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				Re: David Brooks to Obama:  Less of your shucking and jiving, please.
			 
 
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					Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield  Some of the stupidest criticisms of the last decade would be (in no order):
 - Bush was responsible for Katrina being worse than it was;
 - Bush's continuing to read a children's book when the towers were hit on 9/11 shows he was dumbfounded and incompetent;*
 - Obama was responsible for making the BP oil spill worse;
 - The banks alone caused the economic meltdown;
 - Barney Frank, Fannie Mae and Clinton alone caused the economic meltdown;
 - The economy would've rebounded but for HCReform's passage;
 - Obama is a closet socialist;
 - Obama is anti-business
 
 These things are not true.
 
 *This might be Michael Moore's most cynical bit of PT Barnum sleaze, and it shows how objectively stupid many Bush haters were that such a narrative took hold.
 |  By omission, I am assuming you are okay with the notion that but for Hillary's carpet bagging occupancy of the NY Senate seat, the Yankees would have won one or more World Series between 2001-2008?   
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