KNOWLES: Obama Didn’t Build That
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KNOWLES: Obama Didn’t Build That

Michael Knowles

Former president Barack Obama took Presidents Day as an opportunity to burnish his lame legacy by claiming credit for his successor’s booming economy. “Eleven years ago today, near the bottom of the worst recession in generations,” tweeted Obama, “I signed the Recovery Act, paving the way for more than a decade of economic growth and the longest streak of job creation in American history.” Unfortunately for the former president, to borrow Obama’s own words, he didn’t build that.

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