Obama can Learn from Bush Mistakes.

December 15, 2008

Article by Julian Zelizer: Obama can learn from Bush’s failures

The bigger question is, does he have enough time to review each failure and learn from it? Or better yet, considering Obama is smarter than Bush, can we assume he won’t make the same mistakes? Look, Bush is a complete failure with his best and only good attribute being a solid duck-er and weave-er when an Iraqi reporters chuck shoes at him. I was thoroughly impressed with Bush’s reaction time and fluidity of his movement was unparrelled, don’t you think? The down side is; wouldn’t it have been great to see that “size 10″ hit him smack dab inbetween those beady little eyes?

Now to reader commentary:

Franks says: “…The CEOs and other corporate leaders should not only take zero salary, they should have no stock options or other income off the company until it turns a profit, without the chance of making any of that back. It’s their terrible leadership that’s done this damage, and they need to acknowledge that and suck it up.”

What if CEO’s worked on commission? That would be cool. I bet the market would flourish, and a whole lot of people would fail too.

Moe says: “What can he learn? Don’t use your ego as precedence for going to war and claim other paltry, pathetic, unsubstantiated excuses as your reasons. Just because “Daddy” couldn’t get the job done when he was in office, doesn’t give Jr. the right to try again.”

If I’m not mistaken, Papa Bush recommended against invading Iraq the second time. Personally, I think Papa Bush did the right thing by not taking Bahgdad the first time. Saddam was the evil dictator we knew, and he was a stabilizing force in this part of the world.

Centervoice says: “I’m not saying one way or the other whether the policies were good or bad, but, relative, to, say, Clinton (healthcare reform), Bush did a lot more of what he said he was going to do if you ask me.”

Sure, he did alot, but most of his policies are bad. You cannot separate the quality of a policy decision from the act of doing it.  Giving you a check is not a tax cut. An insufficient drug program is not a solution for Medicare. And, “No Child Left Behind” promotes mediocrity. This is not a way to lead our country into the future – however, to the last point, I suspect my children will be better off because they will go to private school if public education aint cutting it.