Posted on 10/16/2012 6:51:21 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
"Did they come in and inherit a tough situation? Absolutely." This from Paul Ryan, in the worst moment of the VP debate.
Barack Obama is going to lose in a blow-out, and the debates have certainly padded that margin. Having said that, both Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan left "some easy money on the table" through the first two debates that they now need to collect. The Romney/Ryan mandate will be even bigger, and effective governing afterwards will be more viable, if they but correct the media narrative of what Obama "inherited."
The notion that our fearless young president innocently inherited a mess of biblical proportions is just not correct. Neither is the idea that we are in a recovery that is merely too weak to justify re-election.
The sum total of those arguments is that Obama should perhaps be fired because he's a nice guy who simply has not lived up to his promised timetables for fixing this mess. You know the mess -- the one caused by a 40-year reign of John Galt, where government disappeared, regulations were rolled back, and we had too much American energy, while businesses were writing their own rules? If only we really were in such a mess.
That entire notion is absurd, yet widely accepted. What Obama inherited in January 2009 was Obama. Maybe not personally Obama, but he inherited economic problems resulting from implementation of too many Obama pipe dream policies.
Consider some history: the economy Obama inherited had been dominated for two years by radicals named Reid and Pelosi -- with a certain senator from Illinois voting with them every step of the way, as it turns out.
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He didn’t “inherit” it, he bought and paid for it.
Full discloslure...
“He inherited a bad situation AND MADE IT WORSE.”
I think that is a strong point, not a weak one, but that’s just me.
It would be like imagining Ronald Reagan making a worse President than Jimmy Carter, when you let that sink in.
And no, I’m not comparing W to Jimmy Carter and don’t believe W was, overall, a bad President (disagreed with him on some specifics). Note Paul wasn’t talking about individuals but about the situation itself and what Obama did about it.
And Paul makes the same point everywhere he goes. Not just in the debate. He really comes down hard on the words “he made it WORSE!!”
YES. They will need to put forth a strong and clear message of the why’s and what for’s that caused the economic meltdown in ‘08. And it wasn’t George Bush. Not by his lonesome. It was a long time in the making.
Makes what Obama inherited from Bush look like a boom time!
I couldn’t agree more.
bkmk
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