Obama to Blame Bush in State of the Union Speech

Early indications from the White House are that President Obama will blame former President Bush for many of the current issues facing the country in tomorrow evening’s State of the Union address.

“Make no mistake. The current state of the economy with unemployment over 10% is 100% George Bush’s fault,” White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs read from a teleprompter.

“The fact that unemployment has gone up since our administration came into office must be because Dick Cheney maneuvered behind the scenes to hide the real numbers,” said Gibbs.

According to White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emmanuel, the economy is just the first in a long list of issues that Obama plans to blame on Bush.

“The blame for the recent growth of Al Qaeda in Yemen can be placed squarely on Bush. We maintained all along that Bush should have concentrated on the real war in Yemen, instead of getting diverted into Iraq and Afghanistan,” Emmanuel said.

“The Senate’s inability to pass the President’s Health Care Reform bill is also George W. Bush’s fault. And if Bush had done more to prevent global warming we might never have had the H1N1 outbreak or the earthquake in Haiti,” Emmanual continued.

Representatives from Hugo Chavez’s office (D – Venezuela) reportedly contacted the White House asking to hold a joint press conference to further explain how George W. Bush caused the Haitian earthquake. Emmanuel declined to comment on Chavez’s request stating that, “our good friend Hugo knows where we stand on this.”

When asked if the president had any positive things to highlight in his speech Emmanuel responded that, “We are going to announce a freeze on spending anything that can’t be used to buy votes. If we’re going to put future generations into bondage with our incomprehensible deficit spending, we at least ought to get some short term, political benefit from it. You can never let a good crisis go to waste.”