President Obama took a swipe yesterday at former President Bush in remarks to supporters in California and discussed why he ran for president.
“For the last decade, it felt like that compact, that bond, that contract that we made with each other had been broken and that too many people were not being treated fairly,” Obama said to a Hollywood audience. “And what made it worse was nobody in Washington seemed to care.” President Bush, of course, occupied the White House for all of that decade before Obama’s presidential run.
Obama’s Hollywood remarks parallel a speech he made the same day to a Los Angeles crowd, when he revealed “what got me involved in this presidential business” is that “somewhere along the line people felt as if that compact got broken.” In that speech, though, Obama took a longer view of American degeneracy, saying that “for decades the American people felt as if the rules had somehow changed on them.”
