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Charles Krauthammer is far from the first person to call out United States President Barack Obama for Obama's continued, "child-like" attacks on his predecessor George W. Bush (see embedded video).
Krauthammer's words, however, provide a succinct assessment of the situation.
Not only is the Obama Administration being knowingly dishonest in their pronouncements about Bush (see first link), Obama's increasingly-embarrassing rants about his predecessor are, as Krauthammer points out, starting to do real damage to the image of a president who falsely claimed during his campaign that he would deliver a new, post-partisan brand of politics.
Moreover, such defensive outbursts by the current president both betray an inability to accept responsibility for his own decisions and they feed a growing narrative (see second link) of a potentially neurotic Oval Office occupant.
Charles Krauthammer, a one-time psychiatrist, likely could weigh-in on that last point.
Don't expect him to do so, though. Unlike Barack Obama, Krauthammer appears to have ascertained what the proper boundaries for public discourse should be as regards a current or former United States president.
German magazine Der Spiegel just published an interview that it did with Krauthammer (see third link). The publication notes the high regard America has for the prize-winning columnist.
Seeing as Barack Obama seems to greatly value the opinions of Europeans, one hopes that the president can mimic the respect Der Spiegel affords Krauthammer and begin to desist from his divisive and self-debasing invectives towards George W. Bush.