Is it not STUNNING how the Media and W. St. are behaving as though Obama is ALREADY PRESIDENT?!

[WinkyDink]

NOBODY is lookng to PRESIDENT Bush to help, to opine, to, you know, DO SOMETHING about the economic crisis!

On the one hand, this is good for P-E Obama (Jim Cramer certainly thinks so!).

But on quite another, this lets Bush off the hook, as if he is not even remotely to be held accountable for either the problem or a solution.

[bdamomma]

1. unfortunately Bush is still pResident unless he

vacates the office earlier than expected.

[Ozma]

13. Bush has a vacant brian..so everyone ignores him now. n/t

[DCBob]

2. I think this is good. It will encourage Obama and his team to do more, which is good.

Who cares if Bush is on or off the hook -- in fact he has already been filleted and fried.

[Balderdash]

3. People are hungrey for change.

They can't wait for Bush to be gone. :D

[terrya]

4. It is pretty amazing.

You'd get the impression that Bush is irrelevant at this point.

I'm certainly not complaining.

[Kahuna]

5. My email to Morning Joe as they try to push the meme that after today..

Obama "owns" the economy..

Subject: Obama is not the president until 1/20/09 noon. Get it?

Stop trying to get Obama to clean up bushes mess before he is even sworn in you fucking morons. You are now carrying water for Rush and Hannity and repeating their talking points.

[lamp_shade]

6. It actually pisses me off. He shouldn't have to own any of this mess.

[zbdent]

7. In November & early December 2000, Bush was ACTING like he was President

despite the fact that he was not yet officially the "winner" (or appointed).

Naming cabinet members, (in the background) making the Fed drop interest rates (symbolic though they may have been to most U.S. citizens) to near nil ...

and yet, the freepturds were blaming the stock market volatility on Gore (with the media's help) ... and once Bush was installed, not a peep about how the stock market was actually tanking MORE with Bush as P-e than it was while "undecided" ...

[FormerDittoHead]

15. No, remember? Bush STILL isn't President

Unless I missed something, Bush wasn't President for the 7 1/2 months preceding 9/11/01, and he wasn't President until the shit hit the fan with the financial crisis - both things constantly blamed on Clinton.

[liberal N proud]

8. Trying to send positive vibes to the market

Change has come.

[Mira]

9. I believe Bush slipped and fell off Machu Picchu N/T

[EstimatedProphet]

10. Same thing happened in 2006

The media started into "Dems in Congress have done nothing by 3 weeks after the election" bullshit. Lots of people here bought into it too.

[lonestarnot]

11. Bushitler should be hounded by masses daily for 57 days.

[bdamomma]

19. he should of been hounded by the masses for a long time.

hurry up and get this year over with.

[Jennicut]

12. Yup. Apparently we are already in Obama's recession.

[Youphemism]

14. I find it more stunning that Bush gets a free pass for doing nothing -- and worse than nothing...

Reports were that during Obama's White House visit, he talked to Bush about ways to help the auto industry. Bush's reported response was to say he'd like free trade with Colombia.

In other words, he was holding the economy hostage to force an agenda that will have no significant impact on the current crisis.

Instead of doing something to help, he's trying to get as much right-wing agenda rammed through as possible, such as oil drilling in Utah, uranium mining in Colorado, and more abortion restrictions.

Other than that, he's just playing around overseas and planning his retirement. I can't understand why everybody expects Obama to do so much before he gets in, and yet expects nothing from Bush even though it's still his watch.

[WinkyDink]

16. I'll just BET that Bush wants free trade with Colombia, wink, wink!

[cooolandrew]

17. It's an acknowledgment * is completely dysfunctional.

[WinkyDink]

18. Oh, true. I'd just rather it were expressed CLEARLY and LOUDLY and OFTEN. Forget "tacit"!