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Clinton had a way of signing bad bills, like NAFTA and Gramm-Leach-Bliley. These were both plans that had Republican roots (the groundwork for NAFTA was laid out in Reagan's second term and continued in the G.H.W. Bush administration) and we all know who Phil Gramm is. Bubba's got no small hand in this, that's for sure. I'm not sure what all this has to do with Obama necessarily.
G.W. Bush tried to reform Freddie/Fannie but at the risk of undermining his quixotic "everyone can and should be a homeowner" initiative based on the same thinking that created the Freddie/Fannie mess to start with.
Don't get me wrong, this is a giant bipartisan failure, and if both parties ceased to exist tomorrow it'd be the best day in American history.
Eight years of George W. Bush was an absolute embarrassment. Beside the fact that he ruined the economy, completely dropped the ball after 9/11 by ignoring the real culprits and focused on Iraq, was paid to fly Bin Laden's family out of the country after 9/11, authorized the torture of foreign detainees, tried to change the US constitution to deny homosexuals civil-rights, ignored the residents of New Orleans for days after Katrina as they lay suffering, tried to appoint someone to the US Supreme Court who was never even a judge, etc.; he was just not presidential material. Everytime he got in front of a microphone I winced in pain while listening to him botch the English language. I feel so much more comfortable knowing that there is an intelligent, clear-thinking individual in the white house who achieved what he has through hard work and dedication; not through privilege and nepotism like George.
I agree wholeheartedly. I won't even watch the utube video of Bush because I would cringe with embarrassment and to think he is no longer in office. No wonder other countries think that we are idiots if that is the kind of representation that was put forth.
Keep up the good work Mr. President - we know it will take time but we believe that the USA will once again stand on its feet.
stop living in the past. an A for effort and a Trophy is due here and nothing less. Havent you heard of PC. you just offended half of our population
I guess I don't understand what you mean about 'living in the past'? Is proper grammar somehow passe' now? If you were referring to my response to the person who asked the original question regarding hope and change, it was my opinion, period. I am allowed to have one of those, even if it disagrees with your opinion. I don't understand why you appear threatened by that. As far as your writing skills, the above post was better, but still needs work. Try some capital letters, possibly a complete sentence, and maybe even a question mark.
Lets see Osama declared war on us,attacks us many times under Clinton and you still blame Bush?Billy had several chances to kill or capture this clown maybe you need to layoff the kool aid?
Yes you are right about the origin of the bill,but BILLY wouldn't sign it unless there was the provision of low to moderate housing in it.This caused some banks to assume these high risk loans,part of Billys smoke and mirrors economy.Congress has much to do about our current mess by getting us into these very bad trade deals.
Agreed. Economist are now estimating that we will be out of the recession by the end of this quarter versus the early estimates of 2-3 years.
I have also seen many unemployed people I know get jobs in the last few weeks from the stimulus and more hopefull that they will be returning to work soon due to more stimulus money on the way.
According to Recovery.gov 640,329 jobs have been saved or created. That works out to be 1 in every 468 Americans and you just happen to know "many" of these people. Unless you work at an unemployment office, I highly doubt your claim is true.
Very well, thanks. President Obama's doing a fantastic job, and our country is slowly but surely recovering from the absolute mess that the Bush administration and the Republicans left.
Bush?
"Repeals the restrictions on banks affiliating with securities firms contained in sections 20 and 32 of the Glass-Steagall Act."
99.9% certainty Obama is going to be a 1-term president because "it's not enough change".
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