Thank you Jorge W. Bushwinski. Your legacy is now set in stone.
I refuse to blame President Bush for this mess. He was dealt a bad hand of cards ... cards that were dealt a year or two before he even became President, if the Conservative shills [/sarc] at the
New York Times are to be believed.
To me the fault lies in two places. First, with the Democrats whose "easy money" mortgage policies were the catalyst for our current economic problems and second with that significant, election-turning, segment of the American people who are receptive to baseless allegations of "bigotry" and "racism" that are used by the Democrats to bludgeon their political opponents into silence and acquiescence. Which are exactly the charges that have been leveled over the last 8 or 9 years whenever someone pointed out the dangers of loaning a sh*tload of money to folks obviously incapable of every paying it back (see the YouTube videos of Barney Frank and Maxine Waters leveling them in defense of Franklin Raines and Freddie/Fannie).
Bush cannot be over looked in this mess. HE HAS BEEN IN OFFICE EIGHT YEARS FOR GOODNESS SAKES!!! This did not happen last week. IF he and the other republicans KNEW this mess was potentially out there, they should have thrown a fit. I would rather throw a fit about it and let America know, than sit back now and take the stinking blame for it. YES, the dims were the most to blame with the lending crap, BUT BUSH KNEW that this mess was going to happen and should have reacted. Instead, he did the same as with the border. He is, was, and is like a deer in the head lights. He has lost his edge, if he ever had one.