Remember this about our ruling class: they forced Dubya on us. Many of us supported that idiot, and even more voted for him. They set it up where we could choose him, Gore, or Kerry.
I supported him. Until he approved the bailout for the incoming Obama Administration.
From 2009 CBS:
“Acting at Barack Obama’s behest, President George W. Bush on Monday asked Congress for the final $350 billion in the financial bailout fund, effectively ceding economic reins to the president-elect in an extraordinary display of transition teamwork.”
It was downhill from then on. Obama didn’t just behest. He begged. Bush was initially against it but then wanted to give the new administration the best chance to be successful.