The trouble with claiming credit for Detroit's accelerating automotive renaissance, as President Barack Obama is likely to do in his State of the Union address tonight and in an Ann Arbor speech later this week, is that reality is more complicated.
Democrats hail the controversial auto bailout as the cornerstone of Team Obama's prescient economic stewardship. Why? Because there is little else to tout in an economy hobbled the past three years by exploding budget deficits, persistently high unemployment, lamentable crony capitalism, political dysfunction and a whole lot of whiny blame-shifting.
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