Lets Blame Bush

In a recent interview when asked what he would say to those American's who supported his election in 2008 but are now disappointed in him, President Obama stated:

“The reason they still support me is because they understand what an incredible mess had been made as I was coming into office and we've been spending the last three years cleaning it up.”

In other worlds, the current economic and geopolitical atmosphere in both the US and the world is the fault of George Bush.

Let us not forget that Obama also inherited lower unemployment numbers, a stronger American business environment, lower gas prices, a significantly lower national debt, far fewer job killing regulations, respect from both our allies and enemies alike, a strong military, fewer people on food stamps, lower health care cost, lower food prices, and a higher dollar value.

In just three short years Obama has turned all of those positives into major negatives and he blames it all on Bush.

At the annual Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation meetings in Honolulu this year, the President said, for the third time in as many months, that the U.S has been “lazy” about attracting new investments to its shores. In October Obama told donors in San Francisco that Americans “have lost our ambition, our imagination, and our willingness to do the things that built the Golden Gate Bridge, the Hoover Damn, and unleashed all the potential of this country.” In September Obama noted that the U.S. had “gotten a little soft” in competing in international markets abroad.

Perhaps the reason why Americans are so “lazy” in attracting new investments to our shores and have “gotten a little soft” and perhaps “have lost our ambition, imagination, and willingness to do things” is because of President Obama and his policies and the costly decisions that he and the Democratic Super Majority made in the first two years of his presidency?

Obama has also stated recently that; “The unemployment rate has ticked down.” I'd like to point out a few key facts regarding this. The reason the unemployment numbers have “ticked down” is because of; 1) Benefits have been exhausted for many on unemployment who are still unemployed but because they no longer receive benefits, they are no longer counted as unemployed. 2) Temporary seasonal jobs. 3) People have given up looking for work and therefore are no longer eligible to collect unemployment benefits and as such are no longer counted as unemployed. 4) The way that unemployment is now calculated by this current administration.

I'd like to point out that Democrats were in control of the both the House and the Senate for the last two years of President Bush's term. That in those two years America endured sky rocketing oil prices, the onset of the failure of the housing market. The plummeting of both property values and stocks, and the beginnings of the banking crisis. Now I am not saying that the democrats in control of the Congress were to blame for this, I am just pointing out the simple inescapable fact that the problems really didn't escalate until after they gained control of the House and Senate. If George Bush is truly to blame, and not Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid, then his timing was seriously advantageous to the democrats as everything seemingly fell apart after the Democrats took power just prior to the 2008 Presidential election. The timing of these fortuitous events would indicate that Bush, a lame duck president at the time, managed to over come the handicap of his lame duck presidency just in the nick of time to tank the economy thus helping the democrats win and win big in 08. If Obama wants to blame Bush for anything, he should blame him for helping him and the Democrats to win a super majority. A Majority that was in power and failed to stop, and in fact one could argue; caused the worsening of this current economic and geopolitical crisis.

It would seem, if you subscribe to President Obama's theory that Bush is to blame for everything, that Bush has spent the last three years imposing job choking regulations down the throats of American businesses thus creating an atmosphere of uncertainty within American business. He has overseen the loss of billions of U.S. Tax dollars to failed green energy companies. Taken control of the banking industry, and a car company. Gleefully seen the passed into law of Obama Care, Stimulus, and an omnibus spending bill while not having a budge, opposing spending limits, actively supporting the raising of the national debt limit, and spending trillions of dollars that we don't have. Let us not forget Quantitative Easing (QE) One, Two, and soon Three, which has driven down the value of our dollar making everything from food to fuel far more expensive. Oh wait, George Bush hasn't been our President for the last three years, so perhaps President Obama should reconsider who is really to blame.

I'd argue that President Obama is not cleaning up George Bush's mess, but rather that he is merely dealing with his own convoluted liberal polices and the problems that he, his administration, and the previous Congress, a Democratic Super Majority, created. George Bush is not to blame and Obama as President should be a leader and take responsibility for the his own messes and admit as much. However, as he has already shown, he won't. He'd rather just keep on blaming Bush. I therefore postulate that Obama's 2012 campaign slogan won't be Hope and Change, but rather “Blame It On Bush.”