Incumbent gets blamed for current woes: Annie Lowrey
(NEWSER) - Here's a president who bailed out the big banks, protected their pay, and helped hold them together—yet "Wall Street hates Barack Obama," writes Annie Lowrey at Slate . Why? It's simple: "Wall Street is doing terribly," and in a bad economy, "everybody blames the incumbent." Sure, banks are more than surviving, "but they are not thriving in the way they were a year or even six months ago," Lowrey notes. More»