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What If Bush Had Done That?

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Josh Gerstein, a former colleague of mine, has quite the dispatch up at Politico:

A four-hour stop in New Orleans, on his way to a $3 million fundraiser.

Snubbing the Dalai Lama.

Signing off on a secret deal with drug makers.

Freezing out a TV network.

Doing more fundraisers than the last president. More golf, too.

President Barack Obama has done all of those things — and more.

Oh, and he also had a political aide and a press secretary sit in on a Situation Room meeting about Afghanistan policy. So where's the interest-group outrage and the negative press? Mr. Gerstein quotes a former George W. Bush aide saying of President Obama: "The watchdogs are curled up around his feet, sleeping soundly."

by Editor | Oct 27, 2009 at 10:59 am Related Topics: Campaign Finance, Health Care, Press receive the latest by email: subscribe to the free futureofcapitalism.com mailing list