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> > Want excuses?...vote Republican.
>
> > Want results?...vote Obama.
>
> =C2=A0 Great slogan !

For the Republicans, yes.  Want to revisit obama's excuses?

    =E2=80=9CI=E2=80=99m not gonna make any excuses.=E2=80=9D =E2=80=94 Bar=
ack Obama

The good folks at the RNC have released a video highlighting President
Obama=E2=80=99s penchant for offering excuse after excuse rather take
responsibility for his policy failures.

http://youtu.be/KVDs9mSG3AA

This is one more example of Obama saying one thing while doing another
or trying to have things both ways. He says he is =E2=80=9Cnot gonna make
excuses,=E2=80=9D but continues to do so.

As  Salena Zito put it in the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, Obama has
blamed the stagnant economy on ATMs, ditches, slurpees, corporate-jet
owners, the TEA Party, Republicans, Japan=E2=80=99s earthquake, the Arab
spring, the Arab summer, George Bush, and Wall Street  (Salena Zito,
=E2=80=9CBattlegrounds Of Resentment,=E2=80=9D Pittsburgh Tribune-Review 8/=
28/11):

    Obama Blamed ATMs And Airport Kiosks For His Failure To Create
Jobs. =E2=80=9C[T]here are some structural issues with our economy, where a
lot of businesses have learned to become much more efficient, with a
lot fewer workers. You see it when you go to the bank and use an ATM =E2=80=
=94
you don=E2=80=99t go to a bank teller. Or you go to the airport, and you=E2=
=80=99re
using a kiosk, instead of checking in at the gate.=E2=80=9D  (NBC=E2=80=99s=
 =E2=80=9CToday,=E2=80=9D
6/14/11)
    Obama: The Republicans Are =E2=80=9CSipping On A Slurpee=E2=80=9D And =
=E2=80=9CKicking
Dirt=E2=80=9D Onto Democrats. OBAMA: =E2=80=9CAnd we=E2=80=99ve been pushin=
g that car, pushing
it, pushing it, pushing it.  The whole time the Republicans have been
standing on the sidelines.  They=E2=80=99ve been looking down, fanning
themselves, sipping on a Slurpee.  Kicking dirt down into the ditch.
Kicking dirt in our faces.  But we kept on pushing=E2=80=9D (President Bara=
ck
Obama, Remarks, Minneapolis, MN 10/23/10)
    Obama Tried To Blame The Japanese Earthquake And Arab Spring For
Poor Economic Numbers. OBAMA: =E2=80=9CLet me start by saying a few words
about our economy.  There is no doubt this has been a tumultuous
year.  We=E2=80=99ve weathered the Arab Spring=E2=80=99s effect on oil and =
gas prices,
the Japanese earthquake and tsunami=E2=80=99s effect on supply chains, the
extraordinary economic uncertainty in Europe.  And recently, markets
around the globe have taken a bumpy ride.=E2=80=9D (President Barack Obama,
Remarks, Washington, D.C., 8/5/11)
    Obama Says He =E2=80=9CInherited=E2=80=9D A Bad Economy. =E2=80=9CLatel=
y, Obama and his
aides have taken to saying that they =E2=80=98inherited=E2=80=99 a troubled=
 economy, a
more subtle reference to the past at a time that many voters
increasingly see Obama as being part of the problem.=E2=80=9D (Peter Wallst=
en,
=E2=80=9CObama: Bush Put Us In A Hole,=E2=80=9D The Washington Post, 8/30/1=
1)
    Obama: Problems In Europe =E2=80=9CWash Over Into Our Shores.=E2=80=9D =
=E2=80=9CBut the
truth of the matter is, is that we now live in a global economy where
everything is interconnected, and that means that when you have
problems in Europe and in Spain and in Italy and in Greece, those
problems wash over into our shores.=E2=80=9D (President Barack Obama, Remar=
ks
by the President at a DNC Event in Washington, DC, 8/8/11)

Obama has also blamed Congress even though for the first two years of
the Obama presidency the Obamacrats controlled Congress:

     Obama Blame=E2=80=99s Congress. OBAMA: =E2=80=9CWell, look, we anticip=
ated that
the recovery was slowing. The economy is still growing, but it=E2=80=99s no=
t
growing as fast as it needs to.  I=E2=80=99ve got things right now before
Congress that we should move immediately. And I said so before I went
on vacation and I=E2=80=99ll keep on saying it now that I=E2=80=99m back. W=
e should be
passing legislation that helps small businesses get credit.=E2=80=9D (NBC=
=E2=80=99s
=E2=80=9CNightly News=E2=80=9D 8/29/10)
     Obama Got Almost Everything He Wanted Out Of The Democrat-
Controlled Congress.  =E2=80=9CHe passed $830 billion in stimulus, $3 billi=
on
for cash for clunkers, $30 billion in small business loans, $30
billion for mortgage modification, the GM-Chrysler bailouts,
ObamaCare, Dodd-Frank, credit card price controls, Build America
Bonds, jobless benefits for a record 99 weeks, and more. The only
priorities that a Democratic Congress blocked were cap-and-tax and
union card check, and both of those would have further damaged growth
and jobs. Even last December, after Republicans had retaken the House,
Mr. Obama won his one-year payroll tax cut, more jobless benefits and
most of what he wanted.=E2=80=9D (Editorial, =E2=80=9CThe Latest Jobs Plan,=
=E2=80=9D The Wall
Street Journal, 9/9/11)
    =E2=80=9CMr. Obama Has Been The Least Obstructed President Since LBJ In
1965 Or FDR In 1933, Which Is How We Got Here.=E2=80=9D =E2=80=9CThe larger=
 political
subtext of Mr. Obama=E2=80=99s speech is that if Congress doesn=E2=80=99t p=
ass his
plan, he=E2=80=99ll then campaign against Republicans as obstructionist. Th=
us
his speech mantra that Congress should =E2=80=98pass it right away.=E2=80=
=99 This
ignores that Mr. Obama has been the least obstructed President since
LBJ in 1965 or FDR in 1933, which is how we got here.=E2=80=9D (Editorial,
=E2=80=9CThe Latest Jobs Plan,=E2=80=9D The Wall Street Journal, 9/9/11)

Another Obama excuse is his claim he didn=E2=80=99t know how bad the econom=
y
was even though he said it was historic:

    President Obama Claims =E2=80=9CWe Didn=E2=80=99t Know How Bad It Was.=
=E2=80=9D =E2=80=9CPresident
Barack Obama said Tuesday he wishes he knew the full extent of the
economic crisis when he took office, if only so he could have let
Americans know just how tough the coming years would be. =E2=80=98I think w=
e
understood that it was bad, but we didn=E2=80=99t know how bad it was,=E2=
=80=99 Obama
said in an interview with KIRO in Seattle. =E2=80=98I think I could have
prepared the American people for how bad this was going to be, had we
had a sense of that.=E2=80=99=E2=80=9D (Jennifer Epstein, =E2=80=9CBarack O=
bama On Economic
Crisis: =E2=80=98We Didn=E2=80=99t Know How Bad It Was,=E2=80=9D Politico=
=E2=80=99s =E2=80=9C44=E2=80=B3, 12/13/11)
    Obama: The Economic =E2=80=9CMess Has Been Bigger Than I Think A Lot Of
People Anticipated At The Time.=E2=80=9D CNN=E2=80=99S WOLF BLITZER: =E2=80=
=9CWhen you took
office, you said if I don=E2=80=99t have this done in three years then it=
=E2=80=99s
going to be a one-term proposition, meaning you=E2=80=99re going to be a on=
e
term president. Do you remember that?=E2=80=9D OBAMA: =E2=80=9CWell, here=
=E2=80=99s what I
remember. When I came into office, I knew I was going to have a big
mess to clean up. And frankly, the mess has been bigger than I think a
lot of people anticipated at the time.=E2=80=9D (CNN=E2=80=99s =E2=80=9CThe=
 Situation Room,=E2=80=9D
8/16/11)
    September 2008: Obama: =E2=80=9CWe Are Going Through The Worst Financia=
l
Crisis Since The Great Depression.=E2=80=9D (Sen. Barack Obama, Remarks Dur=
ing
First Presidential Debate, Oxford, MS, 9/26/08)
    October 2008: Obama: =E2=80=9CWe Meet Here At A Time Of Great Uncertain=
ty.
Our Economy Is In Crisis.=E2=80=9D (Sen. Barack Obama, Remarks, La Crosse, =
WI,
10/1/08)
    November 2008: Obama: =E2=80=9CWe Are Facing An Economic Crisis Of
Historic Proportions.=E2=80=9D (President-Elect Barack Obama, Remarks
Announcing Members Of The Economic Team, Chicago, IL, 11/24/08)
    A 2008 Report By Obama Advisor Larry Summers Described The
Economic Crisis As =E2=80=9CGrim And Deteriorating Rapidly=E2=80=9D And Pre=
dicted
America Could Lose 4 Million More Jobs Within The Year. =E2=80=9CThe initia=
l
debate was framed by a fifty-seven-page memo to the President-elect,
dated December 15, 2008, written by Larry Summers, his incoming
director of the National Economic Council. Marked =E2=80=98Sensitive and
Confidential,=E2=80=99 the document, which has never been made public,
presents Obama with the scale of the crisis. =E2=80=98The economic outlook =
is
grim and deteriorating rapidly,=E2=80=99 it said. The U.S. economy had lost
two million jobs that year; without a government response, it would
lose four million more in the next year. Unemployment would rise above
nine per cent unless a significant stimulus plan was passed. The
estimates were getting worse by the day.=E2=80=9D (Ryan Lizza, =E2=80=9CThe=
 Obama
Memos,=E2=80=9D The New Yorker, 1/30/12)

Obama has made at least two attempts to accept responsibility. Three
years ago, Obama appeared on NBC=E2=80=99s =E2=80=9CToday=E2=80=9D show and=
 and made his
infamous =E2=80=9Cone-term proposition=E2=80=9D prediction:

    =E2=80=9CI will be held accountable. You know, I=E2=80=99ve got four ye=
ars. =E2=80=A6 A
year from now, I think people are gonna see that we=E2=80=99re starting to
make some progress, but there=E2=80=99s still gonna be some pain out there.=
 If
I don=E2=80=99t this done in three years, then there=E2=80=99s gonna be a o=
ne-term
proposition.=E2=80=9D

In celebration the three-year anniversary of the Obama =E2=80=9Cone-term
proposition=E2=80=9D day, the RNC produced a video cataloguing Democrat
leaders=E2=80=99 descriptions of the poor economy under President Obama=E2=
=80=99s
failed leadership.You can watch the =E2=80=9CHow Democrats Describe the Oba=
ma
Economy=E2=80=9D video here.
And Obama even admits that we are not better off than we were four
years ago =E2=80=94 inviting comparisons to the malaise of Jimmy Carter=E2=
=80=99s
failed presidency.
It=E2=80=99s way past time for Obama to stop the excuses and accept
responsibility for his failed policies.

http://www.redstate.com/california_yankee/2012/04/16/obama-excuses-rather-t=
han-responsibility-for-his-failed-policies/