Bush Still Leads Obama in Blame for U.S. Economic Troubles

Gallup ^ | 7/7/16

[SoFloFreeper]

[As the man child's occupancy of the Oval Office] enters its final months, more Americans still blame George W. Bush than Obama for the nation's economic ills. When asked how much they blame each president for current economic problems, 64% of Americans say Bush deserves a "great deal" or "moderate amount" of blame, compared with 50% for Obama.

[SunkenCiv]

That's odd, because the recession was underway during the 2000 campaign, and despite the desperate efforts of the Partisan Media Shills, who fought for years to spin the first (and last) Clinton regime, the downturn was made worse by the 9/11 mass murders, which were carried out by jihadist -- just like the Orlando and Dallas killings were.

[South Dakota]

.Bill Clinton and Phill Gramm caused it.
I would agree and disagree.
Gramm’s bill passed on strictly partisan vote.
No democrat voted for it. Clinton said he would veto it if it came across his desk
The damage was done when the house bill and gramm’s bill were reconsiled.
Then it past the senate by a huge margin

[Redwood71]

Amazing what the media can get people to think because they don’t.

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[stubernx98]

There is more correlation between economic change and who controls Congress. there is about a two year lag. Dims take congress in two years the decline begins, Republicans then two years before improvement begins. I am not sure re the GOPe.

[depressed in 06]

The Bolshies took over Congress in ‘07 and the policies that caused the housing bubble to burst where from Carter and Clinton. Obummer did not make things better and Congress was an impediment. If Bush has any blame, it is, he did not fix these community blackmail schemes of the Bolshies.

[BwanaNdege]

Yes, and did they mention in which asylum the poll was taken?

The US House and Senate.

Add MSM offices, Washington, DC, Manhattan, San Francisco, Detroit and New Orleans.

[Intolerant in NJ]

A function of the fact that Republicans in this as in most other issues simply won't defend themselves and their records - I watch dumbfounded as they sit on panels with libs and media types, are told to their faces that Bush caused the big meltdown in 2008, and say nothing to the contrary - and of course the propaganda in the culture at large only reinforces the big lie - the other night I caught the beginning of the movie The Big Short on Netflix - the producers used various gimmicks to try to bring the audience up to speed on the financial doings that led to the collapse of the financial markets in '08 - in one case they had some blond in a bathtub talking about how the greedy bankers had sold all those bad subprime, no-doc, no-job mortgages that led to the housing bubble and the worthless mortgage bonds - not a word about how the Democrats for years had leaned on the banks to give those mortgages to poor people who couldn't afford them and arranged to have them bought off from the banks by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac at taxpayer expense, how thy had set quotas on the banks to give out a certain amount of subprimes, how they pressured the FM's to buy up at least fifty percent of their mortgages from people making less than the median income per year, and on and on - the big lie repeated often enough......