I do disagree, I think the stimulus has helped, for instance.
I see, and yet it appears you feel Bush made things horrible?
Care to enlighten us as to what government indicators and factors you use to determine "Bush bad / Obama good"?
I don't like to assume what people are thinking, so I ask questions to further my understanding of their thoughts and positions. Not making assumptions apparently offends you, so I'll try to do it more.
Not that it offends me, but I see a once good poster who generally had engaging and interesting things to read, albiet ones I often disagreed with, become the love child of American and "The Riddler" that just pops into threads with no purpose but to completely ignore someones entire post and post a one liner question as if its some profound point he's making. Its not offensive, its just kind of sad.
The military spending in large part came from his war in Iraq, which was not needed or necessary. If he had just focused on Afghanistan, that would have saved a lot of money from the deficeit.
The military spending came in large part from Iraq, which was directly related to the philosophy behind the War on
Terror (not the war on those specifically who attacked us on 9/11), which came about due to 9/11 and the belief that state sponsored terrorism was a growing threat, not just Al-Qaeda in Afghanistan terrorism.
You want to complain about partisans down below, and yet you go out of your way to excuse Obama for any part if anything, blame bush for every part of everything, and yet conviently find ways to complain when someone uses your same style to do similar for Bush. Your complaints about people being partisan is somewhat laughable in the face of it.
I get what you're trying to do here, and you'd think a mod would be more mature, but I digress. The point is, we're facing the worst economic times since the great depression, and these were all problems that happened under Bush's watch. Bush had years to see problems like the housing bubble pop, and he did damn little about them. Yes, congress didn't help, but remind me where the buck stops again? Give Obama more time for things to work, it's petty and partisan how people have been trying to blame Obama for how things are since the day he took office.
I like sarcasm and exaggeration to make a point at times. If that makes me "immature" so be it. I'll take it over constant one-liner questions as my main content I bring to the board. And you're incorrect, these are problems that started under Bush's watch (actually some seeds of it started under Clinton's watch, and some even before that) and have CONTINUED on through Obama's watch.
And I am all for fancy bumper stickers and great little tag lines, but no I don't think the buck stops completely and utterly with the President. And before you try to get some bull**** "partisan, hypocrite" line on me, go back to older posts of mine and try to tell me I wasn't critical of the Republican congress for their actions at times. Yes, the President has a great deal of blame but congress as a whole has a pretty damn equal hand in the situation as well. Go look at things between 2001 to 2005 and then 2006 to 2010 and we'll see how spending goes. I've never been one to give a pass to Bush or the Republican congress for spending, indeed I've been lambasted by republicans on this forum for not being a loyal party line marcher for doing it as routinely as I had.
I didn't start droning on about Obama right off the bat. I gave him a bit of time on things that were going to need time. At the same time we're a year into this. At some point he has to be looked at and his actions have to be looked at and measured and its not 4 years after he's out of office. You can't campaign about having people in Iraq for far to long and how failed of a policy it is that they're not out and blame Bush, and then pull them out right on schedule essentially with that policy and not be called on it. You can't complain and campaign about how wrong it is to detain people indefinitely and blame Bush, and then turn around and end up saying you're gonig to still detain some people indefinitely and expect not to be called on it. And you can't complain about Bush and the deficiets he ran up and saying all the deficiet problem is his fault and then sit there and pass the "stimulus" plan that was filled with pay off pork and support the health care bill filled with stuff in it that had no reason but to "buy" votes and expect not to be called on it.
Should we deny Bush, AND the republican congress's, hands in what the current makeup of the economy is and the state of the nation? Absolutely not. Those that complete act like NO blame should be given on him at all are ludicrous. At the same time to completely ignore Obama's own actions or excuse them all without any thought or actual intellectually honest examination simply because "well Bush put us in a bad spot" is ALSO ludicrous. And moreso, for a president who has stressed so much to the point where it was a focal campaign point about being post partisan, being a CHANGE from politics as usual, as being someone to unite the country one would think that he'd focus more on how to fix things when speaking nd less on blaming anything and everything under the sun on his predecessor as loud and as often as possible.
Or, to take your bumper sticker...
For him to remember where the Buck Stops