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Is that like the "mess" GWB "inherited", turned into a super boom and left the nation (Obama) with??
http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=20020819&slug=blame19
http://www.americablog.com/2008/12/bush-blames-crisis-on-events-from-ten.html
http://abcnews.go.com/WN/Politics/story?id=6356046&page=2
Obama will not be able to blame Bush any more than Bush blamed Clinton, but the thing is, Obama is not blaming Bush so much as blaming the depth of what occurred under Bush's watch for not being able to magically turn things into the Clinton years. it takes how long relatively, to shatter a glass versus fixing it? It's one thing to take on a mild recession, even a projected surplus and 8 years later have the economy described as the worst crisis in 70 years and try to nail that on your predecessor. It is another to take on the worst economic crisis in 70 years and NOT suggest that had something to do with not getting the economy back to normal (even if its freefall was stopped) .
The usual apples and oranges and absurdities seem to keep emerging.
I think it is quite an accomplishment to prevent the further deterioration of a badly injured economy (deemed the worst since the worst) and that expecting it return it to normal or even out of critical care in less than 4 years is over the top, coming from the party of the people whose president took an economy that projected a revenue surplus, to one that was the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression.
Doesn't it seem a bit absurd and backwards to try to suggest Mr. Obama ruined the nation, relative to the previous administrations relative economic "accomplishment"????
How does one call taking an economy with a projected revenue surplus to one representing the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression and call it a positive accomplishment or try to suggest the 4 years following, relative to it, are somehow worse???
It's kinda like saying after you cut your arm off that the person that came along and stopped the bleeding injured your arm worse than you did.
The rise in that kind of absurd "logic", lack of logic, sense of reality, denial and delusion, had me quit the Republican Party and has made a lot of my friends and family do the same.