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In reply to the discussion: What makes Barack Obama such a great President? [View all]hfojvt
(37,573 posts)Obama is sorta like God. He gets credit for eveything good, like the sunshine, and good crops and health and children and puppies. Anything bad that also happens? Hurricanes, earthquakes, plagues, mass murders, famines, cancer? Those are all the fault of either man's sin or of the devil.
In the same way, Obama saved the economy and GM (even though Congress passed those bills) but is not responsible for the continuation of the Bush tax cuts because that was Congress's fault. It is apparently also Congress's fault that Obama goes around spreading the message that the budget needs to be cut (on the backs of working people and the poor) and that tax cuts will create jobs and grow the economy. I guess Congress also made him create the Catfood Commission and also to embrace their conservative proposals.
For some, Republican economics is great as long as it is proposed by "Democrats". They hated Bush, not because of his tax cuts or economic policies, but because he vetoed the Matthew Shepard act and was anti-abortion.