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GOP President GW Bush fails to enact any sort of viable, common sense economic policy or safeguards against big businesses and bid financial institutions mismanaging and plundering the economy, leading to the worst recession in US history since the Great Depression of 1929, in turn leading to massive layoffs, record unemployment, record bankruptcies, and the most bank failures sine 1929.

If you are going give us a history lesson please tell the whole story. No one doubts the Bush administrations failures in that regard but..it is also common knowledge that the Clinton administrations' deregulation policies played a major roll in the financial crisis of 2008.

I don't know; maybe you found the Great Recession enjoyable..

I lost a job I hope to stay in until retirement and a pension in 2009. Thanks Bubba.

As far as regretting voting for Hillary....

I think we've had this discusion before. Nothing happens in politics that isn't connected to the comedy of errors that procedded it. That would include the last election and the players in that election. Hillary is still around and has attacked the President more than once. If only she would go away. Sorry but you cannot mention Trumps' victory without her name coming up and the subsequent controversies.

In fact, the only function she currently serves is to be a distracting 'straw man' used by Trump and his minions to deflect from their own failing, idiocies and shortcomings.

This was just last week on CNN.

http://www.cnn.com/2017/12/20/politi...sis/index.html

And besides it makes for good and endless discusion. Which I like.

So here is my offshore Canadian viewpoint for the day.

Do I think Donald Trump should be president. No. Why? Three reasons. 1. Not qualified. 2. Wrong temperment 3. Smell of coruption.

Do I think Hillary Clinton should have been president. No. Same three reasons.

I also think I have a pretty good idea why Trump is president. There are a lot of reasons and this is one of them.

“One of the biggest challenges we have to our democracy is the degree to which we don’t share a common baseline of facts. What the Russians exploited, but it was already here, is we are operating in completely different information universes. If you watch Fox News, you are living on a different planet than you are if you listen to NPR.”

Barack Obama Jan. 2018

There it is. That arrogance and smugness. That dismissal of people with a different political opinion. He's done it before and he is still doing it. I don't even think he realizes it but that attitude is one important reason why Donald Trump is eating Big Macks in the oval office.