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CNN poll. The public still blames Bush for the economy

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Poll: Bush still blamed for economy

CNN Political Ticker: All politics, all the time Blog Archive - Poll: Bush still blamed for economy - Blogs from CNN.com

In a New York Times/CBS News survey out Friday, 31 percent of Americans said the Bush administration is at fault for the current state of the economy while only 7 percent pointed their finger at President Obama and his team.

An additional 23 percent said the fault lies with Wall Street institutions while 13 percent assign the blame to Congress. Nearly 10 percent said the blame lies with all of them.

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I agree with the 10% that blames all of them.
 
It is somewhat depressing that only 10% can see to blame everyone.
 
Fact is the economic crisis is part Bush, Part Both houses of congress, wall street, the banking industry, and finally Obama.

The latest numbers other than from the Obamedia CNN pollsters show a trust rate of Obama on Economic Crisis of only 28%.

Ths point here should not be who started it but who's doing the right thing to fix it and it sure as hell is not tax and spend us into depression Obama and the Liberals out of control Congress, or the Republicans we are not hearing the truth from load and clear as is needed to the people to say enough to to the crazy policies and thought process that makes believe raising taxes can whelp when history clearly shows it only hurts.

What a bunch of dumb assses all around.

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/obama_administration/daily_presidential_tracking_poll
The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Friday shows that 25% of the nation's voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as President. Forty percent (40%) Strongly Disapprove which gives Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -15

I'd call the a rating of F.
 
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polls are one thing

they depend so much on WHOM you ask and exactly HOW you phrase it

but virginia, new jersey and massachusetts are something else

the only numbers that count

and the PARTY of bush has gained TWENTY FIVE to THIRTY points in those 2 blue commonwealths and probably the most bellwether state in the union since barack hussein obama became president

party on, progressives
 
It's sort of like nobody lives in reality or something.
 
Its the fault of Wall Street for taking the risks that nearly destroyed them in the first place. People blame government for problems in the economy because they are the biggest scapegoats around. The President got blamed for it, because he is the countries leader, and Congress gets blamed for not being lifelong economists who try to predict this sort of thing (and still occasionally fail). Then of course, you have to factor in that everyone is human, and you get blame being thrown all of the place.
 
Fact is the economic crisis is part Bush, Part Both houses of congress, wall street, the banking industry, and finally Obama.

The latest numbers other than from the Obamedia CNN pollsters show a trust rate of Obama on Economic Crisis of only 28%.

Ths point here should not be who started it but who's doing the right thing to fix it and it sure as hell is not tax and spend us into depression Obama and the Liberals out of control Congress, or the Republicans we are not hearing the truth from load and clear as is needed to the people to say enough to to the crazy policies and thought process that makes believe raising taxes can whelp when history clearly shows it only hurts.

What a bunch of dumb assses all around.



I'd call the a rating of F.

Thats funny, the people in the original story most resembled one extreme, being stupidly partisan. You represent the group on the other side of the political spectrum.

Neither side is right, and your entire post was nothing but partisan trash.
 
I'd call the a rating of F.

The Rassmussen poll is the only one that does this, and is the only one that constantly spins the results to make the GOP look better and the Dems look worse.

Note what they do: They take the hardcore extremists who hate Obama and the hardcore extremists who love Obama and compare the two, ignoring the vast majority of everyone else.

All this says is that there are more extremists who hate him than love him. It tells us nothing about the population as a whole. It's absolutely misleading and, I might say, somewhat dishonest.
 
The seeds of it were planted before George the second, he just fertilized and pruned them. :2wave:
 
Misleading headline. 31% of the public blaming Bush is not the same as the public blaming bush.

It's dumb to play the blame game here when there are so many complex factors involved anyways.
 
Misleading headline. 31% of the public blaming Bush is not the same as the public blaming bush.

It's dumb to play the blame game here when there are so many complex factors involved anyways.

And it's also dumb not to read (or comprehend) the article before you comment on it.

Bush garnered 31% of the blame. That was higher than any of the other options for blame. Bush also had a higher percentage of blame than Obama.

The point was the American people still put a lot of blame on Bush. According to the poll, that's a fact.

Now really the blame should be placed on everyone involved in every capacity.
 
And it's also dumb not to read (or comprehend) the article before you comment on it.

Bush garnered 31% of the blame. That was higher than any of the other options for blame. Bush also had a higher percentage of blame than Obama.

The point was the American people still put a lot of blame on Bush. According to the poll, that's a fact.

Now really the blame should be placed on everyone involved in every capacity.

Also another reason why President Bush and even President Obama are getting a lot of the blame is when things go bad the presidents get blamed. It really isn't fair, but that is the way it is.
 
The Republican Party cozily in bed with Wall Street since the Reagan years is most to blame. Although Reagan put in motion much of what Wall Street later used to hide their deeds from the public, it was not something he would have approved of in hind sight. Reducing government from big business may be a reasonable goal however because of the inevitable greed of some behind boardroom doors there ought always be kept some level of transparency, checks and balance. The utterly criminal actions of Enron should have been the wake up call but Republicans chose to ignore the signs.

I have mostly criticism for the Democrats also. The majority have poor financial fiscal responsibility. Clinton bought into Wallstreet lies that NAFTA would be good for the nation. Thus offshoring, outsourcing, American technology transfers continued full ahead. What a tragedy for what had been the worlds greatest manufacturing powerhouse. Absolutely disgusting and Wall Street is most to blame. They deserved its benefits least, but had the most power so shortsightedlty were only interested in sucking dry every last buck as soon as they could. It was hard to argue against at the time with the explosion of the Internet dominating economics and covering up the growing decay below. Without wisdom Democrats bought into unlimited credit for all and the old American dream that everyone ought to be able to buy expensive moderm homes, even the poor. Most all national politicians and their economists bought into the moronic logic that housing prices forever rise. Despite the fact we had just suffered a similar bubble when the dot com lunacy collapsed. However human behavior or ordinary man will always be that if everyone else is doing it, it must be ok...duh!
 
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here, in the neighborhood, it's all so much simpler

those to blame are all of us who spend more than we make, borrow more than we pay back, live off the labor of our neighbors, and vote for politicians who facilitate such blatant dodges of personal responsibility

those who provide solutions are we with jobs, who pay taxes, take care of ourselves and our families, and work to make our futures secure

way too many deadbeats and scam artists on THIS city street

they spend a lot of time blaming others, too

no coincidence

one of our political parties makes most its living stoking and feeding off such sentiments

no excuses, get to work

president obama, fix this economy or get out of the white house

and hurry up, it's freezing out

and you're already a year late
 
Misleading headline. 31% of the public blaming Bush is not the same as the public blaming bush.

It's dumb to play the blame game here when there are so many complex factors involved anyways.
Winnb is a liberal, of course it's Bush's fault.
 
Winnb is a liberal, of course it's Bush's fault.

And again you shouldn't make the thread about me. If you can't post your opinions without coming after me then just move on.
 
Fact is the economic crisis is part Bush, Part Both houses of congress, wall street, the banking industry, and finally Obama.

Did you include the bold as a matter of convenience?

The latest numbers other than from the Obamedia CNN pollsters show a trust rate of Obama on Economic Crisis of only 28%.

I wonder what the percentage of people polled would state that imports have a negative welfare effect, or the US should have a positive trade balance (not even mentioning the current account)?

Ths point here should not be who started it but who's doing the right thing to fix it and it sure as hell is not tax and spend us into depression

Given that you are naive in regards to macro policy, ill just let this pass.

Obama and the Liberals out of control Congress, or the Republicans we are not hearing the truth from load and clear as is needed to the people to say enough to to the crazy policies and thought process that makes believe raising taxes can whelp when history clearly shows it only hurts.

Make no mistake about it.... Taxes are going to have to be raised one way or another. Drastic cuts to discretionary spending will have tumultuous effects on the economy. The impact of a sovereign debt crisis > raising taxes on the highest income earners in regards to economic hurt or pain.

What a bunch of dumb assses all around.

Given the comments from above, we will take your opinion with a grain of salt.

I'd call the a rating of F.

As a matter of convenience?
 
obama doesn't know what the heck he's doing and, at this point, it's becoming THE problem

he says he wants banks to lend, so he's gonna tax em

he says he wants to help small biz, so he's repealing bush's tax cuts

he says he's gotta get all the money back, and he doesn't begrudge the savvy their bonuses

he said he'd never raise taxes a dime on middluns, but now he's agnostic

i could go on, believe me

the dude is totally incoherent

the point---HE is the number one contributor these days to the UNCERTAINTY that is paralyzing employment

and that's really saying something

things are really, really bad, you'd think they couldn't get much worse

but then obama starts talking...
 
Whatever.

Check the results in Mass, NJ, and Virginia, as well as the current polls in Illinois, Indiana, Arkansas, etc, to find out who the public is blaming right now.

But nice try, CNN. Your party owns it now.
 
The whole idea of blaming everyone is pure, unadulterated republicanazi bull****.

The Republicans created this crisis by removing federal regulation of banks and money-lending insitutions.

They should NOT be allowed to weasel out of it by blaming "everyone" for the crisis. This is bull****. It's a piss poor attempt by the Republi-thieves to avoid responsibility for a disaster that was created by a REPUBLICAN ADMINISTRATION to benefit FELLOW REPUBLICAN MONEY LENDERS.

People really need to pull their heads out of their asses and take a breath of fresh air.
 
The Republicans created this crisis by removing federal regulation of banks and money-lending insitutions.

Yeah, one problem with that theory: that never happened. Republicans did not deregulate banks and lenders. If they had, we might not have had this problem.
 
The whole idea of blaming everyone is pure, unadulterated republicanazi bull****.

The Republicans created this crisis by removing federal regulation of banks and money-lending insitutions.

They should NOT be allowed to weasel out of it by blaming "everyone" for the crisis. This is bull****. It's a piss poor attempt by the Republi-thieves to avoid responsibility for a disaster that was created by a REPUBLICAN ADMINISTRATION to benefit FELLOW REPUBLICAN MONEY LENDERS.

People really need to pull their heads out of their asses and take a breath of fresh air.

Wrong.

Try Barney Frank and Chris Dodd. They were in the front of the "lending discrimination" threats that to the relaxed lending requirements.
 
The way I see it, both parties are complicit. Bush ran the economy into the ground, and now Obama is burying what's left of it.

Agreed. The constant manipulation by both parties, the cronyism, the "corporatism", the bailouts, the greed... and of course the constant demands of the American people to "do something" to benefit us (the pork) all adds up to the situation we're in now.
 
Yeah, one problem with that theory: that never happened. Republicans did not deregulate banks and lenders. If they had, we might not have had this problem.

Wrong.

That is more republican rhetoric. It did happen. Accept it an move on.
 
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