June 02nd, 2014

Okay, I confess. I love a great sense of humor. Which is probably why I was and remain to this day a great fan of George W. Bush. No question about it. He was funny. And satirical. My favorite of his jokes? Hmmm. I think it was the one about taking our troops in and out of Iraq with victory in hand within a year. When I ran into George to complain that the war had taken so much longer and cost us so much more, he rightfully laughed at me and asked me if I had recently lost my sense of humor. "Why do you ask?" I said to him. And that's when he started to laugh as he said, "I was only kidding back then. Couldn't you tell."

And it was then that I finally got it. President Bush did have a great sense of humor. About the war in Iraq, and about his eight year economic plan which took us from the heights of the Clinton years to the depths of the great recession year at the end of the Bush presidency. Now I got it. When he would tell us with his serious look that he had good plans for us in so many areas, he was only kidding. He was the master of dry humor. Yes, now I see it. He was really funny.

As for Obama, he's too serious. Okay, so he has improved our economy in comparison to where it was when Bush handed it to him.  And okay, so he bought into a Heritage Foundation conservative concept of health care that has made some positive differences for a portion of American citizens. Big deal. Where are the laughs?