^He did everything he said he was going to do, and he did it exactly how he said he was going to do it. There were no lame excuses or cooked books. A measured, controlled , almost surgical response. He did it while he was dancing the Samba in Rio and without breaking a sweat, only taking modest credit for "assisting the international community". And he put it together and pulled it off seamlessly in just a few days. It was Thatcher at the Falklands, or a fast-forward Elder Bush in Kuwait, all over again. And unless he has a run of bad luck, right now it looks like Barry hit this one out of the park.^
You seem to have been watching a different series of events over the past week or so than I have. It looked more to me like he came in on the tail end of something a lot of other people did. But you're right: fair or not, he'll get the credit for a success, and take the blame for a failure. That's on the job description when you register as a candidate for president.
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