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Article: Three envelopes for a chief.(Local)
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- The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA)
- Article date:
- October 31, 2009
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OLD SOVIET joke: Moscow, 1953. Stalin calls in Khrushchev. "Niki, I'm dying. Don't have much to leave you. Just three envelopes. Open them, one at a time, when you get into big trouble."
A few years later, first crisis. Khrushchev opens envelope 1: "Blame everything on me. Uncle Joe." A few years later, a really big crisis. Opens envelope 2: "Blame everything on me. Again. Good luck, Uncle Joe."
Third crisis. Opens envelope 3: "Prepare three envelopes."
In the Barack Obama version, there are 50 or so such blame-Bush free passes before the gig is up. Obama has already burned through a good 49. Is there anything he hasn't blamed George W. Bush ...