AP on Obama: The buck stops with me; but it's not my fault and you people should be damn grateful you have me !!

AP stops fellating Captain Wonderful long enough to come up for air and notice that his "cool demeanor" is actually rather detached and whiny.

He says "the buck stops with me," but nearly a year into office, President Barack Obama is still blaming a lot of the nation's troubles — the economy, terrorism, health care — on George W. Bush.

Over and over, Obama keeps reminding Americans of the mess he inherited and all he's doing to fix it. A sharper, give-me-some-credit tone has emerged in his language as he bemoans people's fleeting memory about what life was like way back in 2008, particularly on the economy.

Even AP now notes that it is a little unseemly, a year into office to continue to lay the nation's problems off on your predecessor.

The way Obama sees it, the problems he took on — recession, war, health care, a warming planet — were always too huge and complicated to fix that fast.

So he emphasizes progress by taking people back to where he began.

Which means taking them back to Bush.

"I don't need to remind any of you about the situation we found ourselves in at the beginning of this year," Obama told people at a Home Depot stop last month. And then he reminded them anyway, detailing a nation in financial free fall when he took office.

So what has a Obama done to correct "a nation in financial free fall"? -- other than increase unemployment to 10% and explode the deficit by over trillions of dollar on a non-stimulative Porkulus, bailouts, and the impending government take-over of another sixth of the economy via ObamaCare ??

And so he describes a year of overlooked achievement since his predecessor left town, addressing a range of problems: hate crimes, tobacco advertisements toward children, pay disparities for women, abuses by credit card companies and many more.

In other words, "a solid B-plus." Unfortunately you ingrates refuse to acknowledge how good you have it and should now bow down and kiss his -- eh, ring.

Obama has openly wondered how some of his work is forgotten so fast.

"I think we have been successful in averting disaster," Obama said on Dec. 16 about righting the economy. "You know, you don't get a lot of credit for that, because nobody knows how bad it could have been."

On this front, Obama often chides the media for what he sees as accentuating the negative and minimizing progress. As on Dec. 4 when Obama mocked the press for saying he had pivoted back from health care to jobs. He insisted that every day is about jobs. "Folks' attention spans are short," he said.