bullshit that repubs keep peddling. After all, we've had two elections now where repubs have thrown everything including the kitchen sink at dems, desperately trying to blame them for all the ills that Bush and his pet repub congress have created since 2000, and it not only hasn't worked, it has led to massive repub losses.

Common sense and facts tell us that the recession we are experiencing now started even before Obama got the nomination, much less before he won the election. You could just as accurately call this the Hillary Clinton recession, or the John McCain recession, or the Mike Huckabee recession. Of course, it would be more accurate to call this the George W. Bush/Dick Cheney/Phil Gramm/Alan Greenspan recession, as they were the ones who were making the plans and decisions that set this crisis in motion in the first place. They're ready to blame Obama for the days when the Dow sinks 400 points, but unwilling to then give him credit if it jumps up 400 points. The fact is that the market is reacting not to who is promising what when they get to the White House, but to the dismal economic reports that seem to come out every day. When the November sales data is released Thursday, it is likely to spur another bad day on Wall Street, as there will probably be a substantial drop in sales compared to the past few years. Gonna try and blame that on Obama too? Maybe he should have done like Bush after 9/11, and given a speech urging people to shop more, right? Gimme a break!

Truth is whatever you can get other people to believe - Tom Smothers