Thank you George W. Bush for saving our economy!

[DefenseLawyer]

Who could have guessed that this would be a rallying cry of the Clinton campaign in 2016?

[Cavallo]

1. ? I remember it tanking under him.

[DefenseLawyer]

2. But then he gave us TARP

and TARP fixed everything.

[NCTraveler]

4. You are the first person to have said such a thing.

Congrats.

[SoCalMusicLover]

9. The Poster Was Being Sarcastic nt

[NCTraveler]

10. Really? Nt

[DefenseLawyer]

14. Not at all. I'll take Secretary Clinton at her word.

Not supporting George Bush's Wall Street bailout was was a horrible mistake by Bernie Sanders. We are just lucky that she was wise enough to recognize the wisdom and leadership of George W. Bush and follow his lead.

[Motown_Johnny]

20. She also followed him into the Iraq war.

I think we can guess what type of President she would make.

[DefenseLawyer]

22. Smoke em out!

Dead er alive! It's a crusade, right Dick?

[RoccoR5955]

21. So...

After squandering a budget surplus, starting two illegal wars, and putting them on the credit card, while failing to regulate the financial sector, Dubya is a freakin hero?
Please send me some of what you have been smoking, drinking, eating, whatever. It creates wonderful delusions!
Thank you!

[NCTraveler]

3. Fuck Bush. Nt

[DefenseLawyer]

6. Funny, Secretary Clinton didn't say that Sunday night

She told us that his TARP plan saved us all.

[NCTraveler]

8. Fuck Bush. Nt

[Cavallo]

11. Thank you. I get it now. Agreed.

[Broward]

18. Hillary should have said the same re: Iraq.

[NCTraveler]

19. You should add the word "have".

I agree.

[Nonhlanhla]

5. George Bush did only two thing right in his time as president

1. He extended Daylight Savings time. I love it, so I consider that his greatest achievement.

2. And he bailed out the banks, undeserving as they were, against much Republican sentiment, because the economy was in free fall. That does not mean that he saved the economy: it took Barack Obama's wise management to do that.

But however you want to spin this. I've come to expect such hysterical statements from the Bernie camp.

[basselope]

12. TARP was a TERRIBLE solution that LOST US MONEY and left us worse off than before.

[PyaarRevolution]

13. Is this a joke?

The way it was written was a blank check and it was unacceptable.

Most people who knew about the bank bailout were screaming "no!" and calling in droves for it to be rejected in the current state. For Republicans, it was truly how the Tea Party came to be created NOT the astro-turf we have seen as of the last few years.

[Nonhlanhla]

15. Yes, there was a lot wrong with it

But it was still necessary to save the economy.

[IdaBriggs]

16. One more thing - the DO NOT CALL REGISTRY.

Apparently (as I heard the story) someone robo called his private line during a family dinner and blessed be! The "Do Not Call" registry was born.

[beedle]

23. The bailout did nothing of the sort

the banks took the money and did three things with it.

1 - paid themselves large bonuses
2 - paid off some old loans they had that had higher interest rates
3 - hoarded it in their vaults and refused to loan it out to people and small businesses, which was what it was suppose to be used for.

So, I don't see how hundreds of billions of dollars sitting unused in bank vaults could possibly have done anything to save the economy.

The economy slowly recovered over several years without any help from the bailout.

If one had any kind of memory, was paying the least bit of attention, and were honest about it, that would have been obvious.

[H2O Man]

7. Odd, isn't it?

[QC]

17. Also, too, fracking RAWKS!!!

Let's not forget that one.