Pictured: Nooners with the owner of the 1982 recession

Pictured: Nooners with the owner of the 1982 recession

Nooners gives Chimpy another pass today:

At a certain point, a president must own a presidency. For George W. Bush that point came eight months in, when 9/11 happened. [...] The American people didn’t hold him responsible for what led up to 9/11, but they held him responsible for everything after it.

So George Bush “owned” his presidency — the day after 9/11. How convenient!

President Obama, in office a month longer than Bush was when 9/11 hit, now owns his presidency. [...] It’s his now. He gets the credit and the blame.

Ah. The negro doesn’t get the same mulligan as the Bush. Club rules.

The president doesn’t seem to like this moment. Who would? He and his men and women have returned to referring to what they “inherited.” And what they inherited was, truly, terrible: again, a severe economic crisis and two wars. But their recent return to this theme is unbecoming. Worse, it is politically unpersuasive. It sounds defensive, like a dodge.

Right. Obama should be a real man like Reagan, who in 1982, sacked up and totally owned the recession.

Reagan owned the recovery and assigned away blame for the pain.  Even in 1982, the economy was described as suffering from the “Carter Recession.” Every bit of bad news was assigned to the previous regime; every morsel of good news was evidence of a Reagan-led recovery.

And I doubt Nooners was complaining that it was “unbecoming” of St. Ronnie and Republicans.

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