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The financial crisis happened at the end of the Bush presidency, so how in the world can anyone reasonably blame Obama for that? Plus, Bush was president for nearly 8 years before said crisis, so he rightly deserves some blame for it.

Don’t get me wrong. I’m not defending Obama, because I think he was the absolutely worst possible person to deal with the financial crisis. He’s only prolonged the misery and made it much worse. However, I don’t see how we can blame him for creating the problems to start with.

I’m not a big fan of President Bush, but I don’t think he was all bad. For example, I think he’s an honorable and moral person, but he’s was no conservative. He did virtually nothing to reign in the federal government and he couldn’t articulate a clear vision of where he wanted to lead the country.

I wish President Bush well, but I hope to never see another Bush in politics again. They and their GOPe ilk are a big part of what’s wrong with the Republican Party today.

The 2008 financial crisis has it’s roots in Fanny Mae and Freddy Mac and all the bad loans they were forced to make under the Clinton Administration so IDIOTS that couldn’t afford a cardboard box were allowed to get loans for homes.

Dodd should be tried for Treason.

The financial crisis happened because the Dems had taken over the legislature and passed bills that Bush should have vetoed...but didn’t, because he was busy being “bipartisan” and “listening to the will of the majority,” something that has obviously never mattered to his successor.

Curiously, the Dems have never gotten the blame that they deserve for things like the housing melt-down, etc. Bush should have fought back, but by then, late in his term, he was under such attack that he probably thought it was impossible.

President Obama cannot be blamed, but Senator Obama was certainly in the mix. Look where the economy was before the Democrats took majorities in 2006. Their collective agenda on the left contributed greatly and directly to the crash. Frankly, many magnitudes larger than Bush. Bush’s biggest fault lies in allowing the government to mangle the banking system for the left’s ‘affordable housing’ agenda in the name of ‘helping’ minorities. Obama was lockstep with Frank, Dodd, Schumer and the rest, and the right allowed that agenda in part to avoid the fight and in part because they are just as bought by the banks as the Democrats.

There is no one issue or stance Bush had that led to that crash in 2008. It surely wasn’t ‘tax cuts for the rich’ as the idiots on the left like to point at. If anything, the spending, bad monetary policy and racial politics in banking are the cause, and that’s at worst a 50/50% blame on Bush an the Republicans.