..since Rud911y G911ulia911i claims there were “no domestic attacks” under Bush.
OK, well, one. But, like, who remembers it, right?
Part of the problem with being rational is having to condemn irrationality. That is, there’s a lot of Obama’s actual and proposed policies I disagree with. His personal philosophy and values are not moderate or centrist, but quite doctrinaire leftist, and if he could wave his magic wand and make America into a Eurosocialist nation, he would. However, this doesn’t make him a Communist Muslim Zionist, and regardless of his personal beliefs and philosophies, the American system has a President, not a King, and his ability to implement such policies are extremely limited. He is beholden to innumerable power groups, and so is Congress. So when people screech that America was destroyed when a half-assed and mostly-meaningless “health care reform” bill was rammed through using tricks no dirtier than those used continually over the past 220 or so years by Congress, I have to raise a disbelieving eyebrow. Fact is, the PATRIOT act is far more anti-American than socialized medicine. While the Constitution doesn’t explicitly grant the government that power, it also explicitly doesn’t deny it — while much of what happened in the “War On Terror” front during the Bush administration is a direct and undeniable assault on the Bill of Rights. George Bush II violated almost every moral and philosophical tenet of conservatism — he created a government more bloated than that of the “Great Society”, altered law by executive fiat, and greatly increased the power of the State to interfere in the lives of private citizens. He began the socialistic bailouts of failed businesses which Obama continued.
And, yet, during the Bush years, I was often put in the position of defending him, because despite all of the above, he was not especially more corrupt or evil than his predecessors. The war in Iraq was wrong-headed and stupid, but it wasn’t fought because “George Bush wants to kill brown people” or “George Bush is trying to wipe out Islam”. Nor did Bush conspire to bring down the World Trade Center with anti-matter bombs, as some people have, apparently seriously, claimed. Dubya also doesn’t have access to the Orbital Weather Satellites[1], so he neither caused, nor failed to stop, Hurricane Katrina.
There’s good and bad reasons to criticize someone. Using the bad reasons just strengthens the target of your criticism.
[1]They were taken over by the Gnomes on turn 4, and they in turn control the Boy Sprouts and the Convenience Stores.