Both have funneled a tremendous amount of wealth to the top 1%, Bush in the form of tax rate cuts for the top brackets, and Obama in the form of a no strings attached $13 trillion bailout to Wall St.

Both have no control over the ideologues in their administrations. With Bush it was the hawks and neocons who talked him into starting the Iraq war. With Obama it’s the hard leftists whose petty grudges against the opposition have derailed his presidency to the point of near lame duck status. And even though Obama is smart enough to have eliminated Anita Dunn and Van Jones, it has revealed that he is as easily controlled (if more easily) than Bush was…

Both are handled and controlled by people much smarter and experienced in the craft of screwing Americans. Bush was controlled by the established middle east war apparatus, and Obama has been controlled by a small group of crony capitalists who have devised the largest transfer of wealth in the history of the world.

Both admins had/have Attorney Generals who circumvent the process of law and instead run clandestine campaigns against free speech.

Both administrations have made organized attempts at stifling dissent to the point of marginalizing their detractors as unpatriotic and anti-American.

Both are completely ineffective at articulating the methodology for their large policy endeavors. With Bush it was the reasons for war, with Obama it is the necessity of health care reform.

Both had/have the benefit of a defeated and ineffectual opposition party during their reign.

And, as many here on the TCB and abroad point out with diligence, both presidents had/have large sums of faithful dullards whose blind support and admiration enables them to run rampant in their course of failure.

By the way, congrats Ishan. You can do better than Obama.

First Bush refused to confirm or deny his cocaine use. Later he would say only that “when I was young and irresponsible, I was young and irresponsible.” Next he said that the issue wasn’t relevant. Then he said that he wouldn’t address “rumors.” Then he said that he could pass a standard security check dating back seven years. Finally, he said that he could have passed the security check in his father’s White House.

Bush’s handling of the cocaine question illustrates how he dealt with embarrassing mistakes – obfuscate and side-step, dodge, hedge and fail to be frank.

In February 2004, Eric Boehlert in Salon Magazine reported that Bush’s cessation of flying in April 1972 and his subsequent refusal to take a physical examination came at the same time the Air Force announced a Medical Service Drug Abuse Testing Program.

For the record, George Bush has three arrests on his record:

The first arrest was for theft at a hotel.
The second arrest was for disorderly conduct.
The third arrest was for drunk driving.

Also FTR, Laura Bush (nee Welch), at age 17, ran a stop sign, struck and and killed her boyfriend. To this day, the full accident report has not been released by the Midland, Texas PD.

We all did dumb stuff. We didn’t all kill people.

There’s little doubt about how many Van Hool employees use AC Transit.