It’s becoming a daily sound bite 10 months into the Obama Presidency “We’re cleaning up Bush’s mess”. To be sure, this adminstration and it’s followers have issued a war on Fox News, Rush Limbaugh, and Drudge – and less harsh criticism towards 3rd world maniacs and terrorists.
Today Rahm Emanuel said that the war in Afghanistan is adrift because of Bush, and this adminstration is “asking the questions that have never been asked on the civilian side, the political side, the military side and the strategic side.” No examples of were given.
Whenever a poltical person or team is in trouble and have no solution, phrases like “we are asking the tough questions”, are thrown out there as if somehow that in itself is an answer, and never are examples of these extraordinarily brilliant questions ever given.
(The only “tough” questions out there are being supplied by Fox News it seems.)
It is correct that President Obama repeatedly embraced the Afghanistan war as necessary. While it may be a very legitimate debate to question his indecisiveness and which strategy is best moving forward, it is beyond debate that the President has put Health Care first and foremost on his list of priorities since inauguration day. (Health care never polls at the top of the American people’s concerns. Joblessness and the economy are first, then the two wars.)
Lastly, it’s distasteful and beneath the office of the President to blame everything on the predecessor, it’s always been somewhat of an unspoken tradition – a sign of respect and manners. This President cannot help himself from blaming his predecessor on each and every issue he has yet to come close to fixing. “Cleaning up the Bush mess” isnt an answer Mr President, and is not an excuse for your poor performance with the economy, the war on terror, transparency, bipartisanship, or foreign policy.
