Oh stop with the silliness. The nation was in a mess when he came into office and don't lie and say it wasn't. He has not helped much if any but the economy is going to spin as it spins no matter who is in office at this point.
Economy is bad under bush = ITS BUSHES FAULT
Economy is bad under Obama = The economy's just going to do what it does regardless of whose in office
I love this argument. Its so wonderful, because it basically absolves Obama of any responsability. "Perfect idea guys, its universally accepted the economy went bad under Bush. Now, lets say that whatever happens to it is entirely out of Obama's hand and its really just going to do whatever its going to do. That way, we can absolve him of ANY responsability and keep blaming it on Bush. And hey, if it does get better we can just ignore what we said before and claim its all because of Obama. Its not like we've not just ignored previous statements before. Remember when we said he was amazingly intelligent and he ran a campaign on improving the economy, which we ignore with our current statements because if we didn't it'd make it out like he was an idiot promising to fix something we now say he'd have no ability to help. I love how the world works when you're a liberal".
That's right folks. When its election season after Bush is in office, you can run that you're going to fix the economy. Then after you get in office, you can claim that any sign that the economy is worsening is Bush's fault. Then after you've done a few years worth of things that influence the economy and it still gets worse, you can claim that you're not at falt because the economy's going to do what it does. And, then, when its time to run for election again, you can claim you need to be the one to be in charge of fixing the economy because the other guys screwed it up and would screw it up again because its not going to just spin how its going to spin.
Becuase that all makes perfect sense.
If you want to just never, ever, ever take any sort of responsability what so ever. Bush along with a Republican Congress at first and a Democratic Congress afterwords, during which the collapse occured and the largest deficits of his presidency occured if my memory serves, spiraled us into this mess. Obama, intiially under a Democratic Congress and then a split one, then took the issue Bush created and attempted to "Fix" it by pumping it full of growth hormone that just exasserbated the issue.
Bush deserves criticism? Absolutely. But Obama and the Congress deserve it in lock step with him at this point. We're almost 3/4ths through his Presidency, at some point as Barack Obama said in 2006...the buck must stop there.
