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Is Obama going to spend all 8 years blaming Bush?
He is blaming Bush for ISIS when it was Obama that pulled the troops out of Iraq. I know you liberals all praise Obama and will say we should not have gone into Iraq in the first place but really when will this president ever take responsibility for anything? Obamacare and its failed website (I like how they blamed the American people for being too stupid to use the internet)– failure – IRA spying on Americans- Fast and Furious, the list goes on and on.
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- ndmagicmanLv 76 years ago
Revisionist history much? The withdrawal of US troops from Iraq was as per an agreement negotiated and signed by then President George W Bush. Attempts were made by now President Obama to re-negotiate the agreement but Iraq was unwilling to do so. And why did not Bush not take his own VPs (Dick Cheney) advice from 1994 when he was Bush Sr. Defense Minister that removing the Hussein government would create a quagmire?
- HistoryguyLv 76 years ago
Obama has taken responsibility for plenty of things. In the case of ISIS it does make some sense to point out that ISIS only exists because of George W Bush's decision to engage in a war of choice in Iraq. ISIS originated as an insurgent group in the wake of that invasion. The American pull out under Obama may have left Iraq more vulnerable to an incursion by ISIS, but the group only exists because Bush decided to invade Iraq and create chaos there.
On a wider note though, while I can appreciate some conservative frustration with the idea that Obama "is always blaming Bush", the fact is that this is pretty standard. Republicans are still blaming Bill Clinton for things fifteen years after he left office. Heck, Republicans still blame Lyndon Johnson and Franklin Roosevelt for establishing the modern American welfare state. And it's not like if a Republican wins in 2016 that they will refrain from blaming Obama for things that are wrong in the country. If Republicans win the Whitehouse do you expect that they're going to stop talking about how terrible Obamacare is for the country? Of course not. So why should Obama not refer to failures which Bush made which still impact on this country?
It's interesting that you mention the idea of Obama "not taking responsibility" for anything. Because this conservative idea that Obama shouldn't blame Bush is really an example of Republicans not wanting to take responsibility for how badly they screwed up the last time they ran things in Washington. They committed one of the worst foreign policy blunders in American history and had policies which contributed to one of the worst economic crises in American history. That's a pretty bad record. To try and obscure that they have to really act like somehow it's wrong to evaluate the current President in light of the performance of his predecesors.
- ?Lv 76 years ago
Don't worry, once the failure that is Obamacare crashes and burns as it inevitably has to, he will blame Republicans for that as well. President Oblame-a will never accept any responsibility for anything, and his Y/A minions will somehow never notice this, or think that he should have.
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- ?Lv 76 years ago
Well, that and 'finding out when we did by reading it in the news paper'.
Seriously, what does the guy do all day?
- Anonymous6 years ago
He only did that in the first two years after collapse. Now, because of his policies, the economy had grown.
- wtincLv 76 years ago
Yes for everything the real question is will those who voted for him wake up and recognize that he is the problem.