I know American politics is a bit removed from my own situation, but every government I have seen (not just the US) has tried to blame it's predecessor for at least some things, so it's not surprising that Obama and his supporters try and blame Bush. From what I can tell Bush didn't do a great job fiscally so Obama got a bit of a shit sandwich to deal with, but given that the country already had a lot of debt when he came to power his policies should have been about dealing with that rather than worsening it. I'm one who tends to see the positive side of things and usually give people the benefit of the doubt, but doubling the national debt in 3 years (when it was already bad) makes even me think it might have been done deliberately. My own opinion is that Obama's fiscal policies are at the least reckless.