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Let's be real about this, no Obama did not kill Osama Bin Laden but he was Commander in Chief and he was in the situation room when the whole mission went down. He could have called the whole thing off if he decided to and if for some reason the mission went wrong guess who would have been getting all the blame. (Just ask Jimmy Carter about that one when he tried to send helicopters into Iran to rescue the hostages)
But look at what is happening, in years past the Republicans would always knock the Democrats for being soft on defense. Listen to
all the supposed candidates right now, not a word about defense they know they can't attack Obama on this and are leaving this alone. The raid on Obama will shut everyone up for this whole election cycle unless there is some big incident in the middle east or some terrorist attack.
As for the economy yes the US is one of the world's biggest economies, but if you missed it there was a world economic recession. The economies of Greece and Italy are in shambles.
The bailouts that were started in 2008 would have happened even if a Republican had gotten into office, Bush's Treasury Secretary was trying to push them through in the last days of the Bush administration. So its easy to put all the blame on Obama as bailouts being ineffectual, but the reality is they might have staved off the country from going into a deeper economic crises or even depression.
So JanetGrisselle you lost me. What exactly did Bill Clinton do to ruin the economy so that when George Bush got in he would have gotten blamed?
I kind of think, at least in the US there were two major factors that contributed to our downturn.
- The real estate crises with all the foreclosures and resulting bank failures. Money was too easy to borrow and there was no responsibility to be shared by anyone.
- The US has been fighting two really expensive wars, with a spend whatever it takes mentality. What a waste!
Now that's my problem with the Tea Party. First of all none of them are really in office in a situation where they can control anything and there message is not new. The mantra seems to be "Don't tax me and I will spend money and it will build the economy." This was the premise behind the original Bush tax cuts so you can tell me if that approach really works.