Barack Obama: It's Bush's Fault

Hola voters! Today I have the very special privilege of interviewing President Barack Obama! Let’s get right to it.

Q: You are very likely to go into the record books as the first president to preside over four consecutive budget deficits of well over $1 trillion dollars each. Do you think that will taint your legacy?

Obama: Well, you have to remember that we inherited that first really huge $1.6 trillion dollar deficit from Bush. And the 2013 deficit is expected to only be $901 billion.

Jay: But, that still leaves two other budgets with deficits above $1 trillion that are yours.

Obama: Well yes, but there was such a big mess to clean up that was leftover from Bush. And, it’s important to lower this deficit as carefully as we were careless in creating it.

Jay: So you admit that you were careless in creating these huge deficits?

Obama: No, that Bush was. I misspoke there.

Jay: In 2009 your administration predicted that unemployment would peak at 8.5% and then be near 6% by this time. Instead it went to 10.5% and is still over 8%. What happened?

Obama: Well, we just really underestimated how badly the job losses caused by the Bush economic collapse were.

Jay: But, why is the unemployment rate coming down so slowly?

Obama: Well, again these things take time. We don’t want to do anything that would shock the economy. Certainly not the way the Bush administration did. We saw how the economy hates shocks with the Bush collapse.

Jay: Switching to foreign policy. You made the claim that you could deal with the Arab world and settle things diplomatically, yet all over the Middle East people are marching on US Embassies in anger. Why haven’t relations improved?

Obama: Well, again, and I do take MY SHARE of the responsibility here, we underestimated just how bad the Bush administration had made things with our Arab friends.

Jay: But, again I have to ask, why haven’t things really improved? We seem to be in the same place where we were four years ago.

Obama: Well, there’s a residual effect of the Bush administration policies. See, things were going downhill so quickly, that it took a while to stop the slide. We’ve been able to slowly make things better.

Jay: Why so slow though?

Obama: Well, you can’t rush these things. That might cause a shock to the diplomatic balance in the region and that would be as bad as the Bush shock to the economy was.

Jay: Okay, The First Lady Michelle Obama is a real asset to you as she is quite popular. What do you think the key to her popularity is?

Obama: Well, she’s a really engaging and charming person. Also, she’s a very hard worker. She started on day one cleaning up the mess that Laura Bush left and has been able to overcome it to make American’s proud of the First Lady again.

Jay: What mess did Laura Bush leave?

Obama: Well, she mostly just got all that George W Bush stank all over her. His disastrous policies affected everyone!

Jay: One last question Mr. President. One of the biggest criticisms of you is that you seem too deliberative many times. That you aren’t really that decisive and you take a long time to finally decide your position on many issues. What is your response to that?

Obama: Well, I think it’s necessary to make up for all the really bad snap decisions that President Bush made for eight long years. His decisions were so quick and with so little thinking through of consequences, I felt that the decision making process needed to be slowed down to balance things out.

Jay: Well, looks like it’s all Bush’s fault then, right?

Obama: Pretty much. Yeah.

Jay: Thank you so much for being here today sir.

Obama: No problem. I hope I made up for any really bad interview Bush did with you guys and have at least gotten things back to even on that front too.

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