When does Obama begin taking responsibility for the country's situation?

Question

A common defense of Obama's handling of the economy and the country's current situation is that it is something he inherited from Bush. I can see the logic in this, but at what point do we begin holding Obama responsible? There wasn't much mercy for Bush when one could say he inherited everything from Clinton.

Answer 1

While a few stocks are up, we are far from getting out of the hole here. He has done a pretty good job and i will not knock him for hs performance...yet. His two biggest mistakes were the Corporate bailout and the "Stimulus Plan".



As far as responsibility, I do not hold him at fault for any of the situation as of around April. That was the fault of the combined efforts of the Democratic and Republican parties. Both of them screwed us three ways from sunday.



This is Obama's chance to bring back true Democratic politics, but he is already showing signs of increased tax, socialized health care, increase subsidization on homes, government control, an increase on welfare and much more. I hope he doesn't take this route, but we shall see.



I hope he proves me wrong, but I definately see hard times ahead if any of the above comes to light.





Tom R - Seroiusly...do some research...on a non-liberal / Democrat site. Your facts are wrong as hell. You political bias seriously clouds your understanding.

Answer 2

There wasn't much mercy because Bush was handed a booming economy with a budget surplus, and look what happened.



Obama is responsible right now. That doesn't mean he's responsible for the cause of the situation.

Answer 3

heres my metaphor for the situation . bush blew a hole in our houses ceiling and we got flooded. obama has started working to repair it. but the person who wrecked it spent part of the repair money wastefully. obama takes over the repair job in january . its his job to repair the damage an its his responsibility too. but any damage that is caused is because of the hole in the ceiling caused by the previous idiot. . is the preivious idiots fault. now after the damage is repaired if we have further damage then its on him. yea clinton gave bush lots of money and bush acted like a tax an spender. except he spent it for american deaths.

Answer 4

He welcomed it during a speech today.



"I love the folks who helped get us in this mess and then suddenly say, 'Well, this is Obama's economy,'" the president told an outdoor crowd at Macomb Community College, veering off his scripted words. "That's fine. Give it to me. My job is to solve problems, not to stand on the sidelines and harp and gripe."

Answer 5

Obama has been responsible for fixing the messes that were here when he entered office, but he won't take the blame for creating those messes.

Answer 6

http://clinton5.nara.gov/WH/Accomplishments/eightyears-03.html



Perhaps you should refer to the URL above---

you were, perhaps too young to remember what Clinton handed Bush.

Answer 7

He's acting VERY responsibly.



Factory orders are up.



The Index of Leading Economic Indicators is up.



Home sales are up.



Intel sold $8 billion in Q2.



Goldman Sachs made a pile of money.

Answer 8

1 second after the inauguration

Answer 9

Probably when he's dead in fifty years and the history books can finally be written without fear from his brown shirts...

Answer 10

IF and I mean IF it gets better, then he start taking credit. When it continues tanking, he will still simply blame Bush.. He said running, he couldnt do any worse, now he says, oh its worse than we thought..LOLOLOLOLOLOL...