To listen to Obama whine, you’d think that the first 43 presidents inherited peaches and cream while poor, little Barry got stuck with a unique “mess” left by President Bush. Victor Davis Hanson reminds us that this just isn’t true:
George W. Bush inherited a recession. He also inherited the Iraq no-fly zones, a Middle East boiling after the failed last-minute Clintonian rush for an imposed peace, an intelligence community wedded to the notion of Saddam’s WMD proliferation, a Congress on record supporting “regime change” in Iraq, a WMD program in Libya, a Syrian occupation of Lebanon, Osama bin Laden enjoying free rein in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan, a renegade Pakistan that had gone nuclear on Clinton’s watch with Dr. Khan in full export mode, and a pattern of appeasing radical Islam after its serial attacks (on the World Trade Center, the Khobar Towers, U.S. embassies, and the U.S.S. Cole).
In other words, Bush inherited the regular “stuff” that confronts most presidents when they take office. What is strange is that Obama has established a narrative that he, supposedly unlike any other president, inherited a mess.
What you have is what you have and you deal with it as best you can – no one is going to hold Obama responsible for Bush’s decisions (though, of course, the left did hold Bush responsible for Clinton’s decisions…which is odd, but not as incredible as their attempts to hold Bush responsible for Obama’s decisions). We know things weren’t perfect on January 20th, 2009 and that Obama had many difficult issues to deal with – just as Sarah Pal…eerrrrmmm, I mean…just as whomever wins in 2012 will have to take things as they are and move on. But to Obama and his sycophants, its all Bush’s fault and must remain so – lest The One be tainted as less than Olympian in his perfection.
Its wearing thin, lefties – you’re beginning to bore us with your phony moralizing, and annoy us with your cowardly unwillingness to shoulder responsibility.
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