President Barack Obama fired back on Tuesday at conservative critics who say he has not accomplished enough in his first nine months in office.
He told them they should “grab a mop” to help him clean up the mess he inherited from Republican President George W. Bush. 
Many Republican critics say the continued sluggishness in the economy and the rise in the unemployment rate to 9.8 percent were a sign that Obama policies on the economy were not effective.
But at a pair of Democratic fund-raisers in New York, the president emphasized the dire straits the economy was in when he took over from Bush.
“I don’t mind cleaning up the mess that some other folks made. That’s what I signed up to do,” Obama said. “But while I’m there mopping the floor, I don’t want somebody standing there saying, you’re not mopping fast enough or you’re not holding the mop the right way.”
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Why all the personal attacks against the republicans?
Obama is steering the car now. He gets to take the complaints. Just like the democrats complained for the last eight years.
It is unlikely that all Republicans are hate filled, or praying for Obama’s failure. And even if they were, this has no bearing on whether Obama actually succeeds or not.
The reality is that if Obama fails, the faith in him was misplaced. If you are going to win an election by telling simple folk that you will fix the country, it is a bit pathetic to then complain about how hard the job is.
I feel we will see a much more humble Obama, come 2011.
- Posted by HahaPlease read Jacques comment. It almost made me cry. Before Bush, I did not even know that Fox news was a Republican TV station. I had nothing against the Republicans. But since Bush, and now after hearing those hate spewing Republicans pray for Obama’s and therefore America’s failure, I have told myself, I will never again vote Republican. Never.
- Posted by pb