Poll, MSNBC respond to Bush ‘Miss Me Yet?’ rhetoric

The people in Ohio miss Bush apparently.

Who would you rather have as President:
George W. Bush or Barack Obama?

George W. Bush …………………………….. 50%
Barack Obama……………………………….. 42%
Not sure …………………………………… 7%

http://tinyurl.com/35qy6tg

I think the reason the question is even asked is because the average unemployment rate during the eight years of the Bush presidency was 5.3%.

But rather than ask a question about who is to blame for the current economy, the pollsters should be asking the question “Has Obama delivered on his promise to fix the economy?” But I guess that poll will be in November.

I expressed how I feel; “Lord no. Hell no”.

In the poll Dennis cited above take a look at the crosstabs:
48% of people who answered the question voted for McCain, 45% for Obama
7% don’t know or remember.

Breaking those numbers down:
90% of McCain voters picked George Bush
85% of Obama voters picked Obama

93% were Republican, 84% Democrats

It’s quite intersesting.

Instead of talking about the “average” unemployment rate under Bush, compare the rates of his first year to his last. Pretty big difference. Of course, his first year he inherited a strong economy from Clinton, whereas his last year was the result of him trashing the economy.

///I think the reason the question is even asked is because the average unemployment rate during the eight years of the Bush presidency was 5.3%.///

How is that stat even relevant? That was while the bubble was growing, it means nothing. Wiley B Coyote was running out into thin air and doing fine, until he had his “uh oh” moment and plummeted to the bottom of the ravine. Thank God the bubble burst and the bottom fell out before the election and not after.

What we should all be asking is why Glass Segall hasn’t been reinstated.

So classic! Criminal destruction of personal property by a leftist. Exactly what you’d expect from the quintessential Obama supporter.

Chayanov, actually Bush inherited a recession from Bill Clinton that had started in the 3rd quarter of 2000.

Capital-goods investment (equipment and software) fell in eight of ten quarters between mid-2000 and the end of 2002, with six of those declines coming consecutively as businesses had all the new digital equipment they would need after their spending spree in preparation for Y2K. Industrial production had declined for six straight quarters.

We were just coming out of that recession when the terrorist attack on September 11th 2001 sent the economy plunging again, this time affecting consumer spending as the travel and entertainment industries took a massive hit.

And through it all, the unemployment rate remained relatively stable as Bush convinced people to “keep shopping” and to roll with the punches. Democrats ridiculed his cheerleading but it kept the people in a positive frame of mind and consumer confidence never got really bad. That’s what presidents are supposed to do in bad times. Be the national cheerleader. Obama flunked cheerleading.

Dennis, you have no idea what you are talking about, Explain how we went from the biggest lender of money to the biggest borrower in the world in the 8 years George W Bush was in office? This is a common fact so for you to say that George W Bush did anything good for this country while he was in office is Absurd. Check your facts and Fox News is not a credible source for anything but right winged rhetoric and distortions of the truth.

I call “Lying Sack Of Poo” :
“The National Bureau of Economic Research, a non-partisan group of mostly academic economists, set the start date of the recession as March 2001, weeks after Bush took office on Jan 20. The NBER defines a recession as “a significant decline in economic activity spread across the economy, lasting more than a few months, normally visible in real GDP, real income, employment, industrial production, and wholesale-retail sales.”

To be sure, the rate of economic growth had slowed significantly at the time Bush took office, as the longest boom in US history drew to a close. Real Gross Domestic Product, a general indicator of economic performance, grew an an unimpressive annual rate of 2.1 percent in the final quarter of 2000, after actually contracting by half a percentage point in the previous quarter. But employment was still growing when Bush was sworn in, and the economy actually added 113,000 payroll jobs between January and March 2001, before starting to decline in April.

In fact, the NBER did not even make a determination that a recession had begun until 10 months after Bush was sworn in, and said that the downturn might not even have qualified as a recession until the attacks of September 11, 2001 exacerbated the nation’s economic troubles. The NBER’s Business Cycle Dating Committee said, “Before the attacks, it is possible that the decline in the economy would have been too mild to qualify as a recession. The attacks clearly deepened the contraction and may have been an important factor in turning the episode into a recession.”

The maiden voyage of the Titanic was pleasant for the first four days. The last four hours were a bit disappointing, though.

Bush43 abandoned anti-trust law, environmental law, and any pretense of regulatory oversight. He took a risky experimental housing program and scaled it up to disastrous proportions. He did everything he could to promote business, and look at the results:

Eight years of the worst private sector job growth on record.
http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2009/01/09/bush-on-jobs-the-worst-track-record-on-record/
Stagnant or deflationary wages.
An upward redistribution of wealth unmatched since the buildup to the Great Depression.
http://www.businessinsider.com/us-wealth-inequality-2010-7/the-gap-between-the-top-001-and-everyone-else-hasnt-been-this-bad-since-the-roaring-twenties-1
A doubling of the national debt.
A deep recession that only massive federal spending kept from becoming a depression.
He ignored warnings of terrorist activity from the Clinton administration as “not actionable” until it started raining planes – then he simply froze until the attack was over.

The only problems he faced were the ones he created or exacerbated.

I only miss him in that I cannot throw rotten vegetables that far.

I think that it’s unfortunate that no one is really addressing the real issues. Let’s stop pointing the fingers across the isle and deal with reality of it all.If we, “this country” ever intend to get back on track we must return to being a great producer of goods that all the worlds economy wants to buy. We must not allow ourselves to continually fall further & further behind in education,technology & manufacturing sectors. Steady economic growth requires real solutions coupled with reinvestment not cutting spending in education,not corporate downsizing increase profits,we need capable home grown people that will bring the real solutions

We got out of the frying pan and into the fire. For sure