Obama Uses Presidents Day To Take Credit for Trump Economy, Draws Fierce Backlash
Obama Celebrates Presidents Day by Taking Credit for Trump's Accomplishments
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By Joe Saunders
Published February 17, 2020 at 2:22pm
This might work if the country had been in a coma.
Former President Barack Obama celebrated Presidents Day on Monday with a Twitter post that just about perfectly captured the obscenely high opinion of himself the 44th president has always shown.
But his attempt to claim credit for the booming economy during President Donald Trump’s three years in office sparked a social media backlash that showed many Americans were all too awake during the abysmal eight years of Obama in the Oval Office.
Obama kicked off festivities with a typically vainglorious post, essentially bragging this it was his actions as president that have led to the current boom the country is enjoying.
twitter.com/BarackObama/status/1229432034650722304
It’s hard to take it seriously, but it does bring back a certain nostalgia.
Does anyone remember when companies like Solyndra were supposed to lead the way for a new, greener American economy?
It might have made a good photo op when the then-president toured the solar panel manufacturer in May 2010, but a half-billion dollars in taxpayer-backed loan guarantees didn’t look like such a good investment when the company went belly up a little more than a year later. (Newsmax has a useful breakdown of the scandal.)
How about when Obama and then-Vice President Joe Biden declared that the summer of 2010 would be known as “recovery summer” thanks to the misguided belief that economic recovery depended on government largesse, and a ludicrously poorly thought-out nearly $1 trillion “stimulus” plan that didn’t stimulate much.
The fact that in the years that followed the economy continued its malaise never shook the insistence of the Democrats and the mainstream media that Obama’s policies were working. Some of the adoring responses to Obama’s hogwash on Twitter Monday prove that. The Democrats’ ability to delude themselves is a wonder to behold.
But a whole lot of social media users haven’t forgotten the Obama years — and some of the backlash was brutal.
Poster Comment:
My sister in Chicago told me she had voted Democrat her whole life, but she could not vote for Obama. She voted for McCain. I told her she still voted for evil since BOTH candidates were members of Council on Foreign Relations and BOTH were internationalists. I voted for Ron Paul in 2008 since he was by far the best candidate.