hell you know what? these people can believe whatever they want. The fact of the matter is Bush was a leader, he knew what to do regarding that particular crisis, at least.
He began dealing with the economic problems earlier in his 8 year term and brought the country out of recession each time, in case you people forgot. At the expense of the deficit though, which increased each time like a credit card being charged. But the method worked as far as BERNANKE told him.
BERNANKE is still in charge. Bush drove the message home to the Muslims, and didn't bring anymore 9/11's in. What if he didn't, what if he wasn't president and you had Obama back in '01?
he would have cruise missiled the Iraqis and probably done some kind of economic sanction. There would be more terrorist attacks, if Obama wouldn't have invaded Iraq, in all likeliness.
Of course, there haven't been any attacks, so people forgot that the reason for this is because the army is presently occupying Iraq. This doesn't say much about the mindset of the American people which doesn't seem present in reality.
The great part is you elected Obama now, the opposite of Bush, and I'm sure things will go well, the same people that warned about the economic crisis last year also warned about a much deeper crisis to come, and more so. Just keep ignoring them, I'm sure things will be fine, and your new president is doing everything right.
We should be quoting these people know, so those who are still here in 5 years when the problems are simply too big to handle can bring it back to them.
But it won't matter, it doesn't matter now, and it won't matter then. It won't matter until the world shuts down on them.