NYTimes

The financial collapse being experienced should be seen in terms of the Bush presidency. When he came to office the stock market was booming – the Dow Jones was above 11,000 – and now – eight years later it is lower. It’s Year to Date figure is a drop of 2350 points. That is extraordinarily poor. It reached an all-time closing high of 11722.98 on January 14, 2000

Americans considering more of the same, John McCain and his trusty sidekick Sarah Palin do not need to read between the lines. The same old Republican attack machine has proven it is capable of whipping the discussion into a frenzy of misinformation.

Bush may have been utterly convinced that he was doing the right thing. Fact was his policies were the most destructive of any president in modern times, and the most irresponsible leadership since perhaps Nero fiddled while Rome burned. It could take 2 generations to fix America, if you look how modern economies have dealt with depreciating assets (Japan).