Krauthammer: Obama attacks on Bush “disgusting”
posted at 9:30 am on October 28, 2009 by Ed Morrissey
When does a President stop blaming his predecessor and start taking responsibility for his own actions? To be fair, that has been an eternal question in the American context, but it does seem as though Barack Obama has a crutch that he refuses to put aside. Economy? Blame Bush! Media? Blame Bush! Afghanistan? Especially there, Charles Krauthammer argues, Obama has been “disgusting” in his blameshifting, especially since it has been six months since Obama rolled out his own strategy on the war (via Radio Vice Online):
I want to point out one thing about what Obama had said when he talked about “the long years of drift.” There is something truly disgusting about the way he cannot refrain from attacking Bush when he’s being defensive about himself. I mean, it’s beyond disgraceful here. He won election a year ago. He became the Commander [in] Chief two months later. He announced his own strategy — not the Bush strategy, his strategy — six months ago, and it wasn’t off-handed, it was in a major address, with the Secretary of State and the Secretary of Defense standing with him. And now he’s still talking about “the drift” in the Bush years. What’s happening today is not a result of the drift, so-called, of the Bush years, it’s because of the drift in his years. It’s because of the flaws in his own strategy, which is what he’s actively examining.
Disgusting? At best, one can say that it shows a lack of intestinal fortitude when it comes to taking criticism. No President gets a tabula rasa on entering office, and every president since Washington has had to deal with issues that began during a previous term in office. It comes with the territory, which is why 42 other Presidents dispensed with the whining and took responsibility for their own actions.
Obama may have gotten himself elected by promising to be the not-Bush, and he certainly won his Nobel Peace Prize for being the not-Bush. However, if he wants to be President, he’ll need to start acting like it and quit sniveling about the fact that he won the election after Bush — which he himself chose to do.
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I would have gone with gutless. There are other choices, but even on cable TV they probably wouldn’t have been appropriate
DrAllecon on October 28, 2009 at 9:33 AM
When he is up to the job of being President himself. So don’t hold your breath.
MB4 on October 28, 2009 at 9:34 AM
It seems likely Obama’s replacement will win for not being Obama. Hopefully his successor will take note.
jhffmn on October 28, 2009 at 9:34 AM
Who does he blame for the murder rate in his old Chicago district?
artist on October 28, 2009 at 9:35 AM
Related parody: Obama Blames Bush for Saddling Him with “Massive Gum Litter Problem” http://optoons.blogspot.com/2009/10/obama-blames-bush-for-saddling-him-with.html
Mervis Winter on October 28, 2009 at 9:35 AM
Its funny the Military runs into this all the time. You take over for someone else who has moved on and things may or may not have been taken care of by the previous person.
My question to anyone who finds problems is…What are you going to FIX it!
Spinstra on October 28, 2009 at 9:36 AM
No “disgusting” is appropriate and Charles Krauthammer is exactly on point here! It is truly disgusting that the Commander in Chief has yet to accept blame for any of his failures and is instead continuing to blame his predecessor. It is truly disgusting our Commander in Chief lets soldiers die in Afghanistan while he weights the politics of getting them help and additional support. Truly disgusting…
IntheNet on October 28, 2009 at 9:37 AM
My lawn mower tire went flat yesterday. It’s Bush’s fault!
WannabeAnglican on October 28, 2009 at 9:38 AM
You can bet anything you want that the next president will not be able to get away with blaming ANYTHING on Obama.
Mord on October 28, 2009 at 9:38 AM
Obama is a totally inert element and a complete failure. The only recourse he has is to blame his blatant incompetence on anyone and everyone.
rplat on October 28, 2009 at 9:38 AM
Even Washington had to deal with issues that predated his term. Just because he was the first president doesn’t mean that history began on the day of his innauguration.
MarkTheGreat on October 28, 2009 at 9:38 AM
As BarackNapoleon was trying to deceive the neighbors he was also tricking his own sheeple. The scapegoat was yet again SnowBush. Whenever anything went wrong it became usual to attribute it to SnowBush. In fact many of the claims begin to sound completely ridiculous to the objective mind. Of course, his and SquealerRahm and AxleGreasy’s mission is to keep everything clouded in the minds of the sheeple.
Cheshire Cat on October 28, 2009 at 9:39 AM
The Labour Party in the UK has spent the entire 12 years of its rule blaming the preceding Conservative government for problems that they created, and the electorate there is only now rejecting the ruse.
This, unfortunately, has got a long, long way to run yet in the States…
Track-A-'Crat on October 28, 2009 at 9:39 AM
Krauthammer simply describes an irresponsible person who has no redeeming character attributes. Obama is a disgrace.
BottomLine5 on October 28, 2009 at 9:40 AM
Obama reminds me of the kid that sat next to you in school and never studied. He was cool, but that was it. When it came to test day he was always looking at your paper and trying to get the answers off of you.
Bush/Cheney left him with a strategy. Probably a winning one, too. He thought he would try it out, but it looked as if we could win with it so now he is backing off. He’s dithering enough to say that we can’t win so we are pulling out. I call it the Harry Reid strategy. This man is a piece of human debris. When are we going to do something about it? He is totally dangerous to us, our troops, and the foundations of this country.
BetseyRoss on October 28, 2009 at 9:40 AM
It’s a pretty safe bet that this future ex-president is not going to stop blaming everything he can think of on his predecessor until long after his own term has expired. Probably not even then.
Cylor on October 28, 2009 at 9:40 AM
Hey, I’m in Michigan and Gov Granholm has been blaming John Engler for over 7 years now. For some reason, this works with the dem base. Nothing is their fault.
booter on October 28, 2009 at 9:40 AM
If he could imprison his critics he’d do it.
OmahaConservative on October 28, 2009 at 9:42 AM
Bush: Obama’s eternal “Freedom From Responsibility” Card.
BigAlSouth on October 28, 2009 at 9:42 AM
Don’t you know? Obama’s blameless. If it’s not Boooosh’s fault, it’s America’s.
kingsjester on October 28, 2009 at 9:42 AM
Sniveling is such a great word – and nicely used. ;)
Midas on October 28, 2009 at 9:43 AM
My cereal was particularly soggy this morn.
Bush
It’s too humid today
Bush
I’m allergic to latex
Bush
The weird kid next to me in class has bad halitosis
Bush
AP has no girlfriend
Bush
blatantblue on October 28, 2009 at 9:45 AM
You mean like this?
BDU-33 on October 28, 2009 at 9:46 AM
I no longer just blame Bush. I now blame everything on White people.
SouthernGent on October 28, 2009 at 9:47 AM
Me me me me me Bush me me me me me Bush me me me me me Bush me me me me me Bush me me me me me Bush me me me me me Bush me me me me me Bush me me me me me Bush me me me me me Bush me me me me me Bush me me me me me Bush me me me me me Bush me me me me me Bush me me me me me Bush me me me me me Bush me me me me me Bush me me me me me Bush me me me me me Bush me me me me me.
LibTired on October 28, 2009 at 9:47 AM
Being “Not Bush” is ONLY defensive. This never-run-a-lemonade-stand guy is a joke.
marklmail on October 28, 2009 at 9:47 AM
Washington didn’t exactly have a clean slate either but he didn’t spend his first term blaming all his challenges on Cyrus Griffin. It is a distinct lack of maturity by this President that he can’t man up and take responsibility for anything that has happened over the last 10 months.
He likes the trappings of office but he is disinterested in actually doing the job. If he can’t blame GWB, he will blame one of his own underlings, and if that isn’t possible he creates villians such as Fox News. We are so screwed it isn’t even funny.
highhopes on October 28, 2009 at 9:48 AM
Obama is a baby.
NebCon on October 28, 2009 at 9:48 AM
Obama reminds me of a friend of mine
He blames all of his failures on environmental things
1) I didn’t catch the ball cause the wind blew at the last second
2) Oh I golfed over par because the course was cut poorly
3) I didn’t spike the ball well because my wrist didn’t move right
just take some freaking responsibility
blatantblue on October 28, 2009 at 9:48 AM
He won’t stop blaming Bush–ever. And, when he is disgraced after 4 years, the left will still blame Bush for what Obama has or hasn’t done. It can never be a black man’s fault, even if the criticism has nothing to do with the color of his skin. Bush will be his eternal excuse because Obama is black.
txhsmom on October 28, 2009 at 9:50 AM
Kinda off topic but to the point of blame. If the media and the Democrats could blame Bush for the slow federal reaction to Katrina can we hold Obama responsible for the shortage of swine flu vaccinations?
sdd on October 28, 2009 at 9:50 AM
If nothing else, this administration has given us a new vocabulary. Sniveling and dithering to name just two verbs.
highhopes on October 28, 2009 at 9:50 AM
And every American and our children and grandchildren and great-grandchildren will have to deal with the issues and problems caused by this current traitorous occupant of the office.
TXUS on October 28, 2009 at 9:50 AM
Krauthammer confuses me. Somedays, he is so right on the money and calls it like it is. And then sometimes I read what he has said/written and I think he’s lost his mind.
At least, this is an on the money statement, for sure.
SouperConservative on October 28, 2009 at 9:51 AM
I’d argue that this was an occasion in which jello was successfully nailed to the wall.
BuckeyeSam on October 28, 2009 at 9:51 AM
Gelded, arrogant, worthless, corrupt, incompetent jackass, Barack Obama in a nutshell.
I can’t wait until the moment this country sheds this unqualified lightweight like a cheap suit.
I will never understand what persuaded a single individual to vote for this guy. Never.
NoDonkey on October 28, 2009 at 9:51 AM
Obama is merely continuing the meme that got him elected: the relentless, nonstop and frequently fabricated criticism of George Bush on each and every subject, regardless of the circumstances, all day, every day, for years.
BackwardsBoy on October 28, 2009 at 9:52 AM
Perfect.
jaime on October 28, 2009 at 9:53 AM
He’s yellow, plain and simple.
NickelAndDime on October 28, 2009 at 9:53 AM
+++1000!!!!
lovingmyUSA on October 28, 2009 at 9:54 AM
Winner
faraway on October 28, 2009 at 9:54 AM
Hey, it’s not O’s fault the buck stopped in January. Just evidence we need a massive federal buck transportation program.
Tyrone Slothrop on October 28, 2009 at 9:54 AM
Michigan’s Governor, Jennifer Granholm, has spent her entire time in office blaming her predecessor for all her failings. She and her party have killed the state and yet she has yet to once stand up and say that she was wrong about something.
highhopes on October 28, 2009 at 9:55 AM
Krauthammer, among other things, being a psychiatrist tends to get to the heart of it very succinctly.
some trivia from wikipedia:
Krauthammer was born on March 13, 1950 in New York City.[3][4] He was raised in Montreal, Canada where he attended Herzliah High School and McGill University and obtained an honors degree in political science and economics in 1970. From 1970 to 1971, he was a Commonwealth Scholar in politics at Balliol College, Oxford. He later moved to the United States, where he attended Harvard Medical School. Suffering a paralyzing diving accident in his first year of medical school,[5] he was hospitalized for a year, during which time he continued his medical studies.[6] He graduated with his class, earning an M.D. from Harvard Medical School in 1975, and then began working as a psychiatrist at Massachusetts General Hospital. In October 1984, he became board certified in psychiatry by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology.[7]
patrick neid on October 28, 2009 at 9:55 AM
Krauthammer is disgusting
Spathi on October 28, 2009 at 9:55 AM
I wish I could apply for a job in some company and give it my absolute all and best just to win the position only to complain about the previous person who held the job and still be able to keep my job while I played golf and basketball all day, that would be awesome.
I know, run-on sentence…I blame Bush.
javamartini on October 28, 2009 at 9:56 AM
Obama’s entire career has been built on creating a sense of anger against others….that is what community organizing is all about. Stir anger and protest against others…he has never had to lead anything, other than protests against others.
The man is not a leader. He is an antagonizer.
tatersalad on October 28, 2009 at 9:56 AM
You can bet anything you want that the next president will not be able to get away with blaming ANYTHING on Obama.
Mord on October 28, 2009 at 9:38 AM
True, but maybe the next president will be able to credit his/her victory to four years of Obamanation.
NebCon on October 28, 2009 at 9:57 AM
He knew the state of the country when he ran for president. No one forced him to take over. He acts like he is doing us a favor cleaning up Bushes mess, but in reality he is the one that begged us to let him have the job.
sammypants on October 28, 2009 at 9:58 AM
I was wondering about that very thing the other day. How will the legacy media treat him when he is out of office? I mean they are already starting to get tired of his childish games, so maybe they won’t be too kind to him when he is gone.
Johnnyreb on October 28, 2009 at 9:58 AM
Barack Obama to the highest office in the land, parley-voo?
Barack Obama to the highest office in the land, parley-voo?
He can sink the economy and dither on Afghanistan a great deal
But taking any responsibly to him just does not appeal
He has less class than the back of a hack
When he whines and cries the tears run down his back
If he would just take responsibility sometime somewhere
The MSM frogs would probably give him the Croix-de-Guerre
Hinky, dinky, parley-voo
InkyBinkyBarleyBoo on October 28, 2009 at 9:59 AM
**** Breaking News *******
It has been leaked that Bush was involved in the wiring installation for the Apollo 13 Service Module. More info as it becomes available.
TheVer on October 28, 2009 at 9:59 AM
In Michigan Jennifer Granholm has blammed Gov. Engler during her entire administration. Under Engler Michigan was one of the strongest economies in the country. Under Granholm we are dead last. As the economy crumbles and the war situation gets worse, expect the Bush blaming to get worse. The fact is, Democrats don’t have solutions, they only have lofty ideas. And instead of coming to grips with the fact that their ideas are nothing more than unattainable pipe dreams, they blame others. It’s the liberal way.
MichiganMatt on October 28, 2009 at 10:00 AM
The situation that Obama inherited from Bush was pretty clearly the worst situation that any president inherited since the early 1980s or, perhaps, since the Great Depression.
Jimbo3 on October 28, 2009 at 10:00 AM
Wonder whether all those community organizers who followed Obama’s tenure in the South Side of Chicago hold Obama responsible for his record there? What tangible has Pres Obama ever accomplished?
clorensen on October 28, 2009 at 10:00 AM
I saw this yesterday and I think Krauthammer has had enough of Obama. I really do. I think a lot of people have. Obama spends too much time making excuses, blaming others and posturing and preening on TV. Sometimes less is more and right now Obama needs to whine less and make real decisions more.
Terrye on October 28, 2009 at 10:00 AM
He’s a damn cripple!
pseudonominus on October 28, 2009 at 10:02 AM
Never. It’s a mental disease that works in conjunction with his extreme narcissism.
My egg donor has this mental illness. Over 20 years after divorcing my dad EVERYTHING that goes wrong in her life is his fault. From a flat tire to bad weather, her neighbor mowing too early in the morning, the most absurd things in the world. It’s rather pathetic when she does it and it is very disgusting when the POTUS does it. I just do not foresee it changing, except that he may change who he blames for everything.
mauioriginal on October 28, 2009 at 10:03 AM
Obama votes present on the war decision!!!
b3026 on October 28, 2009 at 10:03 AM
We all knew this would get old real fast, but such a shame that American troops have this cowardly dilettante as their CIC. President Obama is destroying morale and unnecessarily endangering our fighting men and women’s lives.
alliebobbitt on October 28, 2009 at 10:04 AM
So, if Obama is disgusting, what does it say about 52% of the voters?
Obama isn’t the problem, here.
OldEnglish on October 28, 2009 at 10:05 AM
We are going to find out exactly how important the office of POTUS is, as we will be without one for 4 years straight.
Mutnodjmet on October 28, 2009 at 10:05 AM
There’s the problem though. Blaming Bush was a great strategy….for getting elected. Once in office though, he’s expected to lead. And he’s expected to get results(positive ones, preferably).
When unemployment is approaching 10%, and homes are being foreclosed, and the deficit is over a trillion dollars, and soldiers are dying like flies in Afghanistan, and Iran is on the verge of having nukes, the last thing the American people want hear is that it’s the fault of the guy who’s been out of office nearly a year.
Is Obama’s 2012 strategy gonna be to run against Bush again when the man technically wasn’t even on the ballot in 2008? He’ll be lucky to win 10 states if he does that.
Doughboy on October 28, 2009 at 10:05 AM
Apparently, Bush was the best thing for Obama and the worst thing for Obama. He wants to have his Bush, and beat it too. He got elected because of Bush, and he is failing because of Bush. What fortuity.
Does he blame Bush when the dishes don’t get done, lawn doesn’t get mowed, or the kids miss a dentist appointment? Does he trip over a rug in the White House and gripe because Bush left it there?
ted c on October 28, 2009 at 10:06 AM
This blame stuff works with the democrat base because they think as children think. Logic is almost totally absent from their processes. They want what they want because they want it, not because they have earned it. Amateur hour will stretch for three more years. The damage to the country and the economy will be enormous.
Awilson on October 28, 2009 at 10:07 AM
Liberals never take responsibility for anything, that’s why they engage in absurd conspiracy theories so often.
That’s why they can’t govern, because they don’t learn from their mistakes.
Listen to the way these people talk. To Barack Obama, he’s never made a single mistake in his life, anything bad that’s ever happened, it’s someone else’s fault.
People like Barack Obama are completely worthless, because they don’t learn from their mistakes. More trouble than he’s worth.
NoDonkey on October 28, 2009 at 10:07 AM
I said as soon as he won the Nobel “Piece” Prize (because he’s gonna leave the country in pieces) that he bought himself at least six more months of blaming Bush for everything from Afghanistan to a stubbed toe.
crazy_legs on October 28, 2009 at 10:07 AM
Jimbo3 on October 28, 2009 at 10:00 AM
Bush handed Obama a war in Iraq that we had all but won, no thank to Obama doing everything he could to undermine it. He also handed Obama a new battle plan for Afghanistan which Obama promptly adopted as his own 2 months later, yet now he’s trying to Blame bush for his own failure in leadership on that issue.
You want to talk about the Econmy? Who controlled congress since 2006? Wasn’t Obama a first-term senator who oversaw the crash of our economy that he is yet again trying to blame on Bush.
Guess who is going to get blamed for the next intelligence failure that leads to a terrorist attack in the US? It won’t get blamed on Holder’s CIA with-hunts distracting and demoralizing our intelligence people, I can assure you.
Mord on October 28, 2009 at 10:09 AM
Easily duped.
ElectricPhase on October 28, 2009 at 10:09 AM
I’d like to see Bush take Barack’s mop and stick it so far up his ass that Barack’s butt looks like an ostrich tail.
Of course, Barry already walks around looking like he’s got a stick up his ass, so he’ll still be OK for photo ops.
NoDonkey on October 28, 2009 at 10:11 AM
I am sure General Washington was complaining about the debt that was handed to him. /sarc
Obama’s reaction was enitely predicatable and was predicted by many.
WashJeff on October 28, 2009 at 10:13 AM
Presidenting sure is hard work, ain’t it, Dear Liar.
rbj on October 28, 2009 at 10:13 AM
Obama is using “the Bush bogeyman” the same way that Hitler used the provisions of the Treaty of Versailles.
Fascists like Obama and Hitler need a scapegoat to justify their actions or inaction and to mobilize their supporters and to ramp up their intensity.
technopeasant on October 28, 2009 at 10:13 AM
An Idiot Clinton is in Pakistan making less-than-veiled references to the need to “turn the page”
asshats
max1 on October 28, 2009 at 10:14 AM
A Democrat playing the role of a victim. Shocking!
WashJeff on October 28, 2009 at 10:14 AM
What is so hard to understand?Why do we people keep being surprised that any Democrat President is basically a gutless coward and has been for over 40 years.
It’s incomprehensible that people keep being surprised about this.AGAIN..DEMOCRATS…Gutless wimps, cowards..spineless…useless…shouldn’t command a car wash fund raiser…weaklings..soft…girly-men.
Get it?
Jeff from WI on October 28, 2009 at 10:17 AM
Jimbo3 on October 28, 2009 at 10:00 AM
Which was clearly the fault of traitorous, thieving, pervert scum Barney Frank and the other thieving scum Chris Dodd.
Who are still serving in Congress, BTW.
Frank and Dodd should be locked in solitary confinement in Leavenworth and on trial for their worthless lives, for what they did to our economy.
NoDonkey on October 28, 2009 at 10:17 AM
Looooove the tolerant and compassionate left – mmmm mmmm mmmm – let’s rid the world of disgusting cripples, for the good of the COLLECTIVE////
Ris4victory on October 28, 2009 at 10:17 AM
a black woman I know says that the reason so many black men are in jail is because of Bush. she says that the high rate of “fatherless” black children is because of Bush. And she says that Obama would never ever make her pay a fine for having no health insurance.
This woman pays no taxes. Yet she votes.
kelley in virginia on October 28, 2009 at 10:18 AM
Krauthammer is disgusting
Spathi on October 28, 2009 at 9:55 AM
He’s a damn cripple!
pseudonominus on October 28, 2009 at 10:02 AM
eh, what the hell is this?
max1 on October 28, 2009 at 10:18 AM
Actually he and McChrystal changed the plan considerably.
What we have here is the General involved in a great social experiment, with the plains of Afghanistan as his personal laboratory and our Marines and Soldiers as the rats. History is not on your side General and you are losing time and the support of the only segment of the population of this country who would normally support your efforts.
Admiral Mullen said in a letter to Senators Collins and Snowe (meant for John Bernard) that the ROE had not in fact changed with the ISAF Commander back in June 2009; The Rules of Engagement had only been ‘clarified’. Ganjgal is but one example of how that ‘clarification’ is being brought into question. The current investigation, if not buried by the Army, ISAF, SecDef or higher, is going to yield what we already know; that the rules are intentionally vague to offer maximum cover for those who have implemented them while exposing the decision makers on the ground and all at the expense of those prosecuting the war, O-5 and below. It is already painfully obvious to all, especially those on the ground, that before June we were blowing crap up and providing Air and Arty when needed and now; American lives are inferior to Afghan by our own rules and the UN has prosecutors in Kabul, gleaning after-action-reports looking for evidence they can use to prosecute Marines and Soldiers.
What General McChrystal, Sec Def Gates and President Obama need to remember is that they are sworn by oath to defend this country and our people – not protect the civilian population of another country or rebuild their country with our tax dollars and the blood of our children!
- John Bernard (He spent 26 years in the USMC, both active and reserve and 47 years in the trade. He would now just characterize himself as a political conservative. He has been married for 27 years and has one daughter and one son (KIA Dahaneh 08/14/09))
MB4 on October 28, 2009 at 10:20 AM
Incessant whining and blame-shifting are symptoms of a soulless lack of character and inability to lead. A great leader is person who is willing to stand up and take each situation in hand, and he can attain greatness by working tirelessly to solve the massive problems he is faced with.
Read Winston Churchill’s speeches and you will find no debasement of previous Prime Ministers, although certainly Neville Chamberlain’s appeasement of Nazi Germany was a huge mistake and contributory factor in the deaths of a quarter million British citizens. Churchill’s speeches inspired and lifted the British, with no complaint about the past, but with messages of hope and strength for the future.
President Obama spends all of his time giving speeches, and each of those speeches is designed to obtain money. Olympic money, campaign money, Nobel Peace Prize money, auto industry money, bank money, health care money, pharmaceutical money, and on and on.
Americans are tiring of the constant compaign and the lack of leadership from the current White House. If massive voter fraud can be thwarted in 2012, Obama and his leftist buddies will be swept away and we will elect a new president whose policies and ideas reflect those of the majority of Americans.
The only other president in our history who has made a lifetime career of criticizing other presidents is anti-semite and presidential failure Jimmy Carter. I see a parallel here.
maryo on October 28, 2009 at 10:22 AM
Every President inherits problems. No President has left his successor a utopia. That’s why some only serve one term or in the case of LBJ choose to not seek re-election.
Bush 43 didn’t exactly come into a great situation. Yes, there was a “projected” surplus, but he was also handed a recession, the dot-com bubble burst, Enron and Worldcom, and 9/11. Did he sit around b-tching about it and pointing the finger at Clinton? No.
Reagan inherited an economic disaster from Carter. But he also stepped up to the plate and dealt with the situation. It took a few years and it cost the GOP dearly in the 1982 midterms, but he eventually righted the ship and we had a booming economy for the rest of the decade. Oh, and he even found time during that period to win the Cold War.
It’s not even that I object to Obama reminding us that he was handed a tough slate. It’s that when his supposed remedies for these problems like porkulus or the new strategy in Afghanistan don’t go according to plan, instead of dealing with the situation or at least accepting blame for his shortcomings, he points the finger at Bush, the GOP(who have no power to block anything in Congress), FoxNews, Rush Limbaugh, and even the American people.
Doughboy on October 28, 2009 at 10:23 AM
Liberal Love?
MB4 on October 28, 2009 at 10:23 AM
And he’s making it worse. That’s the point. President Obama knows his policies are designed for redistributive purposes, not job creation and economic growth. But he obviously can’t admit that, so his only recourse is to blame Bush.
Disgusting seems like an appropriate word to describe that, and even more so when it comes to Afghanistan.
BadgerHawk on October 28, 2009 at 10:24 AM
Well, THAT’S a depressing thought!
oldleprechaun on October 28, 2009 at 10:25 AM
Reagan had a Democratic House that had been controlled by the Dems for decades… he had been fighting LBJ’s “Great Society” for 15 years… his comment reflects that he was up against a long governmental malaise and had to attack those policies in order to put pressure on Tip O’Neill and the House to start working in another direction.
Reagan had a slight majority in the Senate and no majority in the House. BHO has HUGE majorities in both. He got his stimulus package and PROMISED a number of things would result in SPECIFIC time frames… as HIS time frames and HIS promises fail after HIS program passed… he blames people that had nothing to do with it.
And he SHOULD be doing what Reagan did… blame Democratic policies, because the recession was brought on by a collapse in the housing market that Bush and the GOP warned was coming… but they were prevented from getting bills to the floor by Democrats screaming “ALL IS FINE… YOU RACISTS!!”
mankai on October 28, 2009 at 10:26 AM
The Afghanistan war is RACIST.
jukin on October 28, 2009 at 10:27 AM
Actually the correct answer from the Left should be: The recession is over! We’re in the midst of the stimulus recovery!!
But you know that’s a lie, so you OK blaming Bush.
mankai on October 28, 2009 at 10:28 AM
Yeah, he wasn’t drafted. He wanted to run. He chose to run. You wanted it, and to quote Frank Costanza, YOU GOOOOOOOOOOOOOT IIIIIIIT!!!!!
JeffinOrlando on October 28, 2009 at 10:28 AM
For sure, if this mess gets turned around, I think it will take the next five or so presidents to restore our country.
mobydutch on October 28, 2009 at 10:28 AM
not as digusting as chuck cabbagepatch blaming clinton for 9/11.
sesquipedalian on October 28, 2009 at 10:30 AM
Notice how the complaints against Bush are non-specific. No particular policies are noted… just vague references to “the old policies of the past” or “the long years of drift” etc.
mankai on October 28, 2009 at 10:32 AM
When you have a narcisstic eunuch as a “leader” why would you expect anything else. Obama is the second coming of Jimmah Carter with a teleprompter, nothing more. nothing less. The economy was in total shambles under Carter and Obama has absolutely no clue just like he didn’t.
volsense on October 28, 2009 at 10:33 AM
Because of Bush, New Home Sales Much Weaker Than Expected
MB4 on October 28, 2009 at 10:33 AM
FIFY.
mankai on October 28, 2009 at 10:33 AM
I suppose she really belives herself too. Sick.
OmahaConservative on October 28, 2009 at 10:34 AM
…but who killed vince foster?
sesquipedalian on October 28, 2009 at 10:37 AM
Don’t worry. Obama will make sure that both Afghanistan and Iraq are failures. At least Iran will get the bomb and probably one other country. The economy will be stagnant and inflation will be at a third world level. Real unemployment will never see the underside of 10% and don’t be surprised to see inner city riots. But of course, this will all be due to Bush.
jukin on October 28, 2009 at 10:37 AM
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