Ed Morrissey finds the criticism of Obama by an AP reporter “unexpected.” It looks like Obama isn’t measuring up to their expectations, or at least not the expectations of Ben Feller. He’s picked up on Obama’s obsession with George W. Bush, and his inability to stop blaming Bush for anything and everything.
He says “the buck stops with me,” but nearly a year into office, President Barack Obama is still blaming a lot of the nation’s troubles — the economy, terrorism, health care — on George W. Bush.
Over and over, Obama keeps reminding Americans of the mess he inherited and all he’s doing to fix it. A sharper, give-me-some-credit tone has emerged in his language as he bemoans people’s fleeting memory about what life was like way back in 2008, particularly on the economy.
“Yes, we can”?
Try “Yes, I have.”
While candid about what he called his team’s “screw-up” in the botched Christmas airliner attack, Obama has made a point of underlining all the good he believes his government has done, too.
“Our progress has been unmistakable,” Obama said as the new year began. “We’ve disrupted terrorist financing, cutting off recruiting chains, inflicted major losses on al-Qaida’s leadership, thwarted plots here in the United States and saved countless American lives.”
Yet every time Obama tries to offer a dose of perspective like that, he faces the reality that people live in the moment.
On terrorism, Americans are less concerned about quiet successes than troubling failures, especially one that evoked harrowing memories of Sept. 11, 2001.
On the economy, people prefer good news now, not updates on how things are gradually getting less bad.
The way Obama sees it, the problems he took on — recession, war, health care, a warming planet — were always too huge and complicated to fix that fast.
So he emphasizes progress by taking people back to where he began. …..
Note to Feller: this is what happens when we elect a man with a radical agenda, no governing experience, and nothing to offer but “hope and change.”
Addendum: Be sure to follow the link to Ed Morrissey’s piece which includes a graph of the number of jobs lost since Obama took office. He may want to stop talking about where he began, because things are a lot worse now for workers in America.
H/T Michigan, via memeorandum
Apparently he’s not marching us to socialism quickly enough for some.
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And I say to you LC; touché!
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