[Hoot Gibson]

Is Bush a socialist since the government took over AIG when he was in office?

It seems that no matter how many times that I slam Bush's domestic policies, liberals still assume that I must have supported him lockstep because I oppose nearly every Obama policy. Do I consider Bush a hard line socialist, as I do Obama? No, I do not. Were the bailout socialist actions? Yes they were.

The billions of dollars that Bush spent in Africa to get Bono's approval and in the hopes that it would win the votes of black Americans was even worse than the AIG bailout. It is bad enough to take money out of the pockets of job-producing American citizens and give it to American citizens who refuse to work - but to give such an enormous sum of tax dollars to corrupt African regimes to fight AIDS was inexcusable, IMO. AIDS is a largely preventable disease. Spending money to fight it in this country can arguably be justified by the "general welfare" clause of the US Constitution but no such argument can be made to support Bush's decision.

However, Bush did not surround himself at the highest level of by a cadre of Mao-admiring communists and socialists. Obama did and besides, whatever Bush did does not excuse Obama's expansive socialist agenda.

Bush is no longer president and liberals had eight years to attack his every move. Now it is your turn to defend Obama's actions on their own merits. "Bush did it too!" is not much of a justification. Is it?