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Originally Posted by Iowa_Flames_Fan

Saying nice things to each other does not mean that Obama is somehow the de facto President.

Give me a break. Ignoring the fact that Obama had to vote for the bailout bill as well.....the President=elect is directly involved with the serving President, and throughout history, the POTUS has always gone out of their way to accommodate the policies and agenda of the President-elect.

NBC News reported that Obama advanced his economic agenda with Bush, asking him to attempt to pass a stimulus package in a lame duck session of Congress before the inauguration. He also urged Bush to accelerate the disbursement of $25 billion in funds to bail out the automobile industry and expressed concern about additional Americans losing their homes as mortgage rates increase again.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preside...f_Barack_Obama

Like I said.....very much involved.

They were never accused of voter fraud. They were the victims of "voter registration fraud" carried out by in the field contractors. There was a lot of nonsense from McCain proxies about this, but nothing ever came of it.

You're missing the point. Here it is: there is nothing in the bailout about giving money to ACORN. There is a provision that allows states and local governments to use ACORN, or another similar organization, as subcontractors. That's all. This whole thing is just Limbaugh-manufactured baloney. Don't fall for it.

And the fact that states and local governments have the ability to give money to ACORN is because of the bailout passed by the Federal Government. Either way, doesn't matter. I don't care about ACORN....they're just one company, or one part of the bailout process that was handled incorrectly.

OK--so let me get this straight. We can't compare the Obama administration to the Bush administration because the challenges they face are so different.

Because the direction of their Presidency is completely opposite. At least for now. When it came to a bailout....Bush largely agreed with Obama on everything while he was still in office. Not very much to compare them with.

However, we also can't hold Bush responsible for his actions before he left office, because the last actions of the Bush administration are actually and in secret the actions of the Obama administration--because through magic voodoo he took over Bush's brain from Karl Rove and worked him like a meat-puppet when he became president-elect. Moreover, he actually started to control the executive branch at the end of September in 2008, when he was in the midst of a campaign, and Bush was working with Congress to craft a financial bailout plan while Obama was riding around swing states in a decorated bus. I don't know exactly how he did this, but I'm going to guess it involves time travel.

Not even going to bother responding. For someone who rails against arguments that 'Rush' uses....you're doing quite well yourself.