Posts Tagged ‘GW Bush’
I was reading Obama’s book Audacity of Hope and found a statement by him very interesting. One of the sound bites he delivered so well while campaigning against McCain was that McCain was just another Bush. If you supported McCain, it was the same as supporting Bush. If you voted for McCain, you were voting for another 4 years of the ‘Bush Doctrine’.
On about page 14, Obama writes:
…But whatever conditions might have been required for detente, they did not exist in 2005. There would be no concessions, no good will. Two days after the election, President Bush appeared before cameras and declared that he had political capital to spare and he intended to use it. That same day, conservative activist Grover Norquist, unconstrained by the decorum of public office, observed, in connection with the Democrats’ situation, “that any farmer will tell you that certain animals will run around and are unpleasant, but when they are fixed, they are happy and sedate.” Two days after my swearing in, Congresswoman Stephanie Tubbs Jones, out of Cleveland stood up in the House of Representatives to challenge the certification of Ohio electors, citing the litany of voting irregularities that had taken place in the state on Election Day. Rank-and-file Republicans scowled (”Sore losers”, I could hear a few mutter), but Speaker Hastert and Majority Leader DeLay gazed stone-faced from the heights of the dais, placed in the knowledge that they had the votes and the gavel. Senator Barbara Boxer agreed to sign the challenge, and when we returned to the Senate chamber, I found myself casting my first vote, along with seventy-three of the seventy-four others voting that day, to install George W Bush for a second term as president of the United States.
The emphasis in the above paragraph is mine, not from the book, and is to make a point among the gook. From this, I gather that when it came time to support his party, he didn’t. When it came time to do the right thing, he did it. And when he campaigned to replace Bush, he spoke just the opposite of anyone who previously has stood with President Bush.
How much more two-faced can you get? If you are one of his constituents, how can you trust him to vote in your best interests?
Gardie