Originally Posted by djplong

When will he 'man up'? Well, Reagan, by those definitions, never did. He was blaming the Democrat-controlled Congress for the economic woes he inherited. His big campaign message was "stay the course" - and I did just that voting for him again in '84.

The bottom line is this. No matter how you spin, slice or slant it, Obama inherited an economy on a far worse precipice than Reagan did. We were looking at a complete economic meltdown. Obama could have been Jesus Christ and it wouldn't have solved the problems in four years. Everyone like to make hay of the "but he said unemployment wouldn't go above 8.5% if we passed the stimulus" and fail to note that was months before he took office. And, of course, now that we are in the midst of an admittedly anemic recovery, no credit is ever given because, well, things still suck.

The latest silliness? Reading that stimulus money hasn't been spent in places because there aren't enough government auditors to oversee the spending. (That didn't seem to stop them from handing out cash in Iraq & Afghanistan). As someone out it "So we don't have the people to oversee the money we don't have to be spent on the jobs that aren't there..."