Steve Benen on a recent NBC/WSJ poll:
The point is, people are frustrated and pessimistic, but they don’t necessarily see President Obama as the culprit. Indeed, the poll asked, “When you think about the current economic conditions, do you feel that this is a situation that Barack Obama has inherited or is this a situation his policies are mostly responsible for?” A large 62% majority said he inherited the mess.
One of the common frustrations a lot of us have with Obama is his reluctance to mention the Bush-era mistakes that led to our current economic situation. But if people already believe that, why waste some of their limited attention span to tell them something they already know?
We spend a lot of time here dissecting the latest emanations from the noise machine. It’s good to remember that some truths are so self-evident that the noise machine isn’t making as big a dent as we might think.