Thank bush
Ξ January 21st, 2009 | → 1 Comments | ∇ Uncategorized |
WhiteHouse.gov Used to Slam Bush
WhiteHouse.gov, the official website of the president, was turned into a permanent campagn tool only hours after President Barack Obama took office. The website, which is supposed to be quite neutral, is used to pimp Obama himself, and to attack former President George W. Bush.
Presidents attacking presidents is ‘not done.’ One elections are over, the new president says nothing negative about his predecessors, whether he respects them all or not.
Obama broke with that tradition by having a staffer call Bush’s response to Hurricane Katrina “unconscionable ineptitude” and adding that ‘President Obama will keep the broken promises made by President Bush to rebuild New Orleans and the Gulf Coast.’
Conservative blogger Don Surber responded furiously to the swipe at Bush. ‘This is the Official White House site. I pay taxes. I own it. The 48% of the people who voted for someone else deeply resent the petty partisanship. It is galling,’ he writes at his blog.
Surber is right. It is galling. It also in breach with tradition. Presidents do not criticize let alone lambast each other. Obama could criticize Bush during the campaign. Once he moved into the White House he had to refrain from doing so, however.
We can only hope that the text will be deleted ASAP and that Obama et alia will stop insulting the 43rd president of the United States. If Obama is serious about bringing the country together he has to treat Bush with the respect a former president deserves.
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