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Tuesday, October 20, 2009

'Obama the Graceless'

Rich Lowry offers a sneak peek at Barack Obama's memoirs in his latest column detailing how Obama continues to blame George W. Bush for everything that's gone wrong during the 10 months of Obama's failed presidency.

From Lowry's column:
Republicans needn't trouble themselves to nominate a presidential candidate in 2012. No matter what, Pres. Barack Obama will be running against George W. Bush.

Bush will be Obama's eternal foil. At this rate, when Obama writes his post-presidential memoir, it will be titled: An Audacious Presidency, or How I Saved America from That Bastard Bush. His presidential library will have a special fright-house wing devoted to Bush’s misrule. He will mutter in his senescence about 43, like the Ancient Mariner about his albatross.

Obama clearly wants Bush to be the Hoover to his FDR. Since his predecessor left office with 34 percent job approval, Obama understandably feels moved to scorn and berate him. But Obama's perpetual campaign against Bush is graceless, whiny, and tin-eared. Must the leader of the free world — if Obama still accepts that quaint formulation — always reach for the convenient excuse?
Read more at the link below:

Obama the Graceless by Rich Lowry on National Review Online

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