The good folks at the RNC have released a video highlighting President
Obama’s 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 “not gonna make
excuses,” 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’s earthquake, the Arab
spring, the Arab summer, George Bush, and Wall Street (Salena Zito,
“Battlegrounds Of Resentment,” Pittsburgh Tribune-Review 8/28/11):
Obama Blamed ATMs And Airport Kiosks For His Failure To Create
Jobs. “[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 —
you don’t go to a bank teller. Or you go to the airport, and you’re
using a kiosk, instead of checking in at the gate.” (NBC’s “Today,”
6/14/11)
Obama: The Republicans Are “Sipping On A Slurpee” And “Kicking
Dirt” Onto Democrats. OBAMA: “And we’ve been pushing that car, pushing
it, pushing it, pushing it. The whole time the Republicans have been
standing on the sidelines. They’ve 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” (President Barack
Obama, Remarks, Minneapolis, MN 10/23/10)
Obama Tried To Blame The Japanese Earthquake And Arab Spring For
Poor Economic Numbers. OBAMA: “Let me start by saying a few words
about our economy. There is no doubt this has been a tumultuous
year. We’ve weathered the Arab Spring’s effect on oil and gas prices,
the Japanese earthquake and tsunami’s effect on supply chains, the
extraordinary economic uncertainty in Europe. And recently, markets
around the globe have taken a bumpy ride.” (President Barack Obama,
Remarks, Washington, D.C., 8/5/11)
Obama Says He “Inherited” A Bad Economy. “Lately, Obama and his
aides have taken to saying that they ‘inherited’ 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.” (Peter Wallsten,
“Obama: Bush Put Us In A Hole,” The Washington Post, 8/30/11)
Obama: Problems In Europe “Wash Over Into Our Shores.” “But 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.” (President Barack Obama, Remarks
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’s Congress. OBAMA: “Well, look, we anticipated that
the recovery was slowing. The economy is still growing, but it’s not
growing as fast as it needs to. I’ve got things right now before
Congress that we should move immediately. And I said so before I went
on vacation and I’ll keep on saying it now that I’m back. We should be
passing legislation that helps small businesses get credit.” (NBC’s
“Nightly News” 8/29/10)
Obama Got Almost Everything He Wanted Out Of The Democrat-
Controlled Congress. “He passed $830 billion in stimulus, $3 billion
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.” (Editorial, “The Latest Jobs Plan,” The Wall
Street Journal, 9/9/11)
“Mr. Obama Has Been The Least Obstructed President Since LBJ In
1965 Or FDR In 1933, Which Is How We Got Here.” “The larger political
subtext of Mr. Obama’s speech is that if Congress doesn’t pass his
plan, he’ll then campaign against Republicans as obstructionist. Thus
his speech mantra that Congress should ‘pass it right away.’ 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.” (Editorial,
“The Latest Jobs Plan,” The Wall Street Journal, 9/9/11)
Another Obama excuse is his claim he didn’t know how bad the economy
was even though he said it was historic:
President Obama Claims “We Didn’t Know How Bad It Was.” “President
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. ‘I think we
understood that it was bad, but we didn’t know how bad it was,’ Obama
said in an interview with KIRO in Seattle. ‘I think I could have
prepared the American people for how bad this was going to be, had we
had a sense of that.’” (Jennifer Epstein, “Barack Obama On Economic
Crisis: ‘We Didn’t Know How Bad It Was,” Politico’s “44″, 12/13/11)
Obama: The Economic “Mess Has Been Bigger Than I Think A Lot Of
People Anticipated At The Time.” CNN’S WOLF BLITZER: “When you took
office, you said if I don’t have this done in three years then it’s
going to be a one-term proposition, meaning you’re going to be a one
term president. Do you remember that?” OBAMA: “Well, here’s 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.” (CNN’s “The Situation Room,”
8/16/11)
September 2008: Obama: “We Are Going Through The Worst Financial
Crisis Since The Great Depression.” (Sen. Barack Obama, Remarks During
First Presidential Debate, Oxford, MS, 9/26/08)
October 2008: Obama: “We Meet Here At A Time Of Great Uncertainty.
Our Economy Is In Crisis.” (Sen. Barack Obama, Remarks, La Crosse, WI,
10/1/08)
November 2008: Obama: “We Are Facing An Economic Crisis Of
Historic Proportions.” (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 “Grim And Deteriorating Rapidly” And Predicted
America Could Lose 4 Million More Jobs Within The Year. “The initial
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 ‘Sensitive and
Confidential,’ the document, which has never been made public,
presents Obama with the scale of the crisis. ‘The economic outlook is
grim and deteriorating rapidly,’ 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.” (Ryan Lizza, “The Obama
Memos,” The New Yorker, 1/30/12)
Obama has made at least two attempts to accept responsibility. Three
years ago, Obama appeared on NBC’s “Today” show and and made his
infamous “one-term proposition” prediction:
“I will be held accountable. You know, I’ve got four years. … A
year from now, I think people are gonna see that we’re starting to
make some progress, but there’s still gonna be some pain out there. If
I don’t this done in three years, then there’s gonna be a one-term
proposition.”
In celebration the three-year anniversary of the Obama “one-term
proposition” day, the RNC produced a video cataloguing Democrat
leaders’ descriptions of the poor economy under President Obama’s
failed leadership.You can watch the “How Democrats Describe the Obama
Economy” video here.
And Obama even admits that we are not better off than we were four
years ago — inviting comparisons to the malaise of Jimmy Carter’s
failed presidency.
It’s 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-than-responsibility-for-his-failed-policies/