“Don’t forget what I inherited when I took this job”

Those are the words that I want Obama to utter tonite at Ground Zero.

Channeling Bart Simpson, the President belabors his inheritance to explain away all things he does that don’t work.

Think tillion dollar stimulus package,

But, when legacy initiatives work out well, he likes to act like he created them out of whole cloth — from a standing start.

Think TARP — a program I disagreed with — that sure seems to have worked.

Think what you may about Bush & Cheney, but in the final analysis, they kept the homeland safe post-9/11 and put in place an effective intelligence infrastructure.

Would be nice if Obama explicitly said that at Ground Zero.

Except for maybe a vague parenthetical reference, I’m betting the under.

We’ll see …

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