Jonah Goldberg watches 60 Minutes so I don’t have to:
Look, we know Obama doesn’t like George Bush. We know he doesn’t agree with Bush’s policies. He won an election. Good for him. But his constant whining about what he inherited from Bush is becoming really tiresome and more than a little tacky. From last night’s 60 Minutes:
STEVE KROFT:What is the most frustrating part of the job?
BARACK OBAMA: (SIGH) The — the fact that — you are often confronted with bad choices that flow from less than optimal decisions made a year ago, two years ago, five years ago, when you weren’t here. A lot of times, when things land at my desk — it’s a choice between bad and worse. And as somebody pointed out to me — the only things that land on my desk are tough decisions. Because, if they were easy decisions, somebody down the food chain’s already made them.”
And yet…The Won conveniently forgets that a sub-optimal decision taken by GWB’s predecessor led directly to 9/11 — the decision not to take Sudan up on their offer to turn over Osama bin Laden.
GWB’s predecessor was…hmm…a Democrat.
What a surprise that a Democrat sub-optimal decision would lead to further sub-optimal decisions. The fact is that after that one giant blunder on the part of Bill Clinton, plus the other giant blunder called “the peace dividend”, GWB didn’t have much latitude to make truly optimal decisions in the wake of 9/11.
As a certain Secretary of Defense once put it, “You go to war with the army you have.” Thanks to Bill Clinton, we were lucky to have an army.
Too bad proven incompetence isn’t enough to remove a president from office. I doubt that charge could truly have been pinned on GWB, but only two months in it’s clear it applies to The Won.