My concern is not who Obama blames. My main concern is if it sells. That is what determined the last two elections.
Every president will blame the past one, either directly or indirectly (using media commentators.) And many times it is valid. You would agree that GWB was not (entirely) responsible for Sept 11, 2001 attacks and 2001 market crash, nor could he be. Much of what he had to work with his first nine months was left over from Clinton.
Well like it or not Obama inherited a huge mess. I know last December Rush was claiming the market was crashing because Obama was elected. You may or may not believe that, but it really couldn't sell. You may think the bad economy of late 2008 was all democrats fault. Again, that couldn't sell. Obama was left with many free passes and he is copying them. He will use them as long as he can; and in eight years progressives will still be blaming Bush for anything that is bad. Now his failed economic recovery package should seriously be hurting him, and republicans need to keep pounding him on it . But even that will take time.
Obama is much more masterful at politics than republicans ever were. Note how in spite of the fact that republicans are completely out of power, democrats have the 60 vote Senate majority, that Obama is still making ‘republicans’ the issue. They ‘just say no’. They ‘don't have a plan’ . They ‘want Obama to fail’. All of this SHOULD be irrelevant. But Dems are keeping republicans negatives high. My point is, you remember Bush keeping attaention on democrats in 2005 when dems crashed SS reform?? No! He was pretty lame and it didnt help us much.
I know that you believe that. I do not.