Bush left this guy a dictatorship codified in law, and 'bamer gonna take it to the next level!!
".... Even before he takes office next week, Obama has made clear that he will continue some of the most controversial practices of Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, who routinely used political tools while in the White House to promote both their policy agendas and electoral fortunes.
If anything, political veterans have been surprised by the frankness with which he has talked about it, especially given his campaign rhetoric. When it comes to bringing politics into the White House, the only difference between Obama and his recent predecessors may be the zeal with which Obama has publicly embraced the practice of using campaign tactics to govern...."
Hey, CAN YOU HEAR, SMELL, or SEE OUT THERE, shit-headed lefty/liberals?
WAKE the F*** UP!!!!!!!!
"For Obama, campaigning is not over; Embracing tools of politics to govern" by Sasha Issenberg, Globe Staff | January 15, 2009
WASHINGTON - As a candidate, Barack Obama promised to govern according to "a new kind of politics, a politics that focused not just on how to win but why we should."
Yet as president-elect, Obama has placed his closest political adviser in a top West Wing role, has begun using polls to determine his strategy for promoting an economic stimulus plan, and resisted calls to eliminate the White House office dedicated to political affairs.
On a visit last week to the Democratic National Committee, Obama vowed no retreat from the electioneering that helped him win the presidency.
You know, 46% of the public voted against you -- and I'm one of 'em, jerk (and I voted Nader, so pffffft).
"At a time when the challenges we face in this country are so vast, we cannot afford to abandon the movement we've built. We have to strengthen it," Obama said. "We must build a movement for change that can endure beyond a single election."
As long as it is the RIGHT GROUP, right? I mean, I'm a Ron Pauler and we are going uphill! Why not talk to him, 'bamer?
As for my Nader vote looking contradictory -- no way; Ralph called the current crop of war criminals out, and he's criticized 'bamer here, too! Voted for Ralph because he the only one with the guts to say the truth!
Even before he takes office next week, Obama has made clear that he will continue some of the most controversial practices of Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, who routinely used political tools while in the White House to promote both their policy agendas and electoral fortunes.
If anything, political veterans have been surprised by the frankness with which he has talked about it, especially given his campaign rhetoric. When it comes to bringing politics into the White House, the only difference between Obama and his recent predecessors may be the zeal with which Obama has publicly embraced the practice of using campaign tactics to govern....
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Obama advisers have said that they have employed pollsters to help shape their message strategy, such as deciding not to use the term "stimulus" to describe the package of new spending and tax cuts he is pushing Congress to pass and instead call it the "American Recovery and Reinvestment Plan." Tomorrow Obama will travel to an Ohio factory on a campaign-style trip to promote the plan....
Oh, THAT'S GREAT! We are going to get the same deceptive framing of issues that we got from this last piece of stumble-bumb crumb Bush!!!!
Obama's predecessors were far more reluctant to acknowledge such tactics. When he entered office in 2001, Bush repeatedly pronounced himself unswayed by political calculations.... In reality, according to Scott McClellan, his former press secretary, Bush did rely on polling commissioned by the Republican National Committee to help craft his message strategy, one of many areas where political strategists played a central role in White House operations....
That's what they bring McClellan up for, huh? Not his book about the lies, deceptions, and crimes of the Bush administration that he personally witnesssed, but this?
Related: McClellan Now an MSM Brief
Like Bush, Obama has given his top political strategist, David Axelrod, the job of senior adviser, the same title Bush gave Karl Rove at the outset of his administration. (Transition officials did not respond to a request for comment.) Bush administration critics have long alleged that, under Rove's guidance, the White House political office improperly used government resources to advance Republican interests. The White House and Rove have denied any such misuse....
Yup, and those guys just wave bye-bye as they ride off into the sunset. Never mind the lies, the outing of a CIA agent, the lying to a grand jury, etc, etc, etc.
Why should you? The MSM article doesn't.
