Obama is (not) like Bush because...by Jed Lewison
Sat Mar 07, 2009 at 02:30:04 PM PST
With every passing day, Barack Obama is more like George W. Bush...or so says Jackson Diehl, deputy editor of WaPo's editorial page.
Seriously.Well, let's put it to the test:
Obama is like Bush because: Obama's first move is always to reach out to everybody willing to participate in the process, no matter what party they belong to.
Obama is like Bush because: Obama gives the political opposition every opportunity imaginable to avoid self-destruction.
Obama is like Bush because: Obama made concessions to the GOP in the stimulus on taxes (42% of the bill was tax cuts) even though almost no Republicans supported the bill.
Obama is like Bush because: Obama opposed the Iraq War from the beginning and is ending the war now that he is president.
Obama is like Bush because: Obama opposed Bush's tax cuts for the wealthy from the beginning and is rolling them back now that he is president.
Obama is like Bush because: Obama supports stem cell research.
Obama is like Bush because: Obama supports national health care reform including universal health care.
Obama is like Bush because: Obama supports regulating the mortgage market that ran amok during the Bush years.
Obama is like Bush because: Obama supports massive public investments in our national infrastucture and energy economy.
Obama is like Bush because: Obama supports reproductive freedom.
Obama is like Bush because: Obama supports transparency in government.
Obama is like Bush because: Obama wants to restore the very constitution that has been torn to shreds over the past eight years.
Obama is like Bush because: Obama's dad wasn't President.
Obama is like Bush because: Obama can speak in complete sentences, indeed paragraphs.
Obama is like Bush because: Obama isn't an oil guy, and his boss isn't Dick Cheney, another oil guy.
And that's just for starters.
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/3/7/121229/7658/59/705749 
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