I think it was more complicated than that.
I believe, Bush (and his NWO comrades) intended to make the next, poor dumb bastard (read: Obama) die on that political hill by turning him into the fall guy for the real estate crash caused by Bush's policies.
The law of unintended consequences came into play. Seeing soaring profits, the banksters got greedy and the bubble inflated too fast and burst before Bush had a chance to get out of office.
Because the crash happened while Bush was still in office there was no way to blame Obama, so Bush's handlers had to go to their fall-back position and blame Clinton and they drafted a talking points memo and even produced a YouTube video which was widely circulated among the Bush loyalists who were all too eager to defend "their guy".
But, the proof is there in black and white. It was Bush's policies, still in place today, that he, and he alone, was the instigator of the crash.
Without Bush changing banking laws to benefit his Wall Street cronies, Carter's and Clinton's CRA would have no teeth to allow US banks to pursue the business of millions of Mexican illegal aliens. Without Bush's policies, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac could not buy up these home loans.
And, if none of this had happened, the US real estate market would not have crashed.
Sorry. I don’t believe they were planning on the next guy.
But I’ll give you that they probably didn’t count on the collapse starting on their watch.
And Bush and his brother and his daddy are still open-borders, NWO guys. (not that you said they weren’t).