By Jeffrey Scott Shapiro"Last night President Obama gave his first State of the Union address to Congress and the American people, and as always, he repeatedly attacked George W. Bush.
President Obama may be successful at motivating his far-left base, but during the past year he has failed miserably at uniting the country because with every call for bipartisanship is a veiled criticism of Bush.
Whether it is arrogance or ignorance, Obama fails to realize that tens of millions of Americans still support President Bush and consider him to be a living symbol of what we believe in.
But Mr. Obama showed real audacity last night in our State of the Union address when he repeatedly blamed the state of the economy on Bush’s policies; his efforts to liberate Iraq and Afghanistan while fighting a necessary War on Terror in response to the Sept. 11 attacks, all in the wake of asking Bush to accompany President Clinton to stabilize Haiti.
Members of the electorate who did not vote for Obama are still Americans and many of us want to support our nation's leader. He is, after all the president of the United States, and although many of us disagree with some of his policies, we do not want to treat Obama the way Democrats treated Bush."
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