Obama in Afghanistan, speaks to nation tonight

[Danzig]

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_a...or_blame_.html


Inaugural Charade
Romney and Obama pretend everything changed when Obama took office. Bull.
By William Saletan|Posted Wednesday, May 2, 2012, at 12:31 PM ET

According to Mitt Romney, everything that’s going wrong in this country started when Barack Obama took office. Women lost their jobs. Families lost their homes. The nation’s debt soared.

According to Barack Obama, everything that’s going well started when he took office. The government rescued the auto industry. Energy production rose. The war against Osama Bin Laden turned in our favor.

Each candidate rejects the other’s story. Romney says the things that are going well started going well before Jan. 20, 2009. Obama says the things that are going badly went bad before Jan. 20, 2009. Both of these rebuttals are correct, which means both men are exaggerating what President Obama changed. This is what politicians do: They heap blame on incumbents, promise to change the world, and then, once elected, pretend to have done so. Don’t believe them. It’s wildly implausible that the nation’s progress or decline began on Inauguration Day. In fact, it’s false. And the candidates, in their rebuttals, show that they know it.



the last paragraph of the article is all spot on!