So Obama chose a businessman as business advisor? I can’t work up too much outrage. Is corruption involved? I don’t know, but even if so, what will the headlines say: Obama deserts his Marxist baby-killing America-hating supporters in support of Wall Street or campaign donor!! ? Sounds like just another dog-bites-man story to me.
There’s only one aspect of this thread that interests me…
Now this would be a genuine man-bites-dog story. A supporter of Stupidism who argues against the stupidity of Stupidist leaders. (There was plenty of Stupidist criticism of Bush, but the charge was that his policies weren’t stupid enough.
Mr. Stone suggests search terms (though also complaining they won’t work 
). I did some of the searches he suggests:
“steel tariffs”
Yep, searching is hard and it was someone else in the this thread who mentioned “steel tariffs.” Still I excerpt here to help Mr. Stone demonstrate his fair-handed and complimentary treatment of Obama.
Mr. Stone suggest agribusiness as a search term to demonstrate his dislike for Bush. The example Google found was posted during the Bush Administration when Congress was Democrat-led:
I searched for Stone posts containing both “Bush” and “Boeing.” Three turned up. The one quoted above, one unrelated discussing NASA and one, from a thread titled “Pelosi’s Palatial Plane Preference: Piggishness or Republican Pablam?”, which fails to support his claim.
So I see no evidence for any man-bites-dog breaking news story.
Mr. Stone’s claim, to allow him to condemn Obama’s “crony capitalism” (
:dubious: ) without appearing hypocrite reminds me of columnist David Brooks, when he wanted to condemn those who accused Bush of prevaricating for the Trillion-Dollar Iraq Mistake. Brooks had devoted many column-inches of whining and pants-soiling about Clinton’s evil Monica-gate, but, with Bush under attack, wanted to retract and apologize for those whines. 