Muscatine

You're a joke. On Dec. 28 it was "C'mon JOS!" practically begging me to get into the conversation. Now it's "quit defending him." You're as bad as your buddy Chosen - always telling people what they should do.

So I took your advice and I googled "obama blames bush." Here's what I found on the first page of results:

Result #1 - Article from the Weekly Standard (a known conservative publication edited by uber-conservatives William Kristol and Fred Barnes) titled Obama Blames Bush. Yet they never actually provided a quote of Obama actually blaming Bush. Funny that.

Result #2 - A report from Politico.com (also known as Cheney's stenographers for allowing him to repeatedly spew his talking points unchallenged) titled Obama Blames Financial Woes on Bush. The money quote - "This administration has inherited a $1.3 trillion deficit." Sounds a lot like Georgieboy saying that he "inherited a recession." Other than that one quote it provided nothing about Obama blaming Bush.

Result #3 - A post titled "Obama Blames Bush..." from website that claims their "only desire is to provide you with the nuttiest content tempered with serious blogging." Again, not a single quote from Obama.

Result #4 - A post title "Obama Blames Bush..." from the website GayPatriot that bills itself as "one of the independent blogs affiliated with the Pajamas Media enterprise." Pajamas Media is a virulently Republican organization. Oh, and no quotes from Obama here either.

Result #5 - Titled "Team Obama Blames Bush..." from a website published by the Institute on Religion and Public Life. It provides a quote from Robert Gibbs, the WH press secretary criticizing the Bush administrations handling of the war in Afghanistan.

Result #6 - Titled "Obama Blames Bush..." from the Boston Globe. It's from July, 2008. During the campaign.

Result #7 - Links to a post titled "Obama Blames Bush..." on iBrattleboro.com a "citizen journalism news site" (aka blog) with an audio recording of Obama responding to a question about socialism where he specifically avoids blaming Bush despite being asked directly.

Result #8 - Links to a post titled "Obama Blames Bush..." on a website called AutoSpies.com. A blog about the auto industry. The article quotes Obama criticizing the Bush administration's handling of the auto industry bail out.

Result #9 - Links to an article titled "Cavuto: Since Obama Blames Bush..." from NewsBusters a well documented conservative blog. Oh yeah, and not a single quote from Obama.

 

So out of nine first page search results, one was from the campaign, leaving eight results of which five were blogs and four of them never even quoted Obama being the least bit critical of Bush. The only relation to Obama blaming Bush was in the title of the post.

So hiroad, I'm real.