PKT, you need to function in society awhile before you go dismissing peoples posts as "nothing to see". Sure I am partisan. But no more than the idiot that sits in the Oval Office when he isn't out campaigning (for 2 solid years) and that sorry POS that was the Speaker of the House. Please tell me where I have mis-spoken in anything I have posted?
1) Like I stated before, every President has "senior advisers" that have for whatever reason garnered the trust, respect, and admiration of the President. Chances are if you don't like the President, you are not going to like his advisers. Liberals are not crazy about Carl Rove, as well they shouldn't be. I don't find her (Valerie Jarrett) agreeable but she does have decent credentials. Get over it.
2) You seem to not want to give any credit to Obama at all; yet, ironically you want to blame him for everything that has happened during his tenure. You can't have it both ways. That would be hypocrtical of you. Personally, I subscribe to the notion that the President, whomever he is, tends to garner too much credit and too much blame for events during his tenure.
With that said though, I can use your criteria on Bush.
First off, it has been reported that Bush was aware of the imminent threat that Al Qaeda wanted to use passenger jets as instrument of terror before the events of 9/11. He was complicit to the events of 9/11 because he could have implemented measures to counter the threat such as setting up the TSA beforehand. He also started a war with a sovereign country which posed no immediate threat to the United States. He propagated false information to the American public, our allies, and the U.N./world. That war resulted in 4,459 American deaths, roughly 100,000 American causalities, and hundreds of thousands of innocent civilian Iraqi deaths. As Commander-in-Chief, he is solely responsible for all of that.
On the domestic front, President Bush inherited a 236.2 billion dollar surplus. He then proceeded on to expand the federal budget by a historic $700 billion through 2008. President Bush created a Medicare drug entitlement that costs an estimated $800 billion; which of course was unfunded. What about education? President Bush increased federal education spending 58 percent faster than inflation. Welfare? President Bush became the first President to spend 3 percent of GDP on federal antipoverty programs. Tax the rich? He tilted the income tax burden more toward upper-income taxpayers.
Under Bush's watch, the American middle class suffered the most catastrophic economic hit since the Great Depression. Their mortgages were turned upside own, unemployment soared, spending power decreased, etc. Then, to try and counter that, President Bush began a string of of unprecedented financial bailouts.
Sound ridiculous? Of course! Why you might ask? One man did not create all of that foolishness by himself. Oh, and there were certainly no positives at all from the Bush Administration, right?.
That's how you sound when you speak. Just to let you know.