Mmm... Again, in the interest of fairness, I don't think Obama is any better than anyone else... except Bush. Bush was about as bad as it gets.
How about this...
George Bush walked hand in hand with the King of Saudi Arabia. Bowing is acceptable, because it is proper. Americans can actually bow. It's polite. Go to Japan and check it out. Or go square dancing. Holding hands... that's not quite right. Neither is kneeling.
GB headed the whole Terry Schiavo fiasco. Apparently marriage is only between a man and a woman... as long as everyone agrees on a case by case basis. This scares
me because I'm a Jew married to a Christian. I don't need people getting their religious freak on and enacting their beliefs through Congress.
GB didn't need a teleprompter. If he'd had one, we wouldn't have had so many "Bushisms."
GB didn't need to refer to "Austrian" as a language. He had to GROPE THE HEAD OF STATE OF GERMANY.
GB wouldn't have needed any "czars." He apparently knew everything himself. He handled everything perfectly. That's why we're still bogged down in Iraq. Because they had weapons of mass destruction. And a dictator his father hadn't successfully taken down. So instead we sacrifice countless soldiers. Either he had bad intel or he purposely screwed us.
Hadn't heard about the letter till you posted about it. Have you seen it?
I've done worse. I remember typing out a quick note to my department head once and wrote something like "are students aloud to..." Oops. Damn. And I'm an English teacher. And pretty damned good (even though I start sentences with conjunctions while typing online). Advice or advise... it's one friggin' letter.
The real question is... would Bush have bothered responding? Or would he have figured there were better things he could be doing with his time? Like deciding that Habeas Corpus, one of the cornerstones of any democracy or civilized country, didn't matter a whole lot. Suspension of Habeas Corpus is one of those things Jews don't like... because it's the first stop on the railroad to Auschwitz.
I don't like Obama terribly. But Bush? Bush made America a joke long before Obama got around to it.
Oh.. and one final thought. I'll state again that my fear isn't Obama taking our guns because he wants to become the next Hitler. I think he fell prey to the same crap statistics we all hear the left screaming, and he thinks gun control will make us safer. I think he doesn't understand that taking our guns will allow the next Bush to become the next Hitler. See... Obama might be fairly communist. Socialism is the first stop on the railroad to communism. Maybe. But fascism is pretty much a far right belief structure. It thrives on capitalism.
Pay attention to this last idea. I'm not saying Obama is a commie. Not unless you're willing to say that Bush was a fascist.