Obama: I'll Be Just Like Bush

Now, I don't know what's going on with the President Elect, but it appears that his policy views are a little unstable, to say the least. He railed against President Bush during the 2008 election, and now that George W. Bush is leaving office, now Obama is trying to emulate him.

Huh?

Just see what Obama's been saying lately. Either the guy is really a change agent or he's just Bush's third term. Wait-- I thought that was an insult to John McCain. I'm confused.

For example:

With respect to the Middle East, Obama didn’t even say we’d gotten much wrong in the past. Asked by Stephanopoulos whether his policy would build on Bush’s or would be a clean break, Obama answered, “if you look not just at the Bush administration, but also what happened under the Clinton administration, you are seeing the general outlines of an approach.” So: No break.

So is Obama the guy who everyone believes he is? Is he really the naive little boy inheriting the reins of the most powerful nation (and military) on the planet? His pre-Presidency appears to be marked by dual-sidedness, unable to see which Barack Obama will be President.

Hopefully the one that's like George W. Bush.

Obama's Starting to Sound Better

I don't know if anyone's been following the news lately, but Barack Obama has become a true politician. Many questioned his experience, but since he was elected, he has learned to disregard his promises and do what he-- or his advisors want to do.

Well, Obama got a lot of notice early in the primaries as an eloquent firebrand against the Iraq War. Now with the war being won and all, it sounds like he's changing his tune. That or he's confused. In any case, it's a real change from almost two years of campaigning. At this rate, he'll ask for American troops in Iraq for 101 years.

And I know that a lot of neo-cons also fantasized over Obama now appear to be believing in change even more. Heck, even Karl Rove is giving his praise to the President-Elect:

On the Wall Street Journal free market right they are seeing, in his economic team, the possibility that he is really as safe to capitalism as a banker. Karl Rove has concluded that "Mr. Obama's economic team was reassuring. He's generally surrounded himself with intelligent, mainstream advisers."

So-- it sounds like Obama's abandoning parts of his tax plan and appears to be bringing around a third term of George W. Bush!


Obama puts Hillary in State, keeps Gates on at the Pentagon. Gee, how long until Obama announces he's hired Bush as an "Assistant President."

Sheesh. I thought we were getting change. Those Obama voters might as well have written in Bush's name.

But a third term of George W. Bush isn't the worst thing in the world.

Continuity we can believe in!