Bush Excuses: Sorry Barack that dog don’t hunt
MADISON, Wis. (Reuters) – A year after his historic election, President Barack Obama sought to remind Americans on Wednesday the biggest problems he is grappling with — from the economy to the war in Afghanistan — are the legacy of his predecessor, George W. Bush.
With his approval ratings down from once-lofty levels and Tuesday’s Democratic election losses raising questions about his political clout, Obama held no special ceremony to mark the anniversary of his election as America’s first black president.
He instead traveled to Wisconsin to appear before a friendly audience in a school gymnasium and promote
education as a pillar of his economic recovery efforts.
Obama was elected on a promise of sweeping change after eight years under Bush, but many Americans are increasingly expressing impatience that his pledge has yet to bear fruit.
He used the preamble of his speech to insist his administration had indeed had important successes and also to remind Americans of the litany of daunting challenges he inherited when he took office in January.
“One year ago, Americans all across this country went to the polls and cast ballots for the future they wanted to see,” Obama said.
But he said his administration was also confronted with a “financial crisis that threatened to plunge our economy into a Great Depression, the worst that we’ve seen in generations.”
“We had record deficits, two wars, frayed alliances around the world,” Obama added.
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Face Forward Comments:
I don’t know about the rest of you, but I grew tired of the Bush excuses a long time ago. And now one year later he is standing in a High School Gym (his favorite audience) still trying to blame Bush. Obama, why didn’t he mentioned the 2 years of the Democratic controlled congress that fought Bush on everything. How about Barney Frank’s destruction of Fannie Mae, or Chris Dodd’s incompetence in managing the oversight of the Banking system.
Never mind, now I remember why you didn’t mention the failures of your party, you were too busy apologizing to the Muslims for the World trade Center attack that we (your words) provoked by being arrogant. You were too busy taking over our automobile manufacturing industries so you could pay back the unions that elected you, you were too busy throwing Jeremiah Wright, (your old friend, pastor and white man hater) under the bus, you were too busy appointing Czars that held your Communistic view point and you were too busy hating on tax payers that invested in and built this nation. Here is some advice, “shut up, stop blaming others”, all of America, even those who are under your spell, are tired of it..
As far as Barack not achieving, he dosent have to apologize for not getting anything done. Had he been successful with what he wants to accomplish, we would have all been calling each other comrade and wearing Mao T shirts by now.
Finally, I had to laugh at the frayed alliances comment by our president. I am pretty sure our historically strongest allies, England and Israel might, might have a problem with that comment especailly since he has decided drop them as friends of this country. Barack is right, we do have frayed alliances however, now it’s with the countries we used to call friends.
