Bush Bashing

More class from our president.

“They have not come up with a single solitary, new idea to address the challenges of the American people,” Obama said. “They don’t have a single idea that’s different from George Bush’s ideas ... not one.”

That sentiment was echoed once again on Wednesday during a speech before the AFL-CIO and at a fundraiser in Chicago, Illinois, a day later.

“They haven’t come out with a single solitary idea that is different from policies that held sway for eight years before Democrats took over,” Obama said Thursday. “Not a single policy difference that’s discernable from [George W.] Bush. Not one.”

Since taking office, Obama has largely referred to the “previous administration” or the “Republican control for the past eight years” in place of saying the name “Bush.”

So why the recent surge in Bush-bashing? It may have something to do with polls.

And it may have something to do with Obama’s tried and true tactic of personalizing and demonizing policies with which he disagrees.  I wish Bush was classless enough to respond.  No… I don’t.