Obama's Year of Living Blamelessly: "Barack Obama has figured out what went wrong with Homeland Security this past Christmas: George W. Bush: 'It's becoming clear that the system that has been in place for years now is not sufficiently up to date to take full advantage of the information we collect and the knowledge we have,” Obama said Wednesday.
When you're president of the United States, you can't pass the buck to your superior. In response to this frustration, President Obama has developed what systems people like to call a 'workaround': He passes the buck to his predecessor. A lot.
He started blaming Bush during the presidential campaign, which was natural enough. Here is candidate Obama on Iran, for example: 'It is time to turn the page on eight years of policies that have strengthened Iran and failed to secure America or our ally Israel.” But after becoming president, Obama just kept on going. On climate change: 'After eight years in which there was resistance to even acknowledging the problem, I think my administration has been very clear that we intend to be a leader on this issue internationally.” On trying terror suspects: “The decisions that were made over the last eight years established an ad hoc legal approach for fighting terrorism that was neither effective nor sustainable.” And now, on the failed Christmas Day terror attack."
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