What did George "Whoopass" Bush do in '08 when Russia took (and kept) 20% of Georgia's territory?

[africanadian]

I dunno, maybe I'm just a dumb Canuck, but when I see Dick Cheney and Sarah Palin and John Bolton bleating like goats about President Obama's "weakness" and "naivete" and whatnot, I'm just here wracking my puny frozen brain trying to discern what exactly W (which is just an upside-down M which stands for Manliness!) did six years ago that was substantively different from what Obama's doing now.

Anybody care to explain to a poor ferner?

[liberal N proud]

1. He wasn't black

[africanadian]

13. That's...what I figured

It appears that, to your country's wingnuts, the 43rd president Governed With Brilliance, irreproachable, while the current President is guilty of Governing While Black. The sad irony is that G, W, and B serve as initials for both.

[B Calm]

2. They only beat their weakness drum when we have Democratic Presidents.

[Enrique]

3. Cheney explained it on "Face the nation" Sunday

he said that was the end of the Bush administration and the beginning of the Obama administration.

Similar to the way 9/11 wasn't "really" on Bush's watch.

[malaise]

4. Bwaaaaaaaaah

Remember they kept America safe - after the worst attack in history.

[Scuba]

5. He wanted to wrestle Putin, but unfortunately had to cut brush in Crawford that year.

[father founding]

10. he was on a freedom vacation.

Your talking about the freedom brush. of course

[11 Bravo]

6. I'll take "Not a fucking thing because he was on vacation" for $1000, Alex.

[KansDem]

7. The same thing he did when he learned America was under attack on 9/11

[africanadian]

15. All right, come clean!

You got that from the "bleating like goats" reference in the OP, didn't you?

[KansDem]

17. Yeah, you got me...

Look hard and you'll see them in there somewhere

[Dustlawyer]

8. What is the basis of the new attack calling Obama the "vacation" President?

I have seen it a couple of times recently and I thought they must be joking!

[okaawhatever]

12. The basis is he took a long weekend in Florida and the Ukraine crisis was going on. They wll not

mention Bush's failure to end vacations when big things were going on. Nor will they mention that at the end of last summer Bush had an extra 300 days of vacation over Obama. This is dog whistle politics The implication is that Obama (the black man) takes too many vacations (he's lazy). Bigots don't care about the truth, hearing the story confirms their own ignorant views.

[africanadian]

16. Yes, a feedback loop, albeit of the non-climatological variety

But don't worry, that one's coming as well, due largely to Dick and Georgie and pals in the fossil-fuel industry:

[Thespian2]

9. "Bush's Brain"

was always on vacation. Is anyone sure Cheney even told W that Russia had taken part of Georgia? If so, W probably wondered what happened to Atlanta.

[Demo_Chris]

11. Bush did the same thing Obama is goong to do... nothing. nt

[polly7]

14. The truth about South Ossetia

After the west heaped blame on Russia for the conflict, it ignores new evidence of Georgia's crimes of aggression

Seumas Milne
theguardian.com, Friday 31 October 2008 16.15 GM

So now they tell us. Two months after the brief but bloody war in the Caucasus which was overwhelmingly blamed on Russia by western politicians and media at the time, a serious investigation by the BBC has uncovered a very different story.

Not only does the report by Tim Whewell – aired this week on Newsnight and on Radio 4's File on Four - find strong evidence confirming western-backed Georgia as the aggressor on the night of August 7. It also assembles powerful testimony of wide-ranging war crimes carried out by the Georgian army in its attack on the contested region of South Ossetia.

They include the targeting of apartment block basements – where civilians were taking refuge – with tank shells and Grad rockets, the indiscriminate bombardment of residential districts and the deliberate killing of civilians, including those fleeing the South Ossetian capital of Tskinvali.
The carefully balanced report – which also details evidence of ethnic cleansing by South Ossetian paramilitaries – cuts the ground from beneath later Georgian claims that its attack on South Ossetia followed the start of a Russian invasion the previous night.

At the time, the Georgian government said its assault on Tskinvali was intended to "restore constitutional order" in an area it has never ruled, as well as to counter South Ossetian paramilitary provocations. Georgian intelligence subsequently claimed to have found the tape of an intercepted phone call backing up its Russian invasion story – but even Georgia's allies balk at a claim transparently intended to bolster its shaky international legal position .

Full article: http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2008/oct/31/russia-georgia