The Flint Water Crisis: It's All Obama's Fault

Ramona Grigg, Crooks and Liars
Tue, 02/09/2016 - 9:00am

Nearly every day I'm hearing from people who are just now paying attention to what's been going on in Michigan Their reactions to the latest and the worst insult--the water poisoning in Flint--are many and varied, but tend to follow the same theme: WTF?? I'm not here to judge, but it's not as if our bleating protestations haven't been wafting through the air for years.

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