so much for draining the swamp

[JustWinBaby]

(11-13-2016, 01:42 AM)Dill Wrote: Some seeds sown under Clinton, and before, sure.  But granting the recession was not "all Bush," why would you claim a mediocre recovery was "all Obama"? What do you think Romney would have done differently or better?

Bush went before Congress, 3 times I think, about reigning in Fannie and Freddie.  He failed.  But recessions are an inevitable course of the economy.  But certainly policy DOES play a major role in the recovery and expansion.  Romney wanted to lower corporate taxes and unburden business with costly and ineffective regulation, among others.  Obama was not pro-business, big govt socialists usually aren't.

And Iraq was in violation of numerous UN sanctions.  I'm sure you're familiar with the Wolfowitz doctrine from the Clinton administration.  You can pretend Obama or Clinton would not have invaded Iraq, despite the opportunity for regime change presenting itself after failed policy after failed policy in the Middle East....but the fact is Bush pre-9/11 wouldn't have invaded Iraq, either.