Would you rather have a president who HIDES the truth like BUSH or Obama who speaks the truth??

[futureliveshere]

Here is the latest from our deaf, dumb and blind man on the Hill who pretends to run the show.

Bush conceded earlier that before the surge began last year, he was pessimistic about the way the war in Iraq was going.

"How worried were you?" Raddatz asked.

"I was worried. Look, I'm worried any time it looks like we're going to fail in Iraq," Bush said.

During that time in 2006, when many were saying Iraq was in a full-blown civil war, Bush kept his rhetoric upbeat, saying in speeches that We're winning" and "We have a plan for victory."

Raddatz asked the president about that, and the president insisted he did it to keep up troop morale.

"That's as much to try and bolster the spirits of the people in the field as well -- you can't have the commander in chief say to a bunch of kids who are sacrificing that either it's not worth it or you're losing. What does that do for morale?" Bush said.

The link: http://abcnews.go.com/WN/Politics/story?id=4633561&page=1

So the president knew that the situation was grim and yet repeatedly lied to the rest of us that "WE ARE WINNING in Iraq". After all he had to get new faces over there to replace the brave men and women who laid down their lives for his misguided policies.

This is the man who was elected President and in contrast we now have a man who is willing to say things as they are. We should be encouraging all our politicians to say the truth rather than say ONLY THAT WHAT WE WANT TO HEAR.

Now to what Obama said today:

You go into these small towns in Pennsylvania and, like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing's replaced them...And they fell through the Clinton administration, and the Bush administration, and each successive administration has said that somehow these communities are gonna regenerate and they have not.

And it's not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.

Here Obama is talking about the bigger picture here as to why a community can choose to become more inward looking, protectionist and fearful of the future when there are fewer jobs to go around and higher prices. People naturally turn towards the comfort zone and resist change in such a scenario.

This is a PLAIN HARD TRUTH and he is being brave saying it. This is the common psychology of a large population of people, especially when they were previously affluent and have now fallen on hard times. And when they see the big-shots and fat-cats in DC, NYC and other urban centres rake in the moolah hands over fist. Thats where the bitterness comes from

One must not take it personally and should celebrate the fact that we have a poitician who says it as it is and talks to us as though we are thinking adults rather than blubbering idiots.

[Redbear]

1. It is refreshing.

Although I would love to see him back up that truth with solutions.

[futureliveshere]

3. You and me both, but I think based on his senate record he has a better chance than the other two.

[Muttocracy]

2. I'd rather have blunt than lying. nt

[futureliveshere]

4. Hell, we would be outa Iraq if GWB had once admitted to the truth.

[futureliveshere]

5. Or never have gone into Iraq in the first place.