Bush On Financial Crisis: It's A Good Thing I'm In Charge

New York Times:

George W. Bush began his presidency with the worst terrorist attack on American soil and he is ending it with the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression. In between, he confronted a hurricane that nearly wiped New Orleans off the map as his administration showed ineptitude in its response.

Now, as he spends his last months in office trying to avert a global economic collapse, Mr. Bush has been telling people privately that it's a good thing he's in charge.

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Comments

[jimme]

He even managed to top Plan 9 from Outer Space

THE Worst.........of ALL time.

[gcallaghan]

That movie is so bad it's a caricature of a movie, very much like UU is a caricature of a leader.

[1201SLD]

George Bush is Osama bin Ladin's dream come true. Bush has abused and diluted the military, alienated even our closest allies, and undermined our economy to the point of collapse. What more could any terrorist want?

[CalculatedRiskTaker]

You should have stopped after the first six words in your post and you would have had it right. So you believe some guy in a cave with a walk-talk half way around the world brought down the twin towers? Try again

[ZellaBee]

Ditto. When will the nation wake up?

[zaffar786]

Loose Change 9/11

[hortonhearsawho]

We need to demand that he share his weed with us.....

[carriellbee]

He's out. McC@in and Pa.in have been at his st@sh.

[SD leaker]

Ape

[strandwolf]

So sharp in his dark blue suit w/flag pin. I'm thinking he deserves to flutter in the breeze, too....

[iPolitics]

Hahahahahaha

[Chubbster]

Why even bother to say that Bush in charge of this is a horrifying idea. But he thinks it true! Delusion mixed together with psychotic inability to see the truth of his 8 year tenure.

[Tinsdale]

President Bush's statement is probably very similar to the phrase uttered at 11:40pm on the evening of April 14th,1912 by Edward John Smith (1850-1912), the ill-fated Captain of the RMS Titanic.

[bub26]

Captain Smith went down with his ship. Bush & crew have dividing up the booty and sailed away like a corporate ceo

[bub26]

This is odd ^^^ I posted that and it didn't show so reposted the same thing and both appear together.

[bub26]

Captain Smith went down with the ship. Bush & crew have divided up the booty and sailed away like a corporate CEO.

[FaceYourFears]

Thanks Mr. Prez, what would we have done without you!

[loudyk]

What a joke our president is!! Where has he been the last eight years? He is clueless and like the McCain/Palin ticket, he has let his own righteousness blind him to what really is going on. He is trying to bolster his positive rating before he leaves office as the worst, most unpopular, ineffective, president in the history of this country. It won't work prez!

[carriellbee]

You forgot evi/.

[humblediplomat]

Whenever you read a ridiculous right winger's post that the financial crisis is the democrats fault because a few of them get money from Fannie Mae, just ask them this:

So even though the Republicans totally controlled the Whitehouse, Congress and the Senate from 2000-2006, and still control the Whitehouse, somehow Bush, Cheney, Greenspan, Tom Delay, Trent Lott and Denny Hastert could do nothing to stop the minority democrats from ruining the economy?

They must be pretty incompetent if they controlled everything yet still could do nothing.


You are living in a make believe world. Please note that any study from the AEI is totally GOP biased and they are trying to hide their own guilt in this crisis. After all they are totally for deregulation, tax cuts, easy credit and wars in the middle east which have totally bankrupted our country.

[Chavista]

George, are you even master of your own domain?

[BuzzingAlong]

Some very serious food for thought:

National security: U.S. must put economics first
by James M. Ludes & Bernard I. Finel (American Security Project, a bipartisan think tank in Washington), Oct. 10, 2008

"The United States was already dangerously indebted before the housing crisis forced the government to slip even further into the red. Since January 2001, the U.S. national debt has increased from $5.71 trillion to more than $9.64 trillion in August. Our foreign debt has increased even faster, from $1.01 trillion in January 2001 to $2.67 trillion today.

The debt we owe to countries that do not share our interests or whose interests may run at odds with our own has grown even faster than that.

In 2001, we owed oil-exporting nations $48.5 billion - we now owe them $173.9 billion. In 2001, China held $61.5 billion in U.S. debt; it now holds $518.7. In 2001, Russia held less than $10 billion; it now holds $74.1 billion".

http://www.newsday.com/news/opinion/ny-oplud105876594oct10,0,5349759.story

But never mind, the Bushies got theirs. you betcha!

[Tinsdale]

Thanks for posting this.

[carriellbee]

Thank you for spelling it out like you did.

[ZellaBee]

FYI, the Department of Defense mysteriously lost track of $2.3 trillion dollars in 2001 as reported by

Bumsfeld on 9/10/2001 HMMMM?

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/01/29/eveningnews/main325985.shtml

[fedupandgrumpy]

Iraq: "Who's in charge? I'm in charge." See where that got us. Credit was claimed, responsibility was denied.

[bub26]

Bush has, on many occasions, taken credit for there being more homeowners than ever before under his leadership. So he does take responsibility for catastrophes, albeit, accidentally.

[JiminNC]

Yeah duh-bya - its real good you are in charge. In fact I can't think of any reason not to keep you there four more years. I am so certain that I will now vote for McMoreOfTheSame. geez, what a goober

[BuzzingAlong]

Remember, these criminals still have time to create a Gulf of Tonkin event so that ehy cand declare maritial law.

Don't think they wouldn't do it.