| Kasz216 said: Sounds like he wants to put up a smokescreen. My guess... he doesn't expect the economy to recover within his term. That and Pakistan being tough, Afghanistan being tough and Iraq being worse then when bush left office.... Got to deflect somehow. Either way, stupid thing or not politically, i'm for it. |
I think it is much simpler than that ...
Even though his party has control of the house and the senate, Barack Obama needs to have a healthy approval rating in order to push forward his adgenda because (with mid-term elections around the corner) he won't be able to get the support of the house or the senate if they think he is a liability to their relection hopes. In a large part because he has done so many high profile things that people didn't approve of (or that failed) no president in recent history has had their approval rating fall as quckily or as far as Barack Obama has, and unless something changes quickly he will soon have a below 50% approval rating.
Right now Barack Obama is falling back on the strategy that has worked for so many Democrats over the past couple of years, and that is to blame Bush for something whenever you find yourself in trouble. Unfortunately, since Bush is out of office and everyone knows how poor of a president George W. Bush was, this strategy becomes less effective every time it is used and could (potentially) start to backfire on people who use it.
