President Obama is Wrong to Characterize Our Choices as One or The Other

President Obama and the Democrats are in political trouble, and they know it.  They are projecting to November and anticipating the difficulties their party will likely have, as they are at great risk of losing control of the House of Representatives, as well as lose significant seats in the Senate.

So the President is doing what he can to change perceptions.  He continues to use the unpopularity of the Bush presidency as a crutch.  He uses it to paint our choices as voters as a black and white choice between his policies, and "going back" to the Bush policies.  The President presents this as if there are no other policy choices out there.  This is not the case.
Nothing is static, especially in politics.  The Republican party is not the same.  The mistakes of the Bush administation, the tea party movement, and the aggressively radical policies of the left (lead by President Obama) are factors that have influenced the Republican party today.  The party today is no longer the party it was when Bush was in office.  Change is unavoidable for both parties.  Despite how the President sets the scene, nobody can go back, even if one wanted to go back.

The President is wrong.  The choices for direction of the country is not a straight line, either A or B.  It's an array of choices in infinite directions.  The President wants us to believe we have to either support his policies or support the old Bush policies, a kind of either-with-me-or-against-me credo.  This is not so.  Americans are wiser.  Republicans are wiser.  Conservatives are wiser.  We have all learned from the failings of the previous big government administrations, whether they were Republican or Democrat.  My fear is that it's too late.  We've gone too far down the Big Government road to reel it in.  Perhaps.  One thing of which I am certain; the Obama-left-big government direction of the country can not be sustained, and the direction will eventually change.