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Blame you can believe in

Of course Al Gore blamed Barack Obama’s debate debacle on Denver’s altitude.

This is the administration that blames George Bush for everything. The administration whose CEO has a “The Buck Stops Over There Somewhere” sign on his desk. The administration whose former econ adviser, Austan Goolsbee, blamed the faltering Obama recovery on “earthquakes, tsunamis, revolutions in the Middle East, financial crisis and now we even have earthquakes outside of Washington DC.”

Denver’s unemployment rate is a painful 8.7 percent. Must be the altitude.

Henry Payne
Henry Payne is a columnist, editorial writer, and award-winning editorial cartoonist for The Detroit News. A twenty-five year newspaper veteran, the Pulitzer Prize-nominated satirist produces 12 cartoons a week for The News and United Feature Syndicate. Payne is also a contributor to National Review, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Post, and other national publications. His News column appears every Tuesday online.

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