Obama’s George Bush Impersonation
“It’s not change when he offers four more years of Bush economic policies,” Barack Obama said when he attacked John McCain at a June 3, 2008, campaign speech in St. Paul, Minnesota.
“The American people can’t take four more years of John McCain’s Bush policies,” Obama said to voters in Indiana on October 8, 2008.
“You can’t change America,” said Joe Biden to a cheering crowd in Springfield, Illinois, on August 24, 2008, “when you know your first four years as president will look exactly like the last eight years of George Bush’s presidency.”
President Barack Obama won the hearts and votes of far too many American voters in 2008 by claiming to be for change and by handcuffing his political opponents to the policies of George W. Bush.
Fast forward to the present, and it seems that we are witnessing our young president doing one of the best George Bush impersonations since Rich Little impersonated Dubya himself on the Late Show with David Letterman.
If it wasn’t for the ears and a slight height difference, it would be nearly impossible to tell the two presidents apart. When Barack Obama came into office, former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice predicted he would follow the policies of Bush’s second term. And he’s done exactly that. From political superstar to George W. Bush impersonator, Obama’s nightclub act has caused a significant portion of his former groupies to ask, “Will the real George W. Bush please stand up?”
Liberals once berated conservatives who defended our actions in Iraq with horrendous human rights abuse stories and by explaining that we were simply “liberating” Iraqis from the oppressive rape rooms of Saddam Hussein. Yet somehow, even groups like Code Pink are sounding a lot like Dick Cheney and Sean Hannity in justifying the military surge in the name of human rights in Afghanistan. Obama has simply transferred the U.S. troops from Iraq to Afghanistan.
“Obama will champion policies that get our economy moving and people working, instead of short-sighted tax-cuts for the rich that have failed to spark a recovery,” his campaign website boasted just a few short years ago. Just last week, President Barack Obama announced agreement with Republicans Monday night on a plan to extend expiring income tax cuts for all Americans, including the so-called “rich.” ”We cannot allow this moment to pass,” Obama said earlier this month in a fervent plea for the very Bush tax cuts he once claimed were destroying the economy. He’s even stolen the credit and renamed them the “Obama tax cuts.” This, after being adamantly against extending the Bush tax cuts just three short months ago, and giving new meaning to the adage, “If you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em.”
Candidate Barack Obama ignorantly and repeatedly attacked President Bush with regard to setting up the prison at Guantanamo in the first place to house terrorists seized after 9/11, and continually attacked both Bush and the Republican candidates for president during the 2008 campaign for the continuing policy of housing terrorists there. Obama offered no alternatives but he promised change that would never come.
In August of 2007, candidate Obama promised to “close Guantanamo.” In January of 2009, a highly trumpeted promise to return America to the “moral high ground” was made as Obama issued three executive orders, one of which ordered Guantanamo Bay’s terrorist detainee facility closed within a year. It was not only a commitment, but an “understanding that dates back to our founding fathers,” he passionately read from the teleprompter.
In July of 2009, Obama gave a six month extension on the prison’s closing. January of 2010 came and went and Guantanamo Bay was not closed. In May of 2010, his own Armed Services Committee prohibited the opening of a detention facility within the United States. In June of 2010, Obama said that there were more “important national priorities” than closing Guantanamo Bay, and Gitmo remains open to this day, in spite of a U.S. Supreme Court which held such detentions unconstitutional without giving detainees access to U.S. courts. It appears that the “false choice between our safety and our ideals” wasn’t so false after all.
Candidate Barack continually condemned and promised to close George Bush’s “secret prisons,” including one at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan. In January of 2009, Obama acted on this campaign pledge by issuing an Executive Order No. 13491, designed to shut down these secret prisons, ban Bush-era torture practices, and direct that the Red Cross would have access to any detainees. But this turned out to be short on substance. It turns out that only CIA prisons were ordered shut down, not those operated by the Department of Defense. Then, in February of 2009, in a stunning reversal from his campaign rhetoric, Obama secured his own secret prison when he indicated his intention to continue the Bush administration policy of holding detainees at Bagram. He added insult to injury by declaring that the detainees have no right to challenge their detentions in U.S. courts, effectively denying them legal status altogether – in violation of the aforementioned Supreme Court decision. Today, the Obama administration is indefinitely detaining terrorism suspects at Bagram, even though they are captured far from any battlefield and despite not being charged with a crime – without any judicial oversight.
Obama’s impersonation of Bush gets even better. Despite endless criticism of Bush for “warrantless wire-tapping,” the Obama legal team began defending the practice and the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) in the name of national security. The Obama Justice Department took a legal position that was even more aggressive than Bush’s position. It argued that the court-ordered disclosure of the surveillance programs would cause “exceptional harm to national security” by exposing intelligence sources and methods.
“The Obama Administration stepped right into the shoes of the Bush administration, on national security generally and on this case in particular,” said San Francisco attorney Jon Eisenberg, who won a landmark decision against the government in California federal court earlier this year. “This is Obama. Obama! Mr. Transparency! Mr. Change! It’s exactly what Bush would have done,” Eisenberg complained after declaring that Obama is even worse than Bush on secret wiretapping.
Obama also continued the Bush administration policy regarding Posse Comitatus, ignoring the Act passed in 1878 and placing the 3rd Infantry Division’s 1st Brigade Combat team under the direct control of the U.S. Army Northern Command (NORTHCOM). Barack’s night club impersonation includes ordering the continued training of the United States military to participate in purposefully undefined “emergency” situations within the borders of the United States, in contravention of the U.S. Constitution.
Obama’s impersonation of Bush drew rave reviews when Obama continued deadly airstrikes in Pakistan with unmanned U.S. Predator drones. Obama has also reauthorized the Patriot Act, despite the evil, Orwellian attributes it was given by Michael Moore and the ACLU, when Bush was in charge. Despite cries for Obama to abandon Bush’s agenda for the North American Union (NAU), the president has rebranded the NAU into the “Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America” (SPP), advancing the same agenda as Bush had with the NAU. Obama also did a great Bush when he backtracked on his campaign promise to renegotiate NAFTA. Bush was heavily criticized by the left for seeing NAFTA as the model for any free trade agreement in the region.
The act goes on and on, and Obama’s impersonation of George W. Bush has been honed to virtual perfection. Most of the standing-room only crowd had come to see Barack Obama play Barack Obama, not their arch-enemy, the evil George W. Bush. It should be no wonder then that the performance is now interspersed with “boos,” Obama’s fans are abandoning him by the droves, and his approval ratings continue to fall into the cellar. Obama’s reviews are also in the tank. The latest – by Maureen Dowd in the New York Times – read as follows:
“We’ve known that the Left was mad at Obama, but now we know Obama is mad at the Left. Obama and Gibbs are upset that the Lefties won’t recognize the necessity of compromise. The Left is snapping back: What necessity? You won 365 electoral votes.”
The Barack Obama Show promises to only get better in January, when that precious majority becomes nothing more than a memory with a 14% approval rating, the worst in Gallup history. It seems that despite winning the White House in 2008, the American people got what liberals feared most – four more years of George W. Bush.
There hasn’t been a lick of difference in actions of presidents since President Nixon…it has been a straight line downward ; enlarging entitlements, removing the US dollar from hard asset backing, forcing the US dollar to be backed by fickle OPEC petroleum contracts, instituting the Dept Of Education, the environmental protection administration, massively increasing Federal pension and benefit entitlements, massive increases in deficits and Debt…from President Nixon to President Obama..all utter failures protecting the US Economy and liberty and freedom of the American Citizen.
The failure of the American Voter to differentiate between perception and reality insures continued spiraling downward of Economy, continued failures of foreign policy, continued losses of rights and liberties.
We receive the government we deserve.
Surely everyone with a brain knows Barry will do what it takes to get re-elected. Every single thing he says and does in the next 2 years will be toward that end. Change that will make our heads spin will come in 2012 if he gets a 2nd chance. His recent words to his leftist critics that “it’s a long game, not a short game” is obviously meant to remind the left to bide its time. He has to dupe America for a 2nd time before he can get back to the real business of dismanteling everything about America that makes it great.
Conservatives and independent thinkers had better not forget what caused the shellacking at the booths Nov. 2nd.
I too found Obama’s “long game not short game” remark chilling. We should thoroughly analyze all his words in the next 2 years as he “apologizes” for taking actions that are good for the country. He will frequently be reassuring his extreme left that their day is coming. I find his “long game-short game” statement so transparent as to be arrogant and disrespectful of the intellect of his opponents. The only thing transparent about this Prez is his dislike of traditional Americans.
How many people have been saying how huge a disaster this guy would be if put in the White House? And it was said, loud and clear, for two years before his ‘coronation’.
He may get a second term; Not for his own ability to spin any more political fantasies, but, because the Kook Left and Kook media, will machinate his necessity to be elected again. He makes such an excellent puppet.
And it should be completely evident, by now, that he has no penchant for acquiring the ability to ‘govern’, or perform any duty that IS characteristic of a LEADER OF THE FREE WORLD.
If Congress can keep this Regime in ‘lame duck’ status for the next two years, that’ll be a huge success. But, Congress also has to work on repealing and rolling back what damage has already been done by these KOOKs.
Any resemblance of Barry Soetero (aka Barrack Hussein Obama) to a functioning President is purely coincidental.
He reminds me of all the irresponsible drunks I’ve seen at parties, that drank the most expensive liquor, flashed the most jewelry, and had the loudest, most crass jokes.
This article should help his re-election campaign. Thanks. Who are you, the Mikey likes it guy?
The closet marxists sneaks in, nationalizes four industries, crams the radical socialist dream of decades program down the country’s throat, sets up a fascist state, destroys small businesses for generations, spreads trillions of dollars to his brown shirt supporters, bows to every dictator on the planet, lifts true unemployment to over 20% permanently, sets up a deparment of black justice, disarms the country, undermines the military in every conceivable way……and you say he is Bush reincarnated because he continues a handful of policies and is forced to leave the Bush tax cuts in place because of an overwhelming electoral repudiation.
How stupid can a human being be. Or maybe it isn’t stupidity, maybe its a tactic. I’d like to know who this Wikert tool voted for.
You are right proreason. My thoughts exactly while reading this.
Exactly. Why is this schmuck Wickart posting this garbage here. Bush vs Obama is Man vs boy. Man makes mistakes but does what’s best for America vs spoiled child who at her core wants to take America down.
Valid points. Obama is guilty of political bs on the campaign trail where people essentially say whatever it will take to get elected, or he just didn’t know that he would have to end up doing many of the same things GWB did. It ends up being close to the same thing. Too bad that it kind of tempers the “Obama is in a class by himself for egregiousness” meme, but most people who hold that view, won’t pay much attention to anything which might compromise it. They just KNOW that he is in a class by himself as the WORST ever. Don’t confuse them with facts.
Bush = worst President ever
Winston = dumbest commentor ever
You just proved you have no knowledge of history or understanding of current events. That explains the short comment with no facts.
So you want your taxes to go up, and Saddam Hussein to develop nuclear weapons as well as chemical weapons, and the Taliban to run the country of Afghanistan as they see fit, all the while coming up with new ways to kill those of us in America?
Sorry but I would say that Jimmy Carter was the worst president at least until we got Obama who is by far the worst ever and possibly will end this country economically as well as militarily!
And he’s doing it on purpose.
All my guns are in working order and sighted in and have plenty of ammunition! Just in case!
george soros’ money elected obama’, and he’s puppet master. That’s the reason he (obama) has to have a teleprompter every time he speaks. He doesn’t know what he is suppose to say until he reads it on the telepromter. You want to know who runs America, read “The Shadow Government”.
I know some of my left leaning friends are very disillusioned over President Obama. This article sounds like it was written by one of them.
I didn’t read this article completely but, and this is my opinion only, bush was no better than obama and the fact of the matter is: we have not had a patriotic president since Ronald Reagan. The only difference between bush and obama, as a matter of fact, include bush the old man and clinton, is the party affiliation. obama is a communist. bush the old man and bush the younger are New World Order, ie: socialist/globalist. clinton was the first communist elected to the office since fdr and would have, if allowed used that office to enact everything obama wants and more, in the vein of socialist/communist ideology. Remember hillarycare? Too many people claim clinton kept us out of bankruptcy, or some other kind of financial calamity, but also remember clinton had the Contract With America, passed by newt and that republican congress. There isn’t a lick of difference in any of these people. The only difference is: the way they go about getting their agenda passed. I’ve been wondering too: how did the office of president get so powerful that the sitting president can enact life altering agendas without them having to go through congress? I thought congress was the only body empowered by the Constitution to enact legislation. Yet, he and every recent president go on and on mandating the power of congress, ie: obama enacted the end of life which was deleted from the healthcare legislation. I’m sick of all of them and only when there is a person of true patriotism and integrity to take that office will we be safe, as a nation. Until then, I’m getting ready for the consequences of their actions because, I know I do, and did, all I can, and could, for this country. I don’t like depending on people who have hidden agendas, making laws that run contrary to what I believe in, that I feel are right for the people of this country.