Bush Is Ruining Obama

I thought we had finally done it. I thought we had thrown Bush out of office, voted in a young, vibrant, diverse leader, and turned the course of American history. I thought that maybe the messes of the Bush years would continue their effect for a few months, but that Obama would quickly and decisively end the capitalist and imperialist disaster that was America under Bush. But after almost a year of having our guy in the White House, I’m starting to think I was wrong.

I know that the effects of presidential policies can stretch far into future Presidents’ terms, but this was supposed to be different. Bush is a moron, and Obama is the brightest mind in the nation. There is no way that a moron can make a mess that a genius can’t fix. But I think the problem we as liberals have is that we took Bush for an idiot when he might have been just a well-paid plant of the conservative conspiracy to ruin this country.

Take, for example, the status of the economy. It is clearly Bush’s fault. Due to years of pro-capitalist policy, our economy has taken a beating that the government won’t be able to solve easily. As Bush’s true toll on our country continues to be felt, for some strange reason, people are acting as if Obama had something to do with it. It is that type of delusional thinking that glosses over all of the jobs Obama has saved, and completely ignores how bad the economy would have been had Obama not stepped in to rescue our failing nation. Obama is clearly taking the fall for all of the free-market and business-based tactics that were typical of the bourgeoisie Bush administration.

On the foreign policy front, Obama is taking the heat from the mistakes of the Bush years. George W. Bush invaded two completely harmless countries, had innocent fundamentalist Muslims tortured, and didn’t plan on pulling out until the mythical concept of “victory” was achieved. Upon his leaving office, the situation in Iraq miraculously fixed itself just in time to make Obama’s promises of leaving seem a bit outdated. Also suspicious is the amount of violence that has stepped up in Afghanistan since Bush left office. Everyone knows that it was Bush who dithered for eight years in Afghanistan, but Obama is the one getting heat for taking only 100 measly days to decide whether or not to provide his general with troops. In the Bush years, no exit policy existed, and the terrorists had no idea how long we would stay. But now, Obama supports our nation by announcing to the terrorists when we will stop fighting them, and people say he isn’t “qualified!” How can this type of criticism be aimed at a man who, were it not for eight years of failed cowboy diplomacy, could easily solve every problem in the world?

All of these coincidences seem a bit too coincidental to be authentic. It is clear that at least some thought was given to how Obama might be voted out of office as soon as possible, and the easiest way would be to make him the fall-guy for various problems. My opinion, hard as it may be to believe, is that Bush purposely put in place policies and created scenarios specifically designed to harm Obama. Bush clearly encouraged the tanking economy because he did not want Obama to solve single-handedly every economic problem as he would have otherwise. Bush clearly forced the Iraq situation off the table through insidious tactics, while secretly ginning up anti-Americanism in Afghanistan. It has even been proposed that Bush had something to do with the creation of the “swine flu” virus, conveniently released on the population just in time to foil Obama’s plans to finally fix our broken, free-market healthcare system.

What would Bush get out of this? Well, money is a start. Or, possibly a good biography in revisionist history books once the Bible-thumping, gun-toting, pro-Palin, troop-supporting, climate-destroying conservatives take over this nation and force their fascist policies on all aspects of our once-free society (I mean free like it was under FDR, JFK, LBJ, Carter, and Clinton, not the oppressive society of the slave-owning Founders).

Whatever his motive, this much is clear: George W. Bush purposely ruined this country and set in motion events that would bring down Obama’s presidency. It is the only reasonable explanation for why so many bad things keep happening with Obama around, and why he continuously gets blamed despite all conventional wisdom showing that certain despicable Republicans (Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, etc…) were the real culprits. Let’s just hope that all of Obama’s change will finally begin to undo all of the religious, capitalistic, provocative, and interventionist evils that George Bush and previous Republican administrations have forced on America. Obama save us all.

Brutus is the resident Communist at The Purdue Review. Life size posters of Karl Marx and Friedrich Nietzsche adorn the walls of his office. He firmly believes that Sarah Palin and George Bush are Satan’s children.