Posted on 10/29/2009 6:26:54 PM PDT by Kaslin
Old Soviet joke: Moscow, 1953. Stalin calls in Khrushchev. "Niki, I'm dying. Don't have much to leave you. Just three envelopes. Open them, one at a time, when you get into big trouble."
A few years later, first crisis. Khrushchev opens envelope 1: "Blame everything on me. Uncle Joe."
A few years later, a really big crisis. Opens envelope 2: "Blame everything on me. Again. Good luck, Uncle Joe."
Third crisis. Opens envelope 3: "Prepare three envelopes."
In the Barack Obama version, there are 50 or so such blame-Bush free passes before the gig is up. By my calculation, Obama has already burned through a good 49. Is there anything he hasn't blamed George W. Bush for?
The economy, global warming, the credit crisis, Middle East stalemate, the deficit, anti-Americanism abroad — everything but swine flu.
It's as if Obama's presidency hasn't really started. He's still taking inventory of the Bush years. Just this Monday, he referred to "long years of drift" in Afghanistan in order to, I suppose, explain away his own, well, yearlong drift on Afghanistan.
This compulsion to attack his predecessor is as stale as it is unseemly. Obama was elected a year ago. He became commander in chief two months later. He then solemnly announced his own "comprehensive new strategy" for Afghanistan seven months ago. And it was not an off-the-cuff decision.
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It will take time. G Bush Sr left us in a much better situation in 1993, growing economy, peace than this. The public immediate turned on democrats in 1993-1994. GWB left us with a much tougher political position than that. But the public will get tired of “Bush did it”
They are running out of time. Not only will intelligent people know that things are not George W. Bush's fault, but they will also get tired of the incessant whining.
It's a good thing President Bush has broad enough shoulders to be able to handle this non stop assault from Obama (and his cohorts - some right here).
That is a really good joke!
I blame president bush for this problem.
Isn’t it ironic that when the U.S. was attacked eight months into the Bush presidency, liberals screamed that it was all his fault, that eight months was enough time that he couldn’t lay the blame at Clinton’s feet... and now, ten months into the Obama administration, he still gets the “Blame Bush” pass?
NO, I miss Reagan.
me tooo... 
A couple nights ago I watched a documentary on the assassination attempt on Reagan, and ended up thanking God for saving him. Reagan was the only President who survived being shot.
Some misconceptions I had were informed. 6 shots were fired, but it was the 5th bullet that hit him...after he was pushed down by Secret Service, while he was entering the car and his arms were down.
The bullet ricocheted off the edge of the car into the space between the car and the open door. It was flattened by hitting the door edge of the car and then sliced sideways into Reagan’s thorax somewhat behind his arm, making a small incision. Then it hit a rib and plowed full diameter through his left lung, making a wide long hole through his lung, causing massive bleeding.
Thank you, dear Lord, for saving him through modern emergency room and trauma surgical care, which was touch and go for a couple hours.
later
I will never forget the horror of those days, nor will I forget the wonderful humor and good spirits that Reagan exhibited when he was so gravely injured.
Asking whether his Doctors were Republicans........SO "Reagan!"
I second your thanks to God for preserving his life.
If the Texans had lost, I was going to blame it on GWB.
(Just kidding...)
How's life been treating you?
Great! I'm home 'til January...it doesn't get much better than that. :-D
How are you doing?
Indeed
Amen...
Me, too. But we were all mistaken.
I'm OK. Got a seasonal cough type cold, that's allowed me to spend FAR too much time here, but other than that, I'm well.
Brave son is finishing his degree this semester and waiting to see what the great big world has to offer, using all that incredible experience in Iraq and creating an AWESOME resume. Pretty exciting stuff!
Did they explain how that misinformation got started? And why it hasn’t been corrected in almost 30 years?
The say the Bush Recession has ended so the next recession (starting now) will be all Obama’s.
My neighbor had a bumper sticker, “I miss Bill Clinton” during the Bush years and I ridiculed him for it.
Now, in comparison to the current “Obeyme Regime,” I actually do miss Slick Willie.
Slick was dishonest but he wasn’t BOTH dishonest and EVIL like the Obamunist in Chief.
i heard that...
That's GREAT! So, is he out of the Army now?
That's GREAT! So, is he out of the Army now?
Palin’s fault.
Taking responsibility is a tough thing.
It is not shocking and even the immature individuals on the right blamed Clinton for a long time to cover up Bush’s failings.
As always the real challenge is to get a real conservative in office.
The distraction of the rear-view mirror is always so tempting to the weak-minded. That is a good description of politicians in general, but a defacto pre-requisite for a liberal.
It was amazingly consistent. Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush -- and how about that damn Bush?
I mean, he's not my favorite guy in the world, but come on -- this is truly derangement!
I respectfully disagree.
Respectfully toward you, that is -- not toward Slick hisself, DIRTXPOTUS.
The flight of that bullet was a 100,000:1 shot, totally improbable. And yes, President Reagan, at his age, was lucky to escape alive.
He wasn't the only President who was shot but lived to tell about it, however. There was a famous incident in which Theodore Roosevelt was blooded by an assassin but proceeded to give his scheduled speech while continuing to bleed steadily. He had to be hospitalized afterward.
Harry Truman and Gerald Ford were endangered by terrorists and assassins but unhurt. There was a famous picture of Harry Truman looking down from a window on a Puerto Rican terrorist loading his gun right below the President's window. Memory fades, but I seem to recall this occurred at Blair House, near the White House, where Truman was visiting someone. (The White House underwent major repairs about this time -- that may have been it.)
I blame GWB for setting the stage, either willingly or inadvertently, for the events of 2008.
I believe the bullet passed through the speech which Roosevelt had in his pocket, slowing it enough to do little more than draw blood!
“Blaming Bush at Every Turn Is Getting Old”
Nah. The hard-core communists and the “brilliant” independents in the “electorate” never get tired of hearing it.
Their self esteem is dependent on calling someone else a moron so that they might think of themselves as brilliant geniuses.
(Watch the scu&bag electorate re-elect Democrats in droves in 2010; guaranteed.)
IMHO
If they do, then it will be exactly as I predicted
Well, I’m not really defending Slick (I detest the man). But I just didn’t get the impression Slick was out to destroy the country and implement fascist — as The Obamunist.
Slick was more or less a centrist by the end of his term.
As much as I detested Slick Willie, having him wouldn’t be half as bad as the Obeyme Regime.
I think Teddy was VP when he was wounded.
I checked it out, and found out that Teddy Roosevelt was a candidate for President in 1912 when he was shot. (He had ascended to the Presidency in the past when McKinley was assassinated, but was out of office during this campaign.)
The article said that someone brushed the hand of his assassin (later declared insane and put in a mental institution) and that probably saved Roosevelt’s life, but killed his campaign.
He was off the trail for 8 days in hospital and subsequently lost the election a few weeks later to Wilson.
If the incident occurred in 1912, then he was out of office and running his "Bull Moose" ticket.
That ticket lost because it split the opposition to Wilson. It was sad in a way, because Roosevelt and William Howard Taft had been great friends, and they fell out over policy differences when Taft was in office. Taft was too close to the big trusts -- "the interests" -- and, being old-school Republican in the sense that the Old Guard had been in Chester Arthur's day a generation before, Taft couldn't see anything wrong with that or why Teddy should be annoyed with him for palling around politically with those "malefactors of great wealth".
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