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Edward Harrison, in a recent post in his Credit Writedowns blog:

Obama had one shot to fix banking and to apply stimulus. And he did not get the job done. Despite the belief during the election of 2008 that Barack Obama actually understood economics better than John McCain, I am not so sure. Sometimes Barack Obama gets it. Sometimes he doesn’t.

I happen to believe that Hillary Clinton, John McCain, Sarah Palin or Mitt Romney would have done pretty much the same thing as Obama regarding stimulus and bailouts, frankly. The healthcare situation is where the Democrat-Republican divide lies. So, on stimulus and bailouts, it’s not as if Obama was doing something that other politicians would not have. He was a conventional politician, taking a conventional route.

But, that route is what has led us to where we are. If Barack Obama had wanted to be "change we can believe in" he would need to have taken a different path.