America Plays The Blame Game, Bush Hurt Most
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The American people stubbornly refuse to believe right-wing dogma that says Bush can’t be blamed for what he allowed to transpire while he was president.
In a New York Times/CBS News survey out Friday, 31 percent of Americans said the Bush administration is at fault for the current state of the economy while only 7 percent pointed their finger at President Obama and his team.
An additional 23 percent said the fault lies with Wall Street institutions while 13 percent assign the blame to Congress. Nearly 10 percent said the blame lies with all of them.
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I see we’re flat-out ignoring the 9 point drop in Obama’s net approval rating.
Reality Based!!!
Hello again, Comrades!!! It’s nice to see all of you Bolsheviks again!Hey, Oliver, It’s snowing again! I take it if you used a NYT/CBS poll on that, it would blame Bush for the weather, too. What a joke Your boy is sinking like the Titanic, and you guys just keep sticking your heads further and further into the sand. Wake up, guys! America doesn’t want your socialist way of living! When are you going to realize it?
Blah, blah, blah. Liberal bias, polls don’t mean anything unless they support me, you guys are all socialists, blah blah. Yawn.
Far sooner, obviously, than you’ll ever realize Obama’s not a socialist.
Hey, mamabo…how are you, kid? Still in school, kid? how’s gym class???
dear lightweight, stick to your dayjob. Your career as a funny man and joke writer will not happen. Love, teh socialists
I see we’re flat-out ignoring the 9 point drop in Obama’s net approval rating.
Reality Based!!!
The same way you’re flat out ignoring the content of this specific post?
Irony Based!
LOL, Hey, Burn..Rrightttttt are you kidding? You guys are an endless source of material. It never gets old busting your balls. You “elitists” take yourself so seriously, you don’t even realize when someones busting you balls. To use a linr form a movie….”lighten up, Francis” LOL
And John proves Burns’ point.
Hey, thanks Comrade Sean! Tell me again all you wise ones, when is all the “Hope & Change” going to kick in? Before, or after the Republicans kick you asses in November?
Dear ‘lightweight’
Red Eye won’t have you on as a guest.
The end
Love, teh socialists
PS, who else around here uses ‘LOL’ besides giddy teenage girls on the Twilight forums…I cannot possibly imagine…
Wait, what? Are you just expecting more than 41%?
Oh man, scorched! He calls you “Comrade” because, like, that’s what they call their “homeboys” in commie socialist countries like, totally, China and Sweden.
And then, like, he pulls out the “Hope and Change” because, like, that’s what Barrack Obama said, and, like, now he’s totally putting a fresh spin on it and throwin’ it back in your face, because nobody’s ever, like, thought of that before. He’s droppin’ trenchant commentary and it’s off the hizz-oooook! Faced!
Another fly thing to say would be to go all, like, “Hope and Change?….. NOT!!!!”
Consider your balls busted, bro! You got served!
…….
But in all seriousness, the usage of “LOL” post-high school generally indicates that one is an enormous dork and social outcast. Just sayin’.
You guys are the best! I love comming on here and being schooled by all of you brillliant socialists! It just makes me wonder though, why hasn’t America come to grips with the fact that you on the left are so superior to the rest of us no-nothings, why didn’t we just turn America over to you years ago? How could we be so foolish? of course your way is superior! it has to be! You have told us so! Oh,my God!Thank God the cereberal pacifists are in charge of America now! I feel so much safer now that you anti war pussies are running everything!
you on the left are so superior to the rest of us no-nothings
Just sit and drink it in….
How about pwned, Silence of the Awkward?
That is so 1997.
Both political parties brought this upon us…
” the entire world is insolvent, although some are more insolvent than others. Greek total net liabilities (on and off balance sheet) to GDP are 800%! EU: at 470%, the US, at over 500%. There is no way out but default.”
http://www.zerohedge.com/article/albert-edwards-500-net-liabilities-gdp-it-too-late-prevent-collapse-g-7-greece-irrelevant-we
I certainly don’t advocate its usage, but by nature of the L33T spelling it’s a bit more easy to wield in a tongue-in-cheek fashion (as it usually is on this site).
But if you don’t have braces and a diary, you should pretty much retire ‘LOL’.
I think this is an entirely reasonable position.
I love comming on here [Sic, really sic]
I could have lived happily for a long time without knowing how much this place excited you.
Do you smoke a cigarette after you post here?
This is right-wing tactic #4. Claim something was not what it was, that that everyone believed in something that they didn’t in fact believe, and them criticize them for that which they didn’t do.
Most clearly demonstrated with the “Everyone who voted for Obama worshiped him as the Messiah. Aren’t they crazy!” nonsense.
Ridiculing forks as merely “all for hopey-changey” while ignoring the many reasons folks prefer Obama over McCain/Bush and the cautions optimism they’ve often expressed just shows the wingnut right’s intellectual limitations.
I think that’s quite a bit more prevalent coming from you guys with the birther-racist-history rewrite-domestic terrorist-teabagger obsessive compulsive desire to paint all conservatives exhibiting either one of those or various combinations, Sean. You’re not being honest or objective when you make that charge. In fact, Oliver and fafaroo would call that a lie of omission and you by definition you a liar and that this is what you and they do.
I think that’s quite a bit more prevalent coming from you guys with the birther-racist-history rewrite-domestic terrorist-teabagger obsessive compulsive desire to paint all conservatives exhibiting either one of those or various combinations, Sean. You’re not being honest or objective when you make that charge. In fact, Oliver and fafaroo would call that a lie of omission and you by definition you a liar and that this is what you and they do.
You’d do a lot to help support your case if you weren’t on here all the time defending scum like Palin and Limbaugh, and excusing them and other conservatives for saying things that are just not fucking true and/or completely retarded.*
*Satire.
There are a lot of really stupid people out there. You’re a fine example.
Well, Repak, what can I say? I can’t help it. I’m in awe of all of you towering intellectuals on here who continually denounce anyone who dares to question your wisdom,or your superior intellect. I find it fascinating that you actually believe yourselves that you are superior to those who’s views are oppsoed to your own. I also find it simply fascinating the all of you are deluding yourselves that your point of view is shared by the majorty of America. Either you are extremely naive, or you are total assholes. I vote for the latter. Keep dreaming, guys, while the real Americans take our country back from your Great Leader and the rest of his Chicago henchmen.
Dear paperweight
No candy for you this Valentine’s Day
Love,
teh towering intellectuals of vastly superior knowledge
I’m in awe of all of you towering intellectuals on here who continually denounce anyone who dares to question your wisdom,or your superior intellect.
Your observance of us on this site should probably be akin to how the Native Americans viewed Europeans on horseback a few hundred years ago.
And for the record, I don’t denounce anyone who questions my wisdom per se, it’s only when they are saying things that are demonstrably stupid and/or unsupported that I get to denouncin’.
I find it fascinating that you actually believe yourselves that you are superior to those who’s views are oppsoed to your own.
And what about you then, John? Do you think that your views are better than mine? YOU ASSHOLE! How dare you?
The difference is that my views tend to be supported with evidence, factual, and logical. While you’re just a simple-minded emotional dumbfuck.
I also find it simply fascinating the all of you are deluding yourselves that your point of view is shared by the majorty of America.
You’re right, the elections in 2008 were actually won by the Republicans.
And in my opinion, if the debate was honest and not filled with misinformation and mind-boggling stupidity, far more people would support a progressive agenda in this country.
Keep dreaming, guys, while the real Americans take our country back from your Great Leader and the rest of his Chicago henchmen.
Real Americans. You are the biggest fucking retard I have ever encountered.
*Satire, so it’s okay.
Hey, Mambo, you still sponging off Mom & Dad? How’s that basement apartment they set up for you going? Come on, tell all of us your ETA into the real world. Or do you still plan on being a professional student through all of Dear Leaders one term?
Not that it matters, and not that its any of your business, and not that it has any bearing on the important points of this conversation in the slightest, but…
1) I got my Ph.D. last fall.
2) I am currently employed as an assistant professor.
3) I haven’t “sponged” off my parents since I became a grad student in 2004.
4) I rent a house with other people who would think you’re a fucking moron.
5) I will never stop being a “student.”
Number 5 is a critical thing to note, John my boy. I will continue to learn things and expand my knowledge of the world, both in politics and science. You, on the other hand, are stagnant – you’re likely no more intelligent now than you were years ago. Your anti-intellectualism is evidence for that.
And that’s sad and pathetic.
Well I could have told you your reason 5 was most critical, mambo. “I’ll never stop being a student” I’ll bet your parents must love hearing that every month as they write another check paying off your student loans. So, you’re an “assistant” professor. How rewarding. It looks like you’re gonna be wrapped behind those Ivy walls for your whole life there, son. How comforting. Now you never have to go out into the real world and deal with real issues. and let me guess, your “roomates’ are also “assistant” professors, aka “student teachers.” Let me guess what you father has thought to himself on more than one occasion… When are you going to grow up kid, and get a real job? Probably never???
oh, and do you believe the old adage….”Those who can, do…those that can’t…teach”
See, John, part of the problem is that you can’t read English. Let’s give it another shot.
You: I’ll bet your parents must love hearing that every month as they write another check paying off your student loans.
Me: 3) I haven’t “sponged” off my parents since I became a grad student in 2004.
Understand?
So, you’re an “assistant” professor.
Yes. That’s the first step. After you get tenure, you’re an associate professor, and after that, a full professor. With corresponding increases in pay. Why the “assistant” in quotes, anyway?
How rewarding.
Yes, it is.
It looks like you’re gonna be wrapped behind those Ivy walls for your whole life there, son.
Have you ever heard of the Enlightenment? Do you know what it was?
Now you never have to go out into the real world and deal with real issues.
You’re right. I don’t have to pay taxes, or pay bills, or support a family, or maintain my car, or pay off loans, or anything like that. Similarly, I don’t have any motivation or requirement to be good at my job… it’s not as though getting tenure requires me to be productive, or whether my salary is dependent on the teaching, research, and committee work I do, or whether I actually get judged on the quality of my instruction, or anything like that, right?
So comforting, not being in the real world. Oh… wait…
Now you never have to go out into the real world and deal with real issues. and let me guess, your “roomates’ are also “assistant” professors, aka “student teachers.”
What’s your point?
Let me guess what you father has thought to himself on more than one occasion… When are you going to grow up kid, and get a real job? Probably never???
Actually, he encouraged me from elementary school onwards to go to college, and to go beyond college for a graduate degree. He’s very proud of me right now. And just so you know, my father is a conservative Republican who voted for Bush in 2000 and 2004 and works in human resources for a major corporation. He also got an advanced degree, and understands the value in education.
So, you got anything else for me, John? Or are you going to give up and admit that you’re a wrong-headed idiot?
Well, being that I am employed as both a researcher and instructor, I would say that the old adage you introduce sets up a false choice.
They aren’t mutually exclusive, dummy.
And also, I would point out that teaching is a very noble and important job in and of itself.
So just give up. You’re an idiot and cannot compete. Just stop.
Keep dreaming, guys, while the real Americans take our country back
Hey asshole, I’m an Army vet and a small business owner, still married to my first wife and putting an honor student through college. Why don’t you tell me why I’m not a “real” American compared to you?
I think he vanished. Smartest thing he’s done today.
Oh god, I can’t wait to hear his response (cause damn, like you, after a few decades of military service, raising family, working, paying taxes, etc., I thought I was a real American..WTFO!?!?!)
PS, who else around here uses ‘LOL’ besides giddy teenage girls on the Twilight forums…I cannot possibly imagine…
Amused Observer.
You guys are an endless source of material. It never gets old busting your balls
Which would explain why you run with your tail between your legs whenever I make a post commenting on you. Wait…
“Let me guess what you father has thought to himself on more than one occasion… When are you going to grow up kid, and get a real job? Probably never???”
Whereas you father probably think to self, “special ed programs not help son out so good with thing like spell and punctuate.”
…Meaning you’re a retard.*
*I hate to beat a dead horse, but: Satire!
Comrades.. Bolsheviks.. socialists.. its snowing again..
A troll of the Coulter variety. No mention of the post topic. Disrupt and annoy only. Lives above Aunt Jane’s garage. Blames his chronic unemployment on Obama, Carter and Ted Kennedy’s Chappaquiddick issue. Struggles with meth and stolen prescription drugs grubbed from neighborhood garbage cans. Occasional glue and gasoline sniffing. Why do you guys let him camp out here?
Anyways, I don’t believe Bush can be blamed for everything. But I’d say those percentage numbers seem reasonable. Obama could have added more stimulus, or gone more Reagan with heavy space and defense spending (or other multiplier effect), but of course that all would have been financed. Sucks when most people become used to using home equity as a bank in bubble economies…
Isn’t it awesome how these dumb-as-dirt-shit-for-brains Republicans are so proud to be stupid? A college education? Ph.D.? Imparting knowledge to young people? That’s for neeeeeeerds!!!!! Fucking dolts.
I still think an argument can be made for Hoover being our worst president ever. But Bush II has a lock on second worst.
Looks like John has run off again.
You know what they say, “The weakest dog barks the loudest”.
People, don’t sweat it, Kid Zero has the answer to all of America’s problems:
http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/19997
Debts are tough, living Hooverville/Somalia tougher. If Keynes was so wrong why did Reagan do it? I think most people here know the difference between Communism and a Keynesian stimulus. But conspiracy theorists wouldn’t know the difference between the stars in the sky and kernals of corn up their ass.
And didn’t Bush do a tax cut stimulus the year before Obama? What ever came of that?
Here a video of what “our” next generation really thinks of the present administrations budget and deficits.
http://www.youtube.com/user/Optoons#p/u/4/Jf4QRs5THA4
Tater, your guys got us into this mess, why should we expect you to get us out?
‘Keep dreaming, guys, while the real Americans take our country back from your Great Leader and the rest of his Chicago henchmen.’
And give our best to Elvis when you see him.