By continually blaming George Bush for his own failures, Obama has appointed him Cause, and has assumed the position of Effect himself. In effect, he is telling the American people that he is inept, incompetent, weak, disabled, powerless, defenseless, broken, and hapless, as a president.
It's the most fundamental error he could make. Even those who can't process this analytically, will react viscerally to his abdication of basic responsibility.
As the author notes, he doesn't get the concept of the buck stopping at the president's desk. Americans don't like failures and losers. Obama couldn't have chosen a worse possible re-election strategy.
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