On Sat, 24 Oct 2009 12:26:37 -0500, "RD (The Sandman)"
wrote:

queenie wrote in
:


He promised to close Guantanamo, pull the troops out of Iraq, etc..
within a year. He is not even close to doing either. He was aware of
the economy, Afghanistan, Iraq, public opinion, and the goals of his own
party when he decided to run.

But when he was elected and got to read the letter Bush left him in
the Oval Office, reality hit him. And he has to re-think matters.
Keyword, "re-THINK ".

Was Bush president when those wars started or not? And were both
wars still going on when he left? I believe both answers are "Yes".

How quickly you forget all the talk from Democrats about Afghanistan
being the right war.

What is it with you and the war in Afghanistan? Oh, you want to
remind everybody that Bush took his eye off Afghanistan and went to
Iraq and that's why so many soldiers have died unnecessarily.

Nope, I wish for Democrats to keep in mind that this was their war. This
was the war that Pelosi and company said was the right war and the one
that Bush should have been waging. Well, now, they have their wish.
Afghanistan is their war.

All under Bush's watch and his stupid tax cuts. He even gave a tax
credit to people who bought the gas-guzzling Hummer.

With errors from both sides of the aisle. After all, the biggest
collapse in real estate financing was Freddie Mac and Fannie
Mae....under oversight from Barney Frank and Chris Dodd as the House
and Senate Finance Committee chairmen respectively.

The bottom line is there are problems Obama inherited and he has to
resolve them. And he cannot fix EVERYTHING in TEN fricking
months!!!

And not all of them are due to Bush. Until folks understand that
there were errors in regulation and oversight from both sides of the
aisle, we will never fully recover. All people will be too busy
trying to place blame on the other side.

Republican had control of all three branches of government for six
years. They blew it big time and now they want to distract from that
by blaming Obama for not getting anything accomplished in less than a
year. That is why the Republicans, the Party of No, is determined to
see that Obama fails while they gave Bush a blank check to do whatever
he wanted.

Bush's administration was a failure although I believe that history will
show him to be a better president than most think.....Obama's appears to
be headed that way. The problem I have is the next few generations
slowly watching their country go broke trying to fix problems that belong
to both sides of the aisle while spending more time blaming Bush than
doing much of anything.