The crack staff at National Journal thought President Obama’s attacks on Congress at town-halls in Minnesota and Iowa yesterday sounded a little familiar. So they dove into their video archives and found almost identical rhetoric from a April 2008 press conference given by President Bush. NJ comments:
Like Obama, Bush’s job approval had just hit an all-time low. And like Obama, he was having trouble getting economic initiatives passed by a divided government — both the House and the Senate were controlled by Democrats. So how did Bush and Obama deal with these obstacles? By blaming Congress.
