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Originally Posted by dippin
How much of all of this was Bush's "fault?" Hard to quantify, and honestly I think of economics as being more than the morality play of the mainstream media where any problems can only come about from the moral shortcoming of a particular person, and not the sort of systemic hiccups that any economic system goes through from time to time.
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I am the first to admit that President's generally get too much blame or too much credit for the economy under normal circumstances. however, these are not normal circumstances. I believe our current crisis, is one of confidence more than anything else. I think the level of confidence is very closely related to leadership. There is no Republican leadership and Democrats as Emanuel says is taking advantage of a "crisis" manufactured or real I suppose.
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Originally Posted by shakran
He's taking responsibility. Just because he can't fix the mess overnight doesn't mean he's sloughing off responsibility, or that he wasn't ready to go. What you seem to have trouble wrapping your mind around is that real life is not a TV drama where everything is solved in one hour-minus-commercial-breaks. Yes, he did inherit a major problem. A problem three decades in the making. Surely you are not suggesting that he take the blame for what was started in the 1980's? This mess is going to take years to solve. Years. He's the president, not a wizard. He can't just wave his wand and make everything lovely. I know that's going to be a hard adjustment because magic and (in their own words) voodoo economics seem to be the republican solution for anything involving money, but unlike Reagan and the Bushes (and Clinton) we live in the real world and can't just cast a spell to fix things.
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I played football when I was in school. There was one game when my team was down in the fourth quarter and our QB got hurt and the backup was put in. In the huddle the first thing he says was, it is not my fault we are loosing...I slapped him across the helmet and told him to call the f-ing play. In the heat of the game, leaders don't pass blame. Leaders, lead.