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Let them eat cupcakes!

eforhan on July 29, 2009 at 12:18 PM

Let them eat waffles.

It’s not going to fly. As the months roll on the American people always blame the current administration. They want to hear solutions, you were elected for finger pointing.

Oil Can on July 29, 2009 at 11:09 AM

I totally agree. Time’s awasting for the blame game. His numbers will sink farther down with that tactic. Especially since his solutions are “non-solutions”.

NJ Red on July 29, 2009 at 2:07 PM

In order to provide a solution, one must clearly identify the problem. Casting blame provides no description of a problem. Casting blame misstates the obvious. Personally, I’m charmed by his present course heading…

But the counter to that is, for better or worse, America is an immediate gratification society. We want it now, not later, and that attitude is only going to increase the closer we get to winter (and the Christmas shopping season). While the big media will be perfectly fine in going along with the “Blame Bush” spin, the public has been trained over the years not to have patience when something doesn’t happen right away, which is what this stategerie is attemping to provide for Obama.

..the fecal matter will really hit the fan if the economy is still hemorrhaging jobs at Christmas like it has been since the The Boy King got elected. If little Timmy doesn’t get his “Tickle-me-Elmo” this year, you will see mobs with pitchforks and torches on Boxing Day.

Oil Can on July 29, 2009 at 11:09 AM

I totally agree. Time’s awasting for the blame game. His numbers will sink farther down with that tactic. Especially since his solutions are “non-solutions”.

Bold new Obama strategy on economy: Blame Bush

Let’s look at the facts, shall we?
The unemployment rate
went from 5.2% in January 2005 to 7.2% in December 2008. Overall, the
average in that time was 5.03% President Obama signed the……

Instead of “investing” in this clean energy company, we’re squandering $6 billion on AmericCorps, paying “volunteers” to weatherize windows. And that is not even part of the fraudulent “Stimulus” package but was separate legislation.

First off, she implies that all of you are idiots who can’t remember what life was like three or four years ago.

Nothing new there. The entire Democrat philosophy is predicated on the notion that the average individual is an idiot. Therefore, they can’t and shouldn’t run their own lives without the intervention of the anointed.

They may have a point since so many idiots voted for Obama thinking he was something other than what a mountain of evidence said he was.

The only trick is that you need to work out what reasonable and realistic assumptions might apply.

for real? I don’t think I understand exactly.
happyfeet on July 29, 2009 at 11:10 AM

Well, ‘growth’ as in an arrest of the freefall. If GDP continues to go negative in the second quarter, that will be a further indictment of Obama’s policies.

“Voters have short memories. The administration needs to remind people that things were way worse over the last four years than in the last six months.”

WTF????

for real? I don’t think I understand exactly.

how much cranial fecal impaction

That’s darn funny.

Unfortunately, IMHO the Democratic strategists quoted are right. They use the “blame Bush” strategy not because it’s correct (it isn’t) but because it works. The voters really do have short memories — at least, enough of them to give a comfortable majority for the leftwingers. Remember how many of them didn’t even know the Democrats controlled Congress since January 2007? If they don’t even know that, how would they even begin to understand the Democrats’ treachery in not even passing a budget last year because they wanted to wait until their man was in the president’s office? And do we seriously believe the media will point out the factual errors in the “blame Bush” excuses?

jwolf on July 29, 2009 at 10:52 AM

But the counter to that is, for better or worse, America is an immediate gratification society. We want it now, not later, and that attitude is only going to increase the closer we get to winter (and the Christmas shopping season). While the big media will be perfectly fine in going along with the “Blame Bush” spin, the public has been trained over the years not to have patience when something doesn’t happen right away, which is what this stategerie is attemping to provide for Obama.

In the wake of 9/11, Bush went on TV and said the War of Terror could last a decade or more, but Democrats were able to use the public’s same desire for immediate results to turn many against the idea of any war at all. Now they’re trying to get the public to change their habits, and give Obama and crew 2-3 years to turn things around. It’s not going to work outside of the hardcore Barak supporters, and when it doesn’t, expect the next action to be what’s starting to show up in the health care debate — liberals lashing out at the public for being stupid, because they won’t go along with Obama’s plans.

In 2008, I had a JOB, since Obama’s election, I was laid off. So I am definitely worse off than I was a year ago and up to three years ago.

originalpechanga on July 29, 2009 at 10:52 AM

Welcome to the club.

I never quite understood the notion of tying the economy only to the President and not to the people that actually screw things to #3!!.

Tyrs Fury on July 29, 2009 at 10:22 AM

It’s all about the message.
Republican in white house:
Good economy = democrats did their job and blocked bad republicans or got them to cave on bills.
Bad economy = President sucks and Republicans are morons that couldn’t add 2+2.

Democrat in white house:
Good economy = President is a genius and worked hand in hand with congress to get the right things done despite the hostile Republicans.

Bad economy = Last Republican President sucks and Republicans are a road block to getting anything done and are morons that couldn’t add 2+2.

He’s given up any right to lecture Dubya about anything.

The election isn’t about the last 8 years. It’s about whether or not you’ll be better off in the next 4 years.

“Was your life better in 2006 than it is now?”

To put it in perspective for Joe Sixpack, perhaps “Remember when the Steelers beat the Seahawks in Superbowl XL? Are you better or worse off now?”

Mew

“Voters have short memories. The administration needs to remind people that things were way worse over the last four years than in the last six months.”

2.6 million people who have lost jobs since January might not agree with this!

Any economic woes should be measured from the beginning of 2007 when they took office. I never quite understood the notion of tying the economy only to the President and not to the people that actually screw things to #3!!.