"Why wasn't the president out there speaking about the crisis earlier?"

[Stinky The Clown]

Obviously ...... because he has NO FUCKING CLUE what is going on.

Worst President in History, bar none.

[valerief]

1. He was pretzeled. nt

[madinmaryland]

2. It's the fear and terra card.

:grr:

[sandnsea]

3. Why didn't they help borrowers

before it became a $700 billion crisis. Why did they wait to scare the shit out of everybody right before the election.

[malaise]

4. He said the economy was doing well

and there was no crisis. Economic terra terra terra. Bush is making things worse here. Chaos - panic!
That is what he wants.

[tavalon]

5. Because it wasn't to his or his cronies benefit, of course!

But you knew that.

Nice picture of McCain you've got there! Or is that Palin? I couldn't tell because of the headlights.

[Javaman]

6. sobering up takes a looooooooong time. nt

[shadowknows69]

7. He said (read) almost word for word the same BS that Paulson and Bernake spewed

[bdamomma]

8. just a suggestion keep on calling your reps and senators.

[John7714]

9. Merkel tried to warn him last yuear

Yet doubts were being raised not just at the United Nations but farther afield, with Germany’s chancellor, Angela Merkel, among the most outspoken. She said that at last year’s meeting of the Group of 8, she had strongly urged both the United States and Britain to be more rigorous in supervising financial activities, and even offered specific proposals to be applied to banks and other institutions.

But the United States was not interested, she said. She also seemed to express a certain exasperation that the United States was now asking Europe for help, after inflicting damage on the rest of the world that could have been avoided.

“We did what we were supposed to do,” she said in an interview with Münchner Merkur, a German newspaper. “We adopted a decent E.U. regulation on the national statute books,” but “when it came to it, the Americans said, ‘That’s not for us.’ ”

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/24/world/24nations.html?pagewanted=2&_r=1