Throughout this presidential campaign, Jeb Bush took President Obama to task for continuing to blame his predecessor, George W. Bush, for the struggling American economy.
"It's kind of like a kid coming to school saying, 'The dog ate my homework,'" Florida's former governor said back in June. "It's childish. This is what children do until they mature. They don't accept responsibility."
Although Bush certainly has a point about taking responsibility, the fact is most Americans still blame his brother more than the current president for our economic woes, perhaps one other reason why the country was willing to give Obama four more years.
Exit polls show that 53 percent of the public still blames George W. Bush for the country's economic problems, 36 percent blame Obama.
Last week's decent jobs report that included 171,000 jobs that were added in September prompted some business writers to state that whomever the next president, he'd inherit a stronger economy than the one Obama had to contend with in January of 2009.
This article appears in Nov 8-14, 2012.