Obama-Loving Media Spin The Economy For The President

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Investors Business Daily:

National Public Radio's Kai Ryssdal recently talked about the weak economy. His guests, two reporters from the Washington Post and New York Times, acknowledged the obvious — that the economy is underperforming. Yet, in the 20 minutes of my sitting and listening in the car in bad Los Angeles traffic, I heard no one mention the words "President Barack Obama."

Time magazine, in a cover story on the economy, called the current economic recovery a "97-pound weakling." It informs us that our sluggish economy is now driven by broad, virtually uncontrollable worldwide economic trends.

Only once in this lengthy article did Time mention Obama — and only to say that Republican presidential challenger Mitt Romney "plans to use the economy as a hammer against President Obama."

That's it. The president, Mr. Hope-and-Change, you see, is powerless to do anything about the economy. None of that "the buck stops here" stuff for him.

Investor's Business Daily writes that our neighbor up north sees things differently: "The Obama administration and its economic czars have flailed about for years, baffled about how to get the U.S. economy growing.

"In reality, the president need look no further than our neighbor, Canada, whose solid growth is the product of tax cuts, fiscal discipline, free trade and energy development. That's made Canada a roaring puma nation, while its supposedly more powerful southern neighbor stands on the outside looking in."

Canadian Finance Minister Jim Flaherty said: "Creating jobs and growth in our economy is our top propriety. ... We are creating the conditions for businesses to successfully compete in the global economy by investing in Canada and creating jobs and growth for all Canadians. Through our government's low-tax plan we are continuing to send the message that Canada is open for business and the best place to invest."

What about the economies of our 50 states? If Obama is powerless to do anything about the economy, surely the states alone are at least as impotent?