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So how else were we right?
Basil's Blog — During the run-up to the recent election, those of us on the right said that an Obama election would be bad in several ways, including for the economy. And now, Barack Hussein Obama agrees: In the intervening weeks, the economy has showed clear signs of worsening. Employers said they eliminated more than 500,000 jobs in November alone and retailers reported disappointing holiday-season sales. “The economy is going to get worse before it gets better,” he said twice in the early moments of the interview, taped Saturday in ...

AP Fact Check: Gen Shinseki 'Forced Into Retirement' By Bush Administration
NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias — A December 7, 2008, wire article by the Associated Press' David Espo claims, "[Former Army chief of staff Gen. Eric] Shinseki was forced into retirement by the Bush administration after he said the original invasion plan for Iraq did not include enough troops." (President-elect Obama recently announced Gen. Shinseki would head the Veterans Affairs Department.) The truth? No such thing happened. FactCheck.org, among other sources, debunked this myth over four years ago. On Feb. 25, 2003, Gen. Shinseki ...

Talking It Down
Wizbang — ... about the appearance of large-scale accounting hanky-panky that would eventually taint everything from corporate profits to the government's own economic growth projections. Yet the phrase "the failed policies of the last eight years" was nowhere to be seen in the mainstream press. It was a priority to preserve the legacy of Bill Clinton and the Democratic party. Besides, every good Democrat knows that only Republican policies cause recessions. Just ask Paul Krugman. Fast forward to today : President-elect Barack Obama said the economy seems destined to get worse before it ...

Busting the Myth Early
Stones Cry Out — ... , even before Obama is inaugurated, that his choice for Veterans Affairs was not thrown under the bus by the Bush administration.  The myth, which lingered for years, is being given new life, most recently by the Associated Press "news" organization. ...