Dana Perino wants Obama to stop blaming Bush, since he's being so nice by staying silent
Ex-White House Press Secretary Dana Perino told Greta Van Susteren last night on Fox that she wished President Obama would stop making those unpleasant allusions to her old boss, George W. Bush. Because, you know, Bush has not been taking shots at Obama.
Oddly, nary a mention of Dick Cheney was heard.
Perino was upset that Obama, in his interview for 60 Minutes, referenced Bush's military triumphalism:
Obama: And one of the mistakes that was made over the last eight years is for us to have a triumphant sense about war.
There was a tendency to say, "We can go in. We can kick some tail. This is some glorious exercise." When in fact, this is a tough business.
But Van Susteren at least pointed out that when George W. Bush was president, there was no shortage of blaming the previous administration:
Van Susteren: When President Bush 43 took office, was he critical in a similar way of President Clinton, his predecessor? Because one of the things I think we all want to think about, is we want our presidents having greatness about them and not getting petty.
Perino: I wasn't there at the beginning, and I think there is a certain amount of comparison that has to go on at the beginning. But almost everyone -- the left, right, and center -- columnists, even late-night talk-show hosts, are suggesting to President Obama that he lay off.
Well, no, Dana, you weren't around in the early years of the Bush administration. So maybe you weren't there for the endless list of things that Bush blamed Clinton for -- some of which included the following:
In 2002, he blamed Clinton for the recession.
Also in 2002, for the mess in the Middle East.
In 2004, for manufacturing job losses.
Also in 2004, for a shortage of flu vaccine.
In 2005, for "running from terrorists" and generally causing 9/11.
In 2006, for Bush's own failures in containing North Korea.
In 2008, for the soaring deficit.
But the best part came when she suggested Obama should not blame Bush for anything because Bush has been nice and quiet since the election and not criticized Obama:
Perino: Look, I think the other thing that you've seen is that President Bush has been an incredibly gracious post-president during the transition, and he said, 'President Obama deserves my silence.' and I would daresay that he deserves a lot more respect than he's getting right now.
Sure, Bush has been "gracious" because all Republicans have to do is send out Bush's surrogate thug, Vice President Cheney -- who in fact probably had at least as much to do with the direction of policy matters in the Bush administration as Bush himself did -- to do the dirty work for him.
Just last week, Cheney told the nation that the Obama administration was committing treason.
Before that, Cheney accused Obama of "dithering" on Afghanistan. He attacked Obama's decision to investigate torture policies under the Bush/Cheney regime. And he criticized Obama's Iraq withdrawal plans.
Yeah, pretty freaking gracious, those Republicans.
It's important to remind the public just how we got in this mess, and to remind them that the people who got us here want us to forget that fact. Their only hope is to cover their tracks, and Dana Perino is in the business of doing that.
Make it stop.
"Courtesy is owed. Respect is earned. Love is given." --Unknown author, found in Guide to Texas Etiquette by Kinky Friedman
more shoes, a lot more shoes thrown at him, and that is being too nice.
Goodnight, Frau Blücher
..jail w and cheney and wolfowitz and rumsfeld and the lawyers and the guy who outed the CIA agent and everyone of those m-f-ing war criminals. Shoes is being too nice!
Mickey: "It was an epiphany. Do you know what an epipany is?"
Keoni: "NOT NOW MICKEY!"
Dana is delusional as well as stupid.
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Mickey: "It was an epiphany. Do you know what an epipany is?"
Keoni: "NOT NOW MICKEY!"
To take a job in HIS administration???
She's a physically attractive but less intelligent version of Joseph Goebbels.
sums her and Bush and most of the whole stinking lot of reich-wingers up.
Now tell yer boss DICK to STFU!!!
What is your conceptual, continuity?
for an administration filled with heinous unprosecuted war criminals. But we can't always get what we want.
PS. Obama, fire her. Remember what happened when Clinton kept on Bush I appointees?
me-oww!
WTF did Obama hire her?
far left loon >.<
...your enemies closer.
It would be nice to believe that, but I think they're all on the same team where the US government is concerned.
far left loon >.<
So they can stab you in the back.
NOBODY 2012
I'm tellin' ya, if someone can make enough money they'll say just about anything. (There are exceptions, but plenty to fill the above ranks.)
far left loon >.<
If I was part of the most corrupt and disastrous administration in the history of the United States I'd want everyone to keep quiet and let it go too . Just water under the bridge huh Perino ? You nitwit !
Insanity , it is what it is , there is no understanding it .
.....is more like it.
So the Republican Right Wing Hacks and TV personalities and everybody on FAUX blame Obama for what is happining now. The TRUTH is that everything that is happining now is Bush/Cheney/Murdoch's fault Unemployment will not go down for a long time and that is Bush's fault. You cannot turn around unemployment by flipping a switch. The Economy cratered.
world almost collapsed. Not just our economy. The whole damn planets.
What is your conceptual, continuity?
"...And we all know what a fuck I am with history."
Really Dana? Name names, cite quotes. Or have you forgotten who? And while we're at it, are they people who elected the guy? Were you on board with Dimson listening to his critics? I don't recall a similar proclamation from you back then.
me-oww!
Exactly! Just like everybody else at FAUX she thows shit at the wall hoping something will stick. She worked for George W. Bush, the worst president in the country's history. Nothing more to say is there.
All of this is Bush/Cheney/Murdoch’s fault. They blame Obama. Obama sets the record straight because he has to. Perino doesn’t like it. Tough shit. Bush and his right wing partners in crime ruined this country. If Perino can’t handle Bush/Cheney/Murdoch getting the blame tough shit. Has she said once that Obama was handed a huge problem?? Has she? Until they tell the truth, she and Greta can go to hell.
Isn't this the same dumb bee-yotch that didn't know what the "Bay of Pigs" referred to? And the same one that OBAMA just rehired for some position? Maybe she should stand up for her current boss rather than her old one.
I recall that incident when her microphone gave her a black eye.
Karma, baby!
...ummmm ...was that like a roast or a tailgate party or something... ?...cause like, yah.... I wasnt there for the beginning of that e-thur ..."
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Classic example how Fox pushes its anti-Obama agenda in the form of a fake spontaneous interview. How spontaneous is it when Van Susteren just happens to have the exact quote right in front of her to support Perinos response? Unless maybe shes psychic.
"Well, heres what so and so says ..."
in response to whatever the on camera Flying Monkey just said .... Wolf Blister is notorious for it ... and yet ...people buy this bogus 'interview' which is in reality nothin more than a Video Press Release.
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I don't watch most of them. Do I need to? I read about them and I remmeber Perino so... what's changed?
far left loon >.<
Blaming Bush for the problems we are now facing. And what really stinks is Obama using actual facts, why can't Obama just lie and say that Bush was an ok president?
Perino is Another Bushie with shell shock. Pitty, but hardly news worthy at this point.
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
wants to hire this c&%$t?
A typesetter?
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
gives this wackaloon a job with OUR tax dollars??? Thanks for keeping the wingnut welfare rolling there Obama!
been on a year-long drunk now. As in 'too drunk to talk.'
me-oww!
this stupid bitch to anything?
tits.
me-oww!
"With the right mammary glands you could rule this planet." Men in Black.
far left loon >.<
rash limpball's is bigger.
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
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me-oww!
Is his hair...
I was thinking 4 letters ... starts with "C" and rhymes with ...ah never mind ...
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He's not the intellect we thought he was!!!!!
they want the Bush Legacy to go away. personally, i think it's more than fair for the obama administration to put blame where appropriate. the right has criticized every move obama has made as part of their full-time/perpetual politicization of every decision. much of the spending and current policies/moves by obama have some connection to the BUSH legacy/repair. perino's voice has little meaning to me. she's voicing what all republicans/independents want and that is to forget the BUSH legacy....i can't and won't forget.
"It's important to remind the public just how we got in this mess"
Bummer no M$M outlet or cable channel will remind anybody, eh?
How can we make all Americans read C&L?
UGH!
"I know that there are people who do not love their fellow
man, and I hate people like that! " ~ Tom Lehrer (1928 - )
That's because he knows his Carmen Miranda rights.
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
This woman comes off as a bigger & bigger air head, the more she says the stupider she sounds. But you can tell she is from the propagandist school of the George W administration. She keeps trying to twist and distort the truth, only problem is she is so bad at it that the lies are written all over her face. Another reprehensible & repugnant Republican shill.....make that clown.
Woody McBreairty
Considering Obama appointed her as some sort of useless media person overseas.
She's French too?
Takes a lickin' and keeps on tickin'?
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
She is so silly and pointless. I wish she would STFU and leave us alone.
Is it the 21st century yet?
agree more!
please tell your old boss to not be so gracious and go public airing his grievances.
Convince him to go public..............because 70%+ of the American people are prepared to tear him a new arse-hole.
'Talk to the hand'
Same message to Dana'er that Grayson had for DICK - S T F U !!! Do it now and go away for good !
Hey Dana, are you memory impaired or are you just daft?! Don't blame bush?! Are you F*#^#% kidding me?!
... somebody has gone and fucked her brains out!
My bad.
How dare this partisan hack disparage Obama after he has given her a glam job with a cushy salary!?!?
Oh, and--just for the record--I am severely underwhelmed by Obama's decision to hire this deceitful, unintelligent wingnut! I notice I am not alone in my suspicion that Obama is just the next installment of the Corporate Megalomaniacs' puppet regime.
wake up O-BOMB-A!
Fuck Bush and Dana too.
EWWW.
minutes to so many who have been so wrong....
I guess the more intriguing question is; how would I feel about her in those significant few post coital moments? Would I keep her safe in my arms, or would I be planning my quick but quiet escape?
Nah, I'd probably want to smother her with my pillow.
Such a shame the beautiful head this woman's brain occupies is so terribly wasted.
Oh Dana, blow it out your ass.
Stealing all the "W"s off the computer keyboards.
America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves. ~ Abraham Lincoln
Bullshit.
What is your conceptual, continuity?
Didn't Obama give this bitch a job recently?
I'm beginning to think Obama is a dumb ass like bush.
Did Bush get left with a collapsing economy? Did Bush get left with 2 wars? Did Bush have to deal with a Wall St. meltdown? Did Bush Get saddled with bank meltdowns? Thank you so much for keeping your mouth shut W, its a real testament to your character. And Perino, you're an idiot.
Is still a stooge
But not a Howard.
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
some people thought the only reason she was recently given a job by Obama was to shut her up. This only proves that you can't quiet the stupid in some people.
Dear Mr. President, WTF where you thinking?
...you are feeling sleepy. The Bush years never happened. It was just a bad dream. When you awake, you will feel fully rested and know that the GOP is your friend and had nothing to do with the mess the country is in. It's all the democrats fault and only the Republican Party can save the day.
Government + the Federal Reserve = organized crime
About that Bay of Pigs thing, Dana.....
Every president who takes office after a collosal f#ckup like Bush mentions it from time to time. She's out of her mind if she thinks talk of the mess Bush left behind is out of bounds. I didn't hear her condemn Mr. Cheney and all the backstabbing he's been doing.
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