What a lame headline on Reason.com.
Obama's 'My Pet Goat' Moment
"Why did it take Barack Obama 48 hours to renounce Rod Blagojevich?"
Equating an attack on the World Trade Centers where Bush, after being warned, sat motionless for 7 minutes with Obama not commenting on a scandal for 48 hours?
Forget that the President-elect is running the economy while Bush is dodging loafers in Iraq, forget that he is putting together a cabinet and appointees to lead us out of the greatest recession in our lifetime, forget that he seems to be addressing all the real problems of the day with thought-out meaningful answers and solutions, you want to get on him because it was 48 hours instead of maybe 24 hours? Would 36 have worked? What about 18?
I'm sure when Obama heard that Blagojevich was held by the Feds he didn't sit motionless for 7 minutes. Yes, it's his Senate seat, but it's not his job to fill it.
This whole notion that Obama is going to make everything right and be perfect every step of the way is ludicrous. Mike Tyson ludicrous. Was it ever in question that Obama was not going to renounce him?
"My Pet Goat" is a moment that has no peers. It is the epitome of ineptitude. Don't use it like Fox News uses "Nazis" to describe any dissenting views. Obama is the opposite of Bush. The childrens book was a metaphor for Bush's child like intellect. Don't even try to link Bush and Obama with these types of images.
Would the author have favored a McCain-style approach and have had Obama shut down his transitional duties to make a statement?
Source: Reason Magazine
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