Ron Fournier is digging into the heart of why Obama is just like Bush:
Why does this matter? Because a president’s credibility matters. President Bush’s second term effectively ended when Americans grew tired of his administration’s spinning and dissembling over Iraq and Katrina. They stopped trusting him. They stopped listening to him. He no longer had the moral authority to lead.
You guys, it wasn’t gross incompetence that turned the country against Bush, it was “spinning and dissembling”. If Scott McClellan, Tony Snow and Dana Perino had just flat-out told the press that Iraq was a clown show /cluster fuck and people died in Katrina because FEMA was gutted and ignored, then Bush would have been far more popular. Now Jay Carney is repeating the deadly mistake of trying to mislead the press about Benghazi and the IRS auditing tea partiers, which makes them just as bad as a war that killed 4,500 soldiers, or a storm that claimed 1,800 victims.