'If only we'd let him be clear'! Politico offers insight into Obama's battle with 'Bush hangover'

Sarah D. | 6:16 PM on June 16, 2014

Poor, poor President Obama. He just can’t catch a break!

Oh FFS RT @politico: Six years in, Barack Obama is still battling a Bush hangover. http://t.co/YtfHikaB6c

— American Journalists Publish Chinese Propaganda (@JohnEkdahl) June 16, 2014

From Politico:

The rising chaos in Iraq — and the blame game over who’s responsible — are the latest reminders that halfway through his own second term, he’s still often more consumed by dealing with the legacy of President George W. Bush than building his own.

Obama supporters see a president who found himself so deep in so many holes from his very first day in office that cleaning up the aftermath of the previous eight years was going to take at least eight of his own: getting out of Iraq and Afghanistan, stabilizing the housing market and repairing the larger economic collapse, all while chopping a $1.2 trillion deficit in half.

He’s really had it rough, you guys.

To detractors, particularly those with allegiances to Bush, that argument comes off as another excuse for a president who’s been unable to deliver much — a man they see as so driven to be different from his predecessor that he’s often blundered into catastrophe.