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[JohnnyD]

Originally Posted by spence

Bush hasn't been POTUS for over a year now, these are Obama's orders and he hold the accountability for success or failure.

-spence

You didn't get the memo?

Obama is the end all, be all - responsible for everything that is going on in the country - but only when that everything is dire and furthers the Conservative agenda. If something good follows through, well "Bush set the wheels in motion for that." They forget that 'Bush set the wheels in motion for the economy - right off a cliff' or that he 'set the wheels in motion to be in Iraq under false pretense for 7 years.'

[detbuch]

Originally Posted by JohnnyD

You didn't get the memo?

Obama is the end all, be all - responsible for everything that is going on in the country - but only when that everything is dire and furthers the Conservative agenda. If something good follows through, well "Bush set the wheels in motion for that." They forget that 'Bush set the wheels in motion for the economy - right off a cliff' or that he 'set the wheels in motion to be in Iraq under false pretense for 7 years.'

Perhaps you didn't get the memo circulating for the past eight years that Bush is the end all, be all of everything bad . . . oh . . . wait . . .you must have gotten the memo, or part of it--"the economy-right off a cliff" . . ."in Iraq under false pretense".

Actually, the economy was beginning its fall during the last year of Clinton's administration (the bursting of the dot.com bubble) and continued through the first year of Bush (of which Bush only served 7 or eight months--remember the delay due to Gore's challenge). Then Bush corrected the fall with tax cuts, etc., and the economy boomed again untill the banking failure that was inspired by, supposedly, a cluster of things that were initiated before Bush, and Bush again, initiated the corrective, the bank bailouts, taking the PR hit for doing so, and handed over (for Obama to inherit), an Iraq on its way to Biden's glowing appraisal, and the bank correction that "saved" the economy from depression, and Obama quickly acted by piling on to the correction an unnecessarily massive "Stimulus" and abandoned fixing the Social Security crisis by trying to add on to it a massively expensive public health care plan. And there's your economy being dragged toward the cliff again, and probably prolonged in the dumps longer than it normally would be.

Again, we get off topic.

And what is the opposite of a false pretense? A true pretense? Was Bush's pretense false because he knew WMDs didn't exist when he went searching for them. Or was his pretense a true pretense because he believed that there were weapons.