Closing Arguments: 2008′s Biggest Villain?

The biggest villian is president George W. Bush. He has ruined out country and is responsible for the biggest scandal in our history this Iraq War.
See you in hell W!

Madoff deserves to be executed for all the harm he has done to so many. Also, the SEC needs a big shake up because they just let it happen.

I think that it would be the ceos who flew in by private jets. They were asking for money, but they had spent it on jets.

The biggest villain in 2008 has to be George W. Bush. He was the biggest in 2000-2001-2002-2003-2004 and so on. Why would it be any different this year?
What after stealing the election or robbing this country of its tax revenue, bringing us into an interminable war. Thank you George W. Bush, there should be a Marvel Comic about you.

President Bush is this year’s biggest villain. It is he who has caused the most pain, done the most damage, and was the leader who set the standard for all the other lesser villians. They all pale in comparison to President Bush, and this is evidenced by his approval rating of somewhere around 29%, the lowest of any president in history.

I think the the president, vice president and government are 2008′s biggest villian. What a disappointment to put so much faith into your government and country and to have all of this terrible stuff occur in the last few years.

America’s biggest vilian in 2008 (and 07, 06, 05, 04, 03, 02, 01 and 00) was George W. Bush. His incompetent leadership has cost America MUCH more than the financial meltdown, caused more personal harm than all the sexual scandals, and has been personified by an arrogance that far surpasses the airline executives, AIG and even the Governor of Illinois combined.

The shameful truth of 2008 is that our current President,George Bush, was not impeached. He is the biggest unnamed villian of 2008. My goodness didn’t he take excellent care of our country! What an inheritance and legacy these last eight years will leave for our children. Bravo…#1 Villian!!!!

The worst most horrible person \public figure George Bush. He is the most worthless human being on this planet.

We vote for the Bernie Madoff scandal as being the biggest scandal of the year

The biggest scandal of the year was the $700 billion bailout plan to Wall Street and corporations by Congress with little or no oversight on how the bailout money was to be used or to be paid back. None of it would trickle down to stockholders so they will get hammered twice — loss of stock value and a big tax bill.
The corporate scoundrels get their 15 minutes of public shame and only to go home on their private jets and get into their jacuzzis and watch their giant TVs and then try and figure out how to screw us somemore.

It’s hard to choose just one person who caused the most harm this year. There have been so many trusted individuals/corporations who have been in the web of deceipt. It makes it very difficult for people to trust anyone when our country has been through so many of these circumstances. I thank you and others who have brought truth to light. Don’t stop. People who have violated our trust and now we are paying to bail them out should have to pay the highest possible price. As Americans, we should rise up and refuse to bail out such scoundrals! Just like the auto executives who come to ask for the bailout and then walk away to their private jets and high-living lifestyles, while the average citizen works to pay this off and can barely put food on the table…it makes me livid! And what can we do – especially when our elected officials vote to make us pay!

Wow! There were so many this year! As a resident of Illinois, my first inclination was with the latest news of Blagojevich appointing a political croney to Barack Obama’s Senate Seat.
It has certainly tainted the magnificance of President-Elect Obama’s historic acheivement and threw mud on the entire state.
However, I think the Big 3 Auto makers coming to Washington on their private jets and expecting a no-strings bail-out takes the number one spot!
It is indicitive of the greed and arrogance of corporate America and the cause of the deterioration of our economy. It is only exceeded by politicians like Sen. Corker of Tennessee, who tried to blame the union autoworkers instead of the incompetance of the CEO’s for the misery inflicted on all Americans.

Bush! enough said.

None of the people that was mentioned in your list can top the worst “villian” compares to the person whom I have in mind. I believe our president George W Bush is the worst of all of them. From the unfavorable war in Iraq, our energy crisis and the financial market melt down, it all starts from the leadership. GW Bush did not lead. He is too busy to line his pocket with the Arab oil countries and did not lead the nation with the proper attention which he should as our president. I am so shameful of this man. No wonder the Iraq reporter through his shoe at him. He is the laughing stock and the most shameful villian of them all.

Pres. George W. Bush is my pick as The Biggest Villain! He has really left the country in a hole that may take generations to overcome. Are these “family values”, lies, war, moral decay in industry, millions loosing homes, every child left behind, all of our retirement money gone and no health care or social security. We should have stayed out of the Bushes!!!

You can debate who created the biggest scandal but the worst person holding public office has been George Bush. If you read “Chimp O Matic” on the Google webpage, you quickly gat a sense of how dumb this man is. He can barely put two sentences together without making a mistake. Most everything wrong with America today can be linked back to him. He’s a man with the “sadim” touch. That’s the midas touch only backwards. Everything he touches turns to crap.

The biggest villain of 2008 was the SEC. Because of their inability to enforce current regulations, be will probably now be bombarded with all kinds of new regulations. They could have prevented the financial crisis as well as the Madoff scandal.

Biggest villain? George W. Bush

Barack Obama is the biggest villain of the year for lying to the American people about who he is and what he would stand for if he had any backbone to begin with.
The media including abc has much to do with this great wrong in electing a crook.
GOD BLESS GEORGE W BUSH!

Bank of America for preventing the Chicago Company from paying employees severance.All of the villans who squandered money from working Americans.

Definitely Madoff is the biggest villain. But among the biggest of wrong things, there is the fact that over the last years, our president made over a dozen attempts to get our congress to increase oversight in financial and mortgage industries, and congress (yes… congress) refused to act on these requests.

It’s not even close.. George W. Bush. Just look at the state of this country. The failure of Wall Street and the economy; corporate greed and scandal run-amok; wars in Iraq and Afghan; Trillion dollar deficit; unemployment, domestic spying, politicization of Justice dept., dismantling of the constitution and bill of rights; Housing Collapse… I could list another 20 off the top of my head.
All this and more you can lay right in the lap of the “Moron in Charge” – W.

You neglected to mention George W. Bush’s months-long denial of the slipping economy. As recently as mid-September he was still telling us the U.S. economy was “thriving.” His finally public admission that we’re in a recession only came when we were so far into it that there was no where to find a silver lining in the cloud that had decended upon us in this growing storm of economic collapse. He should have been addressing this colossal failure at the beginning of the year.
Runner up: John McCain, “The fundamentals of our economy are strong.”
There are none so blind as those who will not see.

by all means goorge w. bush is the worst person of the year,as far as that goes he the worst person of the past 8 years.i can not see how he sleeps @ nights after the way he done the american people.

Allan Greenspan’s deregulation of the banking industry and his belief that regulation and oversight of the banking industry limited profitability. The current banking crisis is one big mess that couls have been averted with proper regulations and oversight. Liasez-faire capitalism is like removing law enforcement from the streets. Like I said, what a mess.

George Bush is the biggest villain. He supported changing the Endangered species Act and other laws to keep our National Forest and protected species safe. He cares nothing of the environment or the “little people”. Roosevelt would be rolling in his grave right about now. Why should Bush care? He is about to die anyways, who cares about the land, right? Bush is just as corrupt as all of these “top dogs”. Why does he have the “right” to retire to a multi-million dollar home? And if he is truly of God, why not turn the other cheek, or should I say the other bomb? Truly trust God, not your fighter jets and money. Maybe we should listen to this man, “There is enough for everyone’s need, but not enough for everyone’s greed.” Ghandi

Bernard Madoff’s $50 billion Ponzi scheme has to be at the top, but there are so many bottom feeders it’s kind of hard to pick just one. I am really surprised “uncle Bernie” hasn’t been knocked off, but I wouldn’t be surprised if it happens.

Without the slightest hesitation -Barack Obama. From his complete lack of qualification for any position of leadership to his highly questionable past (and perhaps present) associations to the scandalous fundraising practices with which he bought his election as the most powerful person on the planet to the lies he has told to his promises to take the United States sharply left into socialism (including the killing of innocent babies)–the list goes on and on. I hope in a future Nightline program you will require him to give straight answers to these and many other questions about his character and tell us why he is not “2008′s biggest villain.”
Meanwhile, may a just God have mercy on these United States of America and on the unscrupulous man who has somehow been elected to be its leader. Along with thousands of others who disagree with him, I will be praying for him, with full understanding that he will desperately need all of our prayers.

Obama is the biggest scondrel of the year and of the next decade. He bought the White House using poor people who got dragged to vote, thinking that he would champion their plight. The media destroyed any posibility of a fair and objective campaing. No questions about the funds he recieved. Obama is not to be trusted. He may be charismatic, eloquent but he is as crooked as the worst whe have seen.
Time will show his true colors.
Save the insults, it seems those who disagree have a limited vocabulary.

The regulatory commission, who looked the other way when banks and lenders where putting mortgages on the books that that had no chance of earning interest from the loans note. Driving down the value of existing homes. Therefore wiping out equity and any hope of selling the property for a profit. Those on the commission should be held resposible, along with lenders.

Absolutely, George W. Bush who has ran this country into the ground and Wall Street executives as an astounding runner up for second place. It is a disgrace that the American people have not made “our” representatives more accountable and that these Greedy, Greedy, self serving people are not going to Jail where they “all” belong. That include CEO’s from the Banks, AIG, Lehman’s and the Automaker Industry. All this corrpution. What a Sad, sad day & time for this Country.

WWo caused the most pain? The incredibly stupid and arrogant George W. Bush, and his peremptory war in Iraq,
killing thousands of US service people and thousands of Iraq citizens, on the false premise that there were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. The 9/11 Commission report said there were none.
Along with Bush, the devious and duplicitous Richard B. Cheney tried to expand the powers of the vice presidency and presidency far beyond what powers are listed in the Constitution. His pressure on the CIA helped produce false intelligence reports backing up the peremptory war in Iraq. Bush and Cheney should be tried for war crimes at the International Court in the Hague. Other incompetents on their team were Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, Feith, and Condy Rice. Thank God for Barack Obama and the Democrats.

George w. Bush is the worst of 08 but he has been the worst person sense he was first put is office, i do mean put in office because he sure was not voted in.how can this man sleep @ night knowing how he got in office and once in the way he has lied to the american people,he has got the whole world hateing america.

Mr. Bush is the biggest. Second,Richard Fuld. Third, Bernard Madoff.

The biggest villian of 2008 was the total economic catostrophe. This was started by the Clinton administration and promoted by democrats in congress. Home loans made to non qualified people has been the equivilant of the ponzi scheme by madoff except it cost taxpayers 852 billion dollars. Out of 300 million people in the US and those 350 A**holes are the “best” we can do?

Economy in worst shape in half a century, trillions of dollars spent on bailouts and hopeless and unwinnable wars in Iraq and Afganistan. Hundreds of thousands of deaths American and Iraqi.Billions of dollars oil profits that has the cost of everything going up. The shoe throwing Arab should be recognized as an international hero. Is there any doubt who I am referring to?

George W Bush! He has been a dream come true for the Al Qaeda, & the Taliban. Osama bin Laden couldn’t have asked for a better ally. Al Qaeda is poised to take over Somalia, they control most of Afganistan, and they are poised to take over Peshawar in Pakistan. Pakistan has 50 nuclear weapons. What more could they ask for.
Great Job George W!

I think we have a lot of villians. Especially those citizens who have little or no understanding of our economy nor of the running of our government. Those who blame Bush when congress is the real villian for most of the damage done to this nation, are worse than anyone. Bush doesn’t make policy, congress does. Bush doesn’t make the budget, congress does. And anyone who thinks we should sit back and let 9-11 happen over and over without raising a finger are traitors to America!

The people in this country who beleive what the libral media has put out. The media should be ashamed of themselves for making our president(Bush) the scape goat for all the countries problems. The media knows that if they repeat something enough times that the sheep will follow. The fact is the president has limited power to bring about change, yet he is blamed for everything from global warmimg to aids.
Come on people , use your head. The reason for our problems are a lot more complex and alot more wide spread. And since 9/11 no bombs have been dropped on your head.
thank God for that.

Tough to choose from amongst all the despicable scumbags that have caused such disgrace recently, and certainly won’t be held accountable to the extent they should… however, why wasn’t George Bush at the top of your suggestions? He is responsible for the most damage ever foisted upon this great nation– damage that has only continued culminating in 2008– and he is responsible for subjecting our once proud country to a collection of the biggest a-holes ever discovered. Their destruction to the credibility of the US gov’t, and to the standing of our nation among others of the world, is criminal on a level unheard of. Many of the other crooks you mentioned simply were operating in a morally bankrupt environment that Bush and his disgustingly foul henchmen and puppetmasters have fomented. He set the example. Sadly, our recovery will not be easy.

Along with George Bush, the Democrats. After winning a majority over 2 years ago on the promise of ending the war, they have done nothing. The war goes on and the military is still there. Now, one of their chief anti-war spokesmen, Barack Obama after being nominated with his anti-war stance, now says he wants to wait 2 more years then, upon the advice of the military will make his decision. What a pack of lies the Democrats have thrown to the fools who believe and vote for them!

Congress #1
Greedy corporations #2
Greedy corporations + lobbyists + Congress = the taxpayers lose!
Here’s some “FREE”* money – do as you please!
*money from china

George W. Bush & Cheney by far!!!! Bernard Madoff’s scam is a perfect example of what Bush & the republicans have made possible… Their radical series of deregulation has erased many important check & balance mechanisms within our system to where today bankers can seize enormous profits through practices that before Bush were a prosecuted as criminal acts. Bush has given Big Business licenses to steal! They have pushed us into a depression catastrophe where they can now pour hundreds of billions of dollars into bailing out these same villains paying them as bonuses for their criminal acts effectively making debtor slaves out of the middle class taxpayer. But we haven’t seen anything yet. Just wait until the credit card industry threatens bankruptcy and that $5 Trillion bail out of the loan sharks begins… Bush & Cheney should be tried for high treason and crimes against humanity! Every dime of their assets should be seized & investigations be ordered into insider trading by these scoundrels.

Congress is run by lobbyists. Lobbyists are run by greedy corporations. I think America got con by Congress- and our children’s children will pay for it! The rich get richer and the poor keep paying taxes!

If the democrat controlled Congress does not order investigations into GW Bush and Company within two years America will turn on the democrat majority and crucify them. Tokyo Rush Limbaugh will make sure of that. The tenure of George W. Bush has eroded any integrity that remained in our systems. Today there is a huge difference in lying and getting caught. The republican moral majority ran a scam on Americans touting religious and moral issues as distractions all while absolutely stealing America blind.
If Congress fails to invest a few billion into investigations and prosecutions I will do my utmost to help build the Independent Party as it will be time for a Revolution to Emancipate the Working Man!
White Collar criminals must be prosecuted just like armed bank robbers or this thing is going to blow sky high where the poor begin taking what ever they need from the rich. Congress needs to realize that when this extreme begins there won’t be any bail outs that can stop a revolution with chaos in the streets!!!

The Roman Empire fell and so will America! Our collapse will be cause by the rich and greedy! Led by wallstreet and then followed by all the CEO’s who are more concern about their bank accounts then the people who made them rich!

So if I’m reading all these comments right then we are set to blame George Bush, Bernie Madoff, John Edwards and a host of others for the mess we’re in. A few even want to blame Barrack Obama before he even gets to do anything. None of it is even close gang!
Okay so maybe a few of them deserve our scorn but they didn’t get to do what they did without some very powerful help. Yeah, that’s right–We are to blame. We as a nation saw all this happening. We did nothing to stop it. Oh yeah we complain and moan about it now but we let it happen. What’s that about evil triumphs when good people do nothing? Will we ever learn?
Apparently not.

Madoff, hands down

We bought a small home in 1980′s, decent area, We now live in Mexico,was Fort Worth, Texas .. Bush should buy his home here .. He’d love the loud a– music we get everyday.
Also the chickens, pitbulls, ducks, cats with mega kittens everywhere, Bush can go to the humane society & take all the pups & kits that We have too. We can’t feed them all .. most are starving, people move out and leave the pets here…

George W Bush. I said when before he was voted into office that he would bankrupt this country the way he bankrupt all the companies his father armtwisted his cronies into putting him in charge of, and he has done just that. His selections of selfish, self interested industry pandering people to head up agencies that should be policing the industries they come from has contributed to the crisies we are facing.

Blame goes to all the a-holes ..
How do we repair it ??

OK – I vote Bush the Million Man Murderer

We fix it by creating assistance at the bottom rather than the top. Reaganomics and the trickle down economic theory will not fix this condition. It will only create larger problems. Once hundreds of billions have been injected into private industries it become absolutely lucrative for them to file bankruptcy. Plus when they have gotten the federal government in bed with them they are in a much stronger negotiating position to extort even more bail outs and free money….
We demand that Congress looks toward injecting these hundreds of billions into an infrastructure of natural gas filling stations and vehicle conversions to run on natural gas so America is no longer dependent on the Middle East. If we inject that new money into fixing a real long term problem while creating new jobs it is healthy stimulus.
When we just pour money on big business that has become top heavy greedy monopolies and oligopolies we are just feeding the beasts and deferring the inevitable.
If Congress is going to increase debt which inherently raises taxes they need to be actually fixing something like the health care system or Social Security which are both hugely underfunded programs that we have neglected for ten years too long while Bush and his cronies have been raping America. Congress knows that Healthcare and Social Security are both going to have to be fixed using taxpayer money. It amazes me that they are willing to pour money on the private sector businesses while neglecting the inevitable program collapse coming because of the demand placed on them by the Baby Boom populations.

George W. Bush — without a doubt!

George W. Bush

THE DEMOCRATIC CONGRESS, That was easy and most of you blame Bush. Come on now! The ENTIRE GOVERNMENT IS HORRIBLE AND EVIL. Unless the citizens of this once fine country realize that the government needs to be taken back by the people and for the people and do something about this, it will only get worse. Bet you $50 billion it will!

I have the perfect solution to all of the problems from Madoff to Ford/GM/Chrysler.
In China they execute those that have brought disgrace upon the country.
Here we reward them each with taxpayer money and tax breaks.
I volunteer as Judge for the 15 minute trial and executionor for the 30 second public event. NOTE: volunteer/free/no charge.

The American consumer is the biggest villain. Had Americans chosen to live within our means and not finance homes, cars, and material goods we could not afford and didn’t need, we would not be in this mess. We should all stop laying blame to the banks, automakers, politicians, and gas companies and accept that we spend more than we make, buy more than we need, continue to send people to Washington who are in the business of getting re-elected not representing our social and financial interests, and are literally killing ourselves by demanding cheap fuel. If history has any lessons to teach, it is that once this crisis passes, in another thirty or fifty or hundred years, we will only make the same choices again and find ourselves in the exact same position. That is, of course, if we don’t render ourselves extinct before the next artificially-created crisis. We need to take a good, hard look in the mirror before assigning blame to anyone but ourselves.

Not Bush for sure, he’s just stupid, it’s Fuld and Madoff who ruined the lives of many, many people and knowingly did it

Bush is the biggest villian. His administration is responsible for the failed economy, the illegal and immoral war in Iraq, the corruption in Washington, the lowered standards of morality, the excessive growth in Federal debt. His behavior in office has been criminal. He should have been impeached and then shot.

PATRIOT!!!! BRAVO BRAVO, Very well put! I know 1000s of the consumers you speak of and man, is it ugly now for them!

George Bush is the biggest villain, not only of 2008 but of the 21st century.

No doubt Bushy and his imcompetant administration. And, he is arrogant to the end.

What happen to this great country of ours this year? What happen to that country that everyone could be proud of like in the past where people could trust there government like in the past. America right now is going backward and the future is not bright because of these people who put there country aside for themselve. The problem of this country right now is American who is not paying attention to the government leader who they voted in to do there job. Though out history America find its way to get out of these trouble and I hope that this age we could do the same as the past generation did in the past.

Congress is like a fox watching over the hen house. We need to call, write, and vote them out as soon as we can. They are supposed to represent us, but instead are the downfall of America. Wake up everybody!

Greatest Villan: George W. Bush for presiding over the greatest lack of oversight of the Executive in the history of the Presidency. An office holder who would rather lie to the American People than give them the facts to make the most important economic decisions in three generations. The wholesale lack of exploration of or explanation of the failure of Securitys and financial instutions to provide a modicum of diligence in their dealings with the public trust. A callous disregard of any person responsibilty for the failed dilomatic and military adventurism of his immoral Bush Doctrine. Public shaming is lost upon one so bereft of any insight into his total abdication of personal integrity.

George W Bush

I initially thought it would be a close tie between G.W. and Madoff. After some consideration, there is no comparison. Although Madoff stole so much from so many which included charities and foundations, many were still individual investors. I can only have so much sorrow for people who invest funds and don’t do their homework or research and trust blindly.
Bush, on the other hand, did not just ruin a small percentage of the overall population, he destroyed a country, it’s reputation and it’s hope in a position which he did not attain honestly. Government is for the people, by the people, so yes, since we, as a people, allowed him and his cronies to strong arm their way into the White House (twice) there is some culpability. However, during his tenure and in the last year, the decline in our economy, allowing fuel costs to skyrocket (which no doubt was beneficial to the Bush family, Cheany family and others in power), the complete mess in Iraq, the forgotten in Afghanistan, the secrecy (the most inaccessible president in history) all the children left behind, rising unemployment, foreclosures and declining property values, oh, the list is endless, surely garners Mr Bush a place in history as 2008′s Biggest Villain!

Bush,
His policies have resulted in the most carnage. He also spent us into the ground.

Hank Paulson, that Wall Street graduate, who thought it was just fine for his former competitors Bear Stearns, Merrill and Lehman to tank while saving good Wall Street customers like Fannie, Freddie and AIG using, as Wall Street always does, someone else’s (a/k/a our) money.

George Bush, He makes me ashamed to
call myself an American. He is the
biggest disaster that has ever
happened to America.
Robert

Bush!!

AND I THINK WE HAVE A WINNERRRR !!!
GEORGE W. BUSH !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
…where’s my shoe?

It is so funny how we can sit and blame our Government, Big Corporation, and all the others, but yet, IT IS US who are to blame. We have sat on our asses and not done a damn thing about it. We come to ABC forum and whine and think we are doing our part.
We NEED TO TAKE OUR COUNTRY BACK from the Democrats, the Republicans, the Lobbyist that pay them with bribes, the Crooked Union Leaders, AND THE Greedy Corporate Execs.
But, we won’t. We ALL will sit and whine and cry and blame blame blame, but will we do anything? NO!

The Secretary of the Treasury alone is to blame for the current financial crisis. He has a lawful duty pursuant to Title 31 U.S.C. 5119(a) to maintain the equal purchasing power of all United States Currency. Had he done this, he would have seen that the amount of one currency being loaned was more than all the lawful money (see Title 12 U.S.C. 411) currency that exists and it would have been impossible for the financial crisis to even have occurred.

B Hussain Obama for lying to the American people about who he is and what he believes in and where he was born. The democraps who were literally sleeping with the head of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Barney Frank, Chris Dodd and B Hussain Obama.

The biggest villain of 2008 and most likely of recent times, no one else is even close, yet he says he regrets nothing because god told him to do it. I guess god hated Iraqi citizens and wanted George Bush to destroy as many as possible. I guess George was just doing god’s work, at least according to him, but I still think George Bush is the biggest villain of recent times.

Biggest villian….. The MEDIA, News media has a responsiblity to report unbais news
It has not done its job…. what ashame..
FAIR and Balanced should be the way. It has been so obvious.

Walt Disney would turn over in his grave if he say the way ABC-NEWS and Disney Parks are run. FAIRNESS…. In news and pricing at Disney Parks. Less contraversal gimmicks.

George W. Bush, hands-down winner !

I feel the American people are responsible for all of their problems because they lack the interest in holding their Congressional leaders (both parties) accountable for not fulfilling the job they were elected to do. As long as the people do not vote out long-term Congress persons nothing will change. American people have become very complacent. If they don’t do their job then Congress won’t do theirs. We, the people, have reaped the whirlwind of our own actions or lack thereof. We have no one to blame but ourselves.

bush/cheney, as they have been for the last eight years.

WOW…..so many to choose from. What a year!!! Congress for one, for NOT doing it’s job, (both the Dems & Repubs) The money-loving CEOs of Wall Street (FULD is #1). The Big 3 from Detroit who couldn’t run a lemonade stand much less run an industry which has been producing gas-guzzling SUVs by over paid auto workers..should have filed Chapter 11. Madoff, someone really should wipe that smirk off his face. Ahhh, but the best is G.W.Bush.
That SOB has run this country into the ground. He and his cohorts, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rice and all others should be horse whipped. What sheer arrogance, what outright stupidity, what total lack of caring for this nation….for it’s citizens….for it’s young men and women stationed overseas, and for all the future generations who will be burdened with the financial ruin this country now is in. There is a special place in hell for Bush.

Geo. W. Bush. He gives us the Republican Depression because of his thievery. Bush was suppose to run the SEC & the bank supervision agencies. But, he covered up all the thieving being done by his friends. He and Cheney have committed treason by endangering our spies in the Scooter Libby affair. He allows lead in our toys and mercury in our food to poison us.

Hhhmmmmm! Maybe Ajax & other commentators are correct. Maybe the media is the most shameful. Cynthia or whoever wrote the lead-in on this blog…1/3 of your suggested villans
are guys who were having extra-marital sex!!! The White House is betraying our nation and you don’t even mention that!!!
You people in the media are such obvious toadies, distracting us from Bush & the Republicans.

George Bush has ruined this country – economically and in the eyes of the world. He was not a fairly elected president in 2000. How much better our country would be if he had not been allowed to steal the election and make a
mockery of the office. His total disdain of the constitution is criminal. I would love to see a corruption trial in the years to come. This man needs to pay for what he has done to the USA.

I hate George W. Bush.
He caused a hurricane that ruined the
largest city in a Republican leaning
state. To be sure the job was done right
he blew up the levees after the storm.
W. also failed to overturn democrat
filibusters. If he had, he would have
rolled back Clinton de-regulations,
Clinton/Dodd/Frank rules that allowed
financial institutions to run amok.
I also hate Bush for allowing the corrupt high-dollar democrat big-wigs
at Fanny Mae & Freddie Mac to give HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS in
campaign contributions to ‘honest’ Chris Dodd and ‘Hope & Change’ Barack Obama.
I hate Bush for being so mean to the bombers and the beheaders. Clinton was nice to the Jihadists – alls they did was blow up several embassies, the USS Cole, and plan 9-11.
But Bush..he really antagonized the terrorists.
I hate Bush because my sterile, secular, self-centered European friends hate anyone who takes their faith seriously. Europe hates religion, and hard work, and having children, especially in a family, so their hatred of Bush and love of B.O. is enough to convince me.
Finally, I hate that McSame Palin did not win, because I was looking forward to hating Palin and her entire family.

WEll Said JERRY!

As I watched half of my investments for retirement go down the drain, I think every American feels the pain that George W. Bush has inflicted on this world. He took a deficit and gave huge tax cuts for the wealthy, started an unnecessary war in Iraq, let New Orleans drown, made America a laughingstock around the world, outed a CIA agent, covered up crimes of his administration, fired US attorneys for not being loyal Bushies, made the Democratic governor of Alabama a political prisoner, and says he wants to make some big bucks in his retirement. Now, Jeb Bush wants to run for the Senate from Florida and restore the family name. We had that with his brother. Can we round up the entire family, revoke their citizenship, and send them into exile in Saudi Arabia. Unlike Hoover and Truman, his reputation will never recover. Reagan started this mess and let’s take his name off all those monuments.

“I don’t see how anyone can blame the American citizens. Once we elect our representatives in, we have no further control.”
Are you on Koolaid, also??? They have an E-mail address. Everytime as issue comes up, you hound the crap out of them to vote the way you want.
THAT IS WHY WE ARE TO BLAME. We vote them in and then we DON’T keep them in check.
Do you remember the Illegal Alien Amnesty BILL that McCain and some Democrat (can’t remember the name) tryed to pass.
American’s went off calling and e-mailing and it did not pass.
You remember the AUTO BAILOUT they voted on a couple of weeks ago. American’s called in 60% saying NO and it did NOT PASS!
That is what I mean, we vote them in and expect them to do crap without us telling them.
WE PAY THEM! THEY DO NOT PAY US!
WE TELL THEM WHAT TO DO, THEY DO NOT TELL US!

Wake up people the reason that we have this money crisis is due to the liberal efforts to social engineer our people.
The Community Reinvestment Act (CRA), enacted by Congress in 1977 (12 U.S.C. 2901) and implemented by Regulations 12 CFR parts 25, 228, 345, and 563e, is intended to encourage depository institutions to help meet the credit needs of the communities in which they operate. In this section of the web site, you can find out more about the regulation and its interpretation and information on CRA examinations.
The current mess would never have occurred in the absence of ill-conceived federal policies. The federal government chartered Fannie Mae in 1938 and Freddie Mac in 1970; these two mortgage lending institutions are at the center of the crisis. The government implicitly promised these institutions that it would make good on their debts, so Fannie and Freddie took on huge amounts of excessive risk.
Worse, beginning in 1977 and even more in the 1990s and the early part of this century, Congress pushed mortgage lenders and Fannie/Freddie to expand subprime lending. The industry was happy to oblige, given the implicit promise of federal backing, and subprime lending soared.
This subprime lending was more than a minor relaxation of existing credit guidelines. This lending was a wholesale abandonment of reasonable lending practices in which borrowers with poor credit characteristics got mortgages they were ill-equipped to handle.
Once housing prices declined and economic conditions worsened, defaults and delinquencies soared, leaving the industry holding large amounts of severely depreciated mortgage assets.

@Judi,
If that is the case, then you did the correct thing. The problem in our Political system is, our Congress people have MORE contact with Lobbyist then they do with us.
If WE let them know we are paying attention and they have over 60% of their voters telling them what to do, then they will do it. But sadly, that is not always the case.
We American’s trust that these idiots KNOW what they are doing. They don’t! They need our guidance. (votes) :) If 55% or better of their Constituents tell them to vote a certain way. To keep our vote they have to do as we ask.
So, keep up with contacting your Reps. and if we can get the rest of America to do the same, we can change things.
Until then, it will be Politics as usual.

I kind of think we, the American People, are responsible for most of our woes. Yes we can point fingers but we have sat back complacent, voting these people into office all while watching these things going on for years and years. We know politicians are corrupt it is just getting harder and harder for them to hide it in the information age. The idea that people could watch that Nightline story and not be in the streets by the millions demanding justice in the financial failure of our country and the joke that has followed there after with more or less a blank check with no real stipulations or requirements. We just sit back and say thank you Sir may I have another and again and again we get another and do nothing. Shame on the American People for allowing this to happen. We are supposed to be the final check and balance of our government, lets get off our collective asses get mad as hell and not take it anymore. My god the wussy French wouldn’t even stand for this, they would have shut down the entire country if their government had done something like this!~

I kind of think we, the American People, are responsible for most of our woes. Yes we can point fingers but we have sat back complacent, voting these people into office all while watching these things going on for years and years. We know politicians are corrupt it is just getting harder and harder for them to hide it in the information age. The idea that people could watch that Nightline story and not be in the streets by the millions demanding justice in the financial failure of our country and the joke that has followed there after with more or less a blank check with no real stipulations or requirements. We just sit back and say thank you Sir may I have another and again and again we get another and do nothing. Shame on the American People for allowing this to happen. We are supposed to be the final check and balance of our government, lets get off our collective asses get mad as hell and not take it anymore. My god the wussy French wouldn’t even stand for this, they would have shut down the entire country if their government had done something like this!~
P.S.
G dub is a piece of crap and I told you all that 8years ago.

The real question is not who is the greatest villain, but what can we do about it? I wonder why no one, including the investigators on your program, noticed the irony of the Senate; whom you had just shown in a segment in bed (so to speak) with the lobbyists at both the Democratic and the Republican conventions sitting in judgment over the CEOs of the corporations accused of raping the American tax payers. Does no one notice this is the pot calling the kettle black? I think our government is; as a whole; corrupt and bloated and needs to be replaced. They are drunk with power and are unable to police themselves and I fear for the future of this country.

Madoff. Stealing someone’s money is worse than shooting them. Do you realize how hard it is to save money? People like that should be executed.

Barney Frank and the mortgage scandal that costs people millions of dollars, especially retirees, who had their savings in the stock market. This guy was asked “19 times”, by Bush, if everything was alright and he said “evrything’s fine”.

The liberal media who were so enthralled with Obama and failed to question who funded him and now fail to put the blame on the housing industry on Bill Clinton whose admnistration’s policies led to its downfall. George Buh has done a lot of things but he didn’t drop the first domino.Villians often look smart, act smart and are smart. We just elected one.

The people involved with the bailouts, so much money wasted by the government

Madoff and the probably the media for not coming clean with a lot of things. Number one would be the truth behind forcing the banks to start giving sub-prime loans to people who were not eligible and the senators and congressmen (esp. 2 key Dems) who were behind it all, in addition to making lots of money off of it!

I don’t know why Edwards is even on this list. My vote would be a tie for Bush and a media which never bothered to fully investigate Bush and inform the public about what it found.

Nice to know all the Bush bashers are still here.
Anyway, the real #1 Villain of the year is BARNEY FRANK.
The moron who pushed & pushed & pushed for people who could not afford homes to get these wonderful mortgages. Then when Bush attempted to place greater regulation in the situation Frank led the charge to prevent it. To this day, he refuses to be a man and take responsibility for his large role in crushing the US economy.
With all the economic mess around us, and his pushing of the auto bailout, he had another incredibly brilliant idea. He wants to cut military spending but 25%! The auto industry implodes on itself, and because they are “too important” to fail, we must bail them out.
But all those people who work for companies in the defense industry and their support structure…NAH..lets cut them by 25%. At the same time that Obama says he wants to ramp it up in Afganistan.
By the way, it was really interesting to hear the liberals cry about how “trickle down economics” does not work at all, but somehow “trickle down job loss” does!!!! (By the way, when was the last time you got a job from someone who had less money than you ?)
Barney Frank is the #1 Villain!!!!!

I vote for George Bush and all the cronies that put him in the White House. Someone should wipe that smirk off his face and force him to look at the evilness and the suffering that has come from his actions. Then again, Karma will take care of that….

AIG, The Big Three auto CEOs, and all the banks that received bailout money. We’ll be sure to never give them another dime of our hard earned money ever again. There are too many “average” citizens suffering while these thieves continue to live it up in luxury. Maddoff…at least…is not being allowed to continue to swindle people out of their money.