MSM continues to present distorted picture of Bush administration!
From the Associated Press today, covering Barack Obama’s appearance on a talk show:
Obama refused again and again during an interview that aired Sunday to give hints on whom he might pick for a running mate, but he did describe the qualities he’s looking for. Shyness and blind loyalty are not among them.
“I’m going to want somebody with independence, who’s willing to tell me where he thinks or she thinks I’m wrong,” Obama said in an interview that aired Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press.”
The remark came in the twilight of the Bush White House, an administration famous — and much-criticized — for the value it has placed on loyalty within its ranks.
Silly, biased AP! Â The problem with excessive loyalty in the Bush administration isn’t that Dubya makes decisions, and Cheney simply says, “Yes, sir.”
It’s that Cheney makes decisions, and Dubya simply says, “Yes, sir.”
Stumble it!
July 31st, 2008 at 9:28 pm
The problem’s deeper than that – when someone tells Bush the truth, like, say, General Shinseki’s warning about needing lots of troops to invade and hold Iraq – Bush’s battalions of brownnosers tell the bossman that that silly General is wrong and the bossman (Cheney) is right.
Yes, our “CEO President” has run the country just like he ran all the other businesses that his daddy’s money and contacts handed him: he surrounded himself with yes-men, and ran the country into the ground. Interestingly, what the Republicans forgot was that Bush was also running the Republican Party. Now that Bush has cratered the Republican “brand” as well (what pilots call “screwing the pooch”), John McCain is left to stand at attention while the Republican Party slowly sinks into the Marianas Trench.