It appears that President Barack Obama, while out campaigning for the Democratic party before the November elections, has decided that his tactic will be to revert back to blaming former President George W. Bush for all the country's ills....again. But it won't be anything new since his presidential campaign was built on blaming Bush, and has continued to blame Bush for everything since taking office.
But are folks going to want to hear this? “First of all I think that his attempt to try to blame 10 percent unemployment on the past administration will be viewed as a – I was trying to think of some other word other than a joke, but – I just don’t think people buy it,” said Sen. John Cornyn (R-Tex.), chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee
“At some point after you’ve been president for a while, knowing you have the substantial majorities in the House and the Senate, people are going to say, ‘You know what? This is your responsibility.’ And I think we’ve arrived at that point.”
Consider that when Bush left office the nations deficit was at $880 billion dollars, within Obama's first three weeks that deficit rose to one trillion dollars and has kept rising since. And now he has his nationalized health care that experts say will take the country to a ten trillion dollar deficit over the next 8 to 10 years.
So is George Bush really to blame? It's still not real clear exactly what people will be thinking as they hear the blame-game continue, because there is still a number of folks that do blame Bush for the current economy etc. But the American people get pretty tired pretty quick when all they hear is someone heaping all the blame on someone else.
At what point does Obama think he might want to start taking responsibility? Or is he afraid to? It's well known that he's very uncomfortable with hardball questions, or questions that call his policies into question. And it's well known that Obama pre-screens questions before any press conference and hand picks that one's he'll answer, and usually limits them to 12 or 13. Then takes 10 to 15 minutes to give a non-answer so as to eat up the time.
One thing can be said about President Bush....he was able to handle the harsh criticisms that were apart of his daily life as president, not to mention the daily barrage of name-calling and just general disrespect he endured. But Obama is not that kind of man, he's not used to being criticized, or being called into question. So the answer for someone like that is to shift blame to someone else....which is actually in the liberal handbook.
When Obama first took office and was telling people about the mess he inherited, which is very typical of all incoming presidents....everyone thought, well, it's to be expected and lets see what Obama has in store. The "hope" and "change" chants were still fresh in everyone's mind. But as the year wore on and Obama kept on blaming Bush for most all of the country's problems, folks started to wonder: is George Bush really responsible for all of the messes?
The economy is cyclical, it always has been, and many factors go into the determination of a good or bad economy. Obama should know this. However....Bush was highly successful in his troop surge in Iraq, when the focus was there, President Obama attempted the same thing in Afghanistan, but because of his hemming and hawing over the number of troops to send there, it hasn't worked.
Barack Obama while campaigning promised to close Guantanamo Bay, yet he had no plan as to what he would do with the some 200 prisoners still there. But he's kept it open just as Bush would have done and so far it's continued to work.
So maybe not everything Bush did was a mistake, but folks will never hear any praise for Bush for his accomplishments. And going back on the campaign trail campaigning for the Democratic party, and spending all his time blaming the former president will more than likely backfire on Obama, and then it'll be too late to take it back.
It just seems like a very bad tactic to take at such a critical time for the Democrats.
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Barack Obama hasn't blamed Bush for anything since the campaign, despite you saying he's been doing so since taking office. Which must be why you didn't quote him. I challenge you to give me a quote where he uses Bush's name, since that's his "tactic" while out campaigning for the democratic party. He may mention the unemployment rate, which was ballooning before his arrival. Bush's last month in office, it was at its highest during his eight years (which indicates a rising action). It continued to rise after Obama was sworn in, as it did throughout the world, especially European Union countries, who also now hover at a 10% average. We've dipped below 10% if you haven't noticed, and will likely dip below 9% prior to midterms (which indicates a lowering action). Hopefully, while voting, those of us who firmly remember Bush-era economic policies of tax-cuts for the rich while the Middle Class tread water to stay alive won't need remindin'.
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