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Dissecting Leftism — ... Bush leaves the scene taking a shoe for his country. Which I suspect is why Bush showed such equanimity during a private farewell interview at the White House a few weeks ago. He leaves behind the sinews of war, for the creation of which he has been so vilified but which will serve his successor -- and his country -- well over the coming years. The very continuation by Democrats of Bush's policies will be grudging, if silent, acknowledgment of how much he got right. Source For more postings from me, see TONGUE-TIED, EDUCATION WATCH ...
The Biggest Spin
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan —
It is so big it needs to be rebutted tout court: Obama opposed the war. But the war is all but over. What remains is an
Iraq turned from aggressive, hostile power in the heart of the Middle
East to an emerging democracy openly allied with the United States. No
president would want to be responsible for undoing that success.
The following is not really in dispute by anyone. There are still well over 130,000 American troops occupying Iraq. We have no secure idea what will happen when they leave. We have as yet no reliable integration of ...
Who will restore George Bush's tattered reputation? Barack Obama!
Althouse —
Charles Krauthammer explains: The beauty of democratic rotations of power is that when the opposition takes office, cheap criticism and calumny will no longer do. The Democrats now own Iraq. They own the war on al-Qaeda. And they own the panoply of anti-terror measures with which the Bush administration kept us safe these past seven years. Which is why Obama is consciously creating a gulf between what he now dismissively calls "campaign rhetoric" and the policy choices he must make as president. Accordingly, Newsweek -- Obama acolyte and scourge of ...
OUCH: Perino Mocks Obama: ‘Gosh It’s So Complicated To Close Guantanamo Bay’ .
UPDATE: Charles …
Instapundit —
... UPDATE: Charles Krauthammer: “Truman’s rehabilitation took decades. Bush’s will come sooner. Indeed, it has already begun. The chief revisionist? Barack Obama. “ ...
I Said It First
Chicago Boyz —
Charles Krauthammer via Instapundit on the rehabilitation of George Bush’s legacy.
Now, I don’t like to toot my horn… Oh, who am I kidding, I love the tooting!
I said it first.
Obama’s retention of almost all of the most contentious Bush policies proves that the polices were needed.
Larwyn's Link Kerplosion: "Wish him failure"
Doug Ross @ Journal —
[image] Obama's ethics problems : Wizbang The Flimflam of the Fallacious Fairness Doctrine : Age of Pericles Our permanent state of routine emergency : Mark Steyn The New President of Lego-Land : Jammie Wearing Fool Bush already being vindicated : Washington Post (Charles Krauthammer) Obama's dangerous BlackBerry obsession : Clark County Politics Health Care Reform Survey Proves a Point : Emergency Physician's Monthly NYC Schools "Educating" Kids to Protest for Hamas : Evil Conservative Radio BBC Breaking ...
If you were First Lady…
The Anchoress —
... remiss any president would have been to have ignored all of that intel after 9/11, when we were all waiting for the next attack, which we were all sure would come. Lots of thoughtful kids in class, that day. Not all teachers are this profoundly short-sighted. Take To Kill A Mockingbird out of schools? Egad, take the teacher’s license to teach away!
Bruce Anderson: History will vindicate George W. Bush. Some say Obama is already helping that vindication along.
Dalai Lama: He “loves” ...
The Outgoing President Bush: Not As Wrong As First Thought
Stones Cry Out —
At least according to the incoming President Obama. Charles Krauthammer explains, but I just have the bullet points here to get you to "Read the Whole Thing"(tm). All lines below are quotes from the article.
Vindication is being expressed not in words but in deeds — the tacit endorsement conveyed by the Obama continuity-we-can-believe-in transition.
It is the repeated pledge to conduct a withdrawal from Iraq that does not destabilize its new democracy and that, as Vice President-elect Joe Biden said just this week in Baghdad, adheres to the Bush-negotiated status-of-forces agreement that envisions a U.S. withdrawal over three years, ...
What'll They Do?
Wizbang —
anti-Bush.jpg What'll I do When you are far away And I am blue What'll I do? - Irving Berlin I know this is far from an original thought, but as I watched the crowds in DC yesterday, some still overwhelmed with Bush Derangement Syndrome, others perhaps simply overanxious for the white dove to descend from the heavens and usher in the reign of their Messiah, I couldn't help but wonder what the Generation Y crowd (and those who produce their mass-marketed, spoon-fed entertainment) is going to do now that they don't have George W. Bush to kick around any more. Think about it -- virtually all of the magazines, music, television, and movies produced for the under-30 audience is created, ...
