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Bush is invisible and Obama is being encouraged to take the lead because the Republicans have already decided to blame HIM in 4 years for this recession. Right wing hate radio is already referring to the current downturn as the "Obama Depression". Just like they stuck Carter with the blame for the previous 8 years of mismanagement and the bill for the VietNam war.
If nobody remembers seeing Bush during the crash but they DO remember seeing Obama it'll be a lot easier for Faux News to rewrite history starting in about 2011.
And in the mean time the Bush administration is still busy transferring what's left of the United States borrowing power to their wall street backers, who rather than lending it out to keep the economy running are hoarding it. Guaranteeing the crash that they want to pin on the incoming president rather than the folks who caused it. Sort of like retroactively blaming then New Deal for the Great Depression. Which they have also been doing lately.
