“People are upset because there’s so many problems,” Rosemary Kverek, 70, a retired Charleston schoolteacher said as tonight’s rally wrapped up. “But the problems came from the previous administration. So we’re blaming poor Obama, who’s working 36 hours a day … to solve these problems that he inherited.”
Rep. Patrick Kennedy (D-RI), speaking with a gaggle of reporters after the event, said that while state Sen. Scott Brown (R) offers voters a quick fix, in reality, the problems created by “George Bush and his cronies” are not so easily solved.
“If you think there’s magic out there and things can be turned around overnight, then you would vote for someone who could promise you that, like Scott Brown,” Kennedy said. “If you don’t, if you know that it takes eight years for George Bush and his cronies to put our country into this hole … then you know we have a lot of digging to do, but some work needs to be done and this president’s in the process of doing it and we need to get Marcia Coakley to help him to do that.”
(Curiously, Kennedy mentioned Coakley repeatedly during his remarks to reporters, each time referring to her as “Marcia,” not “Martha.”)
More Kennedy: “One thing the Democrats have done wrong? We haven’t kept the focus on this disaster on the Republicans who brought it upon us. We’ve tried too hard to do that right thing, and that’s to fix it, as opposed to spend more of our time and energy pointing the finger at who got us [here] in the first place.”
Blaming their problems on Bush does carry a risk for Dems, however — with their sights so firmly focused on the past, Brown’s campaign has managed to wrest the “change” mantle from them.
Why would you dig if you are in a hole and the goal is to get out?
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I am getting so sick and tired of this president and his liberal idiots blaming everything on Bush.
When are the democraps going to take responsibility for the consequences of their actions?
Like Robert always says – liberalism is a form of mental illness.
That’s okay BonBon. It just shows his ego will not allow himself to admit his own mistakes or failings. He’s spent the whole year blaming Bush for everything, but what has he done, now that he’s the one in charge? Not a thing. There comes a point when he needs to stop blaming others and step up.
Reminds me of a neighbor’s dog I knew growing up. It was always chasing after cars. But if he ever caught one, then what?