In case I gave you any other impression, I'm good. I don't have a horse in this race. You may have mistaken me for a partisan supporter of the current president. As if! Suffice it to say that in unguarded moments, this president pronounces the word ‘nuclear’ just like your man Dubya, ‘nuke-yule-urr.’ That, as with so much else about this president, I can‘t forgive.

As far as this submission goes, I think you’d have had a better result if you’d’ve fetched something else out of your bag of Rovian tricks. Instead of Rovian Projection, accusing the other guy of exactly what your guy’d done, you might’ve opted for Rove’s Cudgel, where you take the other guy’s strengths and turn it against them. You know, ‘Swiftboating.’

“Oh,” you might say, “sure he kept us out of war in Syria and Iran, but by what cowardice.”

Or, “Sure he brought the economy back from the Great Crash of 2008, but where’s your share of the good times?” Those’d’ve worked better if only because you’d just yesterday tried to exonerate the previous administration’s tissue-thin lying pretext for war with the distributive-property-of-the-other-guy-did-it-too tactic.

Even “The president’s only concerned what his legacy is as far as his Wall Street backers are concerned,” would have landed harder than all this link‘s huffing and puffing about Obama’s having done what Bush the Younger‘d made his mark with. You know, starting a crusade he could neither comprehend nor complete, presiding over the complete collapse of American capitalism just in time so that all profits were private and all losses public, wrecking the progress made in sane global governance since the end of World War II and making this country the bad guys in world history. Bush stuff.

I'm quite content to leave you whatever Polyanna faith you have in the innate goodness of the Bush Administration‘s intentions in breaking the world. When you trotted out that bit about the suppo...

In case I gave you any other impression, I'm good. I don't have a horse in this race. You may have mistaken me for a partisan supporter of the current president. As if! Suffice it to say that in unguarded moments, this president pronounces the word ‘nuclear’ just like your man Dubya, ‘nuke-yule-urr.’ That, as with so much else about this president, I can‘t forgive.

As far as this submission goes, I think you’d have had a better result if you’d’ve fetched something else out of your bag of Rovian tricks. Instead of Rovian Projection, accusing the other guy of exactly what your guy’d done, you might’ve opted for Rove’s Cudgel, where you take the other guy’s strengths and turn it against them. You know, ‘Swiftboating.’

“Oh,” you might say, “sure he kept us out of war in Syria and Iran, but by what cowardice.”

Or, “Sure he brought the economy back from the Great Crash of 2008, but where’s your share of the good times?” Those’d’ve worked better if only because you’d just yesterday tried to exonerate the previous administration’s tissue-thin lying pretext for war with the distributive-property-of-the-other-guy-did-it-too tactic.

Even “The president’s only concerned what his legacy is as far as his Wall Street backers are concerned,” would have landed harder than all this link‘s huffing and puffing about Obama’s having done what Bush the Younger‘d made his mark with. You know, starting a crusade he could neither comprehend nor complete, presiding over the complete collapse of American capitalism just in time so that all profits were private and all losses public, wrecking the progress made in sane global governance since the end of World War II and making this country the bad guys in world history. Bush stuff.

I'm quite content to leave you whatever Polyanna faith you have in the innate goodness of the Bush Administration‘s intentions in breaking the world. When you trotted out that bit about the supposed end of the Iraq War, it seemed like maybe you hadn’t gotten closure somehow. Kind of like the Liars’ Wars themselves, that never quite seem to end, now do they? Four more dead G.I.’s in Iraq were announced today.

At no point in this exchange of ours have I meant to excuse this administration of anything. Near as I can tell this president is to the right of Ike, and differs from your man George primarily in his ability on most occasions to correctly pronounce ‘nuclear.’

What you appear to think is me comparing the two has been in an effort to get you to see that you cannot honestly excuse obvious wrongdoing by one man by pointing to others doing the same. We all answer for ourselves and get our own reward. Why do you think you need to vilify the one man and exalt the other, do you think?

"OCD." So you started diagnosing mental illness since we last spoke?