When your predecessor launches two costly wars, and presides over an orgy of tax cutting and spending, that is all the more reason to be fiscally restrained! It isn’t an excuse for spending even more of the country’s money. Liberals seem to understand that “I’m better than Bush” is an insufficient benchmark on torture. Imagine if President Obama said, “Cut me a break, my predecessor presided over Abu Ghraib, water boarding, and all the rest — whereas I just got here, and I really want to kick three or four detainees in the groin.”
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