Obama-Bush Parallels
January 29, 2009 7:56 pm American PoliticsIt is no secret that the press coverage for Obama is much more fawning than the one George W. Bush. What is interesting is the length to which the press is willing to go to present it in that manner. Steven Den Beste on his blog, when not posting about females in impossibly tight dresses, provides the following examples of press worship:
How Obama set the tone for a new US revolution
Oprah (who?) says “The Light of the New Age is here!”
Celebs compare Obama to Jesus, Gandhi
Black first family ‘changes everything’
A recent Obama incident highlights this trend. NY Daily News reports how Obama mistook a window for a door and tried to walk through it.
It looks like President Obama hasn’t gotten acquainted to his White House surroundings. On the way back to the Oval Office Tuesday, the President approached a paned window, instead of the actual door — located a few feet to his right.
The report then goes on to draw parallels to George W. Bush.
Doors didn’t open automatically for Obama’s predecessor either. While making a hasty exit from a 2005 press conference in Beijing, former President George W. Bush tugged on the handles of a door, only to find it locked.
The comparison is absurd because Bush was in Beijing, not in his home, and tried to open a door, not a window, which happened to be locked.
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Arran Gold
TrueWest :
Date: January 30, 2009 @ 7:16 AM
What’s scary about the election of Obama is that the majority in the US wanted to be saved, Obama even being compared to Christ Himself. Where there is hope is in the nearly half the population still believe in doing what they can to make the world better than they found it.