Originally Posted by
fathergoat
I didn't mention any of that because I didn't want to derail the thread.

It all applies really, but of course not everything was his fault either. who could have predicted the dot com bubble bursting just as he was leaving office? He had a nice ride up to that point.
The current crisis we are in has been building up for a couple decades now so it would be unfair to blame a single president, but the economists have been steadily pointing out the signs only to get shuffled off in exchange for partisan politics bullshit.