Puhleeze!! All those interested in watching the debates should tune into C-span to avoid the pontificators from both sides

Its like the past four years never happened! Obama still wants to campaign on his 2008 issues.

He said he knew what was wrong and he knew how to fix it. Really? The past four years have been all about fund-raising and campaigning.

Obama wants to move on from the 2008 issue of Jeremiah Wright, but not from his whining about the 'mess' he supposedly knew how to fix.

One has to wonder just when the statute of limitations runs out on blaming the Bush Administration. If the Almighty abandons America's grand experiment and allows the great uninformed to put Obama in the White House for a second term, to use the poker metaphor, whom will Obama blame for the hand we will have then dealt to himself or for his ineptness in playing the cards he was dealt in 2009? Bad hand or not....he didn't have, nor does he have today, the skills to walk away from the table successful. The only thing he's improved on during his 3.5 years in office is his political skills and his ability to continue to fool people into thinking that he knows what he's doing. Fortunately for him, his progressives in public education have succeeded in dumbing down the electorate to the point that so many in it believe up is down, down is up, black is white, white is black and so on.

Who had a worse hand than Bush after 9/11? Remember when the stock market plunged below 7,000 within two days of the market re-opening? And it wasn't only the economy had to worry about. By 2002, however, the market was over 8,000 and it went to 14,000 at one point in 2007. Unemployment was low. Times were good, generally. I have no doubt that, if Bush had remained President, the fiscal crisis in 2008 would be long past and we would be well on the road to recovery.

Obama ran for the Presidency. He wanted the Presidency. He was totally aware of the situation the Country was in. HHestated he could fix it. He has completely failed and in doing so, he has made everything much worse. He should have been thrown out of office the very first time he blamed Bush for his own problems.
He has been a totally useless President and he should be handed the bill for the debt he has created and made to pay it all back over the rest of his life.

Obama and Biden were both in the Senate and should have been well aware of what they were getting.

I'm so sick of hearing this excuse. They both have to "man up."

So here's what the NY Times article means to tonight's debate:

Jim Lehrer: "blah blah blah economy blah blah blah, just today the NY Times says it is Bush's fault and you got dealt a bad hand..."

Obama: "that's what we've been saying all along...Bush's fault! Republicans fault! Romney has same failed policies that got us into this mess...yada yada yada..."

I don't remember anyone forcing him to run in 2008. When you enter the game, you play the hand you are dealt. Bush didn't know he would be dealt 9/11...but he dealt with it with courage and conviction. No whining.

No one here is being fair to Obama.

Sure, there's a very rare, brief, oblique mention of the huge disaster Bush/Cheney constructed [intentionally, knowing somehow that Obama would be the next President, and that he's black (well, OK, that he's a little bit black)], but that's just a matter of historical necessity. But to my knowledge, Obama has never once mentioned all the problems he inherited from: Eisenhower; Coolidge; Garfield; Harding; Fillmore; and Grant. Not even once.

Obama is nothing but a cry baby and a slouch of a President. His ego is running this country off the cliff.

So what. Bush's fault? Please Bush managed to keep US safe, Both our homeland and our foreign sovereign soil. Something this smelly fart has been unable to do.