Obama Senior Aide Axelrod Still Blames Bush for Current Voter Anger and Economic "disaster"

Obama senior aide David Axelrod once again blamed Bush for the current voter anger from the economic "disaster" apparently left behind by Bush. Let me repeat that again, and let's see if it sounds less asinine this time around. Obama senior aide David Axelrod once again blamed Bush for the current vot...nope, I can't even complete repeating it, and it already sounds asinine as heck! Axelrod's-and, to be sure, many top Obama officials's-obsession with blaming Bush begs a few, choice questions. Is Axelrod on something? Is Axelrod delirious? Is Axelrod merely joking around? Or, as I think, is he really out to insult the collective intelligence of the American people? I opine that it's the latter as many Obama officials, which is to say nothing of the president himself, talk relentlessly like they want to insult the intelligence of the American people 24/7.

Appearing on ABC's This Week political show, Axelrod plotted to unconvincingly deflect blame from Obama by making it appear as though-haha!-he always knew Obama's poll numbers would come crashing down like crazy and that he in fact even warned Obama about it last year. Well, geeze, I really believe that...not! That is an out-and-out lie as Obama's poll numbers are in a seemingly unstoppable free fall because Obama refuses to listen to the American people, all the more ironic because this is exactly what the Democrats ruthlessly accused Bush of for eight years! Oh, how sweet it is when the irony bites the Democrats in their derriere!

Besides blaming Bush, Axelrod's strategy for his TV propaganda appearance was clearly to shift the blame to anyone or anything as long it didn't land on Obama, the man most to blame, however, for the dreadful economic statistics coming out monthly. Axelrod even went so far as to blame the dying Obama poll numbers on the actual lousiness of the economy instead of fessing up that the opposite was true: namely, that the Obama poll numbers are crashing because of bad, Obama policies on the economy. These policies include practically everything he's done in his more than one year in office. These would be wrongs like spending money to "grow" the economy instead of cutting tax rates; misdirecting all said spending into the government sector instead of the private; and raising taxes to pay for more, insane spending that already has failed and will continue to fail in creating or even saving jobs.

Let's count up the fanatical number of times Axelrod actually tried to blame Bush during his inconsequential interview. First he said that "he [Obama] was handed the worst economic downturn since the depression..." That's one. He also said that "we need to grow this economy in a way that allows hardworking people who are meeting their responsibilities to get ahead instead of falling behind." That's two. He continued that "President Clinton left a $237 billion surplus; President Obama received a $1.3 trillion deficit." That's three, which constitutes a whole series of blame that Axelrod is just heaping on Bush in a cowardly fashion of scapegoating!

Equally noxious throughout Axelrod's interview was how he appeared to be either hallucinatory, stubborn, or maybe, just maybe, both at the same time! Like one of those "zombiefied," true-believing Obama voters who's convinced in Obama's infallibility, Axelrod repeated a distressing series of Democrat talking points that are, one, all discreditable, and, two, still defend the indefensible. Whether it was the verifiably failed stimulus, the takeover of the auto industry, or the lifeline to the financial sector, Axelrod kept downplaying the administration's desire to push for such unpopular measures, all the while deviously raising the specter of a "Great Depression" that allegedly would've happened had it not been for all that reckless and excessive spending that drove the deficit to new extremes. To me, that sounds like mere fear mongering, something that Obama and company have been doing since day one.

A part of Axelrod's appearance was meant to preview Obama's upcoming state of the union speech-which will, pathetically, be quite short on accomplishments, I'm willing to bet-but there was only one problem. The same problem that Obama and company have been criticized for many a time. Ready for it? Axelrod shabbily failed to provide actual details of what would be in Obama's speech. You know...merely the same kind of lack of detail that allowed Obama to charm his way into the White House because it allowed people to read whatever the heck they wanted into his empty rhetoric.

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