People tired of obama blaming bush (Congress, poll, accuse, health care)
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'Blame Bush' Strategy Wears Thin as Obama Enters Second Year
FOXNews.com
Whether it's the economy, national security or America's reputation abroad, President Obama and his top advisers have been pinning the blame on the prior administration, directly or obliquely, ever since Obama's inauguration a full year ago -- including at least seven times since last Tuesday's upset in the Massachusetts Senate election.
Some Republicans, and even some Democrats, say it's time to choose a different strategy in selling and defending the Obama agenda, noting that the anti-Bush demographic just isn't as energized now as it was when Bush was in office.
"What you have the last two cycles is the angry voters, the ones most motivated to turn out, were Democrats, who did not like Bush. They didn't like his policies ... You saw it, what we call the surge voters," said former Rep. Tom Davis, former chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee.
"Bush is gone now -- they're all asleep," Davis said.
But Obama appears to be trying to wake them up.
i predict obama will prefer the carville approach:
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High-profile Democratic strategist James Carville argues in the Financial Times that Democrats should stop the internal post-Massachusetts blame-game, and focus on the real culprit: George Bush. Dems Eye 'Blame Bush' Strategy, Again | The Atlantic Wire
'Blame Bush' Strategy Wears Thin as Obama Enters Second Year
FOXNews.com
Whether it's the economy, national security or America's reputation abroad, President Obama and his top advisers have been pinning the blame on the prior administration, directly or obliquely, ever since Obama's inauguration a full year ago -- including at least seven times since last Tuesday's upset in the Massachusetts Senate election.
Some Republicans, and even some Democrats, say it's time to choose a different strategy in selling and defending the Obama agenda, noting that the anti-Bush demographic just isn't as energized now as it was when Bush was in office.
"What you have the last two cycles is the angry voters, the ones most motivated to turn out, were Democrats, who did not like Bush. They didn't like his policies ... You saw it, what we call the surge voters," said former Rep. Tom Davis, former chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee.
"Bush is gone now -- they're all asleep," Davis said.
But Obama appears to be trying to wake them up.
I recall recenyly Danny Glover blaming Bush for ignoring climate change is what caused the Haiti Earthquake. Moon bats, would be boring without them
“This isn’t 2008, and to voters, you no longer represent a beacon of hope, change and a brighter day,” wrote Democratic consultants Kristian Denny Todd and Steve Jarding in Friday’s POLITICO, in a piece addressed to their party. “Instead, 12 months into your ‘mandate to change,’ Americans see you as a card-carrying member of the arrogant political establishment that they increasingly believe is out of touch at best and self-serving at worst.”
Further, given the flurry of major steps Obama has taken in the year since he took office — from the stimulus to more bailouts to health care — Bush looks even more distant in the public’s rearview mirror.
“Obama has made so many moves and changes that it is hard to argue that all the Bush screw-ups are still the leading reason things aren’t better,” explained Democratic pollster Paul Maslin.
“Voters are pretty tired of the blame game,” said longtime Democratic strategist Steve Hildebrand, a top aide on Obama’s presidential campaign. “What a stupid strategy that was.”
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Even Dems are sick of it
