I'm Glad Obama is using the word "inherited"

[samplegirl]

Bush had no reason to use those words.

[bdamomma]

1. oh me too. that is not the first time he has said that.

damn straight, we inherited bush's mess.

[nc4bo]

2. Me too and he should at every opportunity he gets. nt

[bdamomma]

10. VP Biden is saying it too "inherited".

[Veritas_et_Aequitas]

3. Well, Bush did "inherit" a recession - the dot-com burst.

Of course by the time he took over, it was well on the mend and pretty much over.

Maybe he means the recession after 9/11. In that case, no, that was on your watch George.

[Warpy]

6. Uh, that was a pimple

and would have been minor had economic policy remained sane.

Unfortunately, Stupid was cheated into office and immediately began to bankrupt the government through ruinous tax cuts. His policies starved working people who support 2/3 of the economy via the consumer sector while encouraging the type of greed at the top that led to bubble market after bubble market.

Face it, gin blossom boy's economic policies were disastrous and have brought us to where we are now. No Democrat would have been guilty of the same idiocy, of resurrecting Reaganism and continuing to pursue it for an additional six years after it failed yet again.

[Veritas_et_Aequitas]

9. No argument here.

He was the one of the worst things since Hoover to hit our economy.

[Igel]

7. Not quite right.

The indicators were looking bad--but the recession was declared to have initially started in 3/2001--when Bush was in office.

He was promptly blamed for it by dems, but wasn't responsible for it. Clinton had the opposite problem--the recession he "inherited" was over but since unemployment lags most indicators he got credit for the recovery.

[Veritas_et_Aequitas]

8. That works for me.

[samplegirl]

4. Don't you just love hearing the words roll

like.........excutive order...inherted. Music to my ears!!!

[ThomWV]

5. The Bush recession didn't begin until 2002, a year+ after he took office, and it hasn't ended yet.

The Bush Recession - which last 6 of his 8 years in office - did not begin until he had been President for over a year. However to hear Republicans tell the story of our economy you'd think differently. According to Republicans Obama inhereted the Clinton Recession that Bush did all he could to bring to an end.