Support the President - But Not the Drones

So, I read this, and thought I'd comment. Maybe i should include the CNN link, too, as  evidence that I read more than just FOX. 

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/03/17/bush-obama-deserves-silence-wont-criticize-new-administration/

A couple of paragraphs:

Bush declined to critique the Obama administration in his first speech since leaving office in January. Former Vice President Dick Cheney has said that Obama's decisions threatened America's safety.

"I'm not going to spend my time criticizing him. There are plenty of critics in the arena," Bush said. "He deserves my silence."

Bush said he wants Obama to succeed and said it's important that he has that support. Talk-show host Rush Limbaugh has said he hoped Obama would fail.

"I love my country a lot more than I love politics," Bush said. "I think it is essential that he be helped in office."

I didn't ponder on this for a long time, but I had the sense that a few different interpretations of his response could be made:

1) "Isn't he a noble man, refusing to lower himself to the essentially meaningless criticism that he was subjected to?" (I'm referring to the meaningless, not useful, criticism he came under, which is what this would be against President Obama.

2) "What an idiot! He has a chance to catch his political enemy and gives it up hoping that if he gives President Obama a pass, we'll give him a pass. Yeah right!" (I imagine people of this mentality are likely to take umbrage with quoted paragraph 4 above)

3) This is what President's do, so it's not really a surprise that this is his reaction. What's the big deal?

I tend towards the last of these, but it was a good reminder to me of something I said a lot while President Bush was in office, and that governed my thinking in the first weeks after President Obama's inauguration. We need unity in the important things. We need people to stop being personal and to support the important things that they can give on, while making criticisms against the important things that they can't give on, as well. 

That said, while I fully intend to do all I can to support Obama as our President, I feel no obligation to be supportive of the manipulated drones who voted him into office. I think he duped them and while I want to support him in fixing our economy and solving some wartime issues, I think there are already lots of evidences that he is not who he has said that he is, and that that will become more apparent as time progresses.

I'll point out at the same time that I can hardly fault someone for not voting for McCain, either. I'm a Romney man, and I'll probably have some things to say about him in the future, too.