Please view my diary Breaking: Times of '09 are here!
Down or way down! There are 39 more days (936 hours) until future President Obama's inauguration. The state of the union is....fugly at best. In our rush to be done with the George W. Bush administration in all its calamities, failures, corrupt policies and practices I think America realizes the state of our economy is his painful lasting legacy. While the republican spokesmen Hannity and Limbaugh are crafting to call this the Obama recessionI am not swallowing that crap! It is now documented that this is the Bucession. Until January 20, 2009 there can not be anything that affects America or the world that can be attributed to the Obama/Biden Administration. The republicans blame PE Obama for everything from the high price of gas to global warming. The Bush administration has been disaster personified x1000. This meltdown was forecast 4 years ago. Will the Bucession turn into the Bupression?
Let's pin the tail on the donkey, I mean the elephant. In addition to giving the world financial gonnorhea, the are probably at least a hundred scandals or debacles this administration has caused or created. It is conceivable that the following missteps, along with the housing and Wall St. crisis, combined to create an America that is subprime to the America circa 2000. The following are the most newsworthy:
Since January 20, 2001 America has been through:
Mangling of the English language by the President
Fishing boat fatalityinvolving the collision of a submarine and a Japanese fishing boat
To be honest here the day I heard the news about this accident, I told my brother I was worried about our military because they seemed a little clumsy, Bush's new naval personnel running the ship. I said at the time this is not a good omen.
Loss of a spy planein China
Incompetence at cabinet level selection based on cronyism (you've done a heckuva job Brownie)
Recession part 1
Terrorist attacks 911
almost 3,000 dead
Slow Presidential reaction time to crisis (from 911 to Katrina to now economic collapse)
Intense racial profiling and xenophobia
Keeping Osama Bin Lidenalive
Loss of constitutional civil liberties via the Patriot Act
Domestic surveillance of Americans
Military use in the US (reversing the posse comitatus act)
The squandering of a budget surplus in 1 year $236 billion
The Bush Budget Deficit Death Spiral
Highest number of executive signing statements in the history of the presidency
Terror warning scale that is stuck on yellow (yea but we safe right)
Terrornoia
Embarrasing torture tactics and pictures
Gitmo
Abu Gharib
Political chicanery around elections
US attorney scandal
Costly Iraq war at the wrong place and wrong time
Unfinished war in Afghanistan.
Thousands of fallen soldiers
Allowed the Taliban to regroup
More companies purged from Fortune 500 than at anytime in history (yes even the depression).
Complete denial of global warming,censoring of scientist and policies that support it
The Vice President shooting, details still shrouded in secrecy
Lack of natural disaster preparation by FEMA
A whole city destroyed by nature, three years later still in tatters
Debris and oil still remain in the gulf coast from Hurricane Ike
Countless examples of corporate corruption
Culture of corruption in congress and senate
Loss of pensions for millions of Americans
City,county, state, and federal revenue shortages
Loss of medical care for millions of children
Worst Wall St crash since the depression
Loss of 500,000 jobs in 1 month, 1.2 million jobs in 3 months
Only 3.5 million jobs created in 8 years compared to Pres. Clinton who created 23 million jobs
(Oh WOW does that mean we lost 19.5 million jobs in 8 years?)
Recession part 2 the long disco version..so far almost 2 million unemployed in 2008
Countless more that is yet to be revealed
........Eight long years of hell
My point - until January 20, 2009, they will try but in their hearts and minds the naysayers, the republicans, and the MSM all know they can't "preblame" Pres. Obama for any of the Bush administration's calamities and debacles.
Pres. Obama embodies history. He inherits one of the worst challenges ever from a preceding president. On top of this he will have to endure constant attacks, smears, and sabotage from his critics and detractors. Every word, gesture, and action heck even silence or nonaction, will be scrunitized and analyzed. America before you begin to judge President Obama, your first black president, remember the saying "your only as good as your competition" look back up ↑ at the list sigh... and shut the Hell up!
P.S. We were warned to stay out the Bushes!