"WIBDI" -- A simple way to test our judgment on when to support / when to criticize President Obama

[lwcon]

http://www.chris-floyd.com/component/content/article/3/1641-wibdi-a-prism-for-the-new-paradigm.html

“WIBDI: What If Bush Did It?”

This user-friendly analytical tool provides a quick and easy way of determining the value of any given policy while correcting one's perception for partisan bias. Simply take a particular action or proposal and submit it to the WIBDI test: If Bush did this, would you think it was OK? Or would you condemn it as the act of a warmonger, or a tyrant, or a corrupt corporate tool, etc.?

[leftofcool]

1. How about I make that decision for myself?

[lwcon]

5. Do what you want, of course

IMHO, it's generally healthy to check whether our positions are biased. This seemed like a good short-hand tip for doing that.

Both Obama skeptics and Obama faithful could use it as a test of their intellectual honesty. Change should show up as change, status quo should show up as status quo.

Not a replacement for your own judgment, but not a bad tool, seems to me.

[mrreowwr_kittty]

2. He won. Get over it. nt

[lwcon]

4. Get over advocating for progressive issues?

We won the 110th Congress, too. Did you get over your concerns about the issues that they didn't solve?

"Get over it" is the language of Scalia. Progressives question authority. Get over that.

[rucky]

3. Can we waterboard Cheney first?

just for a little?

[lwcon]

6. Bush wouldn't hold Cheney accountable

So, by all means!