is the guy who ran on Hope and Change. Now everybody has no hope and the change went from bad to worst.

http://www.powerlineblog.com/archive...-territory.php

Originally Posted by DaleMN

Suspend his Presidency to figure out how to fix the economy?????

Huh?????? (the question was "what would of McCain done than would have been worse for the economy?)

I think that McCain would have been a bad President but at least Jimmy Carters title as Nations Worse would have been safe.

Don't forget (as many of you seem to have done) that GW Bush exited his last term with an approval rating of 21%. Jimmy Carter had an approval rating of 44%. Bill Clinton had 65% approval rating. President Obama has an approval rating of 41% right now. Kind of strange how a President that was impeached had an approval rating much higher than George W. Bush. Well, it just seems that figures show George W. Bush was truly the worst modern President.

Why not compare those approval ratings and figure out who American voters thought was the worst modern President? Oh, for anyone who cannot do the math - it is GW Bush.

Carter - exit approval rating of 44%.
George W. Bush - exit approval rating of 21%.
President Obama - current approval rating of 41%.

Originally Posted by buggyone

Don't forget (as many of you seem to have done) that GW Bush exited his last term with an approval rating of 21%. Jimmy Carter had an approval rating of 44%. Bill Clinton had 65% approval rating. President Obama has an approval rating of 41% right now. Kind of strange how a President that was impeached had an approval rating much higher than George W. Bush. Well, it just seems that figures show George W. Bush was truly the worst modern President.

Why not compare those approval ratings and figure out who American voters thought was the worst modern President? Oh, for anyone who cannot do the math - it is GW Bush.

Carter - exit approval rating of 44%.
George W. Bush - exit approval rating of 21%.
President Obama - current approval rating of 41%.

Nice try, but a lame spin. Under Carter the country was in a malaise and people were in distress that has only been topped by the total incompetence of the present resident of the WH. Remember the "misery index"?; remember the flags outside the gas station to tell you when it was OK for you to buy gas?

GW's presidency ended with 5.7% unemployment and a AAA Credit rating. I do the math just fine.

Question unanswered: How would McCain have been worse? I know why no one has answered, but I'm having fun.

Nice try, my friend, but you did get your figures wrong. Unemployment was at 7.8% when Bush left office. As for the downgrading of the credit rating, there is no one but the Tea Party Republicans to blame that on. Americans have seen what happened and the Tea Party Republicans are going to find themselves in deep yougurt next times they come up for re-election.

Richie, we were frustrated at gas lines and high mortgage rates. However, some of us did really good with long term CDs with interest rates of 18%.

You just have to look at the exit approval rates. GW Bush had the lowest approval rating in history. Jimmy Carter was more than double his approval rating.

Would McCain have done better or worse? If Palin had not been his VP candidate, we might have known the answer. Even though you admire Palin, you have to admit she was the main reason the Republicans failed in 2008.

As for the downgrading of the credit rating, there is no one but the Tea Party Republicans to blame that on.

Talk about getting things wrong, that's about as far from the truth as one can get.

Fact: S&P said if cut cap and balance was passed they would not downgrade our credit rating.

Fact: The "Tea Party Republications" PASSED IT.

Fact: The DEMOCRATS in the Senate wouldn't even let it come up for a vote.

Originally Posted by buggyone

Would McCain have done better or worse? If Palin had not been his VP candidate, we might have known the answer. Even though you admire Palin, you have to admit she was the main reason the Republicans failed in 2008.

Never has the American public been as foolish as this, if what you say is true about the election being lost because of Gov. Sarah Palin, who has more love of God and Country and the free market economy that President Barack Hussein Obama has in his entire body; his entire family and his entire administration.

President Barack Hussein Obama who didn't even grow up in this country, but in exotic foreign locales; spent his entire adult life in academia and Democrat controlled cities, and has never had a real job producing anything, or managing anything. This has resulted in an economic policy that is rooted in grandiose ideas and not in market economics.

It should now be obvious to even the most casual observer that the election of 2008 was the most catastrophic use of the American vote in the history of this country.

Sarah Palin was the reason we got this destroyer of the American Dream for a President? People were really that uniformed and susceptible to the left wing progressive mainstream media who were so threatened by this force of nature who espouses all the ideas and values that made this country the best in the world?

People get what they deserve.

Originally Posted by buggyone

Nice try, my friend, but you did get your figures wrong. Unemployment was at 7.8% when Bush left office. As for the downgrading of the credit rating, there is no one but the Tea Party Republicans to blame that on. Americans have seen what happened and the Tea Party Republicans are going to find themselves in deep yougurt next times they come up for re-election.

Richie, we were frustrated at gas lines and high mortgage rates. However, some of us did really good with long term CDs with interest rates of 18%.

You just have to look at the exit approval rates. GW Bush had the lowest approval rating in history. Jimmy Carter was more than double his approval rating.

Would McCain have done better or worse? If Palin had not been his VP candidate, we might have known the answer. Even though you admire Palin, you have to admit she was the main reason the Republicans failed in 2008.

No offense, but I have never seen a more fact challenged post in my life. You must find other sources for information.

Here are the statistics:

http://www.gallup.com/poll/113770/Bu...sapproval.aspx

Face it, Bush was NOT a good president.

Originally Posted by iaudit

Here are the statistics:

http://www.gallup.com/poll/113770/Bu...sapproval.aspx

Face it, Bush was NOT a good president.

If Bush was not a good president, how would you categorize Barack Hussein Obama? I would say that Obama would be labeled a terrible president at best.

I put in the link to the 22% approval rating of George W. Bush when he exited office. http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/...n4728399.shtml.

I really like the way all the uber-conservatives include President Obama's full name - in an obvious way to show it is not a mainstream American name - and therefore he must be against America. As for Obama growing up in exotic, foreign locales, he was a child when he lived in Indonesia and returned to Hawaii when he was a 5th grader, I believe. That is a terrible thing?

RichieLion writes that President Obama never had a real job producing anything. So what? I do not remember from my Constitutional Law classes that was a requirement for becoming President. He is the duly elected President of the United States and was elected by a majority of the voters.

Originally Posted by villagegolfer

If Bush was not a good president, how would you categorize Barack Hussein Obama? I would say that Obama would be labeled a terrible president at best.

Let's see:

1. Got us into the war in Iraq - Where were those weapons of mass destruction? Watch the movie "Fair Game" - the story of the White House outing of the CIA agent. How much has that cost us?

2. Financial meltdown of 2008 - Whose watch did that occur under? We are still suffering from the effects of that.

I would categorize Bush as a terrible president.

As far as Obama, thanks to the Tea Party split in the Republican party, he will have five more years left to determine how good he is.

Originally Posted by iaudit

Let's see:

1. Got us into the war in Iraq - Where were those weapons of mass destruction? Watch the movie "Fair Game" - the story of the White House outing of the CIA agent. How much has that cost us?

2. Financial meltdown of 2008 - Whose watch did that occur under? We are still suffering from the effects of that.

I would categorize Bush as a terrible president.

As far as Obama, thanks to the Tea Party split in the Republican party, he will have five more years left to determine how good he is.

1. Give me the list of all who voted to war.

2. Barney Frank and his cohorts, the democrat congress, is the blame.

3.Thanks to the Tea Party, Obama will be history after one disastrous term and maybe USA will find fiscal responsibility, again.