Dear Pres BO: What did Pres Bush inherit when he became president?

In my last post, I said that "Blame Bush" ended in Massachusetts.

In Virginia, NJ and Massachusetts, the Dem candidate (trailing in the polls) spent the last two weeks connecting the Republican candidates to Pres Bush.

And it did not work!

Bush is living in Dallas TX. He spends his time in our community. He is not on any ballot!

It's over! The public is holding BO accountable for the state of the country.

Nevertheless, it's interesting to remember what the world was like in 2001.

Rick Richman recalls the world that Bush inherited not long ago:

"......memories are short about what George W. Bush faced in his first year:

a recession caused by a burst Internet bubble;

the failure of the seventh largest company in the country (Enron) and one of the Big Five accounting firms (Arthur Andersen);

an attack on New York and Washington, D.C.;

a stock market that crashed and an economy that tottered; the need to mobilize the country for a war in Afghanistan; a failed “peace process” inherited on Inauguration Day (with a new Palestinian war against Israel already in its fifth month); etc.

The difference is that Bush did not spend his first year blaming Bill Clinton for the Internet bubble or the inherited recession, or the ineffective response to the first World Trade Center attack and the multiple attacks thereafter, or the bungled peace process."

That's right!

Pres Bush reacted to his new job by accepting the responsibilities of the office and meeting the issues head on.

He did not blame Clinton for doing nothing about terrorism for 8 years. Instead, he took the war directly to the terrorists.

It's time for Pres BO to get over it and start governing!