Only One of Three Americans Know that Bush, Not Obama, Signed Bank Bailout

Monday, July 19, 2010

America’s short-term memory troubles have been both a blessing and a curse for President Barack Obama. On the downside is the fact that only 34% of Americans seem to know that the government’s bailout of banks in 2008 was enacted under the Bush administration, according to a survey by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press, leaving many to assume it was Obama’s decision.

 
But Obama can be thankful to know that 60% of respondents to a Bloomberg poll blame the current state of the Afghanistan war on Bush—even though it was Obama who ordered 51,000 additional troops to the country. During Obama’s less than two years in office, U.S. war fatalities have leaped from 568 in January 2009 to 1,086, as of this week.
 
Bush is also more likely than Obama to be blamed for high unemployment and the budget deficit.
-Noel Brinkerhoff
 
Well Known: Twitter; Little Known: John Roberts (Pew Research Center for the People & the Press)
Americans Blame Bush, Not Obama, for Deficit, Jobs, Afghan War (by John McCormick and Catherine Dodge, Bloomberg)

Comments

Craig Hemphill 14 years ago
What difference does it make who first made a mistake? Dwelling on finger pointing is useless. The problem is not solved by identifying the first person to make -- or permit -- a mistake to be made. Bailouts are not the answer. Stimulous packages are not the answer. Adding to trillions of dollars in debt is not the answer. Undistorted history shows that lessening taxes and cutting spending is the answer. Bush did not use the power of the presidency to cut spending along with his tax cuts and therefore has blame in the economy's downward trend. Obama's stepping on the accelerator of government spending and increasing taxes is not exonerated by Bush's poor leadership. BOTH are at fault. Does that solve the problem?
Tess Falasco 14 years ago
I am one of the three that do remember. And I remind people constantly. Does it really matter if only one in three remember if the one in three own guns? No matter, as we vote here in the uSA and I sure don't see the Obamster winning another 4 years to flush us down the toilet twice. Bush might have started this crap but Obama is continuing it so the blood is now on his purple hands. The first mulatto president and he tries to destroy us. Never again will we let a man who never talks about his white heritage run this nation. He has proven that a man of color can't balance a checkbook any better than an idiot from Texas! Vote every incumbent out!

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