"Cool," Bush said, "First time those guys gave me credit for anything.
Ladies and gentlemen, we proudly present Bush Derangement Syndrome taken to its ultimate extreme. President Obama has now blamed his socialist policies on the former President Bush.
The background: a reporter asked Obama today if he was a socialist. Obama initially gave a flip answer but after thinking about it, later called reporters back from the Oval Office.
“It was hard for me to believe that you were entirely serious about that socialist question,” the President stated.
Then Obama said, in effect, don’t blame me. Blame Bush.
“It wasn’t under me that we started buying a bunch of shares of banks. It wasn’t on my watch. And it wasn’t on my watch that we passed a massive new entitlement -– the prescription drug plan — without a source of funding….We’ve actually been operating in a way that has been entirely consistent with free-market principles and that some of the same folks who are throwing the word ’socialist’ around can’t say the same.”
We need to go back and read the Constitution again. We can’t really remember which clause requires a new President has to expand the stupid policies of his predecessor.
As Obama’s mother always used to say, “If George Bush jumped off a cliff, would you jump, too?”
Source: Washington Times
UPDATE: Audio of Obama in YouTube video added to story
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This has all the elements of a good farce….call it “The Self-beclowning of Baroque Obozo”
The Bush picture and caption at least gave me a smile. Thank you, I appreciate whatever I can get.
Mental Midgets…those Republicans….real Americans know it why don’t you?
As for Fox tv ratings…real Americans have lives to live families to raise…they have no time to listen to blithering crybaby idiots.
Yeah, we are mental mdgets over here on the right, & yeah, FoxNews kill because of all of those conservatives who don’t have jobs…what a bafoon. The welfare state is the Demacrat party, & without the welfare state, the DNC would go the way of the Bull Moose party. The biggest welfare areas are veeeeeeeeeeeeeery blue politically, you know, NYC, Philly, Detroit, LA, SF, New Oreleans, Minneapolis, Boston, Chicago, & there are more. All deep dark blue political areas, been run by Dems forever.
Conservatives, just fire up the DVR/TIVO, which you PAY FOR, & watch it when you have time. America should be about earning a living, & free markets, not about welfare & a free lunch…which taxpayer are paying for.
The President does not have authority to spend one single penny of taxpayer money. Only congress has that authority and congress excercised that authority alot, without regard to this country’s future. Before President Obama there was Senator Obama. Senator Obama never saw a tax dollar–real or imagined–that he didn’t want to waste. Blame it on Dubbya? Get real.
My favorite part of the presidents mulligan interview was when he went on to blame Bush for the state of the economy because it hadn’t been regulated enough . . . as if nothing could be less socialistic than command regulation of an economy.
Bush had between 4-6% unemployment rate under his rule for all 8 years except the last two months of of 08 where it was 6.5 and then jumped up a few more points.
What has Barry done? Yeah…
Not to use the wayback machine, still it was only in 06 when the Dems took the house and senate that the financial wheels started to come off.
There are idiots on both the left and right side of the aisle. Still Clinton had Freddie and Fanny come up under his watch and one can go back to the mid 80s with the Dems and the housing equity line passage that laid the seeds for much of this mess.
Bush got blasted after the Enron and other players had their scandal and the reaction was to clamp down hard with new laws and statutes. Some said it was TOO regulated and restrictive for companies in the market. Obama, the student of history, knew that though didn’t he?
Obama blaming Bush for his Socialist status is like Stalin getting peeved that people tagged him a murderous Communist and trying to push the blame for his reputation on Lenin. No Joe! That is not why people associate the name Stalin with Communism.
And… Sorry Barry- when you act like a Socialist you get labeled like a Socialist. Bush has not a damn thing to do with that occurrence.
The problem Obama has is that are too many people, who like me, understand the old saying, “You are who you roll with”. Everybody around this guy is a socialist, a marxist,a communist, a statist, a collectivist, a redistributionist, & hide behind the labels of liberal or progressive. From his marxist father, to his marxist mentor Frank Marshall Davis, to his Revs Wright & Moss, & almost everyone he has brought in to run his administration, are hardline lefty socialist. So why would anyone come to a conclusion that Obama is one as well?
Sorry, the pitch is over the plate, it is a strike…