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No, he is not a scapegoat, what he is is a free man. Free to move around Crawford and Dallas and the rest of secession minded Texas like the criminal that he is. I bet he is not welcome in Europe or other countries that still are respected for their adherence to the rule of law
Congress is bascailly responsible for the programs that encouraged the crisis and they have the oversite on the agenies that din't do their job.
Once again, no one was forced to make stuipd loans, it is those that gave them and of-corse those that got them that are to blame for their own actions. Blaming the government for businesses making dumb choices is rediculous. Oh, please don't reply that lenders were forced to give loans to unqualified borrowers, that is pure hogwash, many leanders did not do the same and are not in the same mess, end of arguement.
Casper
No, he is not a scapegoat, what he is is a free man. Free to move around Crawford and Dallas and the rest of secession minded Texas like the criminal that he is. I bet he is not welcome in Europe or other countries that still are respected for their adherence to the rule of law
He has been to other countries since leaving office
Once again, no one was forced to make stuipd loans, it is those that gave them and of-corse those that got them that are to blame for their own actions. Blaming the government for businesses making dumb choices is rediculous. Oh, please don't reply that lenders were forced to give loans to unqualified borrowers, that is pure hogwash, many leanders did not do the same and are not in the same mess, end of arguement.
Casper
Clinton administration's "BANK AFFIRMATIVE ACTION" They forced banks to make BAD LOANS and ACORN and Obama's tie to all of it!!!..
Of course he is. Obama has been using him as a scapegoat all year. It will wear thin in 2010 and Obama will actually have to take repsonsibility for something at that time. Perhaps he will just blame Thomas Jefferson next year.
If we go with the definition that a scapegoat is one who bears the blame for others, no, on balance, Bush isn't a scapegoat. As a public figure (holding arguably the most public position in the world), Bush was unfairly blamed for some things - all Presidents are.
But on some of the major problems facing us today (the war of choice in Iraq and the slowly recovering economy), Bush bears the blame for himself and not others.
Thats the thing, i feel some people are accountable for the mess in the US. I feel like the govenment and politicians use him whenever they can to explain the US problems. But the fact is, he really was responsible for the mess. Regardless of the spineless ways of the govt, Bush was a large portion of the problem.
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