President Presumptive

OK. Who’s loving that Jesse Jackson said "nuts" on national TV? Raising her hand.

Back story that you all know, but let’s go through it anyway. Obama goes to black churches and says, "any fool can have a child. That doesn’t make you a
father… Too many fathers are AWOL,
missing from too many lives and too many homes."

This caused a ripple of debate in the blogosphere. Ross Douthat discusses marriage rates among the white working class. A piece in PJM tells Obama to lay off black fathers. Ta-Nehisi Coates has written several posts on this topic. On the Today show, they first discussed Nutsgate and then had some expert talk about how blacks think Obama should deal with this sensitive topic. He said, we should not only scold the deadbeat dads, but point a finger at social as a whole for creating a hostile environment for black men.

Where’s George Bush? Is he still the president? I heard some vague talk about him in the press at the G8 conference where they bravely decided to lower fuel emissions by 2050, but that’s about it. Not that I’m complaining or anything.

George Bush has handed over the bully pulpit to Obama. The chatter in blogosphere and in the mainstream media is about stuff that’s happening in Obamaworld. Nobody is wasting ink or keyboard clicks on Bush.

Has Bush landed in "lame duck" land, earlier than previous presidents?