Then, what was the point of listing all those individuals?
Then, why not make the same excuse for Obama?
I don't want to be rough about this but, I am bored to tears over this incessant tarring of Obama coupled with the argument that things were oh, so better with this guy or that guy or the other which, clearly was not the case FOLLOWED by the excuse of "well, of course, no ONE man is responsible for everything, it's the press, the opposition, the circumstances, the weather..."
Obama is DREADFUL. However, he is merely a socialist failing at socialist policies we already know don't work. For my money, Bush was FAR worse because A, he was not supposed to be a socialist and B, he instituted socialist policies on issue after issue that, gee whiz, didn't work and C, most importantly, for 6 years had ALL the power he needed to do as he pleased.
The problems are as you say BUT, if we're going to make the excuses for 'our' guys and then pretend there are no excuses for the other guys, that's all we'll ever have; the parties taking turns destroying this nation because they ARE socialists and mean to be, which doesn't work, and we are socialists, in effect, and claim otherwise solely for the purpose of getting OUR chance to screw things up.
We, the people of the limited government persuasion, have to reject socialism AND hold our OWN side responsible and NOT allow them to betray us as Bush did. The other side won't do it because they don't want to.
It's up to us and trying to polish the turds of left wing, big gummint policies of Richard Nixon and George W. Bush ain't going to make anything better when we get the chance to lead again.