Poll: 71 Percent Of Americans Still Blame Bush For The Current Economic Woes

Citibank, Lehman Bros., Exxon Mobil, Boeing, Bank of America, and BP. .... to name a few

Bingo!

Bush/the president is this illusion whose mission almost seems to be the messenger, the person who reads the scripts, and is placed blame for whatever bad that happens. The true blame should be placed on the owners of the country.

Thank You ! Was It The Dems ?

There you go ! But why try to put it all on Obama ? ( here comes the race issue ) ! But not to mention 7.6% Unemployment , 1.2 Trillion in the Red !!!!! And in the hole 10 .6 trillion in dept !!!!! Oh i forgot 2 Wars ( one we started & one we should have taken care of long ago ) An the REPUBS want to put us through more ????? Or is it ah white guy can do better ,,,,,, Think ah Black President left to clean up all this shit in ah few months ??????
PLEASE !!!!!!! ,,,,, Its Gotta be ah RACE THING !

When it is stated that "We want our Country back," the rest of us are left to ask: Back from what? I have looked many times and I haven't been able to find any evidence that our Nation has gone anywhere or that anyone has taken it. Apparently, they want to take it back from the "Black Man," because other than that difference, everything else is the same as so many other times before. Our Nation has had Democrats running the place before and the Republicans never cried "we want our Country back" so why this new outcry? Is it Barack HUSSEIN Obama, could it be he was born in Hawaii, or what?

The darker color of someone's skin in America has always in-sighted certain people or groups to get really ugly and up in arms. This is no different other than many of the Nation have matured and evolved making this event of a "Black Man" to even be in the White House possible. Plain and simple!

You're an idiot no matter your race.

Then Ohio is fucked, plain and simple!

Its looks like ah RACE THING to me i mean THINK !!!!!! The Repubs said No to everything our President has put on the table to make try to climb out of this thing Bush put us in in the frist place , even the things the Repubs made up they said No to cause Ah taking Orders from ah Black Man ? Think is was the people who put him there ( & they only gave him a few seconds before they started to BAD MOUTH HIM ! So all & All That Race Thing Lives On ,,,,, Even in Our Goverment i am sorry to say !

It is a money and power thing. They attack anything and everything that jeopardizes the rich's monopoly on freedom. Race just happens to an easy effigy to attack. Unfortunately it's easier to attack "others", people with which we do not identify ourselves, and therefore the right's crusade against the poor take the form of racism. Race is definitely a factor in and of itself, but it is more about class than race.

Money and class is always an issue with the wealthy. History is loaded with evidence of that in every location around the world. No exemptions. However, America's history has a rich, historical reservoir of race issues. Racism is not dead by any means but it has been diminished by a fair amount compared to even thirty years ago. It still rears it's ugly face from time to time and it seems that it is attempting to do so in this case as well. There is much evidence to suggest and support it along with money, power and class.

Hahahaha... wonder how many people even know who he is :D

Race & what they say about ,,,,,,, Its not ah Issue ?,,,,,,, Please !!!!

Actually, I think Obama saved us from going to war with Iran and Pakistan. In our present status or condition, I hardly think we could have managed it as a nation.

If McCain and Palin had won, we would have most likely gone to war with one or both of them. America would have had to reinstate the Draft with a mandatory enlistment. Many of our young men would have been called into duty. There would have been no other way to have supported two more occupations. Financially, we as a nation would have been more devastated than we already are.

Republicans have a tendency to be war mongers and McCain and Palin eluded to their inclinations during their run for the White House.

Only history can judge Bush, and since he's out of office now is the time to write that history. You republicans called for the impeachment of Clinton. But history has proved he was a very good president. The same will be said of Obama, despite all the sky is falling talk, Facts are Facts. Bush DID thinks that tore at the fabric of America. Wereas Obama is under suspicion by T-Baggers of wanting to do everything from Reperations to Killing their GrandMothers.

I don't recall him saying Afghanistan but I do recall him saying he would bring the troops home from Iraq. Hmnnnnn, I think that just happened last month. WOW, how did that get overlooked? Oh thats right, it is just more of the same from the ill informed or should I say the ill willed.

The economic "problems" Bush inherited from Clinton left Bush with a 200 billion dollar budget surplus generated by one of the longest runs of economic expansion in the history of the United States. By the time Bush left office, we were stuck in two wars, an economy on the razor edge of depression and a 1.3 trillion dollar deficit. Get it? Clinton =200 billion dollar surplus and no wars. Bush=1.3 trillion dollar deficit and 2 wars. I can't dumb it down any more than that.

He's are more facts about what Bush did to the economy:

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2010/jan/29/barack-obama/obam...

and:

"The bulk of the $1.42 trillion deficit has nothing to do with the Obama administration's policies. The Center for American Progress' Michael Ettlinger and Michael Linden recently explained, "The policies of the Bush administration, which included tax cuts during a time of war and a floundering economy, are clearly the primary source of the current deficits." Specifically, 40% of the fiscal deterioration we're seeing -- the single largest contributing factor -- can be attributed to Bush policies. Another 12% comes from Bush's financial rescues, while 20% are the result of the economic crisis Bush handed off to his successor. What's President Obama's share? Just 16% of the total, most of which is the result of new spending that was necessary to prevent a depression."

Please also note that the Obama Administration spent 16% to AVOID A DEPRESSION.

Also, since your a conservative I have to assume that you've forgotten that the Republican bailout happened in September 2008 during Bush's Administration. Or have you forgotten Bush's Treasury Secretary (Hank Paulson) request for 700 Billion tax dollars to bail the idiot bankers out? As much as that bailout appalled me it was the only thing that Bush did that I agreed with given the economic conditions his Administration allowed to develop.

So once again Paratus all you've proven that you're still refusing to remove your head from your colon. I almost feel sorry for you.

Ditto,
I am on the line that is annoyed with Obama for giving so much away to the idiots who drove us to bankruptcy. But what you really need is a system that allows more ideas into the political arena, The Republicans have learned to game the two party system and it is finally time to shelve it and move on to a multi-party democracy like the US imposed on Germany after WWII . If we thought it was good enough for them it probably would be even better for us. It allows the wing nuts to voice their ideas and gives a pathway to pick up the few innovative good ideas they do have.

The two party system sucks because the Republicans have decided to take their ball and go home.

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I'm inclined to agree. The two party system is shot because corporate America now owns the GOP. We definitely need three viable political parties minimum.

They need to dismiss all of them and start completely over. The voting system needs to be revised to one person, one vote and it needs to no longer be a secret ballot. Transparency would help to eliminate the ability of defrauding the voter by those running the software and or hardware. As dreamy as this would be, the safety of many voters would most likely be at risk. Thus the secret ballot will most likely stay in place and defrauding will always be our plight.

Dismissing them all would be treating the symptom, not the disease i.e. corporate lobbying. Until the financial connection between K street and Congress is severed, things will never change and probably get worse. In other words if Group A gets replaced by Group B due to corruption, it's only a matter of time before Group B is compromised.

An the cycle continues.I agree.

And since Group B is where Group A came from initially, we are already where you say we would be. K $treet is definitely where Congre$$ finds much of their bread that is buttered.

ZING!

EXACTLY

UN War Crimes tribunal anyone???

The sooner, the better!

ya I know, this is why the inbred bastards need to get back to the hills and tun them newfangled tv machines off before they damage themselves.

Since Viagra, I think it would be fair to say 10 minutes.

OK, make that 10 minutes, but if goes longer that 4 hours, seek the advise of a Physician......A less than subtle marketing ploy?

Some people will go to any lengths.

That is what they WANT us to think .

Remember that good old blue dog, Clinton who left Bush a balanced budget. And Clinton doesn't even count as a democrat. He was the best de facto republican president since Eisenhower. Republican politics are the closet thing to making me believe in the devil. Democrats are invertebrates. As Lewis Black reminds us. There is no difference. The republicans get up and say, "We got a really shitty idea." and the democrats stand up and say, "Well, we can make it even shittier."

Really so all this whole banking crisis isnt the fault of the banking crisis that bush just sat beck and let it happen cause regulation is bad? Get your head out of sarah palins ass and meet the real world. Bush's bad.

USUALLY, the more INAPPROPRIATE capitalizations I see, the more STRAIN of my BELIEF in the CREDIBILITY of the poster.

Yes, most conservatives have blocked that fact out of their head that the big bailout happened in September 2008 when the housing market crashed and people started pulling billions out of their 401Ks. That's when Hank Paulson ran to Bush begging for 700 billion in tax payer dollars to bail out the financial system.

I have to laugh because if the situation had been reversed and a Bush had left Clinton with a 200 billion dollar surplus and Clinton left us with at 1.4 Trillion dollar deficit and 2 wars the facts would be burned into the brains of every conservative greater than 5 years old.

I’ll take your ad hominem as affirmative acceptance of the points I made about the issue. In the future please only comment when you have something substantive to say. :)

I am guessing you are not from the U.S. But believe it or not , the legislature passes legislation in this country. When both bail-outs were passed the Democrats dominated both the House and the Senate.

"...bush sat beck... sarah Palin..." you are mixing all your anti-conservative hate spew up. Sit down and chill out there sparky. Wipe the foam off your mouth and then try to make an intelligent point.

What an illogical and revisionist view of previous events. Hank Paulson was secretary of treasury and as a cabinet member, an agent of George Bush. The executive branch does not legislate. At the impetus of George Bush, Hank Paulson ran to Nancy Pelosi for the bailouts and she was more than happy to come up with the legislation as was Harry Reid.

You can't control the Senate if you have 40 people that disrupt and destroy anything you bring to the floor.

Perhaps you are not familiar with American Politics either. The democrats had a supermajority in the senate. There is 100 senators. It only takes 60 to override a filibuster from the 40 and control Senate. The democrats got us to where we are today.

In short the rebuttal to your contention that a caucus of 60 can’t control 40 is best articulated in the words of the president "yes [you] can."

Why is it that conservatives don't know how to use youtube? There is a wealth of information on almost every subject, even this one. The facts are available sufficiently to where they can actually hear some of their treasured loved ones speaking of the events in question during the actual event. What better evidence is there than that?

The conservatives are truly a breed of their own, perhaps we could even go as far as to say species.

I'll be commenting in the future whenever I feel like it and will most certainly not seek your approval over whether or not you think my comments are substantive.

Really? No kidding. Let me fill out the gaps in your comment. When Bush realized that his hands off approach to the economy had destroyed it, he told Paulson to scurry to congress to get the money. Congress had a choice, 1) don't fund the bank bailout and watch America and then the world fall into an economic depression. 2) piss off the American voters, fund the bailout and pray it was enough to stave off another economic depression. So if you would like to credit Nancy Pelosi for staving off a global economic disaster, well, who am I to argue. The fact is however both parties were involved in making the right decision. However, the Bush Administration retains the sole responsibility for the collapse due to their unwillingness to enforce existing regulations. The after effects, as painful as they are would be far more painful if the bailout hadn't passed. And you know what, people like you would have blamed her and Obama for that too.

Conservatives have zero credibility when it comes to the economy unless they're implementing a plan to wreck it. What's really ironic is that those same conservatives are burning you too, but you just aren't smart enough to see it. Bummer being you.

You are deluded. I will waste no time on you.

Please see my post above regarding your opinion on the matter.

Perhaps YOU are not familiar with politics. It was not a super majority in any sense of the word. It wasn't even a working majority especially when you consider the Blue Dog Democrats who are GOP lite. Get your facts straight.

You are correct. And the Germans won WW II.

Then can try to rewrite history all they want. But in the age of the internet their lies are immediately identified and flagged for all Americans to see.

Look at you all old school dumb. Aint that just cute.

They benefited from Him.

The have a disease known in the medical community as "denius all responsibilitus". It's a parasite that develops in conservative brains after listening to too much FOX "News". It's growth rate is doubled by listening to Limbaugh, Beck and Hannity.

With you and me added it might just make that poll go up to 72%.

me too! me too!

word. me too.

+^d Nice video.. I almost stopped it in the first 30 seconds.

You should post that under the headline: Imagine there was no Bush

that frame at 1.04 is as sobering a picture of war as any that l have ever seen.