The Boss

President Black Bush: England... Japan's sending Playstations... Stankonia said they are willing to drop bombs over Baghdad... Rickidy Raw is coming... Afrika Bambaataa and the Zulu Nation.

A memorable quote from the Chapelle Show, the scene is titled "Black Bush" and it aired April 14, 2004. The idea is that sitting president, George W. Bush, had a "gangsta" mentality in his approach to foreign policy. For Black Bush, their is no shame in going to war. Any who oppose his policy are considered ignorant to his master plan and are deliberately misled. Though Chapelle created in the medium of the satire and absurd, his political insight on President Bush's aggressive foreign policy was important. Today, we again find a president in the thorough of criticism for pursuing an aggressive foreign policy. The New York Times recently vilified the president for his mirror image approach to the war on terror. "Mr. Obama is the liberal law professor who campaigned against the Iraq war and torture, and then insisted on approving every new name on an expanding “kill list,” poring over terrorist suspects’ biographies on what one official calls the macabre “baseball cards” of an unconventional war." The article insinuates a near obsession gripping President Obama as he battle our ruthless enemy, Al Qaeda. Downplaying his consistent approach in utilizing violence to neutralize threats as baffling to liberals and confounding to conservatives; a drastically different picture is painted from the traditional war mongering yellow journalism that has plagued the New York Times (see: Thomas Friedman, Iran coverage ).  President Obama has maintained a Republican foreign policy, as far as conservative pundits are concerned, their should be no change of course.  The ritual of politics is a vehement battle for credibility.  To criticize the President for taking a thorough approach towards our nations national security, while championing the sacrifice of more American lives in the event of a war with Iran, is what we should come to expect from elitist media outlets.  The President's opponents are wavering, all the cards must be used in this final push for a new regime in power.