Two Wrongs....

For 8 years in the eyes of the left, nothing George Bush could do was correct. He was blamed for everything from subverting the constitution to causing global warming to about anything else. However an interesting trend has developed. It has happened to me on several comments I've made on various news stories in my local paper. It has happened with comments I've made online in various forums. It has happened numerous times to comments, links and blogs made by others including my nephew Will. The most recent example was on my nephew's Facebook page where he posted a link to an article about the White House using taxpayer dollars to hire a firm to make mass emails about the benefits of the health care proposal. In other words taxpayer dollars are being used to spam people. One of the comments made by one of Will's "friends" was "So how is that different from what the "Bush" White House did to spam the entire country about WMDs." Leaving aside the factual inaccuracies of that statement and many that led me to write this, the sentiment is the same in all of the responses. When you talk about spending and the deficit, the first response is "well George Bush did spent us into the deficit." When you talk about Obama going back on his promise to close Gitmo, (which I'm glad he has by the way, I just don't appreciate his lies about it during the campaign) you get a response, well George Bush had Gitmo. The litany goes on. Every time anyone dares to criticize "The One" the first and almost immediate response is "Unhh Unhhh. George Bush did something like that." As my Mom tried to drill into my head years ago,"two wrongs don't make a right". If George Bush, in the eyes of the left was so wrong on everything, why is it all of a sudden the first line of defense that George Bush did x.

We are no longer in the Bush years. This is Obama's government. How much longer are we going to have to hear that everything bad in the world was caused by George Bush and that "The One" is only correcting those issues? How much longer are we going to have to hear the defense of any criticisms of "The One" as well how is that any different than what Bush did.

Right now, the emperor has no clothes. Whether or not the prior emperor had clothes is completely irrelevant, and I'm quite frankly tired of hearing it.