| In our political culture if you inherit a problem and don't fix it, you own it. So at some point it became the popular wisdom that Iraq and Afghanistan were "Obama's wars," and that the recession had become "Obama's economy." Given the systemic burden Bush left for his successor, that judgment seems to me to be less about fair play than about short memories. |
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Sheila Samples is an Oklahoma writer and a former civilian US Army Public Information Officer. She is a Managing Editor for OpEd News, and a regular contributor for a variety of Internet sites.