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Posted By Vicki McClure Davidson on August 31, 2010

Totally lacking class.

The sign of a poor, ineffectual leader is to take all credit from your predecessors and/or from your team players. A bit of humility and reality goes a long way… something that Pres. Pantywaist has yet to learn. And since he’s going to be turning 50 next year, it’s seriously doubtful that he’ll ever learn it. Evidence — again — of a petty, small-minded individual.

In Pres. Barack Obama’s Oval Office address tonight, he mentioned that he called former Pres. George W. Bush. But, notice in the video how he cleverly avoids giving GWB any well-deserved credit nor thanked him for his role in the Iraqi surge. Nor apologized for the brutal beating he endured for years from Democrats and the left-wing media over it.

He also avoided mentioning how WRONG he, Barack Hussein Obama, had been on Bush’s judgment on the Iraq war.

POTUS has such a gnat’s attention span on anything that doesn’t circle around himself that he very likely assumes that Americans will instantly forget how he slammed and bashed the former president, erroneously predicting doom with the surge. Maybe those still drinking the Obama Kool-aid have forgotten, but no one else. WH Press Secretary Robert Gibbs can deceptively twist it and spin it from here ’til the jackasses come home, but that won’t change history.

Now that the surge has been deemed successful, Dear Leader will do a ridiculous 180-degree flip and happily take all credit for it.

Reminds me of Eddie Haskell from the old Leave It to Beaver series. Or Maj. Frank Burns from M*A*S*H. Or Dwight from The Office.

What a jerk.

Obama’s Speech: Says He Called Bush – But Didn’t Thank Him or Credit Him for Success of Iraqi Surge

Reminder…

In 2007 Barack Obama endorsed genocide over continuing our mission in Iraq.

Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama said Thursday the United States cannot use its military to solve humanitarian problems and that preventing a potential genocide in Iraq isn’t a good enough reason to keep U.S. forces there.

45% of Iraq’s 27,500,000 people are below the age of 14.

Or, around 12,375,000 children.

From The Caucus, Boehner Assails Obama on Iraq:

In advance of President Obama’s Tuesday night speech on Iraq, Representative John A. Boehner of Ohio, the House Republican leader, was set to remind thousands of veterans attending the national convention of the American Legion that Mr. Obama and other Democrats had opposed the military escalation credited with gains in Iraq.

“This day belongs to our troops, whose courage and sacrifices have made the transition to a new mission in Iraq possible,” Mr. Boehner said in excerpts of the speech he was to deliver Tuesday at the legion’s national convention in Milwaukee.

“Some leaders who opposed, criticized, and fought tooth-and-nail to stop the surge strategy now proudly claim credit for the results,” Mr. Boehner’s speech said.

It was the second time in a week that Mr. Boehner, who is line to become speaker should Republicans gain control of the House next year, has taken on the president in a major speech. In an address last week to the City Club of Cleveland, Mr. Boehner called on the president to fire his economic team and assailed the administration’s approach to trying to energize the struggling economy.

Mr. Boehner hit that theme again Tuesday.

“Stimulus spending sprees, permanent bailouts, federal mandates and government takeovers have failed this nation and have failed our veterans,” he said in his remarks.

The speeches are part of a strategy to show that Republicans have their own ideas on major issues and present Mr. Boehner as a leading spokesman for the party with stature sufficient to confront the White House.

Mr. Boehner also touched on Afghanistan as well as Iran’s efforts to develop nuclear weapons. He called Iran “the true source of instability in the region, and we must not naively assume a nuclear-armed Iran would be containable.”

While he said that he supports the president’s approach in Afghanistan, “the president must do more to emphasize his commitment to ensuring its success rather than focusing on meeting arbitrary deadlines for withdrawal.”

Bravo, Gretchen…

Fox’s Gretchen Carlson Catches Gibbs In A Naked Lie — Asks 6 Times if Obama Will Credit Bush for Iraq Surge

Michelle Malkin points out what Obama said in 2002, just one year after Muslim terrorists attacked America:

What I am opposed to is a dumb war. What I am opposed to is a rash war. What I am opposed to is the cynical attempt by Richard Perle and Paul Wolfowitz and other armchair, weekend warriors in this administration to shove their own ideological agendas down our throats, irrespective of the costs in lives lost and in hardships borne.

What I am opposed to is the attempt by political hacks like Karl Rove to distract us from a rise in the uninsured, a rise in the poverty rate, a drop in the median income, to distract us from corporate scandals and a stock market that has just gone through the worst month since the Great Depression.

That’s what I’m opposed to. A dumb war. A rash war. A war based not on reason but on passion, not on principle but on politics.

And what POTUS said in 2010:

In a radio interview with CBS News, White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said President Obama will emphasize that “We are putting the Iraqis in control of their history and their future. They’ll have responsibility for security and responsibility for providing for the citizens of that country. That is a milestone worth barking.”

Just hours before the president speaks from the Oval Office, Gibbs said the speech would emphasize “the milestone of the end of our combat mission,” and said Mr. Obama will say, “The story of the Iraqis will be written by the Iraqis.”

…While Iraq has seen political turmoil for months, Gibbs insists the caretaker government is stable. He predicts “in very short order” the Iraqis will have a government in place. The spokesman said the president will tell Iraqis, “with our help as allies, you will be able to chart your future and your course as you determine.”

Gibbs also had a terse response to Republicans challenging the president to give credit to the troop surge ordered by former President George. W. Bush — a move opposed by then-Senator Obama.

Gibbs acknowledged that “the surge improved security conditions in Iraq.” But, he added, “I think the only question that matters for them (Republicans) today — we can look back in history, but the question that matters today is, where are you on bringing more than 90,000 troops out of Iraq right now? Do you support the president’s timeline for ending our combat operation in Iraq? That’s the question I’d like to hear answered by those Republicans.”

President Obama will also call George W. Bush today for what Gibbs describes as an “appropriate time” to thank him for his “love of country as we end the combat mission.”

An “appropriate time” to thank him… if only he had thanked him for what has mattered the most, even more than the surge.

Bush swore to keep America safe. And for the rest of his presidency, he did. We never had another terrorist attack on US soil.

Not so under the current guy. Only through Islamic terrorists’ stupidity, and not because of Obama’s efforts, has America dodged several critical bullets. And bombs.

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