Americans Blame Bush, Not Obama, for Deficit, Jobs, Afghan War

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Americans Blame Bush, Not Obama, for Deficit, Jobs, Afghan War
By John McCormick and Catherine Dodge


July 16 (Bloomberg) -- Democrats, facing a U.S. electorate angry about the economy and other issues, still have one political asset: George W. Bush.

The former Republican president is blamed more than President Barack Obama for the budget deficit, unemployment and illegal immigration, according to a Bloomberg National Poll conducted July 9-12.

Most surprising is that 60 percent say Bush is primarily responsible for the current situation in Afghanistan. Just 10 percent point to Obama, who has ordered 51,000 additional troops to that country since taking office, doubling the number deployed by Bush.

When Obama entered office in January 2009, there had been 568 U.S. casualties associated with the Afghanistan conflict, a number that has grown to 1,086, as of yesterday, according to the Defense Department. The president has vowed to start withdrawing forces in July 2011, with the pacing determined by conditions on the ground.

“The public remembers the Bush years as a tumultuous time of costly wars, and the years when a budget surplus became a deficit,” said J. Ann Selzer, president of Selzer & Co., a Des Moines, Iowa-based firm that conducted the survey. .........(more)

The complete piece is at: http://noir.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=a_9nTgFReJXY&pos=9

[spanone]

1. you'd never know the way the media reports.....

we certainly get a skewed view from our news outlets

[gratuitous]

2. They will work harder

Chaos must reign if the Treasury is to continue to be looted!

[Blue Owl]

3. Suck it, Turdblossom

I said SUCK IT you fucking POS.

[Patchuli]

4. Quit unrec'ing the truth, ya dumb

rethug lurker.

People may be stupid with their reality shows and celebrities, but the horrid memory of George W. Bush is a pretty recent one. Things fell apart while he was in office, not later. It does not take a degree to figure out who f'ed up.

[Control-Z]

5. I just added a rec.

I don't normally do a lot of rec'ing (because I usually just forget). Thanks for pointing out the need to counter these dumb rethug lurkers.

[HughBeaumont]

8. OFFSET!

Knuckledraggers can toss off. Nearly everything about America's economic morass can be traced back to 30 years of Reaganomic Black Magic, exacerbated 100-fold by The Failure Fuhrer Dumbya.

[Ishoutandscream2]

10. Preach it!! nt

[Chulanowa]

6. So I guess DU'ers really are out of touch with America?

Because it's like nobody here even remembers who Bush was.

[ThoughtCriminal]

7. The GOP still wants to run against Jimmy Carter

Worked for a long time.

[SidDithers]

9. Well, most Americans...K&R...nt

Sid

[SpiralHawk]

11. "Smirk." - xCommander AWOL (R)

[annabanana]

12. "Most surprising is that 60 percent say Bush is primarily responsible for the current situation in

Afghanistan"

Most surprising if you rely entirely on CorpoMedia® for your information.. .

[Patchuli]

14. While I don't agree with Obama on Afghanistan

personally, Bush IS responsible for the morass of mess in Afghanistan after making us divert to Iraq!

[gulliver]

13. Bush and "his" GOP are to blame. Why don't we run against...

...Bush again? As I've said, there's still a lot of meat on those bones. Many of the Republicans who rubber-stamped Bush are still in Congress. Many Republicans who supported Bush want to get in Congress in November. We need to out them all and rub their noses in their culpability for the crisis America is in.

The GOP are the creators of our catastrophe. They need to put on their dunce caps, stick their thumbs in their mouths, and go pout in the corner. No American enemy or adversary has hurt America the way the GOP have. Our soldiers lives wasted through GOP national security incompetence in Iraq and Afghanistan, our money wasted, our jobs sold out, our image stained...

Dems should have one message for the Bush Republicans. Shut up and go home. You've done enough.

[Patchuli]

15. I think the traitors should leave

but who in the world would want them?????!!

[AnArmyVeteran]

17. Somalia! A libertarian paradise! No government and Piracy is 90% of the GNP.

Oh yeah, and everyone armed with automatic weapons. The republican trifecta: No government, Corrupt business, Automatic weapons. Not to mention their fake belief in God and their assaults on family values.

A republican wet dream...

[AnArmyVeteran]

16. That's the best slogan I've heard!

"Shut up and go home, You've done enough (damage)". Videos footage of all the chaos conservatives caused mixed with this slogan over and over again. And then show footage of how conservatives have been trying to stop the President and the democratic congress repair all of that damage. Conservatives hurt us then and they're trying to hurt us now. Stop the madness, stop the hate, stop the conservatives. I'm going to produce a video and post it everywhere.

[Patchuli]

18. Please do!

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