THE ISSUE: President Obama’s blaming George W. Bush for his administration’s shortfalls.
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After Scott Brown’s victory, the Democrats are pointing fingers, still blaming George W. Bush and saying the win was a fluke, and President Obama is telling us that he now needs to talk directly to the people (“Bam: I Fell Out of Touch,” Jan. 21).
No, Mr. President. You’ve done enough talking. Try listening for a change. That would be a change we can all believe in.
Believe it or not, we, the people, live life every day, do not spend other people’s money like drunken sailors and actually plan our futures with our children in mind.
We also teach our children to take responsibility for their actions and that there is a price to pay tomorrow, good or bad, for what they do today.
Obama, are you listening?
Mark Reger
Westborough, Mass.
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My son has had a horrible cold for a few weeks now, and I finally realized where the blame lies: Bush, of course.
Democrats seem to blame him for everything else, so why not the common cold?
Leanne Collins
Staten Island
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Come on, Mr. President. Drop the blame game.
Take responsibility for your refusal to listen and face the facts. Class warfare, secret deals, capitulating to special interests, an extreme swing to the left, ridiculing opposition, the takeover of the health-care industry and policies that will bankrupt this country are not popular.
Bush has become your voodoo doll. You stick a blame pin in him every time your policies fail.
Obama’s words sound hollow. All of America knows what he refuses to accept: What happens on his watch is his responsibility.
Patricia O’Hanlon
The Bronx
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It’s pathetic to hear this president claim the crises left to him by Bush granted him no time to get in touch with the people.
Why, it barely left his minions time to think of names to call the Tea Party people, the very people they might have listened to.
The radical agenda this administration has pursued has been soundly rejected by the electorate.
The more Obama believes a slight course correction is all that’s needed to right his floundering ship of state, the less chance there is for Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi and their Marxist ideas to survive in November.
This president has arrogantly and repeatedly lied to the people in an attempt to transform America in a way no American ever asked for.
Happily, it appears our Constitution will survive his best efforts.
Sal Bifulco
Jackson, NJ
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With her customary common-sense insight, Andrea Peyser (“ArrOgance Is Exposed,” Jan. 21) puts her finger on the degree of Obama’s fierce arrogance in the face of the powerful Massachusetts counterpunch to his policies, particularly health-care reform.
Obama’s response, spun after he gained composure, was, once again, that the cause of voter anger lies somewhere in the Bush years.
Did FDR forever harp on President Hoover over the Great Depression or JFK blame President Eisenhower for the Bay of Pigs?
Obama, it’s long past time for you to own your own presidency.
Susan M. Silver
Manhattan
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What took so long for the president to come around and admit that average Americans are part of the big picture? Of course, he still had to get a dig in on the past eight years.
Well, we’re on a new watch now. People didn’t like the arrogance, the behind-closed-doors shady deals for a select few and the Pelosi-Reid train wreck called health-care reform.
If the Democrats had won in Massachusetts, the president would not have gone on TV and the bill would have been rammed through.
Sam King
Manhattan