# Obama and Bush: What makes "competence" in a President?

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**Created:** [March 11, 2009, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-and-bush-what-makes-competence-in-a-president/489105 "2009-03-11T19:18:35Z")\
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**Post date:** [March 13, 2009, 9:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-and-bush-what-makes-competence-in-a-president/489105/32 "2009-03-13T09:48:33Z")

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> [@sailor](#):
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> Oh, the old “stab in the back” justification which I and many have predicted. It’s finally here.

Yes, just as the left has dramatized Limbaugh’s comments as being anti-American, I have no trouble characterizing the abandonment of our responsibilities in Iraq as a stab in the back to the previous administration. Whatever. We have an administration that is steeped in the Marxist left, and will carry out it’s objectives to the horror of the world. No price is too much to pay, to further the cause of collectivism that Obama represents. I have plenty to complain regarding the previous administration, but what is to come is more horrible than anything imagined by Bush & Co. Talk to me in three years, and see who’s legacy is what.

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