Bush was a puppet too, Cheney was pulling a lot of strings. How sad is it though that when the nation needed Bush to put on a show, he was there out in front after 9/11, after Katrinia, while Obama goes on vacation during the BP spill.
At least Bush would put himself in front of the real press from time to time, none of this crap that Obama does, going on TV shows to answer softball questions instead of standing before the real press