WaPo: Obama Like Bush
Jackson Diehl, Fred Hiatt's Lieutenant on the WaPo Editorial Board, pens perhaps the dumbest thing we have yet seen from perhaps the dumbest group of people on the planet, the Media. Diehl writes:
Washington has spent the past couple of weeks debating whether Barack Obama's ambitious agenda and political strategy are more comparable to those of Franklin Roosevelt or Ronald Reagan. Oddly, hardly anyone is talking about the ways in which Obama is beginning to resemble the man who just vacated the White House. . . Obama hasn't strayed far from Karl Rove's playbook for routing the opposition. But surely, you say, he's planning nothing as divisive or as risky as the Iraq war? Well, that's where the health-care plan comes in: a $634 billion (to begin) "historic commitment," as Obama calls it, that (like the removal of Saddam Hussein) has lurked in the background of the national agenda for years. . . .
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You see? Health care coverage is like the Iraq Debacle. Incredible. I bet Diehl would not say that if Obama had made "entitlement reform" a centerpiece of his program. But I can think of another difference between Bush and Obama -- Bush had the sycophantic Fred Hiatt, Jackson Diehl and the Washington Post demanding applause for the Iraq Debacle every step of the way and calling people who disagreed "traitors" (link to Balloon Juice, where I found the Diehl piece; surely Mr. Diehl remembers WaPo's part in the New McCarthyism?) So there's a difference between Obama and Bush.
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