Analysis: Obama's buck-stopping goes only so far

AP on Yahoo ^ | 1/8/10 | Ben Feller - ap

[NormsRevenge]

WASHINGTON – He says "the buck stops with me," but nearly a year into office President Barack Obama is still blaming a lot of the nation's troubles — the economy, terrorism, health care — on George W. Bush.

Over and over, Obama keeps reminding Americans of the mess he inherited and all he's doing to fix it. A sharper, give-me-some-credit tone has emerged in his language as he bemoans people's fleeting memory about what life was like way back in 2008, particularly on the economy.

"Yes we can"?

Try "Yes I have."

While candid about what he called his team's "screw-up" in the botched Christmas airliner attack, Obama has made a point of underlining all the good he believes his government has done, too.

[NormsRevenge]

Et tu, AP.. sort of..

Speaking of pa$$ing the buck..

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[God luvs America]

please tell me this writer is usually a hardcore lib.....please, please, please, please.....

[HANG THE EXPENSE]

Sounds as if the egghaid is starting to show some signs of fracturing.I am affraid it will just push up their agenda to wreck this country faster.Rough seas ahead for us.

[Godzilla]

The buck never reaches him. Because of his policies, it is devalued to approximately a nickel by the time it gets to him.

[usnavycdr]

Hey, but he gives himself a “solid B+.”

[eeriegeno]

At work when I accept responsibility for something that goes wrong under my supervision, there is generally a reprimand or punishment of sorts levied. Bohama accepts responsibility for the intel failure and nothing happens. When he said that there was a 'systemic' failure that was not the fault of any one individual, I wanted to puke! News flash to the president: systems are made up of people. people are supervised by other people. Whatever system he claims failed was the failure of the workers in that system and the leaders who supervise them.

The real kicker about this is that the media is giving this goof a total pass!!!

[arkady_renko]

If you read the whole article it is a defense of Obama's successes. He contends that Obama HAS to keep bringing up Bush so that the common people have a frame of reference for how horrible is WAS and how much light, hope and change Obama is bringing them.

The simple folk are caught in the moment and do not have the capability do understand the danger they have been saved from without parading the great boogey man, Bush.

[roadcat]

In one short year he has gone from “Yes we can!” to “Did I do that?”. Yeah, the buck stops at his desk but craps on the American public.