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and health care reform, for example, could easily have been woven together into a tapestry that
explained how Obama planned to
first save the nation from Bush’s
recession and then prepare it for
a glorious renaissance through a
balance of short-term stimulus
(roads and bridges) and long-term
debt reduction (Medicare reform).
As Drew Westen pointed out early
and often, the Obama administration went out of its way to not
blame its predecessor for the recession until the midterms when
it was too late. Though 68 percent
of Americans still blame George
Bush, 52 percent blame the current president for our rut. Obama
and surrogates should have started
shouting, “unpaid wars,” and “unpaid tax cuts to the wealthy” from
the day after inauguration and
never shut up.
The administration’s messaging
problems are \