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Remo - 3/6/2009 9:30 AM You're absolutely right. Lets be fair. Neither Obama nor Bush is responsible. The fault is with the Democrats/Liberals that largely controlled Congress over the past 40-50 years and have created an entitlement society ( see Lyndon Johnson's Great Society) that has failed to raise the poor by soaking those who take personal responsibility for success. And even though the Welfare State has not been improved, their addiction to entitlement requires that they continue to support the Democrats/Liberals in order to keep the checks coming. Obama's current failing is not that he caused the economic downturn. His inability to focus on the fact that the financial market crisis is killing ALL of America (including Main St., not just Wall St.) and his continued negative oratory has accelerated the downward spiral. Couple that with his misguided focus at the current time on all of the typical Democratic/Liberal entitlement program poster children like health care and education, and you have a President that just "doesn't get it"...it's the economy, stupid!!! Obama's attempts to redirect America's attention by floating the usual left wing red herrings has crushed the people's confidence that he has the slightest clue that Americans are hurting NOW!!! 90 year old men have had to go back to work flipping burgers because 401K's have been wiped out. Just my 2 cents. Eric