Re: "Now it's his responsibility," from the November 2nd editorial page of the Augusta Chronicle.
Today, Michael Ryan was misleading readers again. After rehashing Dick Cheney's use of the word "dither" (See a previous entry on this blog for my commentary on this ridiculous point), Mr. Ryan wrote, "Obama and his minions continue to laugh off the lingering economic crisis as somebody else's mess--even pretending to mop it up last week."
Nobody in the Obama administration is laughing off the economic mess, and President Obama never said it wasn't his responsibility. Here's the actual quote--the video is on www.youtube.com
"Another way of putting it is when I'm busy and Nancy (Pelosi) is busy with our mop cleaning up somebody else's mess--we don't want somebody saying you're not holding that mop right. Why don't you grab a mop? Why don't you help clean up?"
This is more of an accurate analogy than a joke. President Obama IS taking responsibility, he's grabbing the mop to clean up the mess.
I doubt Mr. Ryan actually saw the video or he might've actually understood what President Obama was saying. Instead, Mr. Ryan most likely heard about it second hand from Charles Krauthammer or read something at www.newsbusters.com
In the middle of this editorial Mr. Ryan continues to repeat the lie that President Obama's continuing to slide in the polls. As I noted in a previous blog entry, he cherry-picked one poll out of eight to show this.
Mr. Ryan then wrote, "...President Bush stood on the rubble of a disaster (9-11) he didn't cause and took ownership fixing it..."
Obviously, by using the analogy of the mop, President Obama is taking ownership also, but Mr. Ryan is too dumb or uninformed to understand this.
Moreover, President Bush is at least partially to blame for 9-11, but that's an item to discuss on another entry.
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