{"id":4170,"date":"2010-03-11T13:32:30","date_gmt":"2010-03-11T18:32:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=4170"},"modified":"2010-03-11T13:32:30","modified_gmt":"2010-03-11T18:32:30","slug":"bush-still-classier-than-obama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/4170\/bush-still-classier-than-obama\/","title":{"rendered":"Bush Still Classier than Obama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Say what you will about the 43<sup>rd<\/sup> president\u2019s public speaking skills, machismo, or ideology, but what George W. Bush lacked in \u201cnuance\u201d and \u201cpolish\u201d he compensated for richly with a statesman\u2019s adherence to protocol.\u00a0 Even though the Supreme Court repeatedly invalidated carefully crafted terrorism legislation that enjoyed broad majorities in Congress, Bush never took the low and easy road of public scolding.\u00a0 Nor did he allow his subordinates.<\/p>\n<p>Not so with his \u201cpost-partisan\u201d successor.\u00a0 In a sophomoric move that may permanently affect the public relationship between the president and members of the Supreme Court, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=k92SerxLWtc \" target=\"_blank\">President Barack Obama castigated a ruling<\/a> extending free speech rights to associations like labor unions and corporations.\u00a0 Not only did Associate Justice Samuel Alito <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/8301-504564_162-6149295-504564.html \" target=\"_blank\">react at the time<\/a>, now Chief Justice John Roberts is speculating that <a href=\"http:\/\/thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com\/2010\/03\/10\/white-house-spars-with-the-chief-justice\/?hp \" target=\"_blank\">perhaps justices shouldn\u2019t attend<\/a> future joint sessions of Congress.\u00a0 If that happens, it will be one more example of Obama vulgarizing our politics.\u00a0 (Another is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4O_AkcwoFwk&amp;feature=related \" target=\"_blank\">his refusal to call members of Congress by their title<\/a> of Representative or Senator knowing that they will still honor the tradition of calling him \u201cMr. President.\u201d)<\/p>\n<p>Maybe Bush 43 played up everyman pastimes like cutting mesquite trees and exercising too much for some people\u2019s tastes.\u00a0 But when you compare his quiet class both during and after his presidency to the current occupant\u2019s constant whining and unceremonious behavior, it\u2019s easy to see which person is a fully formed man.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Say what you will about the 43rd president\u2019s public speaking skills, machismo, or ideology, but what George W. Bush lacked in \u201cnuance\u201d and \u201cpolish\u201d he compensated for richly with a statesman\u2019s adherence to protocol.\u00a0 Even though the Supreme Court repeatedly invalidated carefully crafted terrorism legislation that enjoyed broad majorities in Congress, Bush never took the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[143,491,941,942],"class_list":["post-4170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-barack-obama","tag-george-w-bush","tag-john-roberts","tag-samuel-alito"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4170"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4177,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4170\/revisions\/4177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}