Michelle Obama (Photo Credit: AP)
On Tuesday, October 17. 2012, the Judiciary Report wrote that both
presidential candidates, Barack Obama and Mitt Romney, engaged in
finger pointing during the second presidential debate. Later that day,
First Lady Michelle Obama stated her husband President Barack Obama, "Didn't
point fingers."
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That is incorrect. He did point fingers during the debate and
from the time he took office in 2009. Obama blamed his
predecessor George W. Bush, whose conduct did start the financial crisis and
Republicans in Congress for the dire state of the nation's financial affairs,
when Democrats played a role as well.
Michelle Obama and Barack Obama
Obama conveniently neglected to mention, he made things exponentially worse
by spending $5 trillion dollars in office, more than any other president in
history, tossing large sums of taxpayer stimulus money to undeserving
corporations and executives that misappropriated funds, while others had such a
poor business model they went bankrupt.
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It was a big cash grab that greatly
rewarded Obama's rich campaign donors at the expense of the American people and
nation's financial health. So to summarize, yes, the president did point fingers
as well. Politicians from both sides of the aisles sometimes do. At times it is
necessary to clear one's name, but sometimes it is to deflect blame for failures
and wrongdoing.
STORY SOURCE
First lady: President 'didn't point fingers, didn't place blame'
By Justin Sink - 10/18/12 07:26 AM ET - First lady Michelle Obama said
Wednesday that President Obama did not look to blame others for the challenges
he faced as president, an apparent rebuke of Republican accusations that the
White House continues to point the finger at President George W. Bush for the
lagging economy. "See, but your president, he didn't point fingers," Michelle Obama
said at a campaign fundraiser in New York. "He didn't place blame...
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