The BBC had a short article about Barack “The Blamer” Obama. They’re kind of saying what I’ve been saying for quite some time. “It’s always somebody else’s fault.”
US President Barack Obama has embarked on his first bus tour in office.
But his vehicle for the trip through the rural parts of three Midwestern states looks like it really is heading for a battle.
Big, blocky, black, with painted-out windows, it looks more like a police mortuary van than a symbol of hope arriving on your street.
It is a ponderous business campaigning when you are president, all that need for protection and the weight of office on your shoulders.
Two years in, the problems you inherited are now the problems you own. Part of Obama’s message is that it is not his recession, not his fault. It’s the blame game.
In a nutshell, stripped of rhetoric, this is what he is saying on the campaign trail:
- President George Bush caused America’s huge debt by running up the bills for two wars on credit
- Growth is returning to the economy but America’s recovery has been damaged by accidents, such as the Japanese earthquake, that no-one could have forseen or prevented
- He has plenty of ideas to bring jobs back, but Republicans in Congress who put point-scoring before their country are blocking them.
Blah, blah, blah. Same old tired bullshit from Obama and most Americans are sick of it, and sick of him.
Worse than Jimmy Carter, he needs to leave.