October 16, 2012

Obama 'Inherited' Only Obama

By C. Edmund Wright
"Did they come in and inherit a tough situation?  Absolutely."  This from Paul Ryan, in the worst moment of the VP debate. Barack Obama is going to lose in a blow-out, and the debates have certainly padded that margin.  Having said that, both Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan left "some easy money on the table" through the first two debates that they now need to collect.  The Romney/Ryan mandate will be even bigger, and effective governing afterwards will be more viable, if they but correct the media narrative of what Obama "inherited."  The notion that our fearless young president innocently inherited a mess of biblical proportions is just not correct.  Neither is the idea that we are in a recovery that is merely too weak to justify re-election. The sum total of those arguments is that Obama should perhaps be fired because he's a nice guy who simply has not lived up to his promised timetables for fixing this mess.  You know the mess -- the one caused by a...(Read Full Article)