Obama blames the economy on bad luck, not his policies that are driving this country's economy into the ditch.
"We had reversed the recession, avoided a depression, gotten the economy moving again," Obama told a crowd in Decorah, Iowa. "But over the last six months we've had a run of bad luck." Obama listed three events overseas -- the Arab Spring uprisings, the tsunami in Japan, and the European debt crises -- which set the economy back.
There's a reason Obama is dealing with such bad luck, audiovisually explained below.
This clip is also displayed and used in an exemplary fashion by Murphy's Law over at Lagniappe's Lair for a different situation in which bad luck was blamed, again most likely by a Democrat, and now the clip is shamelessly swiped by me because it fits so well:
