Will Obama Out-BS Bush?

James Bovard, August 31, 2010

Popcorn sales are soaring across the nation because Obama will give a live Oval Office speech tonight on the U.S. victory in Iraq.

I’m disappointed that Obama will not be giving the speech after climbing out of a jet wearing a flight suit, like George W. did with his “Mission Accomplished” speech in 2003.

I expect that Obama will have at least half a dozen Montana-sized howlers in his speech tonight.

But will he out-BS Bush on Iraq?

Has anyone seen betting odds on this proposition? It will not be easy, considering that Bush spent 6 years shoveling hokum on Iraq.

On the other hand, Obama has embraced most of Bush’s follies. Perhaps he can rise to this challenge as well.



16 Responses to “Will Obama Out-BS Bush?”

  1. liberranter
    August 31st, 2010 at 6:13 am

    Obama might very well "out-BS" Bush. The main differences between his delivery and that of his predecessor will be that Obama 1) will most use coherent sentences that are syntactically and grammatically correct, and 2) won't even try to pretend that he believes a word he's saying or that he really expects any of us to believe him either.

  2. MoT
    August 31st, 2010 at 8:24 am

    Sorta like a fireside chat while the world burns. Courtesy of the "chatter".

  3. petey
    August 31st, 2010 at 8:27 am

    i would say that it is impossible for anyone to out-BS bush. no pass for obama, mind, but really, who could compete with the depth and breadth of the obscenities plied by the last administration?

  4. janeblakenship
    August 31st, 2010 at 8:57 am

    He never deliver the speech that night.

    Jane

  5. Bob charron
    August 31st, 2010 at 9:17 am

    Bush's lies were more direct and easier to recognize, Obama on the other hand is a real gas bag and the stuff just oozes and oozes out and expands into empty space.

  6. andy
    August 31st, 2010 at 9:54 am

    Some "victory".

  7. Lawrence
    August 31st, 2010 at 12:29 pm

    Petey, you must remember that each president appears to be outdoing his predecessor. Obama still has a couple of years left, and if he had 6 more, who knows? The sky's the limit on lying from the White Hose these days, and Obama himself has told us that he's an over-achiever, so be patient, there are shoals of BS to be flung into the void by the Holy One, Bringer of Hope

  8. liberranter
    August 31st, 2010 at 2:50 pm

    Petey, you must remember that each president appears to be outdoing his predecessor.

    Bingo! Think of each new president as a disease stage that is progressively worse than its predecessor.

  9. V for Vendetta
    August 31st, 2010 at 4:44 pm

    No matter how the corporate puppet Bush or the corporate puppet Obama tries to spin it, the American people lost the war in Iraq. It was the corrupt military-industrial complex and the international oil corporations that "won." Maj. General Smedley Butler, USMC (ret.) said; "War is a Racket." I'm sure, if they could, that 4,400 plus service men and women who died in Iraq would testify to the truth of that statement.

  10. richard vajs
    August 31st, 2010 at 5:48 pm

    If anyone is going to state “we achieved our goals in Iraq”, they need to say it in Hebrew.

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  12. petey
    September 1st, 2010 at 3:02 pm

    "the Holy One, Bringer of Hope"

    cf:
    "G.W. Bush is president despite losing the popular vote to Al Gore and winning by merely ~500 votes in Florida. God defeated armies of Philistines and others with confusion. Dimpled and hanging chads may also be because of God’s intervention on those who were voting incorrectly.

    Why is GW Bush our president? It was God's choice." http://dutyisours.com/gwbush.htm

    " Four days before the presidential election, a woman at the counter at a diner in Hershey, Pa., said, ''I really believe George Bush is appointed by God to lead us at this time.'' " http://www.commondreams.org/views04/1116-21.htm

    etc etc.

    but fair enough, i'll give obama his chance.

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  14. Salvador Quan
    October 17th, 2010 at 9:31 am

    Out-BS Bush, it is foreseeable that Obama will indeed speak more of it. The country is problematic and when problems arise the level of BS will also rise. In 6 years who knows how much of it he will be able to spew from his lips. Hopefully though the state of the nation will be better.

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