Posted on 12/28/2010 7:58:46 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
Nearly two years into the Obama presidency, voters still believe the nation’s continuing economic problems are due more to President George W. Bush than to the policies of the current occupant of the White House.
A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 50% of Likely U.S. Voters think current economic problems are due primarily to the recession which began under the Bush administration. Forty-two percent (42%) say Obama’s policies are more to blame.
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Ignorance IS bliss
Just as with FDR and Hoover, we can expect this spin to last for decades. It was during Hoover’s admin that the Great depression started but it was Roosevelt’s policies, based on FDR’s economic ignorance and stupid advice of the East Coast academics and leftist radicals, that kept the boot of regime uncertainty on the throat of the economy for another decade.
Obama, Volker, Tiny Tim, the Bernank, Jarret, etc, etc are reading from FDR’s same playbook. Just as the academics wrote self-justifying histories telling how FDR “saved” the economy they will reprise their chorus to tell us how Obama has done likewise. They will hold to this stupid theory as they do to “global warming”. Failing to understand the problem they will continue to offer the wrong solutions whilst congratulating themselves on how much worse things would have been but for their heroic ministrations.
Those who fail to learn the lessons of history...
Bush lost or created jobs. Obama saved or created them.
-1/+1 vs 0/+1
It happened during the administrations of Bush senior, Clinton, and Bush junior more or less without interruption.
Yes, Obama has done all he can to screw things up, but to argue that this all could have been fixed by electing someone else in 2008 is pure fantasy. We have a decade or two of austerity in front of us, even if we start doing everything right.
I'm sure the fact that there's not too many Bush defenders who've gone public is because he won't explain or defend himself.....so why should anyone else bother to do it for him?
The Grand Old Party has many thing to thank GW for, but his failure to defend false charges is not one of them. His silence on this economic issue is perceived by many as galling and selfish....and by the enemy as an admission of guilt.
His self-important view of himself as being above everything now that he's out of office hurt the party two years ago on this issue and continues to hurt Republicanism and conservatism immeasurably now.
Leni
Well Leni, he sure defended the September bank bailouts, when by rights he should be hung in effigy for that decision.
If Bush is guilty of anything, it is not vetoing enough. DumBO is guilty of spending too much.
It’s all in the wording. The question asks whether the recession began under Bush OR whether Obama’s policies are to blame. Most people know that Obama didn’t start the recession. He simply made it much worse. Respondents do not BLAME Bush as the healine suggests. They are merely saying that the recession began while he was still in office.
The question poses a false dilemma. It does not give the option of saying that the recession both began under Bush and was made worse by Obama. If they asked THAT question, it would be off the charts negative for Obama, as the last election clearly showed.
Only in the Democrats dreams
Bush certainly shares the responsibility, along with many of his predecessors. His tax cuts were excellent, but he did NOTHING to control spending and pork. And he added several expensive and stupid programs, such as No Child Left Behind and Medicare Prescription.
Also, when the Democrats sabotaged him through his Goldman Sachs treasury secretary, and pulled their October surprise propaganda blast that the economy would collapse unless they passed TARP and the Government Motors takeover, Bush stood there with his mouth open and did nothing.
Sure, the main problem is Obama. But Bush helped set him up by his deer-in-the-headlights failure to fight back.
Which is to give him credit, actually. I liked him personally. But the whole Bush family does seem to be part of the NWO machine, I’m afraid. It’s at least possible that he did it on purpose.
George WHO?
Why don’t they poll this question using Wendell Wilkie, Arlo Guthrie or Nelson Eddy while they’re at it. Each of them would likely poll at least 40%.
These numbers tend to correlate with a “Christmas Polling Trend” in the Presidential Approval Poll. Ras has BHO suddenly coming from -19 to -11. IMO this reflects polling noise caused by an over polling of Libtards. This has previously occured around holidays and long weekends. I really don’t know how to account for the shift, but it makes simultaneous polls somewhat suspect.
“In fact, the 111th Congress not only has set the record as the most debt-accumulating Congress in U.S. history, but also has out-stripped its nearest competitor, the 110th, by an astounding $1.262 trillion in new debt.”
Astounding, thank you for that.
began during Bush administration does not correlate to “blame”
Can no longer run against BUSH. He will now run against Ronald Reagan. hahahahahaha, took the Reagan BIO to HI. to get tutored. lol.
What an idiot?
True, but I was illustrating how the media blamed W for damned near everything.
Here’s the thread;
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2648082/posts
A new Rasmussen survey finds that 50% of Likely U.S. Voters would drown if they looked up during a rainstorm.
“Here’s the thread;
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2648082/posts";
Thank you for the link.
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