LIKE W, BUT LONG-WINDED AND WITHOUT MEANING:

Borrowing From Bush's Playbook: Obama’s speech contained eerie echoes of Bush’s wartime addresses. Or did it? Benjamin Sarlin compares the rhetoric. (Benjamin Sarlin, 12/02/09, Daily Beast)

One common reaction to President Barack Obama's prime-time address outlining a new strategy for Afghanistan: He bore a striking similarity to the president he replaced.

"Much of this speech could be delivered by Bush, even if it would mean something different," Washington Post blogger Ezra Klein wrote on Twitter during the speech.

Also on Twitter, The American Prospect's Adam Serwer wrote: "I hate to say it, but I think everyone's kinda thinking it: POTUS sounded a little like the guy we voted out of office last year." [...]

Obama's speech was significantly longer, about 4,600 words compared to just under 3,000 in Bush's 2007...