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A kid holds a Palestinian flag as Palestinians erect protest tents in a camp on March 20, in the E1 area next to Ma'ale Adumim. The action took place at the same time as U.S. President Barack Obama arrived to Ben Gurion airport near Tel Aviv.
RAMALLAH, Israel – Away from the pomp and ceremony of Barack Obama’s appearance in the West Bank on Thursday, the reaction to the president’s visit ranged from hostility to indifference.
Mustafa al Khteeb, a school teacher with seven children, was preoccupied with supporting his family, not the president’s arrival.
“I cannot feed my children,” he said as he gestured at an empty refrigerator and suppressed tears. “I feel like half a man. This is a shame.”
Al Khteeb’s salary, small to start with at about $700-a-month, is rarely paid on time, and usually he gets only half of it. The Palestinian Authority is strapped for cash and the first people to be affected are the 153,000 civil servants, including teachers, who can barely survive the month. In January, they went on strike calling for full payment of their salaries.
“I blame President Obama,” al Khteeb said.
“Why?” a reporter asked. “Why not blame your own government, or Israel? Why is it America’s fault?”
Just 24 hours after President Obama met with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel, Mahmoud Abbas, president of the Palestinian National Authority, welcomed the president to Ramallah, in their first meeting in over a year. NBC's Chuck Todd reports.
“Because Israel does what America tells it to do and America is on the side of Israel,” he answered.
The Palestinian Authority’s money shortfall is due to a combination of disappointing domestic revenue, falling international donations and Israel sometimes withholding the hundred million dollars it collects a month in tax on behalf of the PA.
Meanwhile, unemployment runs at around 18 percent, and average annual income for a Palestinian at about $12,000 a year, less than half of that in Israel.
Many here pin the blame for the hardship on the United States, and that spilled over as Obama’s visit approached.
Workers in the Muqata, the government compound, played cat and mouse for days with protesters who defaced posters of the American leader, waited for them to be replaced, and defaced them again.
Small demonstrations against Obama popped up daily in Ramallah with slogans like “O-Obama, go back, Palestine is not for sale,” and “Obama, you are the enemy of the people of Palestine and ally of the Jews. You are not welcome here.”
Joy and hope
This anger was in marked contrast with the joy and hope with which Palestinians greeted Obama’s first term. They believed his 2009 speech in Cairo in which he called for democracy and for the rights of Palestinians and expected a change in American policy away from what they see as America’s blind support for Israel.
During his visit to Israel, President Obama said a diplomatic solution is still possible in dealing with a nuclear Iran. When addressing Israeli-Palestinian peace prospects, Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel remains "fully committed to peace." NBC's Chuck Todd reports.
Four years later, little has changed for them: Israel continues to solidify its control on much of the West Bank and few believe in any peace process. No mention of the issue was made on Wednesday when Obama arrived in Israel.
So you hear it everywhere here: Life is hard on the West Bank and it is Obama’s fault.
“There are thousands like me,” said al Khteeb, the school teacher. “Nobody can live like this.”
The small numbers that attend the demonstrations tells another part of the story. A few dozen, a hundred or so at most, marched around the main square on Thursday, holding banners, calling through megaphones, as bystanders watched and went about their business.
“What good does it do?” one said. “Nobody listens to us.”
Obama’s visit to Israel is seen as a charm offensive, to mend fences with Israelis who have felt slighted and ignored by the American leader. He faces exactly the same problem with the Palestinians.
Martin Fletcher is the author of "The List,""Breaking News" and "Walking Israel."
Related:
Obama in West Bank: Palestinians 'deserve a state of their own'
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wow he blamed obama not bush
where are all the left supporters here? Dont abandon him now!
it is crazy how fickle the region is.... they lay palm branches before him on his first visit and give him a nobel peace prize... now...
And I thought it was only here, in America.... Hmmmmm...
Seems to be a common theme world wide?
I think Obama has found out that flowery speeches are easy...actually enacting change is difficult.
The teacher is frustrated, I get that. But as an educator, he must know there is a much larger world out there.
If it's not working for him for where he lives, logic would tell you to change your environment or continue down the same path again and again. If your government is not working for you, perhaps you need a different government.
Our President is not responsible for your well being. You are responsible for your own well being. IF you surround yourself with negativity, that is what you receive. That is the law of nature.
Simple, that statement is not true per the Obama doctrine. He believes that the State or Government owns and supports all people, regardless of their own initiative. He is the equalizer that desires full and absolute control over the people. He will provide if you worship him.
Nobody likes a 'King" unless it is Elvis ..........
It is not Simple. That teacher lives in a walled-off city-state with IDF soldiers (who the US supports with cash and weapons) pointing guns at her everyday. She can go no where. She can't just get in her car, or board a plane and be welcomed with new opportunity the next place she finds herself. She CAN'T leave. And why should she have to leave? It is her home, that men with guns are trying everyday to take from her. Sometimes they forbid you from crossing the checkpoint to go to work or the market. Sometimes they just bulldoze your house, or fire rockets from helicopters into your neighbor's apartment.
The logic equation you seem to be using is missing a couple of critical operators, facts and context. That's what happens when you look at the world through Ayn Rand's eyes.
But don't worry, as the megacorporations continue to harvest everything of value until extinction or collapse, you too will get the context. Then where will we run?
Maybe Obama should pass out cell phones and food stamps...works here.
Poor baby, he don't get no respect.
And gee Anthony...you left out the part about the rockets coming from the Palistinians into Israel...how cum zat?
So the terrorist government doesn't pay wages if full on time for him to support not 1 or 2 or even 3 children, but 7 children. It's everybody's fault but the terrorists they elected to run their government and his for having 7 children, ever hear of birth control or is that against his religion. He want's to be on American welfare and he doesn't even live here, I'd bet he was also dancing in the street on 9/11.
It is interesting how the attitude of the Palestinian teacher so closely matches that of the welfare class here. He has a job that does not pay very well yet still decides to have seven children and then blames everyone else for his not being able to feed his family - sound familiar. One thing has been made abundantly clear by Obama's visit to the area - both the Israelis and the Palestinians have come to the same conclusion many people here have. That is the realization that Obama is great at making speeches but is totally inept and incapable when it comes to actually getting something done.
Yeah, it's simple. Wonder why the palestinians never thought of that before. Let's just abandon our country and move elsewhere. Maybe it's better in Syria...or Egypt. Let's all move and just give up our country to the Israelis.
Do you know how hard and expensive it is to relocate? Do you abandon your home and your mortgage? Quit the job you have and tell your family you have hope that you'll find work elsewhere. Then you get elsewhere and you find that's just as bad.
That you would spout that kind of oprah stuff to a Palestinian in the mideast is simply ridiculous. That doesn't even work for Americans.
The point of this article is that people are working but Israel holds their money so that they can't get paid and feed their families.
You mean arafat's wife is living high on the hog in France on their "welfare" money.
So this is why it took President Obama 5 years to visit "Our Closest Friend".
It seems a far stretch to blame our president for the oppression of Palestinians. However, when the oppressors wrap their arms around him and exchange claims of friendship, It's not hard to see why.
Israeli's unfortunately did not learn from the holocaust that oppression and persecution lead to resistance and retaliation. Hamas and Hezbollah are reactions to acts of degradation, systematic persecution and oppression of their people. Being Jewish but not Israeli, I see the mistakes religious zealots, hardliners, and right wing 'pharisees' make which bring such hatred down on the Israeli heads.
If the Israelis started treating the Palestinians humanely it might bring an end to the rockets and bombs. I know, saying such things will bring a lot of hatred and anger directed at me mainly from Israelis and other Jewish supporters, but it's time to face facts. Two wrongs don't make right. Repeating the same tactics of oppression against the Palestinians, that were used by the Nazi's against the Jewish people in prewar Germany will not bring peace.
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bagdadjoe-1347766
and those who give him a"thumbs-up"
Let me get to the point:
You
Are
IGNORANT
Educate yourself:
http://www.factcheck.org/2009/10/the-obama-phone/
If you don't know the basic FACTS in your OWN country... don't bother commenting on international affairs.
Snarky comments abut our President....just reflect on you.
Posting nonsense... ON A WELCOMED BUSH PROGRAM.... and twisting it to condemn the President...not smart.
This teacher, this educator has 7, seven, siete, 7 7 7 kids and he's blaming us for not being able to feed them?! Try birth control and move to another part of the world! Quit blaming others for YOUR problems! Isn't that the REPUBLICAN way? What would all you right-wing nut-jobs say to an American that has applied no logic to sex and birth and the desire to grow a family so big but turns around and blames our president for not being able to feed them? I get the bigger picture when it comes to us and them and how we're involved. That part of it has run its course for me and I'm sick of it. Our people are starving while we continue trying to protect a land that is sacred due to fables.
RI MOM: awe how cute the liberal sites a liberal website... before you condemn people, learn yourself... the program started under clinton and carried into bush through Obama
Mom - do you have a cell phone??? The Gov't set up the program that WE ALL PAY FOR IN OUR CELL PHONE BILL.
The "program" has doubled in size in 4 years - the top phone provider is a huge Obama contributor.
41% of Obama phones were given to ineligible recipients
Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize for what again? Why do the Palestinians hate Obama so much, don't they agree with his March Madness picks?
It amazes me that people don't see what is going on. If we here in the US were bombarded every day by missiles, we would annihilate the people that are doing this. Israel has tried to be friends with the Palestinians, but they have called for the destruction of Israel over and over. How would you deal with terrorists like this? Israel has the power to wipe them out but choose not to. You can't deal with terrorists. That is the reason they are suffering so bad. It's not Obamas fault in any way shape or form. It's a truly sad world when we have to show hate for each other. This is not right. It's time we start showing humanity towards each other.
bagdadjoe-1347766 - you truly are ignorant and a waste of time to acknowledge. Yes, I'm killing time...
NJSteve - funny stuff, man! Keep it coming! You're clearly one of the many that cannot connect the dots. Leading up to Jan 20, 2009, our economy was in the biggest tailspin it had experienced in 80yrs. If you blame the incoming president for the residual fallout that took place due to that collapse, you're simply stupid, dumb, ignorant, idiotic...the list goes on. Any REP prez would've continued the same policies that got us in trouble and 99% of us would be living on bad credit by now while the crooked bankers/Wall Streeters continued reaping the benefits of our failures. Get some education, apply logic, and quit making a fool of yourself.
fyte 4 justice, I have the greatest respect for you for telling the truth. I am not a Jew, but I read "If Americans Knew" which is writen by Jews and examines the Illegal creation of Israel . In voilation of internatinal law, Israel has confiscated over 52 percent of the land in the West Bank and 30 percent of the Gaza Strip for military use and settlements by Jewish civilians. From 1967 to 1982, Israel military government demolished 1,338 Palestinian homes on the West Bank.
Over this period, more than 300.000 Palestinians were detained without trial for various periods by Israeli security forces.
Well between campaigning non-stop, golfing and vacationing, going on The View and Letterman, Barry's been awfully busy. Israel should feel blessed that Barry would even consider gracing their presence.
Join the rest of US... A POS is a POS regardless of where he goes...
We would say "it serves you right for voting for Obama," that's what we would say.
18% unemployment...........that's where we are heading folks.
The unemployment rate is going down in this country not because more jobs are being created, but because more people are giving up hope of ever finding one. But so long as there is one person left in this country working, Obama and the Democrats will want to raise taxes on them. Obama promised to change the way Washington conducted business, just not the way it under reports unemployment.
" “I blame President Obama,” al Khteeb said."
Must be a teabagging nutcase.
Let's start the blame process with yourself, Mustafa. Why is it that you fathered seven children that you cannot support? "I feel like half a man." I do not feel sorry for you. If you were a halfway responsible person, you would not have seven children.
Can't get the two parties together to at least talk peace? Where the hell is your Nobel Peace Prize credential saying how great you are in providing these differing parties with "the potential for peace" or was that prize bought for you?
Good Grief Charlie Brown! Just how stupid can this ignorant chicago politician make the US look?
You all know there are over 6 billion other people on this planet beside President Obama, don't you?
It is not the role of ANY US President to make other countries get along or treat each other differently. What power would you like the President to call on to make people treat each other better?
By the way Richard, who has ever been able to bring peace to these sides, Nobel prize or not?
It is only sheep who believe everyone else is a sheep.
Some Palestinians celebrated Osama Bin Laden's attacks on America in 2001. It is hardly surprising they don't greet the U.S. President responsible for OBL's death warmly .
In any case, the contention that "Israel does what America tells it to do" is, unfortunately, false. If the last election had resulted in a Republican victory, the reverse would now be true.
@Nation Under God - I do not know where you are getting your information but it completely false. Israel completely pulled out of Gaza over 30 years ago (the same time they gave the Sinai back to Egypt) and dismantled all settlements there. They also have not confiscated 52% of the land on the West Bank. I am not saying that I support Israel continuing to build settlements on the West Bank, I think they should stop, but the amount of land they have taken is in the low to mid single digit percentage of the land in the West Bank. As for detaining 300,000 Palestinians without trial for various periods, that is a gross inflation of the number and is completely misleading since most of those were detained as part of routine police investigations and were only in custody for a day or two. The only Palestinians that the Israelis have held for long periods are ones who have been involved in committing terrorist acts against Israel, and they are well withing their right and international law to do this. As for the treatment of the Palestinians, I think that the Israelis have shown greeat restraint. If some groups were routinely launching rockets into the US you would see the US military go in and wipe out the SoBs responsible. Israel has shown great restraint by not going into Gaza and just wiping out or imprisoning everyone in Hamas. These terrorists do not even honor peace agreements that were negotiated by another Muslim nation. The Egyptians negotiated a peace deal between Hamas and Israel to stop the fighting. Hamas only went a few months before they broke that deal. They took the occasion of Obama's visit to the area to start once again launching rockets into civilian neighborhoods in southern Israel. These are the people you are defending with your nonsense. Israel has never been the one to fire the first shot they just know how to take care of business when someone starts shooting at them. All people have a universal right to defend themselves and that is what the Israelis have done. They have never started the fighting, only finished it.
Dear Mustafa al Khteeb... stop blaming other people for having 7 kids and not being able to feed them.
Who do you think you are, a liberal U.S. citizen???
See, there are irresponsible takers everywhere in the world. We just have a high concentration of them... 47% I believe was the number.
"wow he blamed obama not bush"
Wow. Maybe that's because Obama got off the plane, not Bush.
So the west bank feels the same about Obama as we feel about Obama.......... Not Welcome.............
Disappointment is starting to swell in the US too based on his approval ratings lowering recently- wonder why!
Can't argue with stupidity... logic and fact has no place in the world of the Grand O'le Plutocrat.
An example of the continued foolishness perpetrated by the GOP is the Obama phone, Obama is a muslim, "Obama put more people onto food stamps than any other president", Obama birtherism, Obama is a socialist, etc. Anyone with HALF of a brain could do simple research to find the truth in the aforementioned Faux talking points.
I want to point out that I disagree with Obama on many things (NDAA, non-existent climate change policy, drone strikes on US soil, not prosecuting bankers for criminal malfeasance, etc.) but he is better than Romney ever could have been by a factor of 100. OUR (not mine or yours) government has been corrupted by campaign bribes (contributions) and until WE change that then we will never truly be represented by our elected officials. PERIOD!!!
If you haven't been there, just STFU, because You have NO CLUE. I THOUGHT I did, til I went there on an interfaith peace mission a couple years ago. . .
Palestinians are treated worse than you would treat LIVESTOCK, by the Israelis, who are in TOTAL VIOLATION OF INTERNATIONAL LAW, which EVERY country of the world recognizes, except the US . . . even though we signed onto, and in many cases DRAFTED the law that we now undermine. . . And we write a check of $10 million - per day - to Israel, so the Israelis can have a higher standard of living than we have.
And if you won't go there, you can get a LITTLE idea by reading 2 books:
Friedman: From Beirut to Jerusalem
Tolan: The Lemon Tree
But don't demonstrate your total ignorance by posting garbage here that has no basis in reality.
This is by far the funniest thing I've seen on the net in a long time. Turnabout for stupid comments is fair play.
Maybe that Teacher would be paid more regularly if the terrorist govt. wasn't spending all that money for rockets to bomb Israel.....just a thought.
Overall, this tour is a big "fail." Everyone know Obama for what he is, and this trip will change nothing.
Read this paragraph again, folks"
This article just underscores something that we've all known all along, doesn't it?
That these people are ALWAYS angry, ALWAYS miserable, ALWAYS blaming someone, ALWAYS fighting, ALWAYS whining, and will NEVER be able to stand on their own two feet without our tax dollars and hedgemony because they are too stupid to make something of and govern themselves. Just like all the other countries in the Middle East.
Cut off ALL aid. PERIOD. To Palestine, To Israel, to Yemen, to Syria, and to EVERY SINGLE OTHER cat litter box over there.
Oh, on a final note:
IF YOU PARTISAN DITTOHEADS THINK IT WOULD HAVE BEEN ANY DIFFERENT UNDER ROMNEY, YOU TRULY NEED TO DRY UP. THESE PEOPLE ARE AND WILL ALWAYS BE FIGHTING EACH OTHER IN THEIR PATHETIC STATE, NO MATTER WHO OUR PRESIDENT IS HERE.
No amount of our money or intervention will change that. EVER.
Complaining about how long it took Obama to visit Israel? Lets see, how many Israel trips have U.S. Presidents made:
Obama - once
George W. Bush - twice
Bill Clinton - four times
George H.W. Bush - none
Ronald Reagan - none
Jimmy Carter - once
Gerald Ford - none
Richard Nixon - once
Lyndon Johnson - none
John F Kennedy - none
Dwight D. Eisenhower - none
Harry S. Truman - none
Honestly, what's to complain about?
Ron,
"I think Obama has found out that flowery speeches are easy...actually enacting change is difficult."
And especially when you make a flowery speech in Israel telling them the United States is Israel's best friend just before visiting the Palestinians. If the United States is Israel's best friend, where does that leave the Palestinians? Would you really expect them to welcome you with open arms?
Nation RE"Over this period, more than 300.000 Palestinians were detained without trial for various periods by Israeli security forces." How many Japanese Americans and German Americans were detained the same way her during WW2?
Oh, no! The Bozobama NOT welcomed with flowers and open arms? And after telling all those lies, too? Who woulda ever thunk it?
Hopefully, Obama had his eyes opened a bit more. Can't blame this on Bush can he?
Doubt seriously that he will be able to chalk up 2 visits to Israel in his two terms. He doesnt like criticism.
Seeker, you forgot to include that WW2 citizens were detained under a Democrat administration............
Barak! Watch out for the guy in the puffy coat running towards you! ...
BOOOOOOOOM!
Never mind
@BlackMan - LMFAO!!
What the hell do you expect? This clown is a world ender. They are just saying"not in my backyard". We can learn a lot by this.

And while Obama visits Israel, Hamas launches at least four rockets into Israel.
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NO PALESTINIAN STATE UNTIL HAMAS IS ELIMINATED!!
What? you mean Palestinians aren't running around still blaming Bush like our left-wing nutjobs do and recognize obama is president?
lol
that being said what do they want obama to do? be a bigger traitor to Israel and America than he already is?
Rather stupid comment.....no substance ...just knee-jerk platitudes and not good ones at that.
So much for the prestige of the Nobel Peace Prize.
We have a Better Idea, STAY THERE Hussein!
Why should Barry care? Palestinians couldn't vote for him, can't vote D in upcoming elections.
They can buy rockets to sling into Israel but they can't feed themselves. That mentality is not deserving of autonomy.
The Pals were offered peace and a country of their own on a silver platter twice and both times refused it.
When Hussein says that he "supports" Palestinian Statehood, what I hear is the fact that he will borrow money to fund them & we will have to pay it back with interest. Every time he opens his fool mouth, it cost us money. The guy has the Ex-A-Lax Touch. Everything he touches turns to $HIT.
Good luck to those folks who are barely getting by. Oh that applies here as well.
We are to blame for the condition of Palestine. We created the state of Israel and have allowed that state to occupy Palestine. They are not a nation that in History,have treated the original inhabitants of the area as anything but a people to be eliminated. We should stop supporting the Israelis and insist that they return to the size that we won for them and to not illegally expand that Territory. We should also stop financially supporting Israel. Let that nation support itself. Charity should be for our home,not to be used in the ridiculous and un successful attempt to buy our friends. We are supposed to be the most powerful nation on this planet. If so ,then why do we have to buy our support?
Oh please - the Palestinians are to blame - bring back the millions that Arafat siphoned out - millions - and that is just him - how about all the others - they stole from their own people - they stole money, hope and peace!
Palestinians sound a lot like Obama, blame everybody but yourself.
O-Obama. Go back!
It won't work.
We tried that here in the U.S. too.
And he's still here.
The Common Cold!
The Cat!
The Bent Penny!
Bad News Obama!
Some things, no matter what you try, Keep coming back!
Mustafa al Khteeb, a school teacher with seven children, was preoccupied with supporting his family, not the president’s arrival. Welcome to the real world. The average citizen never realizes he is in town at all because, of work.
“I cannot feed my children,” “I feel like half a man. This is a shame.” Don't have what you cant support there is a reason in America that the birthrate is only 63 births per 1000 women. Most people cant afford to have kids.. and certainly not 7 of them on a teachers salary.
“I blame President Obama,” And there's the kicker. If I cant do it alone its always someone else's fault.
This reads like a bad movie. If its not this place.. its that place.. or somewhere else. Everyone wants the US to do it all for them. And then cry when we tear the place up. I feel like we need to hold the hands of all these countries and explain to them what to do.. ALWAYS! And give them all our money and watch them spend it on hula-hoops and Nikes. And then wonder where all the money went.
Wow! Who knew they'd have Republicans on the West Bank ?!?! And by the sounds of this guy blaming Obama for evrything that's gone wrong in his world it sounds like the West Bank Republicans are every bit as seasoned at whining and playing the Blame Game as the Washington Republicans! I'll bet this guy even worked up a good cry like John Boehner !
Wait!! OMG a dog just got hit by a car outside my house ... That damn Obama!lololol Geeze what losers!!
The World..
Thomas
Then why do Palestinians blame Obama??
Palestinians blame Obama because people that take no responsibility for their own lives blame the largest figure in power without actually educating themselves on why things happen. The same reason that here its either Bush's or Obama's fault for everything, when we have had a do nothing, leaderless, spending, self-promoting, congress for 15 years, and everybody goes to the poles and votes straight tickets and these same idiots (Rangle etc.) go on for a lifetime in government and never govern.
So much for the Obama "Mystique"...........
Cut off support and contact with the entire MidEast - INCLUDING ISRAEL. I wish it were possible to build a giant dome over the whole region and let them fester in isolation.
Wow! Who knew they'd have Republicans on the West Bank ?!?! And by the sounds of this guy blaming Obama for evrything that's gone wrong in his world it sounds like the West Bank Republicans are every bit as seasoned at whining and playing the Blame Game as the Washington Republicans! I'll bet this guy even worked up a good cry like John Boehner !
Wait!! OMG a dog just got hit by a car outside my house ... That damn Obama!lololol Geeze what losers!!
Hahahaha... You really think anyone believes that you are describing anyone other than Obama??
Oh man, you are clueless.. LOL..
Did Obama get out of the car and scoop up his dinner?
As the truth about your beloved leader slowly comes out and the MSM finally starts to do their job again (seems like they no longer can keep hiding the truth) it is going to be very, very painful for you libtards. Oh and apparently the rest of the free world has already figured it out....he's a phony.
Look who's giving Thanks ...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2nhJQsrb0o
I guess his advance team didnt remind the Palestinians that he has won a Nobel Peace Prize, and that when he gets his advance for writing his memoirs during his Presidency he will then reveal what the solution is for peace in the region is that both Israel and Palestine both foolishly rejected his ideas for a teachable moment
You mean those phones approved by Congress in 1996. Guess all those tea party members really do have a single digit IQ.
in 2008 the phones program spent 896 million dollars last year it spent 2.2 Billion dollars so in 4 years you are ok with a 300% increase in the program so glad it is just a bit over the rate of inflation right
Say what you want about Obama but if you're worried about feeding your family, why would you have seven children?
same thing could be said about people here but then again we reward them with even more taxpayer subsidized benefits.
Amen smartman and farty!
In some places in this country having children is nothing more than an income stream.......
The Great Republican Parallel Universe:
1st Small Bush Recession of 2002 = Clinton's fault.
2nd Great Bush Recession of 2007 = Obama's fault.
Unemployment almost doubling under Bush = only because Democrats took the House in 2007
Unemployment going down for 2 years in a row under Obama = cooked numbers
Federal Debt doubling under Bush = deficits don't matter Federal Debt going from $ 11.8 to
15.4 trillion under Obama = deficits matter
9/11 attacks in 2001 = All Clinton's fault.
OBL caught in 2011 = Only because of Bush - Obama had no hand in it
Clinton's balanced budget `99-`01 = Only because of the Republican House
Reagan-Recesion (`80-`81) = Carter's fault
Reagan bribing Iran with $ 1 billion to release hostages = great politics!
Obama organizing and aiding ousting of Gadhafi = wrong
Bush invading Iraq and Afghanistan = great
Reagan raising taxes 8 times = greatest President ever!
Obama lowering taxes for everyone earning below $ 200k/year = He is crushing us with taxes.
RE-3430894 ? and you posted this drivle why because somewhere in the world the people are not dropping to their knees in utter reverence of President Obama so you just take wacky pot shots at Bush and the Republicans. Please stay relevant and on topic if you want to continue posting on this thread and make another appointment with your Pschychiatrist for that Bush Derangement Syndrome you are suffering from
The whiny liberal democrat (redundant, I know) parallel universe:
Everything that has ever gone wrong, goes wrong, and will go wrong = Bush's fault.
Un-Huh Nuff said ...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGpuRNsP1uY