Oh dear. While he's not completely wrong - they do deserve ownership after a few years - he also is making a mistake in not blaming the Bush administration (and the Clinton administration) for the current economic crisis. There is no magic wand to eliminate years of bad political policy. The crisis that the banks triggered were never going to disappear in a year or two and the administration's real failing was not driving that point home more often. The Ticket:
"Even though 50-some percent of the American people think the economy tanked because of the last administration, that's not relevant," the vice president said. "What's relevant is we're in charge."
Biden added that he doesn't blame people who are mad at the administration, and said it is understandable and "totally legitimate" for the 2012 presidential election to be "a referendum on Obama and Biden and the nature and state of the economy."
