Dubya dismantled the USA before Obama was even elected POTUS. Sent Jerry Bremer as proconsul to Iraq to fire the Iraqi government and Army, thereby causing armed resistance to Bremer's misrule of Iraq, costing the lives of almost five thousand American service personnel, tens of thousands more maimed or wounded, hundreds of billions of dollars wasted in a fool's errand to remake Iraq in our image. Epic fail. Iraq today is pro-Iran and as we wind down our presence will likely be less accomodating to us. Dubya and Cheney and the GOP crew also deregulated financial markets, allowing their cronies to create real estate derivative instruments to enrich themselves, and when the bubble burst and the Financial Panic of September, 2008 occurredand threatened to overwhelm the banks and the basic system of credit necessary for economic activity, GOP Treasury Sec Paulson went to Congress and obtained close to a TRILLION dollars of appropriations to bail out their cronies. The GOP's corruption and incompetence caused the current mess. You can try to blame Obama, but only folks with intelligence quotients of 99 or lower are going to buy it.