush leading a seven-hour gabfest on a complex policy matter, being able to master the specifics and nuances, and field questions about in-the-weeds details as Obama did. Which brings me to another idea: Are Democratic presidents smarter than Republican presidents?”Exactly. Bush knew how to talk to people in ways to build consensus and true bipartisanship. Obama is a one-note lefty samba who demands his way and his way only, and that's why his agenda can't even get the full support of his own party.Well, let us see. In his first year as president, George W. Bush had control of the House but not the Senate (except for a brief period) and yet he passed his tax cuts and the centerpiece of his domestic agenda, No Child Left Behind, with ease within his first 6 months in office.
President Obama has the House and a filibuster-proof Senate and a year later he still cannot get Obamacare off the mat — which was why he was at “a seven-hour gabfest on a complex policy matter.”
A clever man can handle “a seven-hour gabfest on a complex policy matter.”
A wise man avoids them.
Monday, March 01, 2010
Could Bush Do That?
Don Surber takes a comparison a liberal writer made between Barack Obama and George W. Bush and runs with it:
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And this is exactly what Obama is full of, a lot of hot air and gab plus other unmentionables.
Great insight into the different motives/strategies of these two presidents.
A wise man avoids them -- absolutely.
That Bush could discuss issues in nuanced detail is an idea that the lefties cannot wrap their minds around because they have believed their cartoon character version of the man and confused it with reality. But more significantly -- Bush could LISTEN to the ideas of others in a way that, evidently, Obama cannot or will not.
For Obama being the professor is part of his "all about me" persona. In sharp and significant contrast, Bush was elected as a political leader and a representative of the American people. Bush's supporters never wanted him to be their god or their guru.
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