John Bolton: US Voters agree George W Bush left Barack Obama with a mess

Who is more to blame for the state of the US economy?

The former UN envoy praised Mr Bush’s decision to stay out of politics since
leaving Washington, and said that his standing would “get better and
better” as time elapsed.

“Most Americans, when they vote for president, treat it as a question of
looking forward,” he said. “So from Romney’s point of view there’s
no real point in re-arguing the Bush presidency. It ought to be on whether
Obama has been successful”.

Mr Obama has in recent weeks heaped blame on his predecessor for bestowing the
current administration with what he now claims were too many problems in
foreign and economic policy to deal with in a single term.

Should George W Bush be embarrassed of his legacy?

“Hillary and I, we’ve spent the last three and a half years cleaning up
after other folks’ messes,” Mr Obama told a fund-raiser last month.
Robert Gibbs, a senior adviser to Mr Obama, said that Mr Romney’s campaign
could be summarised as: “You didn’t clean up our mess fast enough”.

Andrew Card, Mr Bush’s former White House chief of staff, said that the tactic “doesn’t
seem very presidential”. Mr Card said: “Most presidents take
office and recognise that they have a job to do, and respect their
predecessors”.

A recent CNN poll found 56 per cent of voters continued to blame Mr Bush and
the Republicans for the country’s economic problems, while only 29 per cent
blamed Mr Obama and the Democrats. Only Richard Nixon ranked lower than Mr
Bush in a Gallup poll on the last eight presidents earlier this year.

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