CBS has sunk even lower posting an article from The New Republic on their site. Just take a look at this idiotic piece of writing.
Mousavi is not Iran’s Barack Obama. He’s more like John Kerry, and this election year is strikingly like 2004 in the United States. The incumbent president is deeply unpopular at home and abroad. He came to power with a dubious mandate, but governed in a polarizing fashion that has divided even his one-time allies. Iranians have paid the price in every area of life that is touched by the government. The election is Mousavi’s to lose–but to win it, he will need to unite a divided opposition, and inspire at least a few of the beleaguered urban voters who have stopped going to the polls.
Bush’s approval rating during the 2004 election was around 53% (Rasmussen). If that’s “deeply unpopular” then what does CBS call Obama’s 54% approval rating? The left just can’t stop kicking Bush. They’ve blamed him for every conceivable problem imaginable for eight years. This is why people like Ted Rall are confused about many of Obama’s actions. The fact is Bush was a poor communicator that governed during troubling times. He is not a stupid man and he didn’t govern in a “polarizing fashion.” These liberal truths are not self-evident. They’re the product of eight years of derangement and myth making.
While Bush probably gets blamed for a lot of the problems he didn’t create. I think we can look back and safely say that his domestic presidency was an utter failure.
As long as we’re talking about big media web pages I think we have to look at foxnews.com today. The biggest presidential promise Obama made was to provide a health-care overall. He’s making his pitch to the AMA and Fox believes a $490 million yacht is more important!